Replay The Eerie Tune

Orpheus leads Ophelia by her hand
high up the winding rocky mountain path
while clutching cold frame of his silver lyre
with taut strings humming in the frantic wind,
quickly with caution past

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2025/04/replay-eerie-tune.html

 I’ll tell you something, things you never had you’ll never miss
 I’ll tell you something, things you never had you’ll never miss
 A brave man will kill you with a sword, a coward with a kiss
--
Song: “Gonna Change My Way of Thinking”
Album: Slow Train Coming
First played: 1979-11-01
--
https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/gonna-change-my-way-thinking/
--
#Music #Rock #Folk #Dylan #BobDylan #MusicHistory #Lyrics #Poetry

He has your hair.
I hear your voice.

Your face is missing dearly.

#writing #blogging #witch #poetry #poem

https://mistresswitchwrites.com/2025/04/14/i-see-your-face-at-every-corner/

NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 18 https://quiltr.com/?p=25080 The camera caught • his long nose and he needs a • manicure badly … #bear #birdfeeder #dothework #haiku #intheneighborhood #NaPoWriMo #poetry #process #spring

He wears your coat.
She has your eyes.
I watch the stars rise ...

#writing #blogging #witch #poetry #poem

https://mistresswitchwrites.com/2025/04/14/i-see-your-face-at-every-corner/

Trickery Of The Zodiac

Too high above confounding maze of doors
on wings of angels stolen from dark Hell,
young son of Hamlet and Ophelia
falls in love with Juliet in red dress
when she dances gracefully by the stream

https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2025/04/trickery-of-zodiac.html

A Little Girl And The World
Grant Hope 174
https://www.granthope.net/p/a-little-girl-and-the-world
https://youtu.be/3fy-FjdDwVc

A little girl hugs the world
wearing a soft woolen sweater with strands running from her arms to the surface of the earth
she hopes the warmth in her heart will make it feel a little better
...

 I wear dark glasses to cover my eyes
 There’re secrets in them I can’t disguise
 Come back, baby
 If I hurt your feelings, I apologize
--
Song: “Long and Wasted Years”
Album: Tempest
First played: 2013-10-10
--
https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/long-and-wasted-years/
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#Music #Rock #Folk #Dylan #BobDylan #MusicHistory #Lyrics #Poetry

Dark Skies

Trying to hold on
to hope, that the stars will shine,
and clouds, one day, clear.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025

“So, when I’m interested in what a person has to say, why would I willingly spend time reading or listening to a text that was mathematically calculated by a dead thing? I would not. And once you consider this reality, I believe you will lose interest as well.” https://www.texasobserver.org/ai-writing-novelist-texas-artificial-intelligence/

because i've been reading a lot of his work again of late - & because i made the mistake of watching 'haunted summer' today in a fit of folly - had to have a go at depicting the laudanum daddy himself, percy bysshe shelley. naturally, i've romanticised him.
#percyByssheShelley #nature #illustration #poetry #romanticism #atheism #vegetarian

The closet segregationist
once thought to be extinct
has risen like a mutated Phoenix
to haunt our national consciousness again

Preaching racial #segmentation
under the guise of equity
in a perverted world where the concepts of diversity
equality and inclusion
is now considered UnAmerican

In 1931, Kurt Gödel proved that any system describing the natural numbers could not be both consistent and complete. #Poetry #Science #History #Logic #Incompleteness #Gödel (https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1931a.html)

i'm haunting your ghost
given you seem tied to a place
i'm still free to leave

although i usually don't

spaces you knit from the world
shaped ways you hoped
would safehouse you

the scene of your harm

clatter the bones to shards
and the mind more fragile
just by mis-stepping

hospitalised again

watching you try to stitch together
rags of your shredded mind
to tapestry some meaning

to sheathe the blade of what is

#SmallPoems #Poetry #Writing #MastoPrompt 18 April 2025 - salve

#poetry

https://lauriecorzett.substack.com/p/thank-god-good-friday

"Sometimes I want death to touch my soul"

https://mistresswitchwrites.wordpress.com/2021/07/05/words-to-scream-at-the-end/

Now go for forth
and do what I say
not how I have done

Quoting ancient texts
chapter and verse
of biblical prophesy
to prove my sincerity
as an authority on sin
from every perspective
on the wings
of pious religious #hypocrisy

your name
in the sand
won't wash away

My Love

Beauty has many forms,
or so Selene shows me.

In the velvet night,
she reigns, perfect,
blushing, at the rays
of Helios’ gaze.

Though she hides
behind her veil,
always, it is until
she reveals, again,
her splendour.

I seek no artificial
perfection.
I have found entrancement
in the darkness,
the light, the shadow,
of Selene's heart;
her ancient, tender,
suffering soul.

© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025