Together - A wedding poem

I have turned my face towards you

And you will see,

From my way and from my willing,

I shall not turn away.

We will stand and walk together,

To each inclined;

Our lives now interwoven,

And love shall light our path.

This poem virtually wrote itself around the time that husband and I were married.

It seems to me to follow on from the previous two.

(It hasn't always been a docile path but we are still on it.)

Poem - The land of Unsmiling Eyes

And here I stand
Lone in this land, 
Where eyes unsmiling go,
As so go I.

I, as driftwood,
Cast adrift on strange seas,
Buffeted and tossed by waves,
Which hither, thither, all seemingly, at random flow,
As so go I.

But you as strength, 
Becalm those stormy seas,
And, as a calm and steady breeze 
Instills tranquillity in waves to gently flow,
Then so go I.

And here we stand,
Joined is this land 
Where eyes now smiling go,
As so go we.


The first two verses of this poem came into my head at around the same time as the previous poem.
When I met husband-to-be, he, on my reading the rather woeful lines to him, though never a big lover of poetry, came up with the ideas for the last two verses, which, if nothing else, are certainly more upbeat, to say the least!!

A poem - Dreamer

No foolish fantasiser, I.
Rather are my dreams 
Impassioned facets of my reality,
Flamed, from time to time, from within;
Fired by sudden stoking of the heart's furnace,
Which had learned, in pain, to quietly feed
The soul's suppressed requirement.


Of the ten or so poems I have written through the years, this one pleases me quite a lot.
I was in my mid-twenties with my life going through somewhat of a turmoil at the time.
The words just came to me as I stood in the kitchen and I wrote them down exactly as they are here.

About glimpses of beauty - on the train

Our senses are the gateway to beauty.
Sight, sound, touch, taste, aroma,
all take us into the world of delight.