jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readPretty PointersWhen the look of someone Makes you consider your ugliness Vow to be beautiful And put old flames in your blood Every Adonis is an...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readSolitary LabourThree desks Three minds By deeds alone are we known. The knowing is one thing And walking the path A more terrible, yet more ethereal...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readBeautyBeauty Beauty everywhere In pain and euphoria Such chilling, blistering, blinding Beauty bleeding throughout the world. By J.W.H....
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readNowI will endure this. Or not. Regardless, I live right now and that is everything. I hope you like it, have a good Tuesday....
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readThe GateIf you know you die here Or don’t Why not give it everything Against all comers When the deed is done All actions written At the line and...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readBoneEvery soul carries a skeleton Waiting to rest But where? Every bone can be polished Tapped, set, or scratched But why? Every life has...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readEasier, or Better?Much easier to call yourself a God In these times Than aspire to be Good. Much simpler to say things are not simple And chant...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readOsugiEvil never sees until it is too late It weeps when safe And the broken body The snapped dreams Beat down psyches And harm Has already...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readWeather LessonsThe warmth and splendour of wind and lighting can be appreciated from the window like the happy neighbour sitting out in summer sun or my...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readBlack Dog at NightThunk thunk thunk A spot of black in the gloom Rustle of movement at night But I smile and snort Calling out For the little Dachshund...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readGroup Grinning and Social SmilingThe bitten in grin Like something sour Cannot cease smiling Nor would I want to Toothy, lipped or sarcastic smiles The openness of...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readConstructive PossibilitiesProwess Like conversation Is never And will never be Words alone No theory Half-shrouded superiority Of the introvert scholar The youth...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readProgressLacquered paint Layer upon layer Brick dust and grey cement powder Small bumps, for one hundred cramps Human form shaping stone Breaking...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readWhat Holds SwayThe Father of Souls The Lady of Hearts And the Temple of the World Lay claim upon us But only in the words we write A few of the...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readSir Dinadan, Percival and GawainNo knight shines. Smoke, steel, and salt Ashen earth and littered lines Hour to hour, and only time to time The knight rests And such a...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readGrown Back GardenThe sound of running rain Set tufts of gold and green Unruly as my own hair And beckoning To be mowed and tidied Consistently Like the...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readThe CutAbrupt It severs Indecision Forever hated And yet it Pulls and calls Those who conceive What it is to do What is hard and...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readMeditations of Our MistakesA man can change from what he is judged to be the mixture of his own failings and enemy rumour. In the sun of our resolutions Skin...
jwhhobbs22Jan 10, 20251 min readThe UnforgottenA pregnant space An empty chair All the signs Of what lay there No scent in the air Nor presence of heat Save in the mind And memories...