Travelling seventy miles a second
As sunlight explodes through the trees.
Wind fire blowing through the neurons
Carried on the autumn breeze.
And it’s good to be alive,
Blood pulsing, raining fire,
As the journey flies beneath the wheels.
With the trees as golden as desire,
Roadside sentinels, as my chariot drives me.
© 2019 | Frank Regan, All rights reserved.
Originally Published 19 November 2017
For the 26 November here’s a poem of rebirth …
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The return of the rain
Brings me to life again.
The touch of this holy water
Upon my skin
Washes me clean
Lets me begin once more.
The passion of the raindrops
Freefalling to the ground
Is the baptism of hope I need
So that I feel born again.
It resurrects a faith
That had all but died.
I feel rain, I feel alive.
© 2018 | Frank Regan, All rights reserved.
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The leaf feels a little more yellow
Instead of vibrant, living green.
And the Prop’s Department have been busy
Concocting the perfect setting for the latest scene.
The wind’s rustling sounds like an expectant crowd,
Then comes the hush – the light grows dim.
The atmosphere plays the percussion part,
Variations on a theme.
We may fear the crescendo,
But there is wonder in the season –
When it gets loud.
© 2018 | Frank Regan, All rights reserved.
photo credit: chiaralily Wet City Nightscape via photopin (license)
The return of the rain
Brings me to life again.
The touch of this holy water
Upon my skin
Washes me clean
Lets me begin once more.
The passion of the raindrops
Freefalling to the ground
Is the baptism of hope I need
So that I feel born again.
It resurrects a faith
That had all but died.
I feel rain, I feel alive.
© 2018 | Frank Regan, All rights reserved.
photo credit: Running Wild 6 via photopin (license)
Higher than man.
The untamed stampede, running wild.
White waves, foaming, crashing down.
Beasts of fury, and power,
Gods of thundering hooves.
Wild waters, tumult, changes all.
© 2018 | Frank Regan, All rights reserved.
Originally published 29 December 2015
Day 5 of my review, and a poem about the fragility of life and the power of nature.
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Tumbling down the mountainside.
Rock sliding, somersaulting over tree.
Rules of nature overturned,
Only gravity matters.
The cavalcade becomes a riot
Screeching birds take flight
And scuttling refugees flee
From out of the undergrowth for their lives.
This tremor, no more than a shiver of the earth
Becomes amplified. As it journeys
Out from its epicentre across the valleys,
Through the mountain like a juggernaut
And rock unmoved for ages is parted,
Cracks appear, as it rumbles on into the realm of man.
History, reduced to rubble.
Metal twists, like a twig.
No adversary fit to face
This ancient behemoth.
© 2016 | Frank Regan, All rights reserved.
Day 4 of the review, and a reminder to start those Xmas preparations …
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I want a wyvern for Christmas.
I want a dragon of my own.
I want a wyvern for Christmas,
Oh why can’t I take a wyvern home?
Why won’t you buy a wyvern for me?
All my friends are getting one for Yule,
Easy to keep, no trouble it be –
Ohhh; don’t let me be a wyvernless fool.
I want a wyvern this Christmas.
It can live in the spare room.
I want a wyvern for Christmas –
A dragon-pal! Not a portent of doom.
I want a wyvern for Christmas.
I want a dragon of my own.
I want a wyvern for Christmas,
Oh why can’t I take a wyvern home?
© 2016 | Frank Regan, All rights reserved.
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January is cold; barren season
That life has left a hollow shell.
Only decay can keep a death beat
Where once hearts in rhythm called ‘All’s well!’
Now chaos grows in frozen darkness
Ice warriors of this living hell.
© 2017 | Frank Regan, All rights reserved.
photo credit: Direct_Relief Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011 via photopin (license)
Tumbling down the mountainside.
Rock sliding, somersaulting over tree.
Rules of nature overturned,
Only gravity matters.
The cavalcade becomes a riot
Screeching birds take flight
And scuttling refugees flee
From out of the undergrowth for their lives.
This tremor, no more than a shiver of the earth
Becomes amplified. As it journeys
Out from its epicentre across the valleys,
Through the mountain like a juggernaut
And rock unmoved for ages is parted,
Cracks appear, as it rumbles on into the realm of man.
History, reduced to rubble.
Metal twists, like a twig.
No adversary fit to face
This ancient behemoth.
© 2016 | Frank Regan, All rights reserved.
Day 24 of my review and a poem about nature and the power of silence…
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Susurrus,
Wind kisses upon the water.
The breeze stirs the leaves of the willow,
Moving like the fingertips of a dancer would.
Elegant branches,
Limbs of an acrobat, sway
Dipping low agitating the mirror calm
Of the tranquil pool.
Elemental water and sylvan spirit of living wood
Allowed to commune,
Within this companion silence.
© 2016 | Frank Regan, All rights reserved.
