Category: Water

The Ghost

October 23rd, 2025

Have I been forgotten already?
Has my memory begun to fade?
Can you no longer remember
The contours of my face?

The sound of my voice
No longer an echo
No touch of my skin
Left on your fingertips
The beating of my heart
No longer with yours in sync

What torture time is
As I fade to ghost
Simply a shadow of myself
Wandering aimlessly lost

Haunting the canals
Wailing in wake
Eternal pain
Diminished state
No longer remembering
The contours of my face
Their Song

October 22nd, 2025

She gazed across the water,
Up towards the moon
Her heart full
Her face wet
The bottle empty
Her lips red
She pined for her Venn diagram

In her hands were strings
They played a tune
And sung she did beside them
A gentle loving song of hope

The song glided along the water and up towards the sky
Over the clouds and mountains
The birds stopped for a second to let the song pass
And chirped a little nod for its way
Up to the eclipse

Where her song did another meet
His song so sweet
And the sun and the moon danced
Gently, slow and steady
To not rock the world
Shake it off balance
But to soothe everyone
Their fears, their hate
The universal lullaby
Did their song make

Her song continued back on its journey
Over to the warmer water
Where it stopped at the cockpit
And swirled round his head
Her beautiful love
Fast asleep in bed

His song also continued onward north
To the colder place but cosy
It slipped down the mushroom vent
Where she was sleeping
And wrapped itself around her
Where it synced with her breathing.
The Snail on a Bridge

June 5th, 2025

There was a little snail waiting on a bridge
She waited all day and all night
She waited in the sun, the wind, and the rain
She didn’t want to give up the fight

She looked out to the water
She looked over to the land
She wondered what could have happened

She started to worry
In came some doubt
Perhaps she’ll be waiting forever

As strong as her heart was she wasn’t a fool
She knew there was a chance of change
She waited, she feared, she even prayed
In hope that time was just delayed

There was a little snail waiting on a bridge…
The Mouse and the Seagull

May 19th, 2025

There was a little mouse
Who lived by the water
Simple and happy was she
But along came a seagull
Who squarked all day long
And no longer at peace could she be

The little mouse tried to speak to the gull
She asked him to understand her point
But squarked he did even louder
The mouse simply at breaking point

The mouse thought- it just doesn’t work
A mouse and a seagull as neighbours
So she packed up her case
Left her home, with no trace
And ventured to find peace somewhere else
Snails in the Grass

April 10th, 2025

Through the grass they wandered
Pushing blades aside
How tall were the daffodils
Seemingly miles high
Slow and steady
Tight and firm
Their hands clasped together
The two little snails
Side by side
Faced the toughest weather
Knowing it would soon pass
And then the sky would clear
Their love and strength
Keeping them safe and always near
Though they couldn’t see where they were going
They felt the calling near
The smell of the ocean
Dissipating minds of fear
Leading with an open heart
It was not time to run
Pulsating at a steady beat
Glowing like the sun
The Floating Snail

April 4th, 2025

There was a little snail
Who was soooo full of love
She started to float away
Up above the flowers
The trees, and the houses
Up to the clouds ….

Until she was so high
She started to get scared
She didn’t know how to get down
The rain started coming
The thunder was rattling
So she hid under her shell
She hid until…

Out of the distance
She saw a snail on a leaf
Making his way towards her
He pulled her aboard
Held her tight so she’d not fall
And off they continued
Their adventure.
The Little Leaf

April 4th, 2025

There was a little leaf who blew off a tree
It started to fly it was so windy
Over the houses, over the bridge
Suddenly it found itself teetering on a ridge
Right over a waterfall, birds flew below
Then a slight gust of wind tipped the leaf
And woaaaaaah
It battled down the waterfall
Couldn’t see a thing
No way of stopping itself
Nothing for it to cling
It tumbled down and hit the rocks
It’s body battered and torn
Eventually it found itself drift back ashore
The little leaf did lie there limp
Tired from it’s adventure
Basking in the crispy sun
Until it flaked and was no more.
The Void

January 29th, 2025

There were two snails
Who loved to sail
Across the algae pond

They ventured to land
But couldn’t understand
Why their bodies started to bubble

They tried to move forward
But the pain was so great
They looked back and suddenly they saw

The salt on the floor
Burning their wounds
And so far away was the shore

Suddenly the ground
Started to pound
And cracks began to show

Then the earth spasmed
Creating a huge chasm
Separating the snails in tow

With a void between
The two snails were hopeless
Burning in despair

Until down flew a swallow
With a branch that was hollow
And the two snails climbed in there

Back to the pond
The swallow did fly
Carrying the snails safely

Thank it they did
As adieu they did bid
Back to their leaf, their place of safety

There were two snails
Who loved to sail
Across the algae pond

They tried being on land
It didn’t go to plan
So water is the way from now on.
Spider Cave

September 20th, 2024

Blocking the echo from its song
The cobwebs magestically fill the cave
No light to brighten the shadows
Since the sun went away

The cave may start to crumble
If the walls get too dry
No life seen within it
Only the spiders with all their eyes

Guardians of the cave
With their many legs
Like soldiers by their simple presence
Put passers by on edge

Earthquakes put the arachnids on stand by
The ground beneath does shake
As a wind starts to pass through the cave
And the cobwebs start to break

The eight legged soldiers carry out evacuation procedures
One by one they leave
The cave is going through a drastic change
A chrystalis I believe

Water floods through the dry cave
Washing the cobwebs away
And soon a hum is heard from deep
And light seen the other way
Her Good Friend Fear

September 18th, 2024

Marooned on a desert island
Despairing how she got here
Thankfully she’s not alone
At her side her good friend Fear

Fear looks on with kind eyes
Soothing the relentless shadow
Feeding island coconuts
Making soup out of her bone marrow

The soup tastes so good to the ever delirious
They reminisce of times gone past
They hug until the moon does rise
Then Fear decides she wants to dance

In her frenzy she kills the fire
And accidentally spills the fresh water
It’s ok, it’s not your fault
She tries not to scold her

But Fear is in her element
A whirling dervish in the moon light
Helplessly a surrender takes place
With a gentle fade, Fear wins the night