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“I was a child and would soon cease to be.

To run through lyme grass close to sea and sand,

Scraped knees, into the woods awash with green,

Bluebells, mouth smeared with berries, climbing trees.“

Flamelight - Those Golden Afternoons

(from: Worlds Into Words)

#poetry #writing #quote #nature #summer #audiopoetry #flamelightoffcl

“In a vale of moss and springs

We glimpse the future in a lake.

A faceless voice of secrets sings…“

Nowhere, Now Here - Flamelight

(from: Ashes With Antidotes)

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“White curtains blew, their name a spell: chiffon.

An open window spilled piano tunes.

Somehow, they had a taste of might-have-beens,

A taste of evenings and of farewell.“

- Those Golden Afternoons

(Flamelight - Worlds Into Words)

#poetry #nature #writing #audio poetry #spring #summer

“Out of the dark I came to know so well,

That drips into my soul like blackened dew

On snow-white petals withering away,

I rise as visions hold me in their spell.“

from: Vigil (Night Mirror)

(Flamelight - Ashes With Antidotes)

#writing #poetry #spring #quote #nature #flamelight #audio poetry

“For ages remained separate, apart,

We journeyed closer over starlit trails,

Still unbeknownst to me, you took the shape

Of dreams and whispers, warming like the sun.“

from: Journey Inward, Outward

(Flamelight - Ashes With Antidotes)

#writing #nature #flowers #poetry #poems #audiopoetry #flamelight

“Those days of trying out new faces, with gravity losing its hold.

You’re not what they see, couldn’t show what you were,

Did you even know, as your season unlearned to change,

While tumbling through the strangeness of the world.“

from: Ghost Days (Flamelight - Worlds Into Words)

#writing #poetry #nature #audio poetry #winter #flamelight #seasons and lifetimes

“Now ghost-like, stilled in endless winter cold,

I guard my thoughts lest they engulf them too,

To grind them into nothingness, and fast.“

from: Ashes - Flamelight, Worlds Into Words

#writing #quote #winter #flamelight #poetry

“When winter fell, so fell another year, Its weight and promises now part of me.

 Brown-golden dimness, deeper sank the night.

Awake and half in dreams by candlelight, Crayons, snow angels, vistas of the past. Stone walls with still white lilies standing guard. White hyacinths atop a book of lore.“

from: Those Golden Afternoons - Flamelight (from: Worlds Into Words)

#writing #winter #poetry #nature #candle #flame #audio poetry #flamelightoffcl

“We cross the worlds that lifetimes spanned,

Their moments woven, etched in time.

Erstwhile called the spirit land

Was our home, a glimpse away.

Come find it in the dawning grey,

In midnight’s stillness, twilight’s sway,

And hear then, faint beyond belief,

Unearthly laughter’s silver chime.“

from: Nowhere, Now Here - Flamelight (from: Ashes With Antidotes)

#writing #quote #nature #poetry #autumn #audio poetry #flamelightoffcl

“Vines and secrets interweave,

Build a bridge for us to climb

Past the mists that might deceive

We cross the worlds that lifetimes spanned,

Their moments woven, etched in time.“

from: Nowhere, Now Here

(Flamelight - Ashes With Antidotes)

#writing #autumn #poetry #quote #flamelight #flamelightoffcl #audiopoetry

“With the path obliterated,

The search for it a memory,

Its remnants thorns and splinters that were shards from the start.

Endings all what tales seem built towards.“

from: Flamelight - Into Darkness

(from sequel album: “Ashes With Antidotes“)

#excerpt #darkness #quote #endings #writing #audio poetry #flamelightoffcl

“With a heart stabbed a little too often, the crowds’ din a little too loud,

Nighttimes never this endless,

Hope followed suit by its undoing,

When darkness means silence, both within and around,

Once shelter, now shroud…“

from: Into Darkness (Flamelight - Ashes With Antidotes)

#quote #poetry #writing #darkness #excerpt #aufio #flamelight #flamelightoffcl

“Words torn from silence, pain, and memories,

And each and every single one a fight,

A sculpture cut from bone, a dawn from night,

And forming them means healing from disease.“

from: Antidote

(on Flamelight - Ashes With Antidotes)

#words #memories #life #writing #poetry #antidote #flamelight #flamelightoffcl #audiopoetry

“Now finally, I know where you will be.

I lift my head and see the star-filled sky.

In countless dreams I saw you soar and fly

Among the stars as one of them, so high,

A wingless flight magnificent to see.

Entranced, you float among their distant songs,

Exalted, far from earthly faults and wrongs.

Your singing joined their endless melody.“

from: “Vigil (Night Mirror)“ (on Flamelight album 2: “Ashes With Antidotes“)

#poetry #writing #quote #nature #sky #stars #vigil #night #mirror #audio poetry #flamelight #flamelightoffcl

“…Again, your words remain both balm and knife.

As years and journeys led me through their maze I missed you quietly throughout my life: A muted sense of loss from early on, A certain slant of light on wooded hills At eventide of long-lost childhood days, The breeze a harbinger of coming chills.“

- from: Missing, Missing

(Flamelight - Ashes With Antidotes)