Pure Shores

Pure Shores is an online anthology completely free of charge! The vision I had on my most recent holiday was to take the visual aspects I saw and use them as a writing prompt. The underlining themes of these poems surround love, self-belief, self-growth, Social issues, desire, desperation, and even a deprived heart.

With this project, I hope not only to inspire those to see more than what catches the eye but also to see that motivation and inspiration can reside everywhere.

Waves

Don't bend to the tides that hold you,

Never submit to the current which tries to mould you

Fishes may swim up to try and whisper tempts,

At least sharks look scary from a distance

Don't fall to their streams

Don't live to build another's dream

Trust your heart and the boat you built

If not, you may sail forever on unfulfilled guilt

Never try to block the waves, they complete the ocean

Never try to disengage your brain

Instead, sit back and let it open

Open you up to isles and lands you've never seen

Tropical paradises that some will never believe you've been

Smell a sun that's unfamiliar and full

Don't define yourself by the waves that hit you, but more by the defeated bulls

Don't just look to the horizon

Look to see where you once started,

Then reflect on the journey you've had since been departed

From the dock, you thought you'd never leave

With all the chit-chat and isolated trees

A whole new boat and captain you'll see

Surrounded by a tsunami which now feels like a breeze

Enjoy your time spent with the waves and sea

As they put the I…..in me

Mountains In The Distance

I can see pyramids in Paris

Galápagos in Greece

I see perspectives, Casa de parientes

Wakening to epiphanies in the south-east

I see boys who claim to be men

Mice who impersonate tigers

Those who ignore love,

But feed possessive cycles of violence

If a bear were raised by wolves,

How long till they would howl?

Scream, moan, bark, at a moon

Or get caught up in a postcode rowl

I see concrete as long as the towers they build

I see nature submitting to a surveyors hold

I see roads with holes and tracks still yet built

A dream house by diamantés covering mould......

...I see mountains in the distance

One’s filled with hope in town

I see but can never reach,

Even though it’s in the distance, we’re found

But this concrete cataclysm

Doesn’t ever seem to cool

Forever warming, tensions rising

No time to chill by the pool

Politicians should act more like lifeguards,

Ensuring no one gets hurt or die

But they fund the fear, threats, and blood

Leaving us with debt, charging us a lifetime for some wires and ply

I see Mountains in the distance

But are they real or just projections

I see Mountains in the distance

Or are they my own smeared reflections

I see Mountains in the distance

Do I see or desire to dream

I see Mountains in the distance

But do these Mountains see me

Poolside

Tear the stars out from the sky

Take the sun away

Per your request, there shall be no light

No more sign of day

I sit beside you in awe

Then reflect on you in distaste

You're like my favourite cigarette

Resting on my lips poison fed every day

A rubber ring wasn't made for two

Nor was the us

But we tried to squeeze it in

Till we felt the inevitable bust up

You took all the space

As you went down the slide by yourself

I watched all of your faces,

As they experienced heaven then hell

I was too far back when you began

You were planning everything out

Where to put the sunscreen, sunglasses

When I just brought a towel

You planned the whole day by the pool

When I was just killing a couple of hours

You wanted to try every slip and slide,

Whilst I was checking them out

I was dipping in my toes

Checking out the temperature with my fins

As you ignored the potent signs

You went diving straight in

I acted as the lifeguard and quietly ignored the slow fall

I never sent for rescue

I didn't send a call

I happily watched us burn

With chlorine and piss at the bottom of a pool

No room for rescue

No more signs of life

No more fun shall be had

When we're poolside

I'm sorry that I can't be your man

But hurting you was never the plan

I promise I only wanted to make you full

So shut all the waves and slides

Evacuate the pool