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......
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...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
Pure Shores
I've seen many of oceans but never a pure shore,
I've felt much of sand but never experienced castles on my hands,
It's as if my fingers have only felt halve of what's in this world to be offered
That my senses have been blinded to what could be
Spiritually
Can I live for an eternity?
Or do I only reside in this flesh till death, like living and dying are meshed, it's horrible but blessed, destined for forever….
Always together
Like a pure Shore, an ocean and sand which hold hands swaying side to side
In countries sides
Does the sea feel pride?
Or does is feel sadness that the sand will never travel that far out,
Seeing the fish's, sunken ships and wonders that live beneath it
Does the sand slowly try to take the ocean and build it's on waves
Only to sink the bottom
Or do they know how to live in perfect harmony
Like a spirit and a vessel
Do they work on instinct
Like a dog and a paw
How does one live with love and heartache at the same time?
Is it natural or my own demise
Does the sand understand the tides
How they always come crawling back
Do they understand the gravity of moon light
How some things live in the day and then at night lack
We're the sand and sea always meant to be
Or were they forced together in a blissless society
Where my heart is torn up and whole at once
Are they polar opposites
Or two sides of the same coin
Are they both hate or both allures
Or do they live in unity forever
On an island of perfect pure shores
