Category Archives: Poetry

I write stories, and sometimes a story emerges as a poem.
I’m not sure what the difference is, although occasionally poems contain rhymes.

vision

Posted on September 11, 2022 by ceayr

Click here to hear the poet read his words: vision more and more oftenas the years stumble pastI catch a glimpseof a flickerof a shadowjust outwith the rangeof my vision is it a memorymade realof someone long gonewhom once I … Continue reading →

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a poem

Posted on September 4, 2022 by ceayr

Click here to hear the poet read his words: a poem I wrote a poem about my lifeit told of familyand friendsof rock n rolland operaand booksthat made me dream I wrote a poem about my lifeit told of where … Continue reading →

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the loch

Posted on August 21, 2022 by ceayr

Click here to hear the poet read his words: the loch a small green islandon a long grey lochstretched along the foot of the glencreated by a great glaciernearly twenty thousand years ago on the southern part of the lochthe … Continue reading →

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dreamer

Posted on July 31, 2022 by ceayr

Click here to hear the poet read his words: Click here to hear the poet read his words: dreamer warm summer days mean naught to meI don’t care for golden sunbeamsI prefer to dwell in moonlightand to spend my life … Continue reading →

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mask

Posted on July 24, 2022 by ceayr

Click here to hear the poet read his words: masks the first time that I saw youyou hid behind your maskand said I didn’t know youthat we’d never met beforeand laughed and I in my innocencebelieved youthough you reminded meof … Continue reading →

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seasons

Posted on July 17, 2022 by ceayr

Click here to hear the poet read his words: seasons springsaw you arrivecomme une plume vermeillelike a vermillion featherbeautiful elegant naturalah the light my love the light summeryou dancedwith mermaidsand my heartroamed free and proudas the Great White Stagin the … Continue reading →

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bird

Posted on July 10, 2022 by ceayr

Click here to hear the poet read his words: bird waves rumbleround the rocksin November sunshine I sitgazing at the Mediterraneanmy mindfar awayacross the planetor somewheredeep inside myselfwhen I seeoverheada solitary bird a waterfowlperhapsa Canada Goose a memory stirsI start … Continue reading →

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Scotland in November

Posted on July 3, 2022 by ceayr

Click here to hear the poet read his words: Scotland in November looking backit seems quite obviouswe were doomedbefore we started so very far apartculturally andgeographically but we had so muchtogetherlaughterand passionand all that love so many great timesand those … Continue reading →

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I wrote a poem

Posted on June 26, 2022 by ceayr

Click here to hear the poet read his words: I wrote a poem I read a poem yesterdayit nearly broke my heartit spoke of lovers loved and lostthey lived too far apart I read a poem yesterdayit said she won’t … Continue reading →

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bouchon

Posted on June 19, 2022 by ceayr

Click here to hear the poet read his words: bouchon I’m standing at a bus stoptwenty minutes from homethe reasons don’t matterno sign of scheduled servicealready long overduethe traffic is nose to nosemile after milebarely movingnothing happeningother than tempers risinglike … Continue reading →

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