A hooded cloak of cherry
\nBadges everywhere
\nA grey beard matching tousled hair
\nA bard whose need to share
\nWords and compositions
\nA preamble to it all
\nA rich continuation
\nTo the writing on the wall
\nA soothsayer of seasons
\nRituals in the bag
\nConstantly the Winter of one\u2019s life
\nIs like a flag
\nA casualty of circumstance
\nThe aftermath of which
\nA sequel to performance
\nAnd an upshot to the pitch<\/p>\n
Gravity and vigour
\nA peppery repose
\nRickety and shaky
\nAn authorship that grows
\nA tyranny of substance
\nA tendency to be
\nReally into wildness
\nAnd to forestry
\nA traveller of continents
\nForever musing there
\nRuminative and pensive
\nAgog wanting to share
\nA vivid imagination
\nA meaningful desire
\nTo envisage and to visualise
\nAnd realise the fire<\/p>\n
That burns within his
\nBody
\nTo a literal degree
\nRhapsodical and resourceful
\nIt\u2019s where he likes to be
\nWhere truth and make-believe are one
\nAnd daydreams everyday
\nCan be put into poems
\nAs we wander on our way
\nA reverie and ransom
\nA fanciful display
\nA swordsman of the lexicon variety
\nThat may
\nCross swords with so many
\nBut advocate the need
\nTo use the might of magick
\nWith a reason to succeed<\/p>\n
To affirm and well to formulate
\nStraight from the shoulder prose
\nFighting for the underdogs
\nWith a nomenclature that grows
\nA true perspicuity
\nForceful to a case
\nAn ardent line on vigour
\nAt a very varied pace
\nA Druid in the making
\nThe Cotswold Order clan
\nA symmetry of silence
\nFlawless and to plan
\nArticulation noticeable
\nTub thumping in a way
\nRousing with a humour
\nAnd a licence to display<\/p>\n
Stanzas strains and verses
\nElegiac ways
\nCan with spontaneity
\nAd lib and as it plays
\nOut across the circle
\nEncourage and create
\nA harmony of purpose
\nAnd a rapport to debate
\nA hooded cloak of cherry
\nButterflies and birds
\nDragonflies and owls and skulls
\nAnd pentagrams and words
\nOf magickal direction
\nOf the precious fae
\nAnimals and trees and flowers
\nThat in the hedgerows play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A hooded cloak of cherry Badges everywhere A grey beard matching tousled hair A bard whose need to share Words and compositions A preamble to it all A rich continuation To the writing on the wall A soothsayer of seasons … Continue reading