Life in degrees is a personal poetry and occasional short story blog .
Life is seen in many different ways or degrees and with the help of poetry, stories, music and art we may view it from many perspectives.
Poetry is medication for the soul

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Sunday, 24 April 2011

Corridors of Memory 



In the corridors of our minds 
Are memories and times left behind 
Good times to recall and make us smile
Others so bad we could run a mile!

As degeneration sets upon us 
The corridors get blocked
Some memories a kaleidoscope of colours 
Others forever locked !




Thank you to Greg Laychak for the picture

Wednesday, 20 April 2011

Journey To The White Stuff


Journey To The White Stuff


Up and up
I look
Up and up, 
Standing, Tall and Grey
Encroaching all around 
Intimidating all that is apart from you. 
The only passage 
A snake wriggling,
 Secure and Safe
Wriggling,
 Up and up 
Trees, lush and tall 
dissipating,
Growing thinner, smaller. 
The canvas slowly changing from grey, 
To virgin white, 
Up and up 
Along the meandering grey 
Tarmacadam, viper, 
Sharper twists, smaller turns, 
Glistening icing, 
Allowing our transition into 
A softer, quieter
 Magical fairy land,
Looking 
Down, Down
Upon 
The Kingdom of Commerce 
While we play like bunnies
Up, Up
 In our snowy mountain.





( I wrote this after going skiing after a gap of 20yrs )
 Poets Parking Lot                                                                                                        







Monday, 18 April 2011

Family Chains

Family Chains
( For my sons 21st birthday ) 



To the children we love so much,
Small yet hardy,that's what they say
But as your mum and dad we see you in different ways
Your flawless skin, your sparkling eyes,
The way you drive us mad, always asking why?
One simple step that every child takes,
When you do the same our hearts could break.
From toddler to child you move away
Each independant trait, but we want you to stay
Our child yet our babe forever, we need
To feel somewhere inside you, we are your seed
So never forget that feeling inside,
That you'll always belong and never be freed,
For a chain has been created and will never be broken
To our children we write these words
Thou these thoughts are never spoken!




Photo : Claire Bloomfield

Sunday, 17 April 2011

Glimpse


Glimpse

How you entice me, 
Magnetically coaxing me
Into ?
Wonderland ?
Temptation ?
Freedom ?

How you threaten me, 
Tormenting me 
Into ? 
Insecurity ?
The unknown?
Abandonment ?

How you pull me, 
Coercing  me 
Into ?
Adventure?
Hope ?
Desire?

A glimpse........just a glimpse .
 

Picture by James Rainsford

Sunday, 3 April 2011

A Memorial To Youth

A  Memorial to Youth

 (one stop poetry Sunday Poetry Challenge)



I Caught the hair, 
Captured your stare
Tormented your soul 
Revived the demons for the old
For with one shot 
It screams ... the truth !
You had their lot 
The beauty
 of
 Youth !



Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Human Atomics

Human Atomics

We're in a room, hitting the walls
The worlds not round its like a hall,
People can't breathe, they're walking the walls
Their ideas keep crashing and having fights. 
If only one of them could see the light

The hall's so long and people can't see,
Their ideas so small they need to be freed !
Lets knock down the wall,
So people can see, let their ideas breathe,
Then hopefully they'll see the worlds much bigger

And its not just me !



Life/Death Support.

Life/Death Support

There you lie in your sterile bed,
With your sterile hands and your sterile head.
Tubes growing from your torso and limbs,
Your body intact but your spirit becoming thin.

I look at this person I knew before 
All lifeless and blank,a human no more. 
The tubes are your lifeline,all yellow and clear 
To rip them out and give you your pride,
I would pay dear 
But to have loved and watch you now 
My own Death I fear !