Mark Scrivener

[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

Sleep #poem #poetry #poet

Then unseen another flies
Down new evening's dark paths-
Sleep, with deep dream in her eyes,
Following a trail of stars.
Gently she spreads sleepy sighs,
With her cloak of deep, dark hues:
Roses, violets, and blues.

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[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

Sleep #poem #poetry #poet

Down wide vastness of the west,
Going with last golden glowing,
Now proud sun sinks to its rest;
In the dusk the grey is growing.
Light is leaving. Day is done.
Wheeling flocks of far birds fly;
Over twilight's fading sky.

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[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

Sonnet - Valentine Rose #poem #poetry #poet

I'd wish that I could bring before your eyes
The finest blossom of the flower of light-
As fair as Venus, splendid in those skies
That pass from dusk's last lilac to deep night.

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[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

And Softly Falls the Summer Rain #poem #poetry
The Lilly-Pilly waves wet leaves.
Far palms are darker on the greyness
of sky wide-tempered by deep cloud
than in the glare and heat of flare
that flames from blue... and cooled is air.

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[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

Trees #poem #poetry #poet
The tree of life unfolds from heaven
and from the Light descends to living;
and spreads the leaves of deeds upon
the earthly pathways of the sun;
and seeks fulfillment of its flourishing
within each aspect of the human journeying
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[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

Trees #poem #poetry #poet

The forest tree unfolds from earth,
and from the darkness has its birth;
and lifts its shimmering, green leaves
to rustle in the air's soft breeze,
and seeks with branching strength to rise
up towards the vastness of the skies:

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[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

The Korfish Clock #poem #poetry #poet

Korf invents a clock where two
pairs of circling hands are found,
one runs forward as clocks do,
but as well one's backward bound.

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[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

In Dawn I Stand #poem #poetry #poet

And so I stand, in new and mind-bright hour,
as this new morning shines,
renewed-

as new as these new lines
I've written now,

as new as time's new way
I've never seen;
as new as this new day...

that's never been.

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[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

Rainbow Lorikeets #poem #poetry #poet

They come in furious flight
to feed on the grevilla's
bright spirallings of gold,
with red, curved beaks,
red beady eyes
the brightest swift-winged messengers of day,
a yellow scarlet-orange green
blue-purple sight

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[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

Sonnet- Valentine Rose #poem #poetry #ppoet

I'd wish that I could bring before your ears
Most moving blossoming of great-toned song
That, singing shining melody, appears
To weave with words both deep and fire-strong.

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[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

Sonnet- Valentine Rose #poem #poetry #poet

I'd wish that I could bring before your eyes
The finest blossom of the flower of light-
As fair as Venus, splendid in those skies
That pass from dusk's last lilac to deep night.

https://t.co/U9GW21yNN2

[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

Valentine Rose-- Sonnet #poem #poetry #poet

I'd wish that I could bring before your eyes
The finest blossom of the flower of light-
As fair as Venus, splendid in those skies
That pass from dusk's last lilac to deep night.

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[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

I Brought You Roses #poem #poetry #poet

I brought you roses on a rainy day
To open out their beauty to the eye.
The cold wind blew the petals all away.

A symbol for the hidden heart were they,
Where secret petals open like a sigh.

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[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

Sonnet- Valentine Rose #poem #poetry #poet

I'd wish that I could bring before your eyes
The finest blossom of the flower of light-
As fair as Venus, splendid in those skies
That pass from dusk's last lilac to deep night.

https://t.co/U9GW21yNN2

[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

Phoenix Fable #poem #poetry #poet #myth

And with first stir of dawn
The fragrant sticks ignite
Consuming flesh and feather
In blaze of burning light.

But in the ashes of the night
There shines the shimmering, gold-solar egg.

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[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

White Rose #poem #poetry #poet

as white as new light
through sight-giving sky:
flower in a flowering
of shining that's other,
of shining that's finer
than censor eyes see.

Gaze in the silence,
listen with seeing-
forever the rose
embowers heart's being.
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[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

Night-Sound by Meyer #translate #poem #poetry
Muse, announce to me the night-soft noises,
Those which flood the ear of one unsleeping !
First the dogs' familiar, watchful barking,
Then the counted strikes of hours departing,
From the shore two fishermen
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[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

White Rose #poem #poetry #poet

Light-petalled, fine-scented,
a white-shining rose,
coming forth from
a serration of leaves
and thorn-sharp hard stem,

blossoms like dawn.

Tell me that beauty
is but in the eye;
tell me the blind truth,
tell me that lie.

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[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

The Travellling Tales #poem #poetry #poet

These are the stories from
The endless empires of the soul:
The tales of all dreamtimes,
The rumourings that come
From west of the moon,
And east of the sun.

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[Mark Scrivener @orpheus777]

Sleep #poem #poetry #poet

Then unseen another flies
Down new evening's dark paths-
Sleep, with deep dream in her eyes,
Following a trail of stars.
Gently she spreads sleepy sighs,
With her cloak of deep, dark hues:
Roses, violets, and blues.

https://t.co/u05kGbBg1f