old
the wise list
in green lands,
spirits running
free in the form
of the wolf
wildest of the
wise, we leap
through the damp
heart of the woods,
listen to the still
night that hears
learning anew
the chase of old
streaking the earth
with fresh trails
distancing the ages
long gone
Play
I’m a dancer in the sea
Bubbles play with me
As I hold my nose
Everything glows
In chill water immerse
A happy verse
I’m a dancer in the sea
Come and play with me
Swim beside me here
Where I have no fear
Here I am one
Having all the fun
I’m a dancer in the sea
Swimming here so free
Bubbles pass me by
Up to the bluest sky
I am but seven
This is my heaven
Moving on
Any day is but yesterday
Count the hours
Everybody knows
Chase the shadows that dance
Meaningful waves
Cutting the skies
A crazy dance played in rhyme
So the story goes
As you write it
Leaving no sense of the spaces
Lain dark in between
So to play a pretty chord or two
I can dance
Play a tune
Under the crystal light of dawn
Stuttered glances
Chasing thoughts
Say to scribe a watching verse or two
Slow to rhyme
Fast to speak
Out of tune I play another time
So forgetting, you
Chance to remember
Days forgot in the rush of time
Endless rain dances
Echoes of droplets
Fallen among the ashes of yesterday
Gather them up
Sweeping red petals
Fresh the dew that weeps on grass
In the shimmering
Lights flow
Two
In love with the beloved
Love will know no end
There is no end to love
If beloved is the one
In love is the beloved
She is loved as he is loved
One to be forever more
Two in love entwined
This was written for my friends’ wedding, but I was too embarrassed to write it in their card!
The swans
Swans gather before the storm
The pitch of grace forlorn
They swim this way alone
A white ghost ship sails here
They honk their sound to clear
The way for the silken tide
Their moonlit water wings
Seem to glide with the air of kings
An eerie way through the calm
They bob their dark heads soon
Knowingly gathering the moon
In their clear eyes reflected
This heat hangs lucid in the air
Hovering over each dancing pair
As they slice their way through
Effortless without any fuss
Is this grace they bestow on us
The passing of ages flown
Strings
Steal the song
Never sung
In the mirror
Always cracked
On the ocean
Leaps in time
As you sing
Unending rhyme
Colours flicker
Pictures echo
Holding back
The aching sound
Beats the dark
Double bass
Diving
Sinking
In a stream of bubbles
Light, white, bright
Fresh air flies above
Restless
I dive
Down
Down
Deeper into this dark
No light beckons
No thoughts cry out
I dive
Deeper
I feel the lightness
The weightlessness
Of falling
No safety chute
Only me
Light as a feather
In this warm glow
Of the summer
Sun
I fall
Sliding into the void
Where we like to play
Here the bubbles
Dance
Around my head
Waking
A dream
With scales
Sparkling orange
Slipping and sliding
Out of reach
I breathe now
The bubbles drift away
I watch them
Float free
Breathing
Breathing
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About the author
Vickie Johnstone is the author of 16 books. She lives in London, UK, where she works as a layout sub editor on magazines. Some day she hopes to live by the sea with some cute fluffy cats and a lifetime supply of Milky Bar chocolate. One of her children’s books, Kiwi and the Serpent of the Isle, was a finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards 2013. I Dream of Zombies was a finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards 2014.
Books by the author
3 Heads & a Tail
The Sea Inside (Cerulean Songs, book 1)
I Dream of Zombies (book 1)
Haven (I Dream of Zombies, book 2)
The Kiwi Series
Kiwi in Cat City (book 1)
Kiwi and the Missing Magic (book 2)
Kiwi and the Living Nightmare (book 3)
Kiwi and the Serpent of the Isle (book 4)
Kiwi in the Realm of Ra (book 5)
Kiwi’s Christmas Tail (book 6)
Smarts & Dewdrop Mysteries
Day of the Living Pizza (book 1)
Day of the Pesky Shadow (book 2)
Poetry
Kaleidoscope
Life’s Rhythms
Travelling Light
Mind-spinning Rainbows
Others
The Gage Project charitable children’s anthology, published by Inknbeans Press
A Very Christmas Zombie anthology, published by ATZ
Author links
Blog: https://vickiejohnstone.blogspot.com
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4788773.Vickie_Johnstone
Facebook author page: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorVickieJohnstone
Kiwi Series website: www.kiwiincatcity.com
Twitter: @vickiejohnstone
Kiwi Series Gift Shop: www.zazzle.co.uk/kiwiincatcity