Happiness – Deuxiemepeau Poetry by Damien B. Donnelly

BOUND

You draw my attention from pondering path like thoughts collected in a well-worn carpet and make me wonder, as with love and hate, which came first- bark almost buried to blind or the sweet lie of this lichen grown around your years as if you where the whole to its being, the breath to […]

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WHEN THINGS EVENTUALLY GIVE WAY

We were waiting for the green man beneath the blue sky, waiting on an open corner to cross over, do you remember? A simple day of smiling sunshine, an easy lunch of eating smiles and we were laughing, were laughing at everything and nothing- at the osteopath and his cracking observations and the sunshine […]

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PURPLE CLOUDS

In that garden of the many meadows of my mind plants grow down from purple clouds carved of cotton catchable candy and seek substance from the surface and not the ceiling. In that garden of the many meadows of my mind fences are painted with faces familiar and mouths to catch kisses if you’re […]

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IN THE MOMENT

Today we are together, timeless in this singular moment of forever. We are limitless; soul entwined in hope, hope entwined in love. Today we are together. Tomorrow is for fools to fret over. All words and photographs by Damien B. Donnelly. The Kiss Sculpture by Rodin. Inspired by a Twitter poetry prompt from #DimpleVerse

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UPSIDE DOWN

Day 10: National Poetry Writing Month #NaPoWriMo Happiness endless happiness harboured in holds of hope hampers of harmony hampers of… hampered happiness heaped under hammer hindered happiness and less happiness […]

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MOTHERS CHILD

We are carved and we are cared for, Cuddled and coddled all our lives, But we are, will always remain A mother’s creation, the love And labour of the hands That first held us. I see you In me, in the minutes so simple, In the moments so precious, Sometimes so predictable, Other times obscure. […]