Like Shadows

Like Shadows Stepping out, on long unused pathways Through a weeping mist Through all the familiar places Behind us the crumbling walls The deep vividness of night Falling on waves of fire The roses’ velvety folds A heavy, scented breeze Winding new roads to old places Petals full of moonlit dew Endlessly entwined Spilling colours [...]

All Falls Into Light

All Falls Into Light The stars are beneath our feet There is a sighing in the wind And then, the reflection shatters Spilling the forgotten dreams Following the rolling tide Into the ebbing night Silver trailing into the depths Of all the shadows Lacing the fading dark And then, a many layered sky Let loose [...]

To Echo Alone

To Echo Alone Softly flickering candle light The tapping at the window is only rain And time stands still A breeze through a cracked pane Shadows on the walls Of crowded, empty rooms Watching the sky fade Amid the dying embers of the day Gently a leaf falls, to echo alone © Ann Bagnall and [...]

This Place Of Shadows

This Place of Shadows Under watchful, trembling stars And in a fragile silence With silvered breath, the snow awaits The rising of the moon Lightning dances through the trees And thunder rolls away Throughout this never ending night The wind whispers and weeps The world rearranges itself In and out of chaos It is cold [...]

Forever And Always

Forever and Always Sent from the depths of silence From the oceans of emptiness From the unrelenting Teeming, sands of time Shifting shadows in the firmament The growing darkness Day upon day Forever and always As the light slips away In the timeless, sanguine Elysian cathedral of the evening sky Memories fade slowly Strangely, quietly, [...]