Gloucestershire land
For miles it surrounds
The heart of the City
Verdant land
Inspires the mind
Hills to walk
Fields to explore
With paths aplenty
Upon the hills, trees sit
Summer filled with leaves
The change in autumnal colours
A winter brings a bare silhouette
To spring with new growth, new hope
Snow may fall through hills to streets
Seeing the land in a different light
Until the ice and snow flows away
With verdant land seen once again
Whatever the weather I will walk
To see the vibrant land again and once more
In sunshine or dull rain there is light to be found
Across verdant land of Gloucestershire.
All in one night [I thought]
Could you be the one
[as] We share the same sun [?]
In a moment [my heart is]
Caught by the wind
[&] Maybe tomorrow
I wanna get lost with you
[just for] A minute longer
[This] Song for the summer
[like my] T shirt sun tan
[I don't wanna to say] Geronimo [to]
[thinking] I could lose ya
[I felt my] Crush
Drowning
[I wanted to] Rewind [time]
[I would have] Taken a tumble [for you]
Before anyone knew our name [s]
[& asked] What’s all the fuss about
[with this] Girl
[they say she’s ] Nothing Precious at All
[yet I say she’s my world of] Rainbows and Pots of Gold
[Before I could] Wonder
[I had to choose to] Fight or Flight
[even if] A thousand trees [stood in my way]
[I didn't know what the] Chances are
[I just thought] Help me (She’s out of her mind) [I hope]
[if she likes] The local boy in the photograph
[I was ready to] Pull the pin
[to find my] Ladyluck
[even if it meant] Climbing the wall [with] Jealousy
Would you believe
I got your number
[I felt] High as the ceiling
[& best of all]
She’s alright
[after a] Caravan holiday
Lying in the sun
Maybe [one day]
[you’ll] Step on my old size nines
[& we’ll be] Mr and Mrs Smith.
A plot of land
unspoiled and bland
With a plan to build
a house to become a home
that would withstand
weathers of all types
in season upon season
& stand tall
for decades, eras
& across centuries
Providing a shelter
for family and friends
all from a piece of land
once untouched and bland
Hearts built the walls
to hold hearts young and wise
& for young hearts to grow up and old
With some stories untold
with only the walls and bricks
hearing every word
the land that it stands
captures the lives of many
silently yet strong
For the eras and years
a plot of land
would become a place,
a home
& one day
our own.
She made me race the sea
if I wanted to be near to her
As the waves caught my heels
I entered my plea, guilty
of being in love with you
The tide was strong
like the feelings of love
The waves crashed
deafening the ear
causing a little fear
that the love had been washed away
But as I ran the waves ceased
& out of breathe
this was my chance
to make a positive difference
in both your heart and mine.
Over muddy ground
Flooded paths
Through fallen trees
Each step over stones
Closer to the clouds
Where the water gathers
Upon trees before falling
To the ground, or on me
One soul gathers thoughts
Whilst the other sole
Gathers mud and leaves
As I travel over terrain
On urban roads and rural earth
The heart desires deep rural paths
When the walk is over
For this moment or day
Breath caught, mind settled
With boots left covered in mud
Earth and leaves still reside
Upon the boots sole
The boots tumble, I see
A leaf didn't leave my sole
Resembling a memory in the soul
Is a reminder of times
Forever walking to remember
Over grounds high and flowing streams
Breathing life into new memories
& letting go of others from time gone by
Whatever land is walked over
Memories are brought back upon the sole
(it may be mud, stones, sticks or moss
But it's a reminder of the people and places)
Reminding the soul what it thought
(about what is important - person and place)
Whether it be that minute, hour or day present or gone
A leaf didn't leave my sole.
Something about her stood out from where she stood
In the vast countryside she caught the eye
Despite hundreds of trees full of colour, beauty
She stood taller and brighter than any other
Eyes transfixed I could look no further to where I was heading
My minds direction had changed to where she stood
The wind blew hard with trees swaying
Leaves rustled, branches bashed one another
The noise distracted my eyes from where they looked
& when I looked back she was gone
She stood out before and she will stand out again
In whatever vast land she may stand
Taller and brighter she will be
Through a thousand trees I saw her
Over a thousand hills I’d walk
To catch a glimpse of you again
For all the colour the eye caught
You altered my mind of thoughts
& therefore you must have captured my heart
My thoughts have never been the same since
With the same thought of the same view
Something about her stood out from where she stood
& one day my eye will see her again.
I wanna make the path in front of me
Smoother that the one I left behind
Just keeping the hills to test me
Making me stronger in life
Pave the way for little feet to find their way
Before stepping on stones and unknown ground
& find their own paths through life
Over fallen trees and puddles deep
We’ll have to go to find our way
When paths are blocked or clogged
Life is not a straight path
or the ease of freewheeling down hill
To see the view we dream
The heights, hills and mountains have to be climbed
As tough as it is and when we want to stop; sometimes
We just can’t - for our children, for us or others
A house over my head
as the rain lashes down
Water through a tap
hot and cold
Children asleep
happy and fed
Whether wide awake or asleep
dreams are alive
(with potential)
Morning breaks
warm, rested
The house awakes
laughter breaks out
throughout the house
Summer through to winter
hearts close together
As the temperature plummets
the one I love gives me warmth
- day and night
A house over my head
protecting hearts
close to mine.