Fate

(Spoken word)
Why am I lain here awake?....

Why am I lain here awake,
Gripped by the...

Real men don’t read poetry
they scoffed ..
But then, neither do they cry ..

Still...

For you my love, whilst the world sleeps 💤 💕 💓....
A sorry for all of lifes torments, trials and...

Thrown in and locked away, a wee babe still
Name your cage and grab its bars - that’s your free will...

Save your life and mine, Time is for you to shine
My lady of light, Guide the world through the...

Owen Andrew Grove…
8 pounds 14 ounces,
21.5” long and perfect.

6/12/24

A day...

Newborn
And the Indians crack an egg
Over mine and my sister's head.
Never will I be...

fireflies burning a quiet shimmer
upon nightfallen sky
lay down in the shallows
of the...

Aching heat
Savaging across a karmic sky
Firelit ash
Falling like rain
Blinking...

Broken pieces
Yester years hurt
Half a heart remains
Never ending maze of fog
...

fate
crushes us
like
fatuous bugs
in
fatal rugs

-NJV (2023)

The myth we bought into
for a marked down price
off the clearance rack
was littered...

Oh heart, dear heart
That quiver so;
Inside my chest
I shall not know.

That...

I whispered the only words I knew;
I'm bleeding with madness,
Normality has lost existence,...