As age tightens, we begin to tire as life begins to retire. Something else awaits, pulling your soul, down into a puddle of weight. It’s harder now to go on as we realise what has become of mortals who suffer from death and nothing beyond. Some welcome the end; some fight until they descend; some […]
Author Archives: D.J. Irvine
If you’re thinking about buying the book Paradoxical Vista, you might want to know a little about the content. The poems inside typed on the pages have been written to make you STOP! And think about life, death and all that resides in the middle. The poetry that fills the pages – take you on […]
Writing a poem typically starts with an idea, maybe a suggestion from an image or sometimes the first sentence just falls onto the page. From that initial sentence, the poem can grow into a journey or has the possibility of being a new work of art. Finding inspiration for a poem can come from anywhere, […]
After the first book (Paradoxical Vista – Mind-Bending Poems) a self-published achievement, I decided to play around with some of the paragraphs or sentences in my favourite poems. This really got my creative flair going as ideas started to manifest inside my mind. The lack of limitations I could achieve through creating some exciting wall […]
I watched my death party and smiled because I knew what nobody could expect when they leave into the darkness between the layers of time itself. Some people shed tears of lost while others smiled with no cost, many cry on their own while I felt death like a wound from a black rose. I […]
The sun talks to me From when I was little with no friends. I would look inside her vivid mind And she would show me colours of every kind. When I looked away All of reality turned into a white light With a moment of seeing my mind Pouring into a silver puddle, Laced with […]
Facebook, I deleted my account Even though I was one of the first to sign up Without a shadow of doubt. I connected with friends And posted pictures to pretend Then I watched the carnage Of people’s personal and global wars Talk to the world like a broken harness. Upon one day I decided to […]
You said you wanted happiness; you said you wanted nothing else. We created beings together and watched laughter echo through the vibrations of life itself. We did all this in the name of love! Standing by each other as time moved on. We had it all, yet we had nothing. We had each other with […]
The centre of the black hole stopped as we met for the first time on this life-giving rock that bent the edges between this grime. A ripple of love was created that interlinked gravity to break the laws of actuality. Pulling us closer together while igniting the universe on its infinite ride. We smiled! Because […]
I’m dying and soon I will be dead but through you I will live instead. Lying here will be my body connected to my head, reminding you of all the memories we collected and shared. Don’t cry for me when I’m gone, smile for all the times we sang that little song. Remember my face […]