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Songs in the Mist
© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026
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Beltane
Now, the time of fire
bides through the changing darkness,
waiting to ignite;
to burn out the acquired dross
of lives enslaved to their lies.But these ancient flames
blaze brightest when night's deep tides
fill the soul's caverns;
watch, where you would not dare look,
as your heart becomes the pyre.© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026
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Each verse a #tanka
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We Walk Alone
© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026
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One Further Fire
© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026
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Invoke
© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026
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Where the Wind Speaks
© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026
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Reaching
I got lost, on paths
unlit, and never knew times
so dark and lonely;
a heart pierced by memory
and fear, seeking deep shadows.Ye Gods, I need light,
and a hand to drag me out
from this drowning dark;
have I not been long enough
struggling to find stars, again?© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026
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Disturbed
If silence was peace,
it would not reside
in the space
between heartbeats,
the thousand deaths
each day
must suffer.
It would not pull
the tears
from the canyons
within my soul,
and swallow the scream
that I send,
into the sky,
because pain
burns deeper
when borne alone.
It would not hide
behind words, smiles
and empty glances,
making life echo
as a hollow,
filled with nothing
but ghosts.© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026
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Mind's Eye
There are vast clouds,
shot through with light
of an unfading dawn;
they shine, beyond
a wide horizon, formed
of dream and hope.I see their glow
each time my heart
seeks its destination;
each glimpse, a wish
to find a pathway, back
to primal flame.May my desire
take me to them,
past this life's wide shadow,
in wild response
to promises, that home
was never lost.© Simon J Ashcroft, 2026
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Longest Night
© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025
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Stormbird
A child, I allowed
cold winds to pierce my heart's pain
and numb me to ice;
they call me again, tonight,
and I will spread wings to fly.Winter holds me, still:
my time, always, in the dark,
always, in the wild;
if I'm cursed to ride the gale,
then let me go, to my fate.© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025
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Each verse a #tanka
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Chord
When the music dies
and there's nothing left to sing,
when voice fades to night...
in absence of words worthy
of melody, what is left?Breath, alone, is vain,
and poetry's want becomes
the soul's starvation;
waiting, in tuneless wonder,
watching the death of beauty.© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025
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Unimportance
Inhale.
Listen.
There is rain, tapping,
seeking entry,
offering to bring
the darkness of
the street, into
my room.
Here,
in this stillness
where all words
were exhausted
long ago,
I need not bid
the raindrops enter.
They are here,
already,
and I know
it does not matter.
Not now, not ever.
Nothing matters.
The only important
issue, is
to understand,
everything dies.© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025
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Mythic Prayer
© Simon J Ashcroft, 2025
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#Pagan #metempsychosis