Grey Matter Writings

The day beats you down But it doesn’t break you You forge on And you forge on Through the forest Of your daily struggles You still find flowers Like gifts from God open.substack.com/pub/greymatter…

@SVG__Collection Head Hunters for sure

If you could recommend one jazz album to a person who dislikes the genre, which one would it be?

Latest poem on the situation in #Bangladesh open.substack.com/pub/greymatter…

My poem on what’s been happening in Bangladesh over the last couple weeks (where I live). Enjoy: open.substack.com/pub/greymatter… #poetrycommunity #BangladeshQuothaMovement #POEMS

Oh silvery streamlet of the fields, That flowest full and free! For thee the rains of spring return, The summer dews for thee; #PoemADay #poetrycommunity #poetry #poetrylovers Continue reading: open.substack.com/pub/greymatter…

Among the heathy hills and ragged woods The roaring Fyers pours his mossy floods; Till full he dashes on the rocky mounds, Where, thro' a shapeless breach, his stream resounds, #PoemADay #poetrycommunity Continue reading: open.substack.com/pub/greymatter…

The tranquil sea, she calls to me To tell me of her mysteries To tell me of forgotten truths Of her old stories believed in youth She sings to me as angels do A soft, low hum, a seagull’s coo… #PoemADay #poetry #poetrycommunity Continue reading: open.substack.com/pub/greymatter…

Tonight a shimmer of gold lies mantled o'er Smooth lovely Ocean. Through the lustrous gloom A savor steals from linden trees in bloom And gardens ranged at many a palace door. #PoemADay #poetry #poetrycommunity Continue reading: open.substack.com/pub/greymatter…

Though fickle Fortune has deceived me, She promis'd fair and perform'd but ill; Of mistress, friends, and wealth bereav'd me, Yet I bear a heart shall support me still. #PoemADay #poetrycommunity Continue reading: open.substack.com/pub/greymatter…

On Gold All-ruling tyrant of the earth, To vilest slaves I owe my birth, How is the greatest monarch blest, When in my gaudy livery drest! No haughty nymph has power to run From me; or my embraces shun. #PoemADay Continue reading: open.substack.com/pub/greymatter…

I fly over open plains And over ocean waves I cut over mountain tops And icy tundra lanes I bring the rain, and I bring the snow The shaded earth is all I know #PoemADay #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers Continue reading open.substack.com/pub/greymatter…

The pines were dark on Ramoth hill, Their song was soft and low; The blossoms in the sweet May wind Were falling like the snow. #PoemADay #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers Continue reading: open.substack.com/pub/greymatter…

As through the street at eve we went (It might be half-past ten), We fell out, my friend and I, About the cube of x+y, And made it up again. #PoemADay #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers Continue reading: open.substack.com/pub/greymatter…

@jon_cronshaw Bilbo Baggins

If a bookshop was run by a fantasy creature, which creature would make the most interesting bookseller and why?

When the world, it seems, has lain her load On your delicate, lissome soul When the path you walk has gone from paved To a debris of aimless holes And when that wondrous map of heaven Seems a dark and vacuous bowl Remember you’re a paradise Continue: open.substack.com/pub/greymatter…

Small, busy flames play through the fresh laid coals, And their faint cracklings o'er our silence creep Like whispers of the household gods that keep A gentle empire o'er fraternal souls. #PoemADay #poetry #poetrylovers Continue reading: open.substack.com/pub/greymatter…

Through blinding storm and clouds of night, We swiftly pushed our restless flight; With thundering hoof and warning neigh, We urged our steed upon his way Up the line. #PoemADay #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers Continue reading: open.substack.com/pub/greymatter…

"Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! "But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me, And killed him in his place. #PoemADay #poetry Continue reading: open.substack.com/pub/greymatter…

The pride of all our chivalry, The name of Worth will stand, While throbs the pulse of liberty Within his native land: The wreath his brow was formed to wear, A nation's tears will freshen there. #PoemADay Continue reading: open.substack.com/pub/greymatter…

Where shall we bury our shame? Where, in what desolate place, Hide the last wreck of a name Broken and stained by disgrace? Death may dissever the chain, Oppression will cease when we're gone; But the dishonor, the stain, Die as we may, will live on. open.substack.com/pub/greymatter…