raj808 (@raj808)
Published Poet, Fiction Writer, Amateur Photographer and Digital Artist 🖋📖
The Last Gasps of Reason - Poetry Inspired by Environmental Issues
Stacks of chimneys, graze lurid amber cockleshell clouds, shrouding the day echoing the break. Purple wire-strung lazy sun, setting in haze, emblazoned on the sky. In the wake of tram-lines from ai...
Unconditional Love - Haiku, Excerpt and Reflections - #5 Poetry Inspired by The Tao
Photo by Sean Stratton on Unsplash The universe is unconditional balance - love and destruction. This 5th chapter in the Tao Te Ching suffers slightly in the translation because of connotations of ...
Echoes of the Infinite - Haiku, Excerpt and Reflections - #4 Poetry Inspired by The Tao
Digital art created using 2 CC licence images by rjayar + WikiImages on Pixabay The bottomless well pregnant with infinite light births all and nothing. Chapter four of the Tao Te Ching points to t...
The Art of Not Doing - Haiku, Excerpt and Reflections - #3 Poetry Inspired by The Tao
CC Licence Image by JanBrzezinski on Pixabay The water knows flow unaware of its cascade, yet it carves valleys. In chapter 1 the Tao Te Ching begins by telling us "rid yourself of desires", yet al...
Balance through Perception - Haiku, Excerpt and Reflections - #2 Poetry Inspired by The Tao
Digital art created using 2 CC licence images by leninscape + nafetiart on Pixabay Existence mirrored in the water's patterned weave, neither good nor bad. This second chapter of the Tao Te Ching e...
The Way - Haiku, Excerpt and Reflections - #1 Poetry Inspired by The Tao
CC Licence Image by JanBrzezinski on Pixabay The way is stillness, dissolving in spruce and snow - the wood and path one. The title image really struck me as representative of the first chapter of ...
The Mersey's Lament (Poetry Film) - Poetry Inspired by Place
https://youtu.be/9svlcG29tl8 The Mersey's Lament is a psychedelic Stream Of Consciousness poetry video performance about the river Mersey and city of Liverpool. I include a text version below for t...
Shipwrecked in the Hands of the Gods - Poetry Inspired by Mythology
Shipwrecked in the Hands of the Gods Shipwrecked on black shores, drawn by Asgard’s glowing waters green with mead of poetry. Heralded by fire, we stagger, shackled in terrible wyrd, following the ...
The Pregnant Moon - Original Poetry (Form: Ghazal)
Image by David Mark from Pixabay The Pregnant Moon Sharp as thorn or vulture's claw, I am torn. Dead hands cut a part of me, that’s cast away. Women crowd around with dissecting eyes, each cooing w...
Reign Of Blood (Poetry Reading and Poem) - Poetry Inspired by Mythology
Modified using two images 1 by VictoriaRegen from Pixabay & Image 2 by Peace,love,happiness from Pixabay https://soundcloud.com/rowan-joyce/reign-of-blood-audio-reading?si=f60e056c70d944ed9f24bf201...
Hope's Elegy - Poem about the Power of Hope
Hope's Elegy is a performance piece written in response to my personal philosophies, thoughts and feelings around the greatest of human conceptual creations, hope. The theme of hope means a lot to ...
The Sands of Time - Poetry Inspired by The Eternal Now
Photo by Tom Gainor on Unsplash Sands of time melting over memories of molten moments, bitten by rare rain fall. Striations flow, light enthralls, singing cerebral parables forging patterns in the ...
The Thrum of Kalon - Poetry Inspired by The Eternal Now
https://youtu.be/l04A8dUH9DY I include a text version below for those who would like to read the poem as well 🙂 The Thrum of Kalon It permeates all, in the blin...
Hunter of the Salt Plain - Poetry Inspired by Nature
Photo by Michael Worden on Unsplash Hunter of the Salt Plain The salty air kisses my face, the breath of the sea thrown by the lap of the waves. The boat sails on as I watch the horizon. The day wa...
Guanyin's Whispers (The Lady Lever Art Gallery) - Poetry in Response to Art
Digital art made using a background picture by StockSnap from Pixabay and elements of my picture taken at the Lady Lever gallery. There are a myriad of classical Chinese forms of poetry, estimated ...