Poems and Paintings February 2025
- Emma Major
- 5 days ago
- 10 min read
Below you can read all the poems I wrote in the month of February 2025. I have included some of the paintings which accompanied the poems, you can find them all in the link at the bottom of the post.
A highlight of February, from an art point of view, was Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year selecting my painting to be featured on their socials.
Eyes of innocents
Are windows to their souls
Bright despite anguish
Bright despite anguish
We hide from reality
Mental health holiday
Mental health holiday
A regular appointment
Then reconnect
Then reconnect
Take action to help children
Eyes of innocents
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Covid day of reflection
We are asked to "remember"
But for me it's not passed
It's still front and centre
My health hasn't recovered
My body is still weaker
Just this week I was hospitalised
Long covid makes healing harder
So whilst some might recall
A time that's now over
We must never forget
The impacts still linger
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The world came together as the people stayed apart
Until separation sparked division which sadly was the start
Of a binary revolution where compromising stopped
Everyone taking a side and thinking they were robbed
Of the ideal way to live, to make the world much better
All that's been achieved is everyone's now a hater
Where has gone compassion and trying to help the needy
Now it's all about money and worshipping the greedy
I really hoped we'd learn, to focus on the planet
Instead it seems quite certain we'll have no planet to inhabit
I like to finish poems with positivity and hope
So here's hoping we can find a better way to cope
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You are my sunshine
On pitter-patter rain days
Carrying my heart
Carrying my heart
Through seasons unspoken
Blooming in absence
Blooming in absence
Surrendering to the storm
You are my sunshine
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Painting my past years
On sharp shards of broken glass
Fatigue overwhelms
Unable to find relief
Soft pillows now hard as boards
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Tranquility is seldom discovered
By searching
Or yearning
Instead it is uncovered
Surprising the unincumbered
Sneaking out in unexpected moments
In woodland silence
Or musical resonance
As the mind stills
The heart rate slows
Until a sense of calm grows
Overflows
Bestows
A gift of peace
Despite the strife of life
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Absence creates voids
Echoing with unsaid words
Seeking their freedom
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Embrace a new book
Let your imagination
Transport you away
On fabulous adventures
Where your worries can't find you
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Tranquil afternoons
Follow mornings without the news
Living the dream
Ignoring the nightmare
Until I have strength to fight
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Developing hope
With each new day's chances for
Creativity
Creativity
Floating around your senses
Proactive freedom
Proactive freedom
Construct inner boundaries
Compassionately
Compassionately
Loving with serenity
Developing hope
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Rainbows paint your name
Across the misty mornings
Our stars align
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Rich white men have taken over
Making a charge for total power
Domination
Across every nation
Selfishly
Publicly
Greedily
Inhumanely
They are toddlers with egos
Throwing tantrums
Gathering together in greedy gangs
Pursuing their own aims
Trampling everyone who gets in their way
Creating chaos without a backward glance
They want the world to be poor
At war
Divided
Disconnected
Panicked
Distracted
So their plans go unnoticed
They are lighting fires
Thousands of fires
Large and small
All over the world
Keeping us busy trying to put them out
Our eyes smart from the smoke
We start to choke
Losing energy
Lost in despondency
We become blind to the horror
It's too much for our minds
And so we start to give up
Start to think smaller
It's easier to ignore all the horror
When we close the doors to each other
And that's what they want!
For us to feel disempowered
To keep us cowered
Disorganised
Divided
We can't create change if we're terrified!
But we must keep connected
Keep listening to each other
Not fighting against one another
Seeing the bigger picture
Speaking truth to power
Now is the time to join together
Break down the barriers they've erected to divide us
Knowing that there's so much more that connects us
Than following the man with a plan to destroy us
Let's put out the all consuming fire
Before it burns much wider and higher
We can't be blinded by the flickering light
Put down the smores, it's time to fight!
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Stop the crazy greed
Time for the tables to turn
Burn away egos
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Nature's wisdom seeks
Permission from nobody
Symbiotic lives
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Caressed by nature
Feet immersed in green lichen
Beneath dark blue skies
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Love yourself again
Stitch together the fragments
Of your broken heart
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I write every day,
in many ways,
in my head with rhythm,
in letters unbidden,
through poetry from inside me,
sometimes fleeting,
never judged,
often flowing as the words are floating,
many times I speak them in notes,
trying to ensure they don't vanish,
but for every phrase that gets jotted down,
I'm sure there are thousands which never wear a crown.
Perhaps those words, phrases and poems,
return another day,
or do they just float away,
carrying ideas that don't need to see the light of day.
Does it matter?
That there are ideas I never capture?
What I definitely know is that writing is the way to go,
for supporting my mental health,
creativity always helps myself,
allowing the thoughts which inside would eat me,
instead releasing them to fly free,
to whoever needs to read them,
speak them,
hear them.
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Sweet symphonies sing
Melancholic melodies
Wearily we waltz
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I long to be stitched
Into the patchwork of your heart
Refined in fire
Refined in fire
Galactic teardrops crystallise
Orbiting love
Orbiting love
Ribboned together in dreams
Moonlit lullabies
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Silent places sing
Ethereal symphonies
Whispers echo low
Releasing core vibrations
Ancient landscapes resonate
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Given time we will tunnel together
Deep into the unseen places
Discovering a truth long laid dormant
That the broken pieces of me
Complete the broken pieces of you
Timelessly
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Try not to collapse
Under the weight of the world
Focus on each breath
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Shedding history
Lost in the wisdom of woods
Emerald eyes glint
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Shimmering sunsets
End gloomy days hopefully
Magical moments
...
Even gloomy days
Bring glimmers of light and hope
It is worth the search
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Abandoned buildings
Exhibit brave scars of war
Outrage shouts the truth
Outrage shouts the truth
Democracy died here
Ashes full of hope
Ashes full of hope
Are rekindled with passion
Hand in hand we stand
Hand in hand we stand
Together refurbishing
Abandoned buildings
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I take great solace
In the knowledge that love wins
At this game of life
But before that win
We must remove suffering
Whilst power plays games
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Canal boats slowly
Meander with wildflowers
Whilst butterflies rest
Miniature railways
Steam around tiny mountains
Whistling with the weeds
Cars speed round the track
Creating tornadic noise
Hedgehogs watch and wait
Space shuttles explode
To planets undiscovered
Hope will lead the way
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Love is in the little things
The tiny whispers
And unheard words
The hand of assistance
And unobserved actions
The cup of tea
And unexpected dinner
The breath of hope
And unfailing patience
Love is in the every day
Not always on display
Come what may
I'm here to stay
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Our hearts are joined
By an invisible thread
Woven with love
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Invisible threads
Link together those who care
About the planet
And all who inhabit it
Love is an action of hope
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Cosmic truths emerge
When different opinions share
Their worries and loves
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You are my safe place
An empty beach and calm sea
On a warm spring day
We transmit as one
Resonating on wavelengths
Harmoniously
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The art of falling in love:
Trust yourself completely
Respect others deliberately
Live your life vibrantly
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With love I send you
A sweet scented paper heart
My perfume a gift
Reminiscent of summer
On these long cold winter nights
Oh my love so sweet
Thank you for the memories
Bringing us closer
On the scent of your beauty
Floating around my senses
This is a somonka, a Japanese form of two tankas written as two love letters between two people.
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Over the decades
We journey together
Singing loves Aubade
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Your words are my mellifluous muse
Lullabies of hope that cradle my heart
Bringing peace to places of pain
An antidote to my aching parts
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Beloved peace
Surpassing any thought
Answers my prayer
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Generosity
Of time, friendship and patience
The art of the world
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The agony of loving too much
For the world and everyone in it
Is the endless heartbreak
For the hurt caused by those
Without empathy or compassion
To people who least deserve it
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Graceful swans glide
Effortlessly without
Displaying their pain
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Love shall pierce the hard hearts of the greedy and powerful
This is my prayer
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Love shall pierce fear
As the beloved creates
The art of the world
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On a day darker than night
Light sparkled within my eyes
The galaxies forming heavenly hope
Leading me star by star
To a place of trust transported
Into our uncertain world
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Each minute matters
A stone of love in the path
Labyrinth of life
Labyrinth of life
Beautiful exploration
One day at a time
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The child who never lets go
Becomes the adult who holds too tight
To love
And hate
To expectations
And failures
To projections
And mistakes
To friendships
And abandonments
Never realising that fairy tales are not guidebooks
But cautionary stories
That life is a journey of learning
About ourselves every day
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The snow moon watches
As climate controlled cities
Ignore nature's truth
Rhythms and seasons proceed
Without considering us
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Spring roses climb delicately
Finding their way through cracks and crevices
Seeking the light of love
Desiring no celebration
They invite insects to feast at their centre
Interdependent creation
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Where the sky is wide
Troubles float free on the breeze
Encountering God
Written for the uk moot pass the piece project. Sent to Will Demou on 11 Feb 25 by messenger
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Overwhelmed in every way
It's hard to face each coming day
Too much terrifying news
So many toxic, hate filled views
Leaders stirring up huge division
Give people freedom to share derision
Compassion seems to have flown away
But we can't give up, can't let hope decay
I won't allow the exclusivity
To undermine the fight for justice inside me
To ensure that the poor, marginalised and needy
Are included, valued, lifted up in society
Instead of feeling so despondent
We can create a hopeful movement
With light we'll find a better way
Overwhelming hate with love each day
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Dear daughter you are
A piece of my heart in the world
Uncovering opportunities
Glimmering with hope
Hatching optimistic solutions
To trials and challenges
Effervescing with a future as yet unknown
Rocking at life every day
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Velvet Uniforms
Worn on spiky anxious days
Protect wounded souls
Protect wounded souls
Keepsakes bring back memories
Passports to the past
Passports to the past
Places where connection lasts
Engraved on benches
Three connected haiku about love, life, loss and mental health
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Standing strong and firm
Ancient monoliths observe
Natural rhythms
History yet unwritten
Within golden hearts of stone
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I wear tiny red hearts down my sleeve
Delicate moments of hope stitched into fabric
Each one a promise wrapped in crimson
A reminder that love begins within me
The hearts beat in rhythm with my existence
A gentle pulse echoing through crowded rooms
Unspoken words sing in sweet release
Unfolding from layers of whispered tension
Fearful glances caught in mirrors of doubt
Gleam dark and fierce in flickering light
Their reflections reclaim all that was lost
Dreaming of stars that bloom at night
Like love letters penned at the dawn of knowing
Sprouts of vulnerability strengthen endlessly
Now we release these hearts to journey
Echoing the long lost hope within me
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Spring rain on blossom
Bends heavily laden boughs
Sakura kisses
Sakura kisses
The gift of enduring faith
Kintsugi kindness
Kintsugi kindness
Affirms the eternal truth
Spring rain on blossom
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As summer appears
Musky petals melt away
Inviting green shoots
Inviting green shoots
Bring hungry birds on the wing
Celebrating change
Celebrating change
New chapters offer pages
Yet to be written
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Autumnal colours
Warm hearts as temperatures fall
Brightening short days
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Winter snow highlights
Enduring structures of love
Golden branches glint
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Four sets of haiku and haiku series to accompany four paintings of a cherry tree in four seasons.
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Chimes of nature sound
Around mountains and valleys
Calming fearful souls
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There once was a boat on the sea
Transporting love letters to me
A storm brewed off shore
Trying to settle a score
But love forced the lightning to flee
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When lightning strikes twice
Myriad sparks take flight
Ideas appear
Ideas appear
With tornadic momentum
Generating hope
Generating hope
Creating optimism
Revolution
Revolution
Stirs cyclones of movement
Lightning strikes again
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Hope evanesces
Across continents
Instilling fear in those who care
Yet in the darkness light develops
Creating together
A more
Hopeful future
This is a trinet; a 7-line poem that relies on word count alone. There are twenty-two words in total, with six words in the third and fourth line, and two words in every other line.
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Clandestine dinner
Obtained in the silence of
Long dark winter nights
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Conquer the demons
Offer inclusivity
Acceptance and love
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Liminal spaces
Suggest limitless travel
Across galaxies
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Endless vibrations
Between the past and present
Liminal space
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Summoning courage
Healing the wounds of the soul
Loving the unloved
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Inner adventures
Destiny the peaceful moon
Midwinter magic
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At the starting gate
Ignite those rainbow engines
Spreading inclusion
Love, acceptance, peace and joy
To every girl, them and boy
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Gaze long at the moon
Ponder the chaos on Earth
Pray for improvement
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Buried in wardrobes
Suitcases of history
Flung open again
Flung open again
Overwhelming our senses
Life in Stereo
Life in stereo
Battering my sanity
Holding onto hope
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"Sleep is for the weak"
What a reprehensible critique
Sleep is for the strong
For the struggling
For the sick
For those surviving
For healers
Fighters
Outsiders
Advisors
For dreamers
Over achievers
Word weavers
For the grievers
For the children
Exhausted mothers
Exhausted fathers
Sisters and brothers
Sleep is for everyone
Sleep is neither right or wrong
It's an essential part of life
Especially in times of strife
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A lotus among dandelions
Counts the days on the winter wind
As the clock ticks towards spring
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Being very clear
With me you need never fear
All are welcome here
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Serenity is a rainbow cat
She knows what's what and that is that
She takes no nonsense and that's a fact
Rest is the skill she's perfect at
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Fractured connections
Destroy universal trust
Portraiture of pain
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Tonight the moon is
a silent witness to love
shared across the world
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Time to bridge the gap between opposing forces
That are pulling apart on differing causes
Negotiations that once were highly viewed
Are banished upon leaders' changing mood
Designing solutions that meet across oceans
Are more important than fleeting emotions
Don't let them divide us on key global issues
Collaboration is the essential path we must choose
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If love had a name she would be mother
Mother Earth
Mother Tongue
Motherland
Mother of Pearl
Full of Motherly Love
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Toucans call awakening dawns
In forests filled with hunters horns
Fearful of future days
Lucid lullabies dream of peace
Yet nature never finds release
Can we find better ways
This is written in the Rime Couée poetic form with the structure:
• Six-lines
• Eight syllables in lines one, two, four, and five
• Six syllables in lines three and six
• Rhyme scheme of AABCCB
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When you love too much
Yearning for greater daylight
You ignore today
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You can see all the paintings with their respective poems at this link or by clicking on the image below
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