"I Love You" in 10 Lines or less

10 lines to say I love you
when it only takes 3 words
you'll be my morning chorus
singing songs just like the birds.
6 lines to write I love you
but i haven't got a clue
you make me feel alive again
this smile is down to you.
2 lines left it's plain to see, without you i am blue
one final line, I'll say the words, I love you, yes it's true.

Ricky Glew

L II

Golden hair and pale blue eyes
the dazzling smile of angels wise,
an unshaking, happy soul
with whom I want to grow old.

To lie with on the mountain top
and hold in the valley below
to spend each waking moment loving
and sleep in loves soft folds.

Only to wake up more in love
than ever could I dream.
To hold your hand and walk you through
the life of which i scheme.

For you to be my everything
and all on which I pride
to wrap my dreams around us both
and love you for all of time.

Ricky Glew

Blinded by the Lights

Please refrain from walking
into the light you see.
I hear the angels singing
and know they're here for thee.

But please now keep on breathing
and tell thrm, "let me be"
for i have yet to say goodbye
and you mean the world to me...

Ricky Glew

Out of Reach

Can you hold on now?
just one more night.
Will you live to see another mornings light,
come streaming through the window
to light the day for thee.
I still hold on to memories
of the things you used to be...
So strong- and yet so caring
with arms just full of love
how you were always, always there
but now, you are above.
i hope in time the memories fade
so i forget your final days,
spent sighing on your bed
and to think of all the happy times
that we shared instead.
Those days spent in the garden,
under flawless skys
and rainy afternoons
sat watching the world go by...
I wander what you think of now,
your mind has slipped away.
Do you think of all the things we said
or are they gone today?
Do you remember much of me?
all the things i could have been
my silly little ways
and my childhood dreams.
Days spent on the cliff side
or down beside the beach.
I want to pull you close
but now you're out of reach.

Ricky Glew

Return to Sender?

Kicking through the autumn leaves
wondering where i left my heart
Is it in the wind?
or on the ocean floor?
did i leave it on the hillside?
or was it left behind,
as i drove away from home....
Did you steal it clean away?
will i get it back one day?
so someone else can swap it
for their own.....

Ricky Glew

No More Days

I used to deal with love poems
to brighten up my days
but i cant fight the darkness
and make it go away.

Instead I'm stuck just standing
somewhere in between
trapped beyond insanity
and where i want to be.

I no longer hear the birds
they've fallen from the tree
no longer pretty flowers
stand to feed the bees.

I used to walk in fields of gold
but now it's only wheat,
the sugar and the strawberries
cant taste remotely sweet.

I used to deal with love poems
to brighten up my days
but now i live in darkness,
I've lost sight of all my days.

Ricky Glew

The Darkness

The darkness is a giant
crushing all below
taking you to places
you didn't want to go.
It's up there on the mountain top,
and down in the valley below.
Falling like a veil
over new laid snow.
Creeping like a monster
rolling over sky
swallowing up the villages
and the passers by.
But just when hope is lost
you start to see the stars
and know someone is watching you
if only from afar.....

Ricky Glew

Poetic Soul

A hat-full of dreams.
Not exactly what it seems.
For round every corner,
lies fears new world order.

Broken hearted man,
who's lost his only way.
Given up on mystery,
with dreams resigned to history.

Closed now is the book
under lock and key
tired of all the thinking
of the things I used to be.

Stuck now under stars above
knowing he cant aim,
to shoot and land amongst them.
To shine with them one day.

Fixed upon the spot now
tied down unto his fate,
writing pointless poetry
so he can dream today....

Ricky Glew

Division

We are not built to face the world alone.
To spend our days as lonely bones.
We live to love and share our joy,
not to hate, for hate will destroy.
We should not stand as divided men,
we must learn to be as one again
and stake our claim on hearts not ours
and nurture them, till our parting hours.
To spread our love among the stars
not sit, and cry, in dingy bars;
as we drink another life away
safe in the knowledge we will always be this way.

Ricky Glew

Just Dreams

I've lost my way in this world.
And all that I used to be
is forgotten on the stream.
I still long for dreams
but thats all they are
just dreams.
An idea of what will never be
but everything we want
never realised
never achieved
just dreams......

Ricky Glew

The Strength Of One

When you think all hope is lost
and nothings left to gain
when you cant stand to argue back
to shout out through the pain

when you're feeling noble
but all you talk's in tears
and all around you's broken
cracked throughout the years

When every game is over
and you cant cheer at the scores
and every cloud has burst
so all the rain does pour

when the sky is dark
and the night has rolled right in
blocking out the stars,
drawing out the tears.

When you feel all hope is lost
with nowhere left to turn
stand strong and hold your place
you'll get all that you earn.

Ricky Glew

Teenager

Louder now
the drums keep on playing
and it's a dangerous place
trapped inside my head
stuck between text books
crying to get out
but you cant cry
because you cant feel
you're just empty,
empty inside
and the darkness,
darkness closing in
whispering, whispering
are you afraid?
but you cant feel the fear
just the hollow emptiness
of being your age.

Ricky Glew

The Voice Within

You want to turn away
and you know you should.
to walk now and accept the fate
that you've been given.
To retire from the dreams you cling too
but the dying hope, still barely breathing
summons up a whisper
"stay, never turn away
you'll get your chance one day."

Every bone in your body
wants to leave this place
wants to leave them all behind
muscles tensed to run
but once more comes the inaudible cry.
"stay, never turn away
you'll get your chance one day."

You're scared now
it's all coming at you so soon
thrust into the spotlight
to make the decidions you're not ready to make.
You turn to leave, but a cry inside calls out
"stay, never turn away
you'll get your chance one day."

And then you accept
leaving is no option.
Only serving to make you curse
every other damned day
for wasting the chance they might have gave
and so you say,
"stay, never turn away
you'll get your chance one day."

Ricky Glew

The Dreamers

We are the dreamers
we make the world turn
always pushing for change
but not letting go.

We are the dreamers,
we hold in our hands
the key to all being
like the grains of sand.

We are the dreamers
with no place to go
a dangerous weapon.
we cant accept "no".

Ricky Glew

Words

What are the words?
the words you want to say when no one is there to hear them.
when the room is empty and the night is still
and only the stars still stand by you.
when you're on your own,
chilled to the bone
and holding on to the dream you once had.

What are the words?
the words that still hold true though tried and tested
when rough winds shake them
and others laugh at the thought of them.
But only you can still believe
because you have no choice
without them you have nothing.

What are the words?
the words that have the power to change the world.
When nothing else matters and nothing else required.
and only two people need ever hear them.
Three words to make a destiny
two more to make it true
I love you.
me too.....

Ricky Glew

L

I'm scared of this moment
it's why I cannot speak
instead i'll write ut down,
a secret it will keep.

I know that nought can happen
while it stays inside
but the glimmer of silent hope
hurts less than broken pride.

Maybe oneday I'll tell you all of this,
some big romantic gesture
to win me back your kiss.

And maybe, in time
you'll stay with me a while
hold my hand and stand by
through the sadness and the smile

To spend my days
by your side
is all that i desire
your ice blue eyes and golden hair
to help me keep my fire.

Ricky Glew

Best Friend

For H.


When all is dark and lonely
I knows I have a friend,
someone to stand beside me
even at the end.

I never told you often
just what you mean to me
but now my life is changing
im able now to see.

You're the friend I trust the most,
in whom i'll always believe
the one person who'll stay forever,
even if you leave.

You'll always leave your footprints
dotted on my heard
and strewn accross my memories,
your love has left it's mark.

I hope now that you realise
and know what it means to me
to have you in my life,
and to be a friend to thee.

So please now always remember
however far you go,
best friend you mean the world to me
although sometimes i cant show.

So if there ever comes a time
when you see the dark clouds loom.
Hold tight and never forget,
I will always love you.

Ricky Glew

The Manor

The silence of the clocks
doors bolted at the locks.
windows closed up tightly
curtains, not drawn nightly.
The manors walls stand cold now
with dreams of laughter lost
the still air full of memories
of days spent bathed in frost
and summer evenings, gleaming
in the dusks lingering light
now the boney hand of solitude
touches every sight.
The kitchen table bare
and cupboards void of fare
and empty chairs can only stand, and stare
and wait in silent air.
alone now is the manor
where once did stand a home,
now an empty shell,
bricks and mortar wait alone.
The garden sits unkept,
where once our youth had crept.
The unloved grass
and hidden paths
seem only to forget,
the life that it once saw,
and all the dreams it bore,
and every mornings glory
played out on perfect skies
backed by dawn birds chorus,
as the sun does rise.

Goodbye now to the manor
it's time to wait alone
with no one left to sit and hear
the floorboards as they groan
farewell to the manor
to all the times we've known
the magic of the river
in all it's ebbs and flows.
The ever stirdy mantel
above the fires glow
the dull but homely echoe
of footsteps as they go.
The scrape of wooden feet
along the kitchen floor
the ever welcome noise
of the old front door.
The clinking of the gate
forever now must wait,
goodbye to the manor
resigned now to your fate
no warming fires burn
in the old charred grate.
who knows what's in our futures
or where they both shall lead.
Farewell to the manor,
it's time that i was free'd
from the magic of your charms
and the spells you've put on me.

Ricky Glew

What Will They Say?

When it's over,
what will they say?
he led a good life
that was his way.

He made me smile
and took me miles
away from this sad old place.
I'll miss his face.

He tried to change the world
and got lost along the way
broken by other peoples ways
crushed on lonely days.

He faced the world with bravery
and tried to make his peace.
held tight to all he thought dear.
through tthe pain and through the tears.

Ricky Glew

Demons

Your life's full of troubles
haunting your home
following you round
everywhere you go
you can't even escape
when you've closed your eyes
the demons have got to you
attacking inside.
I know your feeling
I can see it in your eyes
we've all been there,
at some other time.
When things all look black
and you can see no way back
I'll hold your hand
and walk you through
and maybe help to kill your demons too.

Ricky Glew

The Start and End

Loves the start and end of everything
It's like the fire in the sun,
without it man shrinks away
and pales 'till he is done.

Loves the start and end of everything
it's like the dawn birds song
signals to all, the end of darkness
and makes right all your wrongs

Loves the start and end of everything
it shines on like the stars
for it's in the darkest of lifes moments
that love lights it's brightest path.

Loves the start and end of everything
it's like the rain that falls.
Brings life to all it touches
and breaks down all the walls.

Ricky Glew

The Nature of Fate

All things happen for a reason,
it's a secret you should tell.
Fate's the eternal joker
mocking you from hell.

So when the path is dark
and the road is full of turns
when it seems all hope is lost
hold on and don't let go.

There will always come a lighter day
it's written in the stars.
the change around the corner,
is never just too far.

Ricky Glew

Not Your Standard Love Poem

Not your standard Love poem,
I've used up all those words.
If i wrote here, "you're perfect"
you'd scatter like a bird.

Maybe you're a bit too tall.
And your bust one size too small
perhaps then if your face, didnt resemble you at all
and also if you ran, to catch the phone at every call.

What if your foot were not as big,
and neither was the shoe?
if your nose was slightly straighter
your figure fuller too.

But if i could change just a single thing of you,
then I have no idea, exactly what i'd do.
There's nothing i can see,
cos theres no such thing as perfect.
only- perfect for me.

Ricky Glew

I Am Forever

When once what breathed

has turned to dust

and all around me’s failed

when grass does grow

upon my bed

and all my world has paled

the sky will still be blue above

the grass green far below

and in between and all around

there’s one thing you should know

I am the bird that sings

And flys with silken wings

I am the English oak

I am the soft grey smoke

That pours from every chimney.

I am the sky it touches

In every colour blue

I water every flower,

In every sort of hue

I am each passing hour

And yet time will never age

I am forever blades of grass

My death wont be a cage

I am the wind that blows

And the dancing flame

Forever I will live

Though no one speaks my name.

Ricky Glew