Life and Love in the Visible Spectrum

By Steve Kelly

Poems about life, love, the universe and everything by Australian Poet and Artist Steve Kelly aka kellyocs.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steve Kelly
• Release date: Jun 5, 2024
• ISBN: 9798227783585

Steve Kelly

Steve is an art and computing teacher with a passion for writing both fiction and poetry. This is his first collection of short stories. He lives and works on the far north coast of New South Wales (Australia)

Book preview

Gates and Windows

Joy sparkling children's laughter

Dew wet across a field of rainbow flowers

Springs new from earth's winter deep

Inspires hope all yellow sun spark

To soar upwards from dark night despair

Cascading into light

Promising the day

And in pond water rippling strength

Peace spreads shock waves of silence

Warm caresses in a sea of blue

And me and you

We dance the air electric

We sing sapphire

Jasper, garnet, pearl and beryl

All colours true

Gates and windows flung wide open

Inviting the view

Holiday Sunset

Angel wings feather the sky

Down at the end of a pillow day

Salt white in the golden light

Chaos cloudscape dances

Copper on wet sand

Burnished brilliant shield

In the waning sun

Not chaos really

More the instinctual brush strokes of an artist’s hand

Moved by the randomness of breeze

And an osprey’s cry

To sing with colour in abandon

Across a familiar canvas

While out on the sandbar

Holiday children

Sun kissed smiles

Discover treasures

Jump and run

In tag with the rising tide

Barefoot squealing

Sand between toes

They stretch ice cream fingers

Up to tickle the belly of the sky

All delight in long shadows

Future tall

Future dark

But still active

Ever hopeful

Ever loving

Childlike in the fading light

Ice In The Fire

Movement moment

An instant revived

Light and lightness

More than darkness survived

Sun bright

Star exploding

Beginning and end

Alpha Omega

Beginning and old

The journey goes on

The players grow cold

Waltzing in

The in between

Walking, waking

The joyous scene

Survive the alive

And wake to the morning

Stand firm

In the ocean

Swirling

Salt water dancing

Spirals of life

The fire in the glacier

The ice in the fire

The Artist's Eye

The artist's eye

Sees the subtle changes

That most will never see

Captures glories