Thursday 13 January 2022

Stardust Kisses.

The kisses that I saved up just for you
Posses the powers to turn back every clock,
Make each new day the first day that we met,
Then hold back winter for a thousand years.

Your kisses also have these special powers,
They taste of springtime, of cups of cherry wine,
Of Gypsy blessings spoken in a trance
While lace is draped across the wedding bed.

When I am with you January seems to melt,
A pale grey ghost leaving by the back door,
An early April sun has pierced the blinds.
When I am with you daffodils never wither.

The kisses that we saved up for each other
Are stardust kisses, they fill our lives with light,
Change us to the children we once were
Chasing after wild dreams in the park.


Trevor John Karsavin Potter,
14th. January 2022.

Sunday 9 January 2022

Saturday 8 January 2022

A Dutch Interior. (Revised)

 Summer is for painting,
Winter is for poetry,
Sitting by the window to try to catch the light.

In winter I dream people in simple black and white.
In August I dream people in all their summer beauty.
December is so grey bright colours just seem false.

Winter is for intellect,
Summer for emotion,
Love burns low when the sun is clouded out of sight.

But there is a sort of wistfulness in the finest poetry,
Tranquility few painters can find ways to express
Except perhaps Vermeer contemplating loneliness, -

Two people in a spacious room
Almost at ease together

Trevor John Karsavin Potter,
8th. January 2022. - November 8th. 2023.

Wednesday 5 January 2022

Friday 31 December 2021

New years Eve, Looking, Not Seeing. (Revised & Completed).

 I look into the mirror,
My old face stares back at me
Mocking who I think I am;

Yet the boy I was still haunts my hopes
Swimming wildly out to sea,
Then reluctantly returning.

Through my heart dark clouds are drifting,
But a single rose still blooms tonight
In the chill depths of my garden.

I rarely go out into the garden,
Its like a foreign country to me;
I no longer understand who I think I am.


Trevor John Karsavin Potter.
31st. December 2021. - 14th. January 2022.

Sunday 26 December 2021