The Moon and the Sea Release

My new poetry collection, THE MOON AND THE SEA, will be officially released tomorrow, April 21 2025 (which also happens to be my birthday). Available from Arachis Press (arachispress.com) as print or free ebooks.

 

Forgotten, a poem

Forgotten

Now I lose this dream of you;
now you fade as all dreams do,
whispering as I awake,
what have you forgotten?

Waning with each  breath I take,
memory’s a moon of ache;
will I some night dream anew
what I have forgotten?

Stephen Brooke ©2025

Bubbles, a poem

Bubbles

Hope for the best,
prepare for the worst;
assume you are blessed,
know you may be cursed.

Forget every test,
each role you rehearsed;
we all come to rest,
the last as the first.

And all we invest
is likewise dispersed,
so laugh at life’s jest
when your bubbles burst.

Stephen Brooke ©2025

A bit of light verse; little more than playing with words.

The Deep Grass

what might I seek
if I am seen to wander
across the hills?

it is no great matter ~
I have lost only my way

I may find it hidden
somewhere in the deep grass
of yesterday

Stephen Brooke ©2025

Sort of in the tradition of Japanese linked poems. Some of those go on for quite a few more lines than this, sometimes with multiple authors!