This document contains a collection of creative poems exploring themes of love, nature, darkness, and life. The poems use vivid imagery and metaphor to depict feelings of being lost in love, rebirth in spring, struggling with inner darkness, late night thoughts and dreams, building protective walls yet remaining a prisoner, finding peace in the ocean, the work of a soldier, appreciating life's wonders in nature, feeling leaves dance in the breeze, and being in awe of the stars in the night sky.

1. A small selection of creative pieces in poem from Halton
Lost In You
Lost in your eyes
windows to the soul
longing to be drowned in their magnificence
feeling you through loves strong glare
snared in a romantic dance
I need you
to lay with you
to hold you
to kiss you
pauses with no words
the slow intense breath
heart racing
that look, that deep, deep look
I am lost and under your trance
caught in a spell
Magic that encapsulates my being
longing to be yours
Gone and surrendered to loves long call

2. Spring
Alone in a world of me
do not sorrow for here I lay
I choose my ground
I feel the earth, gentle, calm spring
birds dancing in the cloudless blue curtain
I am here
the dark months are gone and life starts anew
fertile life within and without surrounds me
I breathe
the suns warm light cascades upon me
I am life
Sent from a turn of this rock in gravity motion
We are reborn from our life giver
our god
our star
The Dark
Anguish...pain
please keep me from the darkness that shrouds my soul
enveloping, choking, Struggling to breathe
why has the light barely shone
I take a breath
a tear slowly leaves my eyes
Fighting hard to hold the deluge of despair
broken
why again
self-protection fools reflection
I cannot even look at myself
but who would be starring back
lost
drifting
lay back and fall
there is nothing left to lose
This path I alone did choose

3. Late Dreams
Laying late in darkness as hours do pass
owls accompany my midnight grief
Turning
thinking
replaying those moments
the good and the bad
torn in heart and mind so much
a clowns busy facade is broken glass
a heart so fragile
so broken
so black
The tunnels light seems so far away
shake yourself free of these shackles of thought
fighting the blackness of torn damaged mind
turning again the replays of time
why did I
why didn’t I
questions of mine
you don’t really know me
the war in my head
it’s with me every minute
at night when I lay in my bed
bad dreams
dark thoughts
a heart need of love
send me thy light
hold me close into you
please save my soul
I’m lost without you

4. Castle Walls
A path so forged by devastation and pain
Sorry lessons still not learnt
hoping again that you’ll never get burned
protecting defending
why fight this duel
building your castle walls not like a king but a fool
you thought they were strong
never to be slighted or breached
happy in your walls
you became prisoner and guard
hiding from the beat of a pure honest heart
Believe and smile
the enemy is not love
we all can be happy and trust in the one
the one you can’t hide from
however hard you try
so knock these castle walls down
and don’t live a lie
Ocean
Within I feel the warmth of earthly rhythm
the oceans merry dance to and fro
its enveloping sound crashing upon golden shore
the smell and sound grabs my soul and whirls me in hypnotic trance
content with every crash and wave and feeling and seeing the sparkling ripple in
earths given sunlight
life’s motion
Natures heartbeat moving to lunar pull
the acoustic beautiful music of life’s giving ocean
To find far point away from all, alone in heart and mind.. .peace...tranquillity...the real
heaven in us all, the crashing orchestral dance of acoustic beauty fills my soul as I
listen deeply to earths gift ...the sky above me glistens with stars..i am content and i
slowly drift away

5. Vallon Man
His hands steady
Each sweep a deadly game
Sweat drips beneath Kevlar
The heat
The smell
Rocks, dirt and hell
The hero whose hands held his child before tour
Now cradles our warriors
So none of them fall
Marking their path
By bayonet
By hand
Keeping you safe
In a faraway land
Life’s Wonder
Have you ever looked?
Lift your sights beyond the soul
Find life’s giving wonder
Feel it
The breeze
The light
The wetness of nature
Motions of wonder in every corner
Blue skies
Green fields
Is it wrong we do not notice?
Our view blocked by life’s own madness
We will awaken
Breathing our souls enlightened
We will find our new dawn

6. The Bubble
Sometimes you win battles
But the wars never won
The darkness surrounds you
But never the sun
The mask of a clown
Like a shield hides your pain
Screaming silently
Am I going insane?
Emerald Leaves
The beautiful rush of bristling leaves
In tune to natures dance
Your breath upon my face
I feel it move them before me
I am hypnotised at all I behold
I am dazzled by your wonder
Branches swaying in emerald rhythm
Free
At one
Singing to earths natures call

7. Stars
Have you seen what sights are there to behold
Trillions of stars glimmering, dancing, mesmerising
Time pieces frozen in our dark night sky
Their light so old from long ago
Yet shinning bright for us all
The breath of precious life
These stars have shaped our journey
Their elements forged everything we see
Everything we are
Everything we touch
Gods of us all within and without
Creators strewn like diamonds across our cold night sky
Yet elements beat within your heart and mine
We are one