Simon Holloway
Profile
As (or in spite of being) a full-time student of classical languages, I find words to be of inestimable beauty. Poetry is both a means and an end for me, and I hope that my own small attempts at creating some will be enjoyed by others.
Groups
Simon Holloway is a member of !* Dark Cabaret *!, ! Creative Writing & Poetry !, All Out Emotion, Love Bullets and Verses Dark.
Journal Entries
To those of you, upon whose work I have left my observations...
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Writing
Jerusalem
Time, like a grinning gunman, / Relentlessly pursues this city / Fierce as knives, with its jagged history / Lonely even in its shock of people / Where flowers poke like sudden memories / Through the …
And What Is...
Truth, / Although it did one time, / No longer lies in that direction: / Custom has smoothed flat the sharp / And wayward spike of revelation. / The element of spontaneity / Has been erased by repetit…
Imaginary Palestinian Child
Penned by the hand of God are the parameters / This is the land of God and I / Am prepared to settle for far, far less. / I moved like the wind that blows through these rocks / When I came from the hi…
Old Mother Hubbard
Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard / To fetch her poor doggie a bone / And consider the way that all things must decay. / She wept: she was truly alone.
Projection
... Is as unreal, as vague and empty as my empty stare.
A Silent Altercation
Her hand, frozen in the semblance of a slap, / Remained an inch above the lacquered table / While my face, without the red print of her palm, / Leant to one side in a caricature of poise. / There were…
