Lathen Griffiths : Writing

Each Night I Sail An Ocean

Each Night I Sail An Ocean

A Poem by Lathen Griffiths


Silken strands of sleep suspend these soft unwoven dreams, nestled safe in slumber floating on unconscious streams, come evening, a little boat ..
Epitaph

Epitaph

A Poem by Lathen Griffiths


I was… Scouted by the wind and the rain, marched through a puddle of pain, recruited by the mud and the dirt, a foot upon a road of hurt...
Pen or a Mantelet

Pen or a Mantelet

A Poem by Lathen Griffiths


Should I put pen to paper to fill these blank marauding spaces and cut down this enemy called emptiness that waits dormant in such places. Do I n..
Blackbirds

Blackbirds

A Poem by Lathen Griffiths


Blackbirds whistle tunes, to mark the beginnings of a new day, or the demise of a long night. I know these things, for I have heard..
Poems

Poems

A Poem by Lathen Griffiths


One morning, as the sun shimmies over the horizon, lighting my eyes full with a thousand jewels, of a thousand lifetimes past and a thousand ye..
Come Summer

Come Summer

A Poem by Lathen Griffiths


Under cinnamon sticks wearing green berets, that’s where I’ll spend my summer days, hoping to find some welcome shade, because freckles..
Broken Ornaments

Broken Ornaments

A Poem by Lathen Griffiths


Night time was setting a fire to my thoughts for me to inhale; they tasted of sleep and darkness, of left over dreams, stale from being forgotten..
True Love Painted From Memory

True Love Painted From Memory

A Poem by Lathen Griffiths


True love painted from memory with pigments, vintage and hued, pastels and watercolours that with time have become more subdued A brush mark de..