Poetry and Creative Writing for All

Ed Cesar

Biography: Ed Cesar is a poet, musician, painter and all round artist. He is the songwriter and front man in a band called The Dusty Stars (www.myspace.com/thedustystars) in which he takes on different personas and themes to create highly original music. As well as having a talent for melody he has an equal talent with words. His poetry style varies but themes of innocence, childhood and longing are common. He likes to write in rhyming verse and stanzas that paint vivid images of times and places in the space of eight lines. He does not draw on any specific influences. 

In fact he says his technique is simply to put pen to paper and write. The image forms itself.

The Lonely Wanderer

What shore is this that flogs the sailors heart?
Keeps him tied to his mast
Crucified under a warm sun

How he longs for the night to come
Her blanket of stars to keep him safe
To guide him home
Or leave him stranded on some other desolate shore

Alone is he who cannot find his destination
A place to call his own
Conversing with the pisces
Dumbfounded and impatient they seem
Yet there is still direction to be found

This sailor knows only his reflection and the certainty of the great deep below

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Broken

Today I have a broken heart
She tore it up
She ripped it apart

I'm trying to fix it
As good as new
But I can't find the bucket and I've run out of glue

Again

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The Battle

Awake sweet morning
A battle is still to be fought
Against the night and all her demons
Cloaked in silence and crowned by dreams of sleeping innocents
Who will strike the first blow?

The wind is but a wanderer and will not take either side
But playfully devour the cries of battle and spit them back to the four
corners of a weary Earth

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The Symphony Of Seahorses

The symphony of seahorses
The score of the sea
The turn of the tide is
The bride of the beach

Alone with the memory
Of Neptunes dark cell
The haunting of Hades
The crab in his shell

She longs for her lover
The prince on the pier
An ocean eternal
In exchange for a tear

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The Mammal Connection

Fallopian footsteps
Walk by the canal
In the womb of the ocean
Beats the heart of a whale

He knows not of the man
Sat by the keyside
Smoking his pipe
Watching the tide

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Black haired and battered you fall
Through memories of smiles and heartache
Onto a new shore
A million stars for one satellite heart

I am chrome to always sleep alone
Tar in my eyes and sweetness on my tongue
I want to capture your decay
Throw away the night and start another day
It's still raining down here

Walk past the buildings
To the tree of your birth
The lens flare mind
Born again in every branch
It looks like snow
This root is left out in the cold

Black and white makes a pretty sight
No rainbow to hide behind
No pot of gold to be sold
So trade a perfect view for a hole, a needle and a haystack

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Submission Guidelines: Poems of no more than 30 lines in length each will be considered.