Davy King

Sufi Blues

got the sufi blues again
sufi blues
that’s the news
really
truly
sky
sea
why

Davy King was born 72 years ago. He is married with a 13-year-old son. And keeps fairly busy.
If you follow this link [/] and enable sound in your browser you can accompany the poem with jazz from the Blue Sufi track (from album Aziza) by Dave Holland, Chris Potter, Lionel Loueke, Eric Harland etc. You can see more of Davy’s work on his website davyking.com.

David Potter

Where by rivers we may pause

We may come to a place
—where the lilies grow
and the sleepy silver willows
—lean over the waters
of slow rivers
as in some painter’s pastoral scene
a tapestry of dreams unfolding
—if we but deem
to whisper our sorrows away there

Still white birds
—drift on the solemness
hearts find solace
—in this realm of adagio
the voices of night’s angels
conjuring this peaceful place
as with folded wings
they quietly sing this space into being-
—a pause of infinite possibilities
——in between time
and all life’s turns and tides

The  spell of silence
—immeasurably enfolds us
before we tread
—the trestle of dawn again
and the wheel takes us
to that destiny delayed
—but re-woken
where memory can no longer hold us
and the song on our lips
is born of bold and beautiful tomorrows
—yet unspoken

David Potter lives near Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire. Poet, singer-songwriter & conservationist, he started writing in the 1960s where threads of utopia, protest and emerging environmentalism have underlain and informed his work ever since. He is currently putting together a poetry collection and CD of songs.

Paul Finegan

The Heart of a Poem

What is the heart of a Poem?

A place of silence
No matter what the spinning words may tell,
all is gathered to appoint where beginning may unfold
whilst Beauty holds still

I cannot see the poem behind me,
it too is waiting to unfold,
as Love moves across it, and All is brought to view

Paul Finegan is a student of Beshara, having begun over 40 years ago. He has been writing stories, plays, sketches, and poems since he was a child, and one poem he wrote called ‘Coronation’ received a letter of congratulations from HM the Queen! He wrote a collection of poems about war called Afghan Days, Babylon Nights, which he and fellow actor Anthony Mulligan performed at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2012 and 2013, which received an excellent review from the Huffington Post.