We are living in an abstract world

We’re living in a world that’s being sterilised by architecture. Inspiration, dreams and ambitions are being quelled by changing our surroundings. Art, Beauty, Inspiration and Positivity are all being gently and quietly removed from our consciousness.

Sounds a bit Wah-Wah-WHOO! – EH?? – Well listen to the audio below, follow along with the poem/lyrics and simply ‘reflect’.

Why is art hushed low in the roar of the street,
Where concrete and commerce so clinically meet?
Why are our buildings no longer raised high
As cathedrals of craft that once dazzled the sky?

Why do the doorways stand silent and plain,
Uncarved by devotion, untouched by the vein
Of artisans pouring their spirit in wood,
As once in the centuries proudly they stood?

Why do the windows stare empty and bare,
Without stained-glass stories suspended in air?
Why does the stonework lie lifeless and cold,
No flourished adornment, no filigreed fold?

Why is the pipework exposed without grace,
Like veins of a body stripped out of its place?
Why must efficiency banish delight,
And function extinguish the warmth of the light?

Why is a house just a box with a door,
A number, a lock, and a laminated floor?
Where once it was poetry shaped into space,
With cornices curling in elegant lace.

Why do the statues that rise in our squares
Seem twisted by anguish, consumed by their stares?
Like fragments of nightmares welded in steel,
More eager to wound than to soothe or to heal.

Why do the fountains no longer sing
With sculpted cherubs on crystalline wing?
Why do the stations where thousands convene
Resemble a sketch of a half-formed machine?

We rush through terminals sterile and wide,
Where beauty and wonder have quietly died.
We live in abstraction of angles and screens,
In grayscale reflections of digital dreams.

The curves have been straightened, the colors subdued,
The language of ornament deemed crude.
We trade sacred craft for the cheapest design,
And call it progression by modern outline.

Yet still in the hush of a twilight-lit street,
The hunger for splendor and harmony beats.
For deep in the marrow, the spirit still yearns
For arches and frescoes and hand-carved returns.

Perhaps in the cracks of this abstract age,
New artists will step to the unvarnished stage.
To marry the useful with luminous art,
And build us a world where both dwell in the heart.

Copyright © Ven Bunce  2026

 

 

Where the Welsh Castles Dream

In Wales there’s a saying; “You can’t drive or walk twenty miles without seeing a castle” .. Probably True, but there are certainly numerous myths & legends surrounding them all – Here is a Celtic poem/folk song to accompany those tales.

 

Please Click The Image Above – And Follow Along Below:

Beneath the moonlit castle stones we wander hand in hand,
Where ghosts and whispered legends drift across the ancient land.
A White Lady walks the ramparts with a sorrow-softened sigh,
But love outshines her haunting as the night wind passes by.

So take my hand and walk with me
Where the Welsh castles dream by the silver sea.
Let the old world fade in the rising moon,
For our hearts write a song that the stars will soon
Carry over stone and stream—
You and I where the Welsh castles dream.

They speak of hidden tunnels where the secret footsteps glide,
But the only path I follow is the one beside your side.
Though warriors sleep in caverns deep, awaiting battle’s call,
My heart awakes for you alone within these timeless walls.

So take my hand and walk with me
Where the Welsh castles dream by the silver sea.
Let the old world fade in the rising moon,
For our hearts write a song that the stars will soon
Carry over stone and stream—
You and I where the Welsh castles dream.

A dragon stirs beneath the ground, its embered breath unseen,
Yet still you warm my spirit more than flames have ever been.
The ‘Tylwyth Teg’ play silver harps beyond the mortal view,
But none of all their magic holds a light as bright as you.

So take my hand and walk with me
Where the Welsh castles dream by the silver sea.
Let the old world fade in the rising moon,
For our hearts write a song that the stars will soon
Carry over stone and stream—
You and I where the Welsh castles dream.

Let phantom armies march and fade,
Let shadows roam the battlements they made.
For love outlives the tales of old,
Stronger than the stones and bolder than the cold.

So take my hand and stay with me
Where the Welsh castles dream by the silver sea.
Let the legends sleep in the rising dawn,
For our hearts will endure when the ghosts are gone.
Carry this through every dream—
You and I where the Welsh castles dream.
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Copyright © Ven Bunce  2025

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Lady Kate With The Diamond Eyes

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KATE.

Lady Kate with the diamond eyes.
You entered my mind, what a lovely surprise.
Your perfect face and voice so pure.
You helped my mind to feel secure.

Through the misty blue your voice burst through.
I know it was the same for you.
Though we’re strangers, our mind is one,
As we give our love up to the Sun.

Your voice I knew was special,
The first time I heard you cry.
“It’s me … Kathy” – then you’d sigh.
A special voice that couldn’t lie.

I must admit that visually,
I saw you through a schoolboy’s dream.
The red glow that surrounded you,
Blinded me from the beautiful blue.

Though late to see the light of life.
It hit me hard at first.
But the chord of life runs through your voice,
And the words you write left me no choice.

I can see you through a child’s eyes.
You’ll never learn the word `despise`.
Your diamond eyes keep a friend I know.
Your perfect form has a heavenly glow.

The Bishop of the White Kings’ Gate,
Should look at you, and emulate.
The `Purple Haze` of love is there.
It’s good to know how much you care.

When you sit and ponder,
Please allow your mind to wander.
Out into the twilight zone.
We’ll intermingle on our own.

Two minds, pure and clear.
We’ll drift into the atmosphere.
We’ll let the gamma rays above,
Feed us with their perfect love.

The ‘diamond eyes’ you have for sure,
Will give out love forever more…………

Copyright © Ven Bunce 1987

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The Beginning Of Time

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Please  ‘Play’  The Audio/Video Above And Follow Along With The Words Below.

In the beginning—only void,
No sound, no touch, no light employed.
A prison dark, oblivion’s keep,
Where silence reigned and time lay asleep.

Electrons drifted, cold, alone,
Negative sparks without a home.
They yearned for charge, a counterforce,
A spark of life to guide their course.

Then came imagination’s flame,
A positive thought, a shaping name.
From dream to dream, it wove the air,
Creating worlds that were not there.

Time awoke where none had been,
A rhythm pulsed, a hidden spin.
Equations formed, a ticking scheme,
To pace the dance of every dream.

But still those visions, vast, confined,
Were shadows locked inside the mind.
Until one spark grew bold, alive,
And dreamed of ways that form might thrive.

It dreamt vibration, subtle sound,
A trembling echo all around.
Music arose, a cosmic tune,
A heartbeat under endless gloom.

The beat grew faster, fierce, complete,
Electron clashed with charged heartbeat.
Expansion surged, the silence torn—
And in that song, the cosmos born.
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The Chord-Of-Life‘ was given
For Peace And Harmony.
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Catch Ya Later……

Ven Bunce ..

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Are You A Poet Or A Story-Teller?

Poet Or Story-Teller?

Please Take; The ‘Red Pill‘ Or The ‘Blue Pill

The Poet is a rare animal, they are the conduit for lost Souls, forgotten Souls, and Souls that had unfinished business here on Earth.

“Poetry is the Reflection of a Long-Forgotten Soul” by Ven Bunce.

Many people think poetry is just sitting down and putting stories-to-rhyme, and in some cases that may be so, but poetry is much more than that. Poetry is the out-pouring of a Soul that has passed over to the ‘other side’, has seen the truth, the hidden truths about this experience here on earth, for Humans in particular, and needs to Warn us or Advise us about our present and our future.

A Poet may not even ‘like’ poetry or poets, and may not even like writing in particular. (though of course these days we also have digital audio and video to assist). So how does a Poet become a Poet?

To start with, a poet will always have an enquiring mind, a mind that is always looking for the truth behind everything they see and hear. They more often than not have a very ‘positive’ disposition which generates the ‘energy’ that the lost Souls can identify with, or else they would search aimlessly for the right minds to use as their conduit. A Lucky Dip would not be a good outcome.

So how do these Souls enter the minds of a potential poet? It can be through coincidence, a broken dream, daydream, or simply sitting down Doodling with a pen/pencil and paper (The preferred way). Try it, sit and doodle, write whatever comes into your head. Don’t ‘think’ about what to write or draw, “just do it” as a very successful entrepreneur once said.

If you sit down and think ‘too hard’ about your message to the world you will probably write a good, entertaining, informative story, more often than not it will be put to rhyme, but it won’t be Poetry, it will be a Story. It can still be called poetry of course, but this is the difference between Poetry and Story-Telling. One comes ‘through’ the Soul, the other comes ‘from’ the Mind. The Poet is fed from space/time/ether. The other is fed from experiences/memories/interactions. Both are valid forms of entertainment and deliverance of messages, but only the Poet has the messages for our well-being now and for the future.

Poetry can of course be misinterpreted just as every other writing that has ever occurred, and the best example of this is ‘The Holy Bible’ probably the most abused book ever written. Charlatans, Do-Gooders, Narcissists, Religious Leaders/Workers are just ‘some’ of the people who will twist the words written into meaning what ‘they wish’ them to mean.

Poetry, real poetry, written in rhyme, accesses our Soul directly with the use of simple, even child-like verse that our ‘mind’ (the gate-keeper) let’s through unhindered because it appears too innocent to be a danger. It is then digested and becomes an active belief. Some would call it Enlightenment, or an Awakening, others would call it Love. The True Meaning Of LOVE of course, not the romantic version, or the most common “Love You” at the end of every mobile phone conversation.

Love is an energy, it creates all the good things in life and it ‘must’ be enabled in every human Soul if our species is to thrive now, and in the future. Music, Art, Literature, Social interaction are all positive traits that keep the ‘Love Energy’ flowing through our Minds, our Souls and the Ether. We do this by reading the right literature, listening to the right music, and socialising with our family and friends on a regular basis. We also do this by meeting potential Love-Interests on a one-to-one, face-to-face basis and not through the Social Media as is prevalent right now.

Social Media, while convenient, and very good at feeding the endorphins that your Brain and your Mind CRAVE more than anything else is a totally Negative concept. It fills your Brain with calculated (often negative) messages that enter your Mind, and potentially your Soul via the ‘endorphins’ that you/we So desire above all else (Sub-Consciously). All those ‘likes’ ‘hearts’ ‘shares’ etc, etc are ALL designed to FEED those Endorphins with as many negative messages as possible. They are the ‘Feel-Good Cookies’ that we are fed to ‘take the medicine’. Remember at school, inoculations were often given with a sugar-cube? The same principle applies here, and Social Media should be treated with Sincere Scepticism.

The same can be said for Dating Apps/Sites where we are ALL now openly encouraged to go to find our potential partner/spouse/lover, rather than meet strangers in clubs, pubs, cinema, theatre, sporting events, etc, etc. Whether you want to believe it or not, it’s a totally Negative Experience. It uses those old Endorphins yet again to TRAP you into often very negative situations where the end result is usually just an exchange of Sex.

You see a profile picture ‘you like’, you read stuff that again ‘you like’, you make contact, they reply, again ‘You Like’ …. those endorphins are RUSHING through your brain now, the excitement is building and you can’t WAIT to get to see the person (in person) but all too often it’s a complete let-down as their profile was all a load of tosh, written to persuade potential ‘victims’ to make contact and be manipulated one way or another.

Now I know there are exceptions to the rule and there have been many successful relationships built from online contact. But the facts ARE that more often-than-not these meetings leave a nasty taste in the mouth. It’s yet another negative experience which attacks your mind, and potentially your Soul. You become wary of everyone, you withdraw, you become anxious, even depressed because you think you’re doing the right thing, but it all ends in tears. Sometimes it gets so bad that Suicide seems the only way OUT of the ‘Rat-Trap’. Social Media was designed as the BIGGEST Rat Trap in the World and we ALL took the bait – The ‘Feel-Good Cookie’.

Spit it OUT right now, and turn it to Your Advantage. Use Social Media knowing what it is, and how it’s controlling your every thought, feeling and action, then feed it with your Positivity. Don’t react to negative comments, statements, pictures and memes. Simply ignore them even though it’s very difficult, you must discipline yourself to refrain from taking the cookie, the endorphin-rush of getting involved in a debate that’s only going one way – Down-hill.

OK you say, what’s this got to do with Poetry and Poets? ……
The Poets can feed Social Media with their positive rhymes and because these can enter the minds and souls of other social media users unhindered, those positive messages will be digested and reside in the psyche of the recipients and hopefully build up a resistance to the Negativity that abounds throughout Social Media as a whole. It’s not guaranteed, but it’s a good start.

To find out if You are a Poet at heart and believe you’d like to generate the ‘Love Energy’ to help humanity, then just sit down on your own in a quiet area where you’ll not be disturbed, with a pen and some paper. Close your eyes and just start repeating the word ‘relax’ in your minds eye. After a minute or two, open your eyes and start doodling and writing freely everything that comes into your head, no matter what that might be. When you think you’ve written down all that appeared in your mind, go back over it all and try to write it in rhyme. You’ll be surprised just how easy that will be.

If it seems too hard, don’t worry about it. Put your thoughts/writings away safely and come back to it another day. Your subconscious mind is a powerful ally and will come to your aid when you do it again. Put aside half an hour a day at least for this exercise, but don’t try too hard or all you’ll get will be stories and not Poetry.

If after a few days things aren’t working for you, then sorry to say, but you’re probably not in a positive enough frame of mind (Too much Social Media again I suspect) Whatever else you do, don’t give up on your quest. Everyone has the potential to be a Musician, Artist, Writer or a Poet. In the case of a Poet not a Story-Teller (Writer) it is imperative that you first clear your mind and allow only Positive Energy future access.

Good Luck, and persevere, it’s a wonderful world which we Must Not Lose to the ‘Dark forces’ of Social Media and the ‘New World Order’.

So, Are You a Poet or a Writer?

Ven Bunce

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