Patricia and Stefan Wilde

On returning

from a two hour absence

spent at the shops

(ten minutes away)

wife verbally re-enacts

into my unenthralled ears

the local gossip.

A droned two hours later

I virtually know

about every recent individual ailment

suffered by the townsfolk'

Who is dead,

who is on the verge of the same.

The latest news headlines

pho...

When long gone

the resignation

of Winter

from our bones

we shall bask

beneath the infestation

of the Sun,

our shadows

acknowledging

the burnished skies

beautifully signing

their brightness

on everything,

idealising the coming picture

of Natures kind side.

Never have I dreamt better than this!

O for the glad returning migratory,hibe...

It is not the imperfect future

that will close ever

just day.

Withering,turning its head and waiting

as the fluent layers of Moon light

bless our silent portraits

and dumbed sleep.

Wishing to be something alive

in the cosmos

gaunt and grisly spectres

bereft of heavens location,

repeat their ghostly routines.

Bidding me in dreams to sur...

Those anaethetized days!

no one was going to spread

the good word of Happening

better than us!

we preened and peacocked

and astounded

along many

a Net Twitching Street.

We were possessed by Rock'n'Roll Demons.

we starred in public scenes.

Envied,cursed,and laughed at players

on our everywhere stages,

taking great care to look infamou...

I,m having

a lips to screen

one sided HD love affair

with Carol,

the Scottish weather lady

on BBC. morning news.

But recently

I have been distracted by

and attracted to

(only a little I hasten to add Carol!)

the girl on the platform

who smiles.

Decisions! decisions!

Only one way to decide-

FIGHT!

preferably in mud...

Being short of toys

let alone food

and love,during

the rag-arsed days

of my childhood,imagination

had to be and was

my greatest friend.

But when wrongly used

often got me into Dads bad books.

On one occasion

(one near miss)

that regularly comes to mind,was

when Dad,despite his struggle

with a hard, poor paid job

and the bottl...

Altering sculpture

of celestial light.

Inspiring the emotions of

and loved by lovers.

Faintly lustred traveller

inaudibly caressing the land.

Kindly pale vision of awe

instigator of peace,proud in the full bloom of spirituality.

Blessed are we

by your everchanging image....

Capable

of interrupting darkness

capable of invading fog.

The slow spinning beam

glare's, fan's out

seeking to warn nautical venturer's

in the sea clinging night.

Like a bright eyed cyclops

watching over

the gloom crammed spaces.

Mournfully singing out his one note

to the precarious and unwary traveller's upon the undulat...

Some say,
bloody foreigners!
milking their claim
to British citizenship,
(supposedly) stripping the meat
off the backbone of our country!

I say,
to my countrymen and women,
not so much how very un-common market of you,
but how very un-worldly of you!

If only the starving,
the war ravaged,
the ethnically 'cleansed'
the thirsty,
the tortured and raped,
the terrorised,
hum...

In a bloodsoaked "NO FEAR"

emblazoned top

with chaos in his dying eyes

and a few yards from where the blade

was slowly ending

his pretentious,useless heroism

once and for all,

a hoodie stagger's fall's

and tries to stand again.

His painful cries

are his own failing and so ugly requiem.

Young,wasted life,

there was nev...

The orchard

framed within my window

tells it's soundless story

of Winter's demise

As each branch await's

the birth of fruitful companionship

when blossom shall descend

upon them like snowflakes

Once again refilling

the empty bough,s,

warmly replenishing

a seasonal dream...

An old gentle animal lover

(in the extreme)

walking down the street

when he hears a voice-

"psst-could ya help me out?"

He looks around,but there's nobody there.

He looks more carefully

and glances into a nearby bush

where he see's a sad eyed Donkey.

Though he's a little embarrassed

to be talking to a Donkey,he ask's

&q...

When I look

at these brown spots

on my hands,

though I haven't been harmed

by them,

what I am harmed by

is some surgically

face stretched hag

foolishly trying

to look as though

she is the right side of thirty

advertising on T.V.

these scientifically named additives

that I have never heard of

in an over-priced hand lotion

"gua...

Travelling from where he dare not regard as confinement
he is compelled by obligation to neccessity
almost robotically,bereft of resistance
to the hub of finance five times a week.

In military fashion,his daily routine is set to order
and household regulations must be adhered to.
He submits and is all too easily managed,childishly teachable
and domesticated enough
to follow each task sti...

Looking back

I am as glad today

as I always will be

that my Father remained

as he was from my very beginning,

our gentle ruler.

Although I pity him

for having lost his way in this life

I would not have wanted him to have easily become

had he set his mind to it,using hidden skills,

pompous,brash and overbearing.

But stayed the one I l...

The thought of T.V.

holds no appeal

this evening,

so,for a change

I try to strike up

an unusual conversation w'it wife.

I ask

do you think Martians have ever walked down our street?

she answers-

Dunno love,I,ll ask Mrs Scroggins in the morning-

she knows everything!

Although my attempts at conversing

were inadvertantly derailed...

The past

of his love life

closes,like a book sadly read

which,when first opened

displayed such an indulgence

in loves aspects

the kind only to be found

in the hearts hallucinations

But his eyes read differently now

and he hears only silence

menacing more frighteningly

than his own trembling shadow

mocking him with whispers

of the b...

I don't exactly lie

in order to attract beautiful women

it is just that I forget to tell them the whole truth

for example, I told my latest conquest to be

I own a brand new Ferrari

(but forgot to say)

poster.

I know Tom Cruise,George Clooney,Bruce Willis

(but forgot to say)

are film stars.

I have loads of money

(but forgot to say)...

Sky and sea
two blues.
Each spinning
its own fabric of dreams
to fill the wanting heart
and closed eyes
and make this day feel
like the wearing
of a most beautiful garment...

I need to find guidance

to rearrange my life

not just reshuffle the old repetitions

but make my body and soul

do as I ask once and for all.

I have been for far too long now

like a river flowing away from the sea

I must speak words that give shape to my world

words that emit fragrances able to carry me

through time and space.

____________...

Could it be

that the World is changing?

or just that my unavoidable birthday

has added to its ruination....

..you asked,

is everything a waste of time?

I said not really

but I will say,

time is a waste of everything.

Then of something else

you ask

what are the spaces in between seconds?

I said they are neither one thing or the other

and neither one thing or the other is exactly what they are.

Continuing to pester

you ask

why do we ru...

If I love you

I,ll tell you.

If I hate you

I,ll tell you.

If you get on my nerves

I,ll tell you.

If you do anything that gets to me

I,ll tell you.

Now I,m thinking

what it is

I won,t tell you....

(William Blake-eat your heart out!)

Byker,Byker,Ernie Wright

'n' Doris the Florist in fast wheel spin flight

what mere mortal hand held police device

can tame their excessive cubic capacity?

In the distance cheap 'chinky' espies

'Ern&'D in dire need of fine chips'n'pies

what 'ot things care he to buy her?

(Dot)- grand...

I could hardly make him out

-in the early morning light,

ugly in his uselessness

but pitiful amongst the tide-line rubble.

His wings

which once graced the air

with careless freedom

now sprawled wildly.

As if he'd desperately refused

to acknowledge defeat,

his feathers windblown, as though trying to lift him

from death,s hold....

It was after

your final call

that the music

of unknown sorrow

gradually became

unendingly orchestrated

_________________

Patricia Wilde...

Now has come a silence

to claim the stilled air

as it floats sullenly,oilily

about the condemned machinery

enforced into uselessness.

No more the sounds

of metal battling against metal

no more the shouted chatter.

Clocked off for the last time,

the grimed band of the old breed

the old skills,the old contented happinesses.

The last li...

I had the usual fight

with myself today

and as usual

I won again

unfortunately...

Lady of Winter

pale.

As though born of the Moon,

descends

down the chilling paths of wind.

Her breath of ice

permeates beyond the window

of my Soul

coldly blurring

my hearts memory of Summer.

Subterraneously

the Spring awaiting greenery

surrenders to sleep

beneath the unrolling white cascade

While in sterile pallidi...

A thickening darkness enfolds

the derelict house

near claimed by the invisible cloaking of snowfall.

It is a place burdened with sorrow

deserving of its own emptiness.

What am I doing here,why did I return,

was this my home or my prison?

Even now it still reeks with the memories

of my trials and tribulations.

No-one dares to come here anymor...

From my days
as a self employed
removals man,
I often look back
to the time
Dad and I
attempted to fool my wife
into believing the following,
somewhat, exaggerated tale.

Father and I were carrying out
the usual task of a removal
when we were presented with an unforeseen problem.
Overnight the lonely aged householder
had taken ill and was confined to her bed
and was instructed in no...

Tidal.

coming to me

through me

carries me

to where I came in.

____________________

Patricia Wilde...

Aurora shimmers

like a kaleidosopic dream

high,clear and cold,

a taut ringing cold

that says there is nothing between me

and the infinite depth of space.

Looking upwards

send,s me dizzy

I am walking a precarious path.

Nothing is in my control.

The sky yawns like an abyss

there is nothing to stop me falling

except the transfixion of my...