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Blue Moon
This tidal,
ebb and flow
of our own
mixed feelings
as a solution,
salted tears …
we are 60% water
with
these waves of emotion
Sunday 29th September 2024 9:51 pm
Blue Moon
This tidal,
ebb and flow
of our own
mixed feelings
as a solution,
salted tears …
we are 60% water
with
these waves of emotion
Sunday 29th September 2024 9:51 pm
MUSHROOM SUNDAY the return of Yolanda
Sacred day sunday cathedral as always
We walked in a new way
This time inside
I met a Welsh reverend
He bought me a present
Well he payed for a present I chose for my love
Observed art work in there
Preserved well and kept there
Gargoyles and fairies
Oh spirit of love
My twin flame my best mate
Oh righteous our breastplate
Truth round my waist ...
Wednesday 3rd August 2022 3:47 am
Messiah Of The Fields
Messiah Of The Fields
They left me hanging on a cross
The saviour of the summer crops
Just rag and straw so no great loss
My blood is in the wheat and hops
I faced the black and vicious hoard
Their coal cruel eyes and sharpened beaks
I am the ragged overlord
Who scares the crow yet never speaks
They pray to me to save their soils
From dark boned devils ...
Sunday 27th September 2020 11:21 am
Ritual
Ritual
It is a grey morning
I am awake early
The backdoor is open
And cool air enters the kitchen
My father is on his knees
Scrubbing a wire brush
On the fire grate
Newspapers on the floor
He takes a rag
And pours black lead
Onto the stiffened fibres
Then he smears it
Onto the scrubbed surfaces
He balls up the newspaper
And throws it on the hearth
...Saturday 30th May 2020 2:34 pm
The Servant
There's a park near me where
You see beings on two legs with plastic bags
Who wait patiently on smaller beings
With four legs and a tail before
Bending down to retrieve
A pile of waste extruded from the latter and
Put it in their pocket or
Carry it with some ceremony to a nearby
Receptacle.
If a Martian landed
What would it make of the
Ritual and
If so inclined,
...Thursday 21st May 2020 11:05 am
I push away the ending of the day
I push away the ending of the day
when I gaze in the mirror
cleaning my teeth
back and forth
back and forth
repetitive motion, much like the day’s comings
and goings,
a reflection of the darker side of boredom
when the house feels not like a home,
so very still and empty of life,
I hear the cars passing on the freeway,
miles away,
while all is...
Monday 25th November 2019 5:14 pm
Sacred Path
Sacred Path
we walked the ancient path together
where ancestors had worn the land
into a waypoint to the barrow
carefully observing rituals and customs
under azure skies we stumbled on our way
across this land of Albion
the hops the wheat the barley
bowing heads in solemn recognition
of the passing of souls
as we walked we talked of many things
...
Thursday 22nd February 2018 12:19 am
INSANITY'S BAR
The lights are dim,
The band plays loud,
The audience are the usual crowd.
There's John and Jim against the bar,
Commenting on the lead guitar.
Leanne sits with her best mate Sam,
Shouting over the music, how she loves her man.
Her man, Brad, is at another table,
Flirting with a lass named Mable.
Then Wobbly Bob staggers over the floor,
Empty glass in his hand as he o...
Tuesday 13th January 2015 1:08 pm
Pure O
Pure O
Light On
Light Off
Light On
Light Off
Go to the door
Oven
Switched off
Oven
Switched off
Go back to the door
Go out
Turn key
Turn away
Go back
To lock the door
Sit down
In car
Get out
To check
Locked door
Four pens
In line
Adjacent
Squared off
Did I Lock The D...
Wednesday 24th April 2013 12:59 pm
The Cocoon
The curtains a cocoon
which I have outgrown
crushing me
though I dare not venture out
my wings maimed
by an internal eternity.
Some days they open
as the sunlight shines
and snow falls
yet it remains a parallel world
a door to an unfamiliar universe
remains locked.
Even inside plates pile up
like a porcelain possum
they ...
Monday 21st January 2013 1:36 pm
Temple of Fiddes
Temple of Fiddes
An Invocation
In a trance, amid the heady fumes of burning laurel
Sage leaves flame, crackle, bend and twist upward
Down from the mountain top
And out of the field, flock to us now
Out of your sacred precincts, to your grove
Of elder trees, and your altars
Smoking with incense, dripping with honey
Where cold, whisp’ring water flows
Throug...
Monday 12th March 2012 5:59 pm
Bloodstream
photo credit: Bill Cottman
Bloodstream
There were no sardines
Until captured fish were labeled that
Entrapment / dismemberment
Gets embedded in knowledge
ImproviXation is necessary
Because rote of daily living
Is institutional
Acting as samurai
Often affords escape from
Captivity and sardine cans
Courage is culture
Memory of struggle lives in blood
Duend...
Friday 13th January 2012 8:26 pm
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