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grey sky drinking
I ponder the etiquette of nursing a pint
and whether some might find it impolite
if I made it last just little while longer that I
might watch the rain that crawls on the steamed windows
making broken ghosts of every passer by
each of them eager to avoid
catching the eye of the living and I wonder
which one of them broke winter’s heart such as to make it
so bitter
Saturday 28th December 2013 8:27 pm
Our House
I sometimes wander past the house where we used to live.
I park across the road and contemplate
the things we used to do.
As much as I stare I cannot see within
and even if I could
I’d only see the strangers who occupy our house.
I wonder if deep into the night
our voices from years ago
Might penetrate the years
and our echo may softly rebound
Across the walls we used...
Wednesday 11th December 2013 7:46 am
Ninety one Word Story of My Life
I was born in Texas and raised in Arkansas. I was taught that if you worked hard and tried even harder you could accomplish anything.
In some ways this is true. At the age of 26 I joined the army.
Even though my service from 1986-1988 was a little boring. I did something that at the time was unusual for a Woman. I served along side Men and pr...
Tuesday 26th November 2013 10:48 pm
Where The River Flows
Let the river of life take me wherever it will flow
Who knows which way destiny will blow?
Everything is written and we’re just passengers of fate
But step by step we go, towards the future we await
Let the tides take me where they will
And wash me up on some distant land
Near or far, for me it doesn’t matter
Just send me companions who will hold out their hand
Se...
Friday 1st November 2013 5:11 am
Love Life
In love, a delicious drowning feeling,
Where stillness surrounds us, contrasting
A movie-like, high speed madness around us,
Bypassing us, because our love is frozen in time,
Growing now like the first buds in a spring passion,
Our touch electric-like, brings us closer than skin,
So close, that our hearts beat like one heart,
So close, that we drea...
Wednesday 30th October 2013 7:44 pm
If You Don't Like The Record -Change it!
If you hate your job
-Resign!
If you don’t like where you live
-Leave!
If you’re stuck in some kind of groove
-Move!
If you don’t like the record
-Change it!
If you’re not happy outside
-go inside!
If you don’t like to drive
-Walk!
If you don’t want to be quiet
-Talk!
If you can’t bear to be still
-Shake it!
If your lif...
Sunday 27th October 2013 9:17 am
RAGE OF INNOCENCE (All due respect to Dylan Thomas)
Do not go easy into that cruel plight,
Life-latency should, combination, stay;
Rage, rage against the prying of the light.
Though cells, prior to conjoin, accrue no right,
Un-right usurped un-bid, entreats that they
Do not go easy into that cruel plight.
Wild sperm who caught and shot the ovum’s flight,
And learned too late, now grieving on your ...
Tuesday 22nd October 2013 2:07 pm
The Spirit of The Tree
The gust of wind is ever so slight
But it lifts the seed on wings of air
And it is borne upon the breeze in flight.
The wind blows and gusts.
The rain washes and the seed is carried
to soft fingers of the earth, unhurried.
Nestling snugly in the earth
the seed slips deeper down,
Deeper into the earth.
Later a Green shoot appears
stretchi...
Tuesday 8th October 2013 7:34 pm
There are many..., There are a few...
Tuesday 1st October 2013 9:00 pm
The Cat that lived Across the Road
Everything seemed in order, I suppose, to die
It was a warm enough day;
Certainly
The sun shone and birds sung
Even though birds would cause a feline heart to race
Normally
I’ve had my fill of life
Of tit bits and cosy sleeps, sometimes in next doors shed
Informally
And I’ve had my chases and midnight hunts
And I’ve always remember...
Sunday 29th September 2013 9:20 am
The Prime of Life
Why look for a pattern in the whole
And split the soul?
Some things just are.
I know when fate knocks
My socks off
I won’t ask why...
I’ll be very annoyed
But still- I’ll die,
Stop stock-still
Without a breath;
A fraction of a life,
A whole load of death.
Into myself and one
With the cycle of time;
I’ll become the prime.
Monday 23rd September 2013 12:04 pm
Language
The only thing in life is language
not love, not anything else
Not tears
not laughter
But those things may come after
It's words that matter
Because words come from deep within
because all our thoughts,
all our feelings,
are melted down inside our skin
and from our lips come words,
language,
not love
Not anything else
Wednesday 7th August 2013 9:21 am
Numbers
I’m not what it says on my passport
I’m not what the picture reveals
Deep inside is another me
Someone you cannot see
I’m not what it says on my badge
that picture is another me
He goes to work and makes all the money
The money he spends for me
I’m not what it says on the form
That’s nothing to do with me
And the reference number is just a num...
Sunday 28th July 2013 9:42 pm
BRICK WALL
BRICK WALL
This high brick wall borders East and West, a Cold War frontier that symbolises the divisions between two mindsets. A time of paranoia and of being taken away in the night, soldiers only following orders, you’re going to the East, not to be seen again as you’re an enemy of the state, Stassi style.
For those who resist and fight there is only one option, eliminate ...
Thursday 25th July 2013 6:26 pm
Life
What is life all about?
I haven’t got a clue
I’ve no idea
What I’m supposed to do
I feel like a passenger
In a bit of a state
I’m just bumbling along
A prisoner of fate
I sometimes wonder
And I need it explained
How life works
Is it preordained?
I’ve got no agenda
And no design
I keep on looking
But I can’t see any si...
Sunday 21st July 2013 9:35 am
It Doesn't Matter
(Found the first 8 lines of this in an old notebook of mine from the 1970s so thought I'd finish it off. Bit of a difference though between my younger thought processes and my older ones!)
It doesn’t matter anyway
That something went unseen today.
Everything fades away.
It doesn’t matter anyway
That coastal waters washed away
Our footprints in the sandy bay
That yest...
Saturday 15th June 2013 10:06 am
Neon Light
The cigarette smoke hangs heavy in the air.
Looks good in films
But in real life,
In this place it clings to you
Like a broken dream.
The neon beer light covers many sins
And many more failed lives.
In the corner sits a man,
Pondering if tonight
Will be his last.
Time for one more drink.
He won’t be the last to sit under this neon light.
...
Wednesday 12th June 2013 11:04 am
Slow Time, Quick Time
Slow time, Quiet time
Is the way I’ve lived my life.
I’ve moved along at an even pace
Life is not a race.
Quick time, fast time
My life has picked up speed
Life is a midnight express train
And events are lonely stations passing quickly by
Slow time, quiet time
Is a pace I need again
Summers that last for ever
And friends that never grow ol...
Monday 10th June 2013 4:38 am
Neon Light
Playing with the idea of this place.Aplace which takes in lost souls..Is it a good place or bad place.
Time will tell.
The cigarette smoke hangs heavy in the air.
Looks good in films
But in real life,
In this place it clings to you
Like a broken dream.
The neon beer light covers many sins
And many more failed lives.
In the corner sits a man,
P...
Friday 7th June 2013 11:25 am
may it never, yet it does
the monsters used to live under the bed
now they walk the streets, most often,
with halos around their heads
cold sunbeams stiffen my hyphenated bones
and even singing does nothing
to evaporate the frosted water in my veins
splash my neck
slap my face
I’m sick of talking, I get no satisfaction
from my lower case hate
Saturday 25th May 2013 4:03 pm
Don't
Friday 24th May 2013 7:55 pm
Birthday Blues
We close our eyes gently and slowly
Wait for the narcotic niceties to be over
“Isn't it nice to just relax?” you say
“Hmmmm” I agree, letting my thoughts become dreamy
My birthday is over and it's time to release the stress
It has taken so long
Doubling up the pretence puts pressure on the present
Downstairs you carry out the Birthday autopsy
...
Thursday 16th May 2013 6:20 pm
OLD HAMMER DIVINE
Old Hammer Divine
My anxiety is like an ambush predator.
WHAM! I’m fucked...
...fight back!
It’s fucked.
Would you manage a year in my head?
Would you?
Could you?
Should you?
I think you should...
...if you’re man enough then inbox me.
Into my head you shall go...
A mirror image of my town.
Shame it’s not Be...
Friday 10th May 2013 11:15 pm
Spring Tanka
A winter bite that
mocks the spring, pincers its cocoon.
A life supported?
Cease one's internal decay,
Even ice melts. Love's fluidity.
Thursday 11th April 2013 6:14 pm
Cycles
When the dust and dirt
That lies on life's rugged road,
Gets displaced and dissipates
Under a titanic truckload.
When equal forces meet
They repeat, and unseat
Life's rhymic refrain,
Revolve and run on into a hurricane.
Forms a storm
That torments your brain.
Condensation collects like the pains.
White clouds turn to rain,
Floating far away,
...Tuesday 9th April 2013 8:53 pm
what crisis?
what crisis?
nowadays they have to pinch the ends
of their cigarettes before they cross the threshold
no longer allowed to herd the crumbling swarms
of ash across the gingham veldt
outside the window, on the pavement, lies a bible
and the radio declares their readiness is high
seems like a good night to let the smokers
in and warm around a last ember...
Friday 5th April 2013 8:39 pm
Traces of you
As I sit upon
This empty bed
White cotton frayed
From nights
That punctuate
This thin veneer
Of wakefulness
I look for traces of you.
Tuesday 2nd April 2013 11:40 pm
It's easier not to love
Sometimes it’s better when you don’t have to love,
Easier when she just doesn’t give a fuck,
She said I didn’t play the pornstar, and that’s a good start,
But tonight we’ll agree neither of us have a heart.
And like a weight that’s been relieved,
Like new lungs still waiting to breathe,
There’s no pressure, or so I made myself believe.
So in the morning you can just get up and lea...
Sunday 31st March 2013 8:39 pm
My one day friend, Mark
To Liverpool
Wednesday 6th March 2013 8:19 pm
The Bride of Necklace of Tales
Wednesday 6th March 2013 8:04 pm
Universe
The wailing wind is in my breath
And in my dreams I see the silver moon
My smile is the face of the summer sun
And daybreak stirs my waking soul
When sadness comes my tears are one with the pouring rain
And the blood within my veins runs deep within these hills
This Earth is at the centre of the gift of life
And when I die she folds my bones within her arms
While...
Saturday 2nd February 2013 4:15 am
PLANET EARTH
PLANET EARTH
The mighty planet Earth slowly turns on its own axis through space.
There is only one planet Earth with all its myriad forms of life.
A lot of this life has been here long before Man, so long before.
When Man came he was the hunter in skins and fur.
Today he is the hunted by his own kind and the skin is burned from his back.
The planet is never c...
Tuesday 22nd January 2013 7:01 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
Peering through cigarette smoke
Friday 11th January 2013 8:16 am
conurbation
[tarmac touch supply chain shackle
dead land sprung mixing
business flow pleasure
cargo fed artery drip
conurbation
green belt boundary destination
misplaced motor-way expansion
catharsis false anatomy
road sweep strategy
cultural access invader hard shoulder
systematic appetite number
lowest common denominator
stamped queue disc...
Wednesday 9th January 2013 5:33 pm
Rzhepicks 2013
No matter who,
No matter where,
No matter when,
It only matters why and what for.
***
Yesterday was early,
Tomorrow will be late,
Today I have no time.
***
You can’t train in a gym?
You want to look young and slim?
Stay close to the old ones and fat.
There are many ways to skin a cat.
***
Sometimes I think:
Her...
Wednesday 9th January 2013 7:31 am
Man In The Mirror
On the other side of the mirror there’s another man like me
He seems to look just like me I have to agree
He’s another man with the same thinking process
He’s trying to move on, trying to make progress
He takes milk with his tea but only one sugar
And offer him coffee and he’ll tend to shudder
He likes computers and writing things
Mainly poems but whatever his ...
Sunday 6th January 2013 8:20 pm
Past Lives
I often wonder if I’ve lived before
And left this life but never closed the door?
I wonder if I’ve lived a different life before
Reborn to live and love again once more
I wonder if I’ve lived in ancient Rome
Or in war time London spent some time
Dodging V1s and Doodle Bugs
I can just imagine my lovers call when bombs begin to fall
That lover’s call in...
Saturday 5th January 2013 6:20 pm
Life is a Cuppa
Up to a point
pliant leaves will seep
into all its waters
until the cup overflows
so much as to stain
the meticulously starched table linen.
Then we shall face with reckoning
its true substance!
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Wednesday 2nd January 2013 11:05 pm
That Place
In that place
The summers were always hot and the skies completely blue.
And in that place
Where nothing ever hurt me
A lie was never spoken; it was all completely true
In that place
When the morning sun spilled into my room and woke me
Then I’d be up and out and riding my bike
And in that place
The place where I’d be the fastest biker ever
...Wednesday 2nd January 2013 7:11 am
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