Poetry Blog by Grant Aspinall
Along the avenue
Along The Avenue GLA 2021-03-04
Can you see the picture in full view, to get from A to B from chapter two. Watch the signs ahead, don’t get led into the blue, or give up, keep on going when you do.
Regret and sorrow follow you, revisiting old memories to suffer once ag...
Thursday 4th March 2021 12:42 pm
The one wish too far
One wish too far GLA 2021-03-01
In the cold light of day, things really change, from the way you felt the last night, It was strange. Now, all was said, were feelings bled upon the kitchen floor, now you think that you can’t even take it anymore, It could be that this was the one wish too far.
One change could be the last one that you make, If you make it y...
Monday 1st March 2021 9:31 pm
Cats Know what love is
Cats know what love is GLA 2021-02-24
Cats know what love is, I’ve seen it with my eyes, If you’re feeling lonely, to them It’s no suprise. They’ll sit and purr upon your lap, until you push them down. By which time you’ve forgotten the reason for your frown.
They are clued in from the start, as kittens seem to know, their only vocation is to be the...
Wednesday 24th February 2021 3:19 pm
Grim Reaper
The Grim Reaper GLA 2021-02-22
You can practice all your chops at home until your fingers are all sore, so now you play like Satrinani or those Gods you used to adore. But the only gigs to play now are in your bedroom at your place. You can play to your heart’s content on Zoom -or similar- where latency takes place.
Now, don’t start booking gigs ‘cause there’s nothing you can do, ‘cause ever...
Tuesday 23rd February 2021 1:10 pm
The Wind
The wind GLA 2021-02-22
One thought, one word, a direction explained, and all at once, a lifetime has changed. Completely different from the one that you’re in, you did not see it come, but that’s where you’ve been.
Don’t look back, that’s what they say, and we are who we are along the way. A dream it was, that I had one day, but somebody said “you can’t reheat a soufflé.
One day, perhaps...
Tuesday 23rd February 2021 1:08 pm
Melted Cheese
I wish i could spend my life with a breeze that swept my hair back down to to eternity, a way that could sway away all through the trees, with boursin, brie and camembert or any kind of melted cheese.
My doctor , he said go down and hunt for a life of ease, down to a village , down a path where I could rest my head between my knees, Well I can't go now, but someday I hope to go and keep some be...
Sunday 21st February 2021 1:23 pm
dignity within
Dignity Within
Don’t mess with my heart, don’t be too unkind. You don’t know the extent of my love, and what you have in mine.
Don’t mess with my mind, because there’s something you don’t know, that you have the reins to my life and you’d better not let go.
I’ve been down that tunnel of love once before, and I never once asked for more. But you came along and you shattered my dreams, and ...
Friday 5th February 2021 7:19 pm
naked
Naked GLA 2021-02-01
You were born naked, now you die naked in a grave dug in the desert by a man who saved himself from a fate worse than the death he gave to you. The man he had no name, but he was caught up in the game of...
Monday 1st February 2021 12:17 pm
Leave me be
leave me be GLA 23 01 2021
leave me be as I wait for the shadow across the sky when sunlight makes amends fleeting glimpses of reality.
Leave me be to make sense that stole away, leaving endless moonlit nights across the seas to drown in thought by death’s last resort decided the time had come to stop an anguished end for all to leave ...
Saturday 23rd January 2021 6:39 pm
For my wife
For My Wife
You captured my heart, a warming embrace.
A love so simple, so full of grace.
A secret to share, our souls laid bare.
The years cannot count our lives that have passed,
Between us we’ve lived, and never shall part.
Sunday 17th January 2021 2:30 pm
Peaceful Ashes
Peaceful Ashes GLA 2020-12-19
Distant voice can’t understand, holding on to an empty hand,
look away or have a chance to stay.
live without charm, or run to where you are.
There's a way, yet too far, to a southern shore.
A sign: have we time, give me your heart, I’ll give you mine.
Set a spark in my soul - sensibilities, no control.
Chaos petrol fire in the night, glow...
Monday 4th January 2021 8:52 pm
Living the dream
Living the dream
Living the dream. silent scream, delusions, luminous silliouette reflects mirrors, defined face to waste,fallen from grace: permenant corrosion, timeless erosion, unstable ground, frail weight falls through the floor.
Friday 1st January 2021 1:59 pm
Kitten calls
Kitten calls GLA 2020-12-31
Kittens call- the morning tolls, high pitched squeaks and little paws, withdrawn for now your needle claws, wait for me to wake from slumbers under cotton duvet covers.
Jump and skip onto my head, in the warm and comfy bed. Meowing for the 'Katkins' call, up and down the curtain crawl. Tiny brothers look the same, tabby markings, feelines tame.
...
Thursday 31st December 2020 5:45 pm
Time is nothing
Time is nothing GLA 26/10/20
When I find you alone in the morning, I'll spread roses for you in the rain. When the squall of the dew begins falling, as the dawn rises over the plains.
The time is nothing between us, It has seen us together in vain, the years that passed us so slowly, they have left without loss, without gain.
When I look at the past...
Wednesday 2nd December 2020 11:47 pm
The Commuter
Poem set to music. to hear the song click this link
https://grantaspinall.bandcamp.com/track/the-commuter
The Commuter
Verse
She takes the train to the city, and spends her time on her nails, her sharp dressed man waits at the station, and she falls into her arms. ...
Thursday 26th November 2020 8:07 am
The Hundred Acre Wood
The Hundred Acre Wood
I brought a bear from Winnipeg, from Canada he did come. I visited him in London to show him to my son.
Christopher Robin’s favourite bear was living in the zoo, and where it was he came from was why I named him Pooh.
I made up their adventures for them all to pretend, and looked after each other, they always had their friends.
...Sunday 15th November 2020 4:09 pm
J.D.
JD GLA 26/10/20
I open my eyes in the morning, Its calling to me from the shed. A bottle waits on the table If I’m able thats where I am led. I’ll pour out a toast to the dawn of the day, put on my hat, walk into the play, today, Its Hamlet we’re playing. Give me a drink then i’ll say:
Chorus: Give me a double, then another double. Give...
Sunday 8th November 2020 8:05 pm
Donner
https://grantaspinall.bandcamp.com/track/donner
Try and keep it down.
Click 'Donner' above
Sunday 8th November 2020 2:53 pm
Yesteryear
https://grantaspinall.bandcamp.com/track/yesteryear
This song is written both musically and lyrically as a homage to Leonard Cohen.
Please click on the link on 'Yesteryear' - above to find the music.
Sunday 8th November 2020 1:31 pm
Insomnia
https://grantaspinall.bandcamp.com/album/spawned
Please click on link: 'INSOMNIA' above to hear the music to accompany this poem/lyric.That is if you want to of course...
Sunday 8th November 2020 12:51 pm
Dear Doctor
Dear Doctor,
Its about time I told you the truth, of how I almost lost all of my youth. With 12 admissions into asylums, in Forty odd years, the rest in recovery or drugged to the eyeballs in tears. Locked in a room-its your prison-but what have you done? Injected and jacketed, left believing that ‘You are the One’. Without window or view, for weeks on end, without a friend thats where you lose...
Wednesday 4th November 2020 10:51 pm
Portrait #1
https://grantaspinall.bandcamp.com/track/portrait-of-you
Thursday 29th October 2020 2:17 pm
Dolphin Moon
https://grantaspinall.bandcamp.com/track/dolphin-moon
Thursday 29th October 2020 2:15 pm
Miss Spentlove
https://grantaspinall.bandcamp.com/track/miss-spentlove
Tuesday 27th October 2020 5:58 pm
Sliding doors
Sliding Doors GLA 27/08/20 82 bpm
Verse
She takes the train to the city and spends her time on her nails, her sharp dressed man waits at the station and she falls into her arms. He doesn’t know that she’s busy with her husband on the phone, on the way to her destination to her lover far from home.
Bridge She walks into the ro...
Thursday 22nd October 2020 5:37 pm
Wake up call
Wake Up Call GLA 2020-02-20
Lying in a hospital bed the best things are left unsaid
from my point of view.
From the heart I tell you my heart is racing too.
Give me just a few days to say the things I need to.
If I die now, I’ll have to take a bow, but let me live somehow.
My hatred left far behind, your kindness and love combined kept me tr...
Thursday 22nd October 2020 5:36 pm
Bewlay brother
Bewlay brother GLA 20-03-05
One eye fixed on a large centred place
Looking from inward out into space
The other blue with constricted hue
An Other-time alien formed in full view
Was that he came from the role that he took
Or did he fulfil the Golden Dawn book
We know what he showed us he gave us the cal...
Thursday 22nd October 2020 5:31 pm
A warm embrace
A warm embrace
A warm embrace as once they fell Their love transcended every realm And shut their eyes on lavender field ...
Thursday 22nd October 2020 5:29 pm
Behind that Jaguar
Behind that Jaguar GLA 2020-03-05
Behind that jaguar there is a camellia in bloom
The pink blossom backdrop
Silouettes its perfume.
His noble outline lying in bed
Knowing his place
In the country was bred
With buttons for eyes and batteries to growl
When you squeeze his paw he dutifully howls
He does not know though he guards us today
...Thursday 22nd October 2020 5:27 pm
Donna
Donna GLA 27/07/ 20
I like chilli on my donna onions peppers and tomata, swill it down with lager and a toffee honey chaser. Chilli on my donna onions peppers and tomata, swill it down with vodka and a shot of honey chaser.
Please don’t shout in my ear ‘cause you’re spitting in my beer, can you hurry up your order as I’m feeling rather queer. I’ve got this chilli to eat...
Thursday 22nd October 2020 5:25 pm
Washing machine
Washing Machine GLA 04/07/20
You gave it all but they all wanted more. You’ve given too much now, you’ve nothing in store. A rope like a noose tightens around your neck, then you finally know that its all a stacked deck. How could it turn into a such a crime, to waste so much of their precious time. You keep ...
Thursday 22nd October 2020 5:23 pm
Old home brew
Old Home Brew GLA 21/07/20
Now you wonder ‘what’s it for?’ As the man in the hat points to the door. ...
Thursday 22nd October 2020 5:22 pm
Leave me be
leave me be GLA 23/09/20
leave me be as I wait for the shadow across the sky when sunlight makes amends fleeting glimpses of reality.
Leave me be to make sense that stole away, leaving endless moonlit nights across the seas to drown in thought by death’s last resort decided the time had come to stop an anguished end for all to leave me ...
Thursday 22nd October 2020 5:19 pm
Eternal Full Moon
Eternal Full moon
Collision forces life.
Life: Eternal Truth.
Hell vs Hope= Universal Love.
Rainbow notation.
Music from a black hole.
Chemical drip.
Ocean coloured sky.
Revolving cascade.
Eternal full moon.
Compassion: Realisation:
Spiritual awakening.
Sentient being:
Life; Truth; Soul; Peace; Hope, love.
Nirvana
Thursday 22nd October 2020 5:17 pm
silence
Silence rethought GLA 18/10/2020
Canvas still, no mark or sound.
Quiet, breath of grace traced anew.
Vast, heartfelt-undisturbed, inside, sweet spacious thundering silence abides.
Full spectrum, harmonic colour spurts. Colourless impasto hides, yet compressed then splattered onto velvet virgin cloth in rhythm as one possessed.
Delicat...
Thursday 22nd October 2020 5:07 pm
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