Three Pennies
I gave you three pennies
that one winter’s morn
when the dancing had finished
and we felt so forlorn.
The first for that kiss
when we were first lovers
ne’er to be broken
lying snug under covers.
The second for our child
for one oh so fair
a cherished little treasure
but not long for this air.
The third for hearts broken
no healing can mend
...
Sunday 30th December 2018 1:14 am
Eternal Relief
Two seconds to make him go
To free me from this pain and woe
A pill, a potion, a knotted rope
To relieve me from this misanthrope.
Friday 28th December 2018 1:29 pm
A chariot bringing good news
Sky horses chasing rainbows across the sky
the wonder of the blue heavens flowing,
cascading down onto the scorched earth
joining together to form a perfect scene.
Behind the flying steeds a chariot
carrying the messengers of a new dawn,
an age of far reaching force
where all will be destroyed
to be reborn into an era of true enlightenment.
Friday 21st December 2018 7:38 pm
Lark song
Far from the high ridge the lark song
called out to love, hopeful and hopeless
reaching out to heal the lovers’ rift,
but the day broke over their stooping heads
and the saddened winter sun shone
its weary rays onto their hardened hearts.
Saturday 15th December 2018 1:54 pm
Ghosts of the past
A fiendish reminder that the past
is around and within us
A memory, a mood
a startled cry, a stifled laugh
worm their way into our weary hearts
and we fade into a history reborn
The ghosts dormant and still
awaken in that undefended moment.
Monday 10th December 2018 7:37 am
Naked
A child stands here naked before you
naive, untouched and unblemished
nothing has yet tarnished this vessel.
It feels the weight of humankind
on this mother earth
slicing her open to steal her core
the pillage of the landscape for selfish gain
thoughtless self-aggrandisement
mindless games with no regrets
the power whores who
rape and murder the innocent
who p...
Friday 7th December 2018 1:16 pm
No Silence
This deafening world
I feel the whole world chattering
Cannot break away
Sunday 2nd December 2018 10:59 am
Wanderings
You dropped from the heavens
my peripatetic friend
took me boldly by the hand
and led me round your
joyous garden
calling in along the way
to chat to friends, but not to stay
wandering on and on
wisdom is your guide
and peace your bride
I will join you on your journey
keep you company, if you like
we can part from each other's side
and any time meet up again
...Saturday 1st December 2018 8:17 pm
Adieu, but not forever
The wave on the stairs
was no final farewell,
but a resounding adieu
repeating we will meet again.
Glimpsing your fading eyes
a distance away now
still pronouncing their beautiful hue
and glistening under a single tear
mirroring the evening dew.
Friday 23rd November 2018 8:53 pm
Autumn leaves to be reborn
The fluttering of the autumnal flags
clinging onto the last hope
of the now distant summer
brittle and brown they hang on
for dear life to their arboreal home.
The bark, it protects and guards the
living trunk against the bite of the
Northerly wind while the leaves
they suffer stoically the chilly breeze.
One final breath, and they are pulled
from their earthly space
...Friday 16th November 2018 9:34 am
Words
Once upon a time
we stumbled on words
Creation, mutation,
incomplete, never ending
They trip off your tongue
get caught in your throat
Lost in your memory
then, rekindled again.
Words full of colour
and monochrome, too
Words fill your belly
and empty your heart
Words knock you dead
make you feel alive
Raise you to the sta...
Friday 9th November 2018 10:05 am
Embrace
Behold the outings of emotions
effusive chatterings
the often spoken misgivings,
disagreements and growlings.
Toddlers' tantrums tripping
so swiftly off the tongue.
Displays of love and affection,
sullen man walks a distance
behind wife and progeny
hands in pockets,
boredom in neon lights shines
all too brightly from his face.
Parents hanging onto their kids,
...Sunday 4th November 2018 3:56 pm
Longing
Longing for the touch of a soft hand
Lips brought together
to seal the one kiss to end all kisses
Craving the taste and smell of female arousal
The sensuous beauty of passion
Making the mundane a forgotten memory
and the banal a distant ghost
Moments to savour,
to place in a cherished corner of the mind.
Friday 2nd November 2018 10:19 pm
Time to party
Time is gearing itself up
for the start of the party
Tick tock tick tock
The second hand making
its way impatiently
around the face
counting down until the
festivities begin
little time to waste
the minute hand has
more haste and less speed
steadily moving round
reveling in the moments
taking each one in
without a single sound
then t...
Thursday 25th October 2018 4:37 pm
My mother appeared to me today
I saw your face today
as I stared in the mirror
It was not before me
but right inside my head
Not me looking at myself
but you holding me in your gaze
The form was clear and true
You were alive to me
Your face filled mine
I became you
for a few moments
felt your mind in mine
the fear of your thoughts
and the power of your emotions
I know not why you
app...
Saturday 20th October 2018 7:11 pm
The Rat
I saw a rat in front of me
it seemed quite tame and shy
I bent right down to pick it up
and it spat straight in my eye
I cried out "how could you, sir?"
I sure had quite the hump
Then, at once I realised
it was Donald Trump!
Wednesday 17th October 2018 7:16 am
The day it rained
I looked up your number
Oh yes, I remember now
it was a dark day last summer
when the sun refused to shine
and our love dined on
heartache and wine.
The rain it fell
it seemed for an age
mirroring our fears,
while our eyes fell
upon an empty gaze.
Tied up in knots,
our words became
entangled like
barbed wire
in no man's land.
We dried up and
went ...
Friday 12th October 2018 8:11 pm
My mind is my prison, but I hold the key
My mind is my prison
when it should be my home
where I sit in front
of an open fire and
keep myself snug and warm.
Instead my prison guards
are my thoughts and
situations my bars,
together they keep me
in solitary confinement,
but I am always keeping
a close watch on my sentries
as they make their regular patrol
and I begin to see a pattern
to their s...
Thursday 11th October 2018 7:13 am
Peace, love and understanding have left the building
Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen
They’ve really enjoyed playing here over the years
It has been a wonderful experience for one and all
but now it is my sad duty to announce that
peace, love and understanding have left the building.
Peace, she left by the back door
Her sullen face only lightened by the thought
that it cannot always be this way
Wandering around...
Thursday 4th October 2018 8:27 pm
Summer calm
The Autumn chill blows between
the seasons hardened trees
The leaves may turn
a beautiful shade of gold
but my hue will always
be a summer's green
only to be seen when the sun
hangs high in the sky
and the clouds are
nowhere to be seen
I lie down on the fresh
verdant pasture
waiting for a soft breeze
to fan my sun blushed cheeks
and the soft wings of
a ...
Monday 1st October 2018 8:17 pm
Multicoloured Dreamscape
From a grey world into a kaleidoscopic dream
Twisting and turning watching the colours fly
fusing into a radiant scheme where nature
abounds with hues of indelible vigour and life
Mother of all mothers withstands each test
bouncing back time and time again
evermore beautiful and bountiful
stronger than the plough pulling ox
tougher than the hardest diamond
more radiant t...
Sunday 23rd September 2018 5:40 pm
Dumped on the street
At a glance a heap of rubbish
dumped in front of the house
detritus from indoors
strewn across the footpath
On closer look someone's life
their stuff moved out onto the street
destined for a refuse container
on grey, impersonal council land
A new owner with new stuff
will give the house new life
while the old life peters out
in socially isolated circumsta...
Monday 17th September 2018 8:12 pm
The future is waiting
You sit alone and talk
of nothing but the past
Is there anything that
will urge you to think
of things to come
or is your life
already at an end?
Defeated and distorted
your sole source of hope
your only child
She is not who you are
or should ever be.
Be the person you had hoped
when in youthful years.
He lies there dormant
deep inside you
waiti...
Thursday 13th September 2018 8:05 pm
Miles and John
John and Miles on the final tour
soaring like eagles in my ears
The wind breezes past my open face
And wafts the melody high up into the heavens
where it sounds out its angelic anthem
Broadcast to the entire globe
Marvelling in its musical wizardry
Triumphing in its tuneful finery.
Monday 10th September 2018 8:42 pm
A lazy Sunday
Caught up in the late summer sunshine
Swaying trees and light breeze
Almost silent, the whispering wind
is harmony to my spiritual rhythm,
A melody rising and falling in perfect tone
a softening of my thoughts
transporting me to that theta world
where relaxing images float
on waves of joy and pleasure.
Seizing every single moment
each one an enlightened condition,
...Monday 3rd September 2018 8:03 pm
Daybreak moments
The day is emerging from its nightly slumber
opening its sleep weary eyes to peak at the surroundings.
The human race joins in this rebirth
every day is a new fresh feast for the senses.
What wonders do I behold
while walking on the near empty street
the distant golden orb shining
its warming rays on my naked face
The strimmer-man at his task
cutting forth the ...
Wednesday 29th August 2018 2:41 pm
A flower in bloom
How tall you have grown
in such a short space of time,
the sun’s rays warmed your nascent leaves
and the cloud’s tears nourished
your newly sprouting roots
strengthening your place in the rich earth.
How you flourished spreading your
green flightless wings to the heavens
knowing that one day a beautiful bloom
would be your crowning glory.
Thursday 23rd August 2018 7:02 pm
Beautiful raindrops
Dropping silent raindrops into your hair
Watching them slowly roll down onto your face
while the sun adds its rainbow tint
to their beaded form.
Crying is my best answer to this beauty
Smiling is the response to my tears.
Monday 20th August 2018 6:27 pm
View from on High
I stare out onto the rugged hills
dappled with rays of the sun
glancing its temperate eye around
the woolly welcoming clouds,
holding the earth in its warm glare,
animating those beautiful pikes.
The flora finds its daybreak smile,
the creatures open their slumbered eyes.
Observing the shadow movement
traversing the upland scene,
from a bird’s eye view
the alt...
Monday 13th August 2018 8:45 pm
Tyranny digs its own grave
I met a tyrant going to the fair
I enquired may I taste your ware?
The answer I received took me little by surprise:
“You wear my colours, but cannot hide
your true hues that you keep inside
so I will throw you in jail
and lose the key.
While you scream and wail
my laughter will be heard
around the land
while you rot in this hell
for ignoring my command.”
D...
Wednesday 8th August 2018 8:40 pm
Ellie
You had so much to give and so much going for you,
but a missed flight tipped you over the edge.
You didn’t want to let people down,
your mind fraught with guilt.
You took to the woods, and left this temporal plane.
We see a smile and a happy face,
but this is just the thin veneer
we choose to look upon
not the complicated self that lives within.
It is more difficul...
Friday 3rd August 2018 9:33 am
Charities and the church
Charities and the church
The two bodies we should most respect
Are only interested in reputation
Not in the people they should protect.
They hide and conceal
Crimes so heinous we all deplore
Women raped, children abused
Victims too scared to report to the law.
I hold my head and weep a river
For humanity and its darkest shame
How can we stoop so low
In re...
Tuesday 31st July 2018 8:49 am
Education 'Wild West'
When did learning become a contest
Schools become a fighting ground
Where those that don't fit in
Are no longer to be found?
Excluded and forgotten children
Left in their bedroom corner curled
Tired and frightened and angry
In our ever more competitive world.
Our sense of 'moral accountability'
Has been thrown out with the bath water
Tossed into another huge...
Wednesday 25th July 2018 8:44 pm
The human race
The world has become more fluid.
So many sources flowing out at the top of each mountain
Streaming down the gullies,
babbling brook,
to scuttling stream,
to rambling river,
out onto the delta,
Into the ocean.
Everything mixed and turned,
rolled and crushed
Whirlpool and flood,
tsunami and tidal.
It all takes place on this earth
and we all learn to live it, t...
Saturday 21st July 2018 8:38 pm
Would or wouldn't?
Would or wouldn’t,
what does it matter when you are
President of the United States of America?
My god, what a farce of wordplay
or is farcical per se?
Tuesday 17th July 2018 8:37 pm
Ghostly Way
My father and mother in front, us boys behind.
It was the most wonderfully frightening experience for us back then.
When asked it was always the way we wanted to go.
Not the usual way down the brightly lit carriageway, but
through the village then, a turn to the right
down the 'ghosty' way on our way back home.
Dimming the car lights
The horror show could begin.
The white blanketed road...
Monday 16th July 2018 9:25 am
'My' lavender
I am looking at you in my tiny back garden, planted when I first arrived at this place I now call home.
The sight of the worker bees filling their honey stomach from your bountiful blooms fills me with joy.
Your beautiful hue brightens the dreariest of days, and adds to the beauty of the sunniest moments.
The smell of your flower carries me to gentler, more peaceful planes where my mind c...
Sunday 8th July 2018 11:06 am
So inattentive and so frail
We are so very frail, the skin we’re in,
listening to our bodies is something we do very poorly
trudging on when we should be
holding back or stopping completely.
Suddenly it hits us
the unforgiving wall of mental illness
or the crippling pain of physical struggle
Only then do we stop and open our eyes
to the mess we’re in.
If only we were even every so often conscious
of our mental ...
Wednesday 4th July 2018 7:28 am
Hold on tight, it’s a rocky ride
All aboard the rollercoaster
strap yourselves in and begin the ride.
Hold firm and think of those,
who try to listen and speak
without prejudice.
It is something of which they can be proud.
They do not hide behind a fake smile
or an ignorant grin
but are open, honest and vulnerable, too.
Attempting to ward off the shallow words
flung back at them in a attempt
to curtail and sile...
Friday 29th June 2018 9:15 pm
I know
I know the wind rustles through the leaves and no trace is left of its passing.
I know that the clear blue sky shall bring forth warmth from out of the bright orange star far distant in space.
I know that the sea will break its waves on the shore and then retreat to return once more.
I know that the rain will feed my garden after a long dry spell.
I know the snow will glide softly down...
Monday 25th June 2018 7:16 pm
Fallen angel
Hidden behind the corpulent clouds
sat all forlorn a fallen angel
Tears in her eyes, and a heavy heart
she stared down to the sphere below.
"I have hurt the ones I love.
Let me be cast down to hell
where I am best suited for dying
and the dead"
Poking her head up from behind her misery
she gazed on this shadowed vision.
Reflecting on piercing her thoughts
with a sharp wit and laden ...
Sunday 24th June 2018 12:15 pm
Down, but not out
My heart remains broken
but my blood still streams
around my body.
My mind still mourns
but my thoughts continue
to create dreams.
My skin no longer feels your touch
but the impressions
still remain.
My emotions are torn
but the desire
still survives.
Saturday 23rd June 2018 10:39 am
An empty house, a full life
Standing outside her house
staring at the water-starved fuchsia
on her dusty window sill
still clinging onto life with blood-coloured blooms
Until a few weeks ago
she lived here
surrounded by her few possessions
haunted by the memories
of her children
who no longer inhabit this earth.
Her body is frail
and she can no longer live here
My sadness as I look upon her life
is compou...
Friday 15th June 2018 8:51 am
Product fury
We associate ideals and dreams
with lifeless products.
Our goals are no longer pure,
but riddled with polluting profit
The neon signs poison our vision.
Remove them from our sight
and give us a free landscape,
not one created for corporate gain.
What do we hold dear anymore?
A close look at our inner selves
or a short glance
at the external ephem...
Monday 11th June 2018 8:39 pm
Fear and Wonder
The headlights from the oncoming vehicle
held the stunned animals in their grasp
The beams like a claw clasping around its prey
An unholy ray screaming silently into the night
Distant, but penetrating.
Approaching still closer,
terror in their hearts,
the vehicle turned off the road
And transformed into a rainbow
Dazzling colours and many forms.
Behold a crystal,
the prism of light br...
Tuesday 5th June 2018 8:59 pm
Life
I crave the warmth of sun rays
On my pink uncovered skin
I despair over the loss of someone dear
Forever vanished from my sight
I wear the sadness of regret
When reminiscing
I embrace the happiness of love
When it is in full bloom
I reject a longing for things
I do not have
I feel the erotic pain of a lover's bite
During a passion filled moment
I dream of voyage...
Sunday 3rd June 2018 12:27 pm
A chance meeting
A serendipitous moment
So wonderful in its fortune
A wealth of wonderful adventures
was laid before us.
A path that was destined not to last
gave us truly happy times while we were walking it.
Wednesday 30th May 2018 4:21 pm
What are words worth?
I wandered lonely in a crowd
Brushing up against shoulders
Colliding with legs
but feeling distant and alone
hearing no words of apology
only mutterings of annoyance.
I wondered lonely in a crowd
do we notice each other
or are too caught up in ourselves?
Minds a tangled mess of thoughts
A maze leading to who knows where
Losing our way again and again.
Saturday 26th May 2018 11:47 am
Hold onto those thoughts
He gathered his thoughts in a plastic bag
to carry around with him,
to bring out when needed,
when he wanted to reuse them.
Tired and forgotten memories
that could be re-ignited,
and at any chosen time
to be used to tear down their target.
Their life in the airtight container
starved them of any air
thus, actually rendering them
ineffectual and for all intents
and purposes dead.
Thursday 24th May 2018 8:43 pm
Sorrow
Even the arborial space
Seemed to be sorrowful
in its vernal finery.
Hanging its many fingers
Low and deep ,
Bowing to an invisible god
whose anger and hate
never truly dissipate
but linger in the shadows
waiting to spring out
when least expected.
Wednesday 23rd May 2018 8:11 am
I lost you
I lost you today
I understand you, but then again I do not.
You led me back to a time last year
which I no longer remembered.
I made a mistake, which cannot be forgiven.
You hold these moments in your thoughts
thrashing around like a rollercoaster
until it derails and crashes head long into its target.
I know I am hesitant and full of doubt
but I had you fully in my heart.
If you we...
Monday 21st May 2018 10:08 pm
Once More
I had a second chance
and blew it
thinking I had learnt from
the first time
but there is still so much to learn
foolish hubris
before the fall
before the snake bites
Not daring anymore
Not caring anymore
Tired
No more fight
Scared
Taking flight
Too frightened to learn to fly again
it's killing me
it will kill me
Looking for that glance
that one look
that show of affe...
Saturday 19th May 2018 10:39 pm
In the Name of the Father
Preying on and crushing new life
with your supernatural talent
Sweet and comforting words
fill the air
for the unsuspecting
defiling the young
with your two thousand year old dick
they, who do not dare question your authority
too young, too innocent
taking advantage of the naive
in your nave
Your hell is too good for you.
Saturday 19th May 2018 10:37 pm
Stranger in me
Looked in the possessing mirror
Holding me fast in her grip
Not letting go even when I step away
Keep an eye on yourself
Spy on yourself
Introspective inspection
I saw the stranger in me
the foreigner in my family
the immigrant in my house
Was it me?
Was it you?
It was me
It was you
Another situation
Another time
Same reaction
Same action
Saturday 19th May 2018 10:34 pm
Woman in a Cafe
I watched you working
Treading carefully through
The forgotten orders
Excusing your colleague’s forgetfulness
You had a youthful beauty
But your eyes looked older
Than what your body gave away
Forgive me for writing this
But your smile seemed genuine
And that caught my eye
I liked that.
Saturday 19th May 2018 10:32 pm
Alien
Walking in and checking out
I am the alien
The legal alien
What is this mess I've walked into?
Get your head down
Dodge the verbal bullets flying my way
Ignore the negativity that hangs round the people's heads
Like a sickening halo cutting into their skulls
And drawing bloody thoughts out into the sleepy air.
They come and go as they please
I am u...
Saturday 19th May 2018 10:22 pm
Super Ball
I drop you from heaven
and you bounce back like a super ball
that I remember from my youth.
It always came back up
but each time with less height, like you
you seem to be landing further away
each time I think of you.
Please, use that spring in your mind
to come back to me.
I long for that smile
that glint in your eye
that laugh that I love so much.
Saturday 19th May 2018 10:19 pm
Twilight
I survey the beauty of the lake
in the Spring evening sunshine.
In a far-off corner the rippling
of the water reveals a silent breeze,
while the liquid surface before me
retains its silent harmony.
The bursts of bird song
fill the twilight space,
while in the distance
a goose lets out its harsh cry,
and the call of the grebe,
and the silence of the swan
fill the half-light.
Monday 14th May 2018 11:01 am
The Quick and the Dead
I watched the shit dripping from the walls,
I watched the piss rolling down the windows,
The stench overwhelmed me
and I fell into a state of unconsciousness.
A nightmare emerged of tortured souls in crimson coffins
Turning in their graves to avoid the violence of the living.
Crippled corpses shielding their eyes from the hellish sight
of the quick ridiculing and repulsing the quick.
Monday 14th May 2018 10:23 am
Witness
Hold on a minute!!
Stop to think twice about what you are going to do.
or even three, four times.
It isn't as simple as that.
There is more to be considered that just the first witness.
Even the primary can de mistaken
the secondary even more
the hearsay trusted even less
the 'too hasty' should be checked
be careful of the 'not taking care'
Wednesday 2nd May 2018 4:17 pm
Winter turns to Spring
I recalled a dream
When winter's steely claw
clasped around my form
and vice-like held me.
Calmly stifling me of my senses,
numbing me of any feeling,
cramping and stamping out life.
It was a moment frozen in time.
Then I was awoken by a sound unheard.
A thawing feeling travelled first
from my inner being to the outer extremities.
A warmth began to flow through my limbs.
A glow app...
Tuesday 1st May 2018 5:22 pm
Signs of change
The times may change
Certainty may become uncertainty
The intended may become the unintended
Your beauty always remains.
The times may change
Invention may become folly
The creator may become the destroyer.
Your beauty always remains.
The times may change
Healing may become the disease
The gift may become the poison
Your beauty always remains.
Friday 27th April 2018 6:48 pm
Ageless love
The old man left everything to her
A full share of emotions felt
Their love had flourished over the years
Blossoming and blooming
Faithful and giving through time
They had met when only a youthful seventeen
Love had flown down and settled on their hearts
Never more to ruffle a feather in flight
But to remain nestled there
Safe in the knowledge that it was safe, sec...
Monday 23rd April 2018 10:34 pm
Pleasure
I look on as your clothes slowly glide to the floor.
The tempatation is strong to tightly hold you,
but I want to caress and stroke you
lightly and softly until you melt under my fingers.
A gentle touch around your soft firm breasts.
My mind becomes a peaceful haven
where only thoughts of affection reside.
My tongue slides gently around you hardened nipple
and I hear a soft groan.
...
Sunday 22nd April 2018 8:11 pm
Good night, my love
She is lovely to me.
I come up short each time we meet.
Our relations in love cut into my raw emotions.
Dear lady of my dreams
Only stay if you want to
Read me, and give your interpretation
Intimate and wild
Empathic and remote
Never forget me, nor I you.
Good night, my love
Saturday 21st April 2018 8:29 pm
Renewal
I am unsure of who I am
I no longer know what I mean to myself
.........and others.
I am thrust into the unknown
I feel alone and uncertain.
There is always more for me to learn
I have learnt so much
But actually so little.
The emotions I feel
Are old but I am sensing them in a new form.
A refreshing but frightening way.
Holding onto nothing
I am walking a tightrope
Clinging on ...
Saturday 21st April 2018 7:54 pm
Invading my personality
Where have all the boundaries gone?
I cannot differentiate between my life
And that of others.
Permanently entwined
Virtual, programmed and real.
Which one is me?
Keeping me apart from the rest
Has become an impossible task.
We melt into each others' worlds
And can no longer emerge
With our personality intact.
Dragged into a virtual world
Our lives sucked dry
Until we homogenise.
...
Saturday 21st April 2018 9:46 am
Dining on knowledge
I dined on a feast of knowledge.
For the first course i took everything
That was fed to me.
For the second course i chewed over
What had been digested.
For the third course i mulled over
What was important in my life.
For the fourth course
I reflected and felt replete.
For dessert, I left that on the plate
Until i could decide on the next course.
Tuesday 10th April 2018 3:03 pm
Past, Present and Future
Haunted by ghosts from a distant past of mine
that remain hidden from my memory
but lie embedded somewhere in that cerebral mass.
Thinking of a present fraught with dilemma
residing at the forefront of my brain
Fermenting both fear and worry, and causing distress.
Dreaming of a future full of brightness
Floating above my corporeal form
Building and creating a beau...
Monday 9th April 2018 7:57 pm
Standing on the doorstep
Standing on your doorstep
Waiting for you to invite me in
My heart full of fear and self-loathing
my confidence wafer thin
Crying out to hear your answer
Nothing eases the pain I feel
This emptiness and self-denial
Leaves me close to a complete reveal
On the point of no return
A cry for help and a scream of pain
the dread and torment roam free
while sitting in this pouring refrain
Thursday 5th April 2018 11:46 pm
It's just not cricket
Did we ever believe in the untarnished ambition
to run, bowl and throw to the best of our natural ability?
Or has the falsehood always been hidden from us
by those 'dedicated' individuals, who appear on
our sports fields, and on our television screens?
Our faith has been ripped apart so many times over recent years.
Our sportsmen and women, who create the illusion
of greatness and triumph
...
Wednesday 4th April 2018 12:36 pm
Going through the emotions
Obscurity through anonymity
Animosity through sensitivity
Fragility through uncertainty
Jealousy through arrogance
Wednesday 4th April 2018 12:07 pm
Can't sleep
Fighting this beast of sad mediocrity
Gouging its eyes out to kill its soul
Body racked with tempestuous anxiety
Cannot sleep
Pain of living
Nothing but void
A vacuum where nothing grows
An empty space full of ideas going nowhere.
Wednesday 4th April 2018 12:03 pm
Grey day
It was a grey day
Nothing was really happening
Jazz filling my ears
And the sight of the pouring rain
Through the misted up window
Outside was staring back at me
Who are you?
What are you doing sitting there?
I can see the misted up windows of your mind from here.
Do you need some assistance?
Some kind of help?
No thanks, I replied
It wil...
Wednesday 4th April 2018 12:02 pm
Terrible words
Grasping, clawing at words
Still fresh from the lips
of tyrannical types you would not trust
With your smallest, least intimate possession.
Tearing at these letters
Trying to rearrange them
Into something more distinguished
More befitting humanity
But there are too many
to handle and they
continue their terrible tirade.
Wednesday 4th April 2018 12:01 pm
Rose in a vase
I saw a rose
In a small glass vase
It looked so fragile and helpless
But yet beautiful and sublime.
Could I touch its petals
Without causing the harm
that would damage
this wonderful thing?
Could I breathe onto
its fine leaves
And leave no sign of human interference?
Let it live on in its own peace?
My lovely lonesome rose
Do not ...
Wednesday 4th April 2018 11:59 am
Fear and Worry
You want to let it go
then let her go
she has her life
and it is quite clearly without you
...........for the time being
Are you frightened of becoming
like your mother?
Hated by the daughter?
Never speaking or giving her the time of day?
Then, I wish you well my dear
Fear is your teacher
and worry your god
I fear for you
and worry for your future
as you do not yet know
what i...
Saturday 24th March 2018 9:44 pm
Flower of Love
Half a flower
is more beautiful than none at all
An incomplete bloom
stil leaves room for
more heart and love
A dormant bud can lead
to a fulfilled dream
A single petal still smells
just as lovely as the whole flower of love
An island is still connected by the ocean floor
to the rest of the world
It is joined to the heavens
by the air in between
The rocks and stones
and grass and ...
Saturday 24th March 2018 9:41 pm
Abyss
I could not do everything I wanted to do
so, I laughed it off and cut my throat
to descend into a bloody abyss
where my mind could open up wide
and swallow everything whole
doubting everything
questioning everything
criticising everything
until my mind had had its fill
and I rose back up from the abyss
and into the light
my throat still cut
but my life intact.
Saturday 24th March 2018 9:39 pm
Day Breaks
Hold on a minute
Said the secondhand
The hour is almost up
Said the minutehand
Day breaks
Said the sun solemnly
Another broken moment
for us to try and mend.
Saturday 24th March 2018 9:30 pm
Back to Nature
Nature, she called to me
Come lie down by my side
Whispering softly and soothingly under
her cool breeze breath
Hesitantly stumbling through my thoughts
Not wanting to give in too quickly to this request
I crawled around the bloody earth for what seemed like an age
Crumbling at times
Standing tall then crashing down
It is time
I will lie down with you now.
Friday 23rd March 2018 8:42 pm
Detached memories
Scraping the bottom of the barrel
I found fragments of a past life
Remained forgotten for long years
Cast along the wayside
Of memory's lane.
Branches of a time displaced.
Misplaced and left to fade away
Vague memories of my past
Or of a past that is now detached
From my spirit.
Did I really live that life?
Or are these souvenirs from a past not m...
Friday 23rd March 2018 8:37 pm
Lobotomise
Tight, you motherfucker.
Too tight and the clouds float nonchalantly by
as the pistol fires its deadly cargo into the skull of an innocent
Did Herod have it right when he killed those babies?
Stop the christ before the antedote to anarchy and atheism is allowed to spread his sickening word around this global hell.
Manufactured belief system.
Fucked up frontal lobotomy
needed at once...
Friday 2nd March 2018 6:44 pm
Keeping hope
Do we search for closeness with a pure heart
or do we always have intentions that are hidden from other's view
Our past weighs heavily on us and delivers a blow when we least expect.
What lies within our bones? Does this trouble and perturb us?
Could our hearts be bleeding or is it just plain beating?
Is our spleen venting the anger of our past or our present?
Is the future driving us to out...
Friday 2nd March 2018 5:52 pm
You
I stopped to blink
And saw your beautiful face
There in the rainbow
Holding the light at bay
Creating a startling array of colours
That could only have been seen
At the dawn of the universe.
You moved to deflect the reflection
And caught a ray of sunshine
In your smile
I could only look on and wonder
At this sight of an angel.
Monday 26th February 2018 4:26 pm
Angels and Monsters
I crept out the back door
to hide from the horror
of what stood before me
too afraid to watch it anymore
People dying all around me
Tears in my tired eyes
Weary of listening to
the same old story every time
being told to the next generation,
to learn and unlearn in one blink
of the eye
Creeping out of the light
and into the darkness of anonymity
Stepping into the obscurity
of the m...
Monday 26th February 2018 4:20 pm
Autumn leaves through the front door
Autumn leaves through the front door.
The frightened leaves of the cherry trees
Flee with the aid of the wintery breeze
Get caught up in the metal frame
Of the iron gate that stands tight shut.
Their autumnal hues and end of the year
Brittleness complete the picture
Of the end of one season
but also the beginning of
a time of renaissance.
Monday 26th February 2018 3:13 pm
Recent Comments
Bethany Sallis on Final visit? ( fictional )
3 minutes ago
M.C. Newberry on Bungalow Dreaming
7 minutes ago
M.C. Newberry on Final visit? ( fictional )
20 minutes ago
M.C. Newberry on Draft Dodger
34 minutes ago
Landi Cruz on Love Song
42 minutes ago
Graham Sherwood on
1 hour ago
Reggie's Ghost on Draft Dodger
2 hours ago
David RL Moore on Draft Dodger
2 hours ago
Graham Sherwood on Draft Dodger
4 hours ago
Tom Doolan on I Remember Joy
6 hours ago