The best I never had
In a world of tv clichés
I thought our series would be timeless,
that it would survive the seasons.
I laugh as I remember
How I Met Your Mother.
Confused on an interstate car park,
cellphones and calamity.
Only to feel underwhelmed.
You said “it's not just the jetlag”,
I said “how can anyone fall in love with a zombie?”
eating hearts fo...
Sunday 11th December 2011 8:27 pm
Finding the Beauty in Christmas
Mistletoe by candlelight,
love lined Christmas markets,
shopping centres full of happy couples.
Let them have what I do not,
it is theirs.
But what is mine?
My Christmas must come early
if I am to maintain the mirage of the miracle.
I'll line the markets with an illuminating
indigo light
and bathe in the dreams
that will...
Sunday 11th December 2011 8:24 pm
Home
They say home is where the heart is
and my heart is where the art lives.
So where is my home?
Art lives within us all
and begins an internal/external exchange...
a process
like humanity to trees.
We stop, relax, breathe
as one.
So where is my home?
First Contact was my spiritual home
gave meat and marrow to
broken sp...
Tuesday 8th November 2011 11:33 pm
What is this you call victory?
What happens when a triumph
doesn't ring like titanic trumpets?
Hopes remain Titanic,
exceptional, erroneously erred
and sinking with realisation.
I decapitated depression, deep
...Tuesday 8th November 2011 11:25 pm
Beholder's Eyes
Take a look into my eyes,
And maybe we will find
that between you and me
It's the way that love should be.
She told me I had beautiful eyes
her heart said friends
and her mouth did too...
and my mind's confused now I'm not with you.
See I can be the best friend that I have been for years
or I can be the guy that can hold you near.
But I can't be this.
You s...
Saturday 15th October 2011 11:50 pm
White Band
I wear it on my arm as a symbol of our love,
I admired it and you gave away a part of you to me.
Your style, your flair, your elegance
bounces against veins pumping blood to my metaphorical heart, always.
A symbol of healing, of patching things up...
a bandaid of the heart, the soul...
...of us.
I will be your white band,
I will soak away all that pain, that hurt, t...
Saturday 15th October 2011 11:47 pm
Battle of Demon's Run
emons run
and heroes fight.
Doctor Doctor,
Red Bull and happy pills...
yet still no wings to take flight.
I'm in a state of spiritual paralysis
dripping out fears in emotional dialysis.
Demons run
and heroes fight.
Take it back to the start as you tear me apart
memories piercing the fabric of my existence.
Demons run
...
Saturday 15th October 2011 11:45 pm
Pretty Homeless
Pretty homeless.
Her caramel complexion told not the stories she did not tell,
Nor did I ask.
No bucked teeth,
No smack-banged jitters
mixed with incoherent stutters...
but beauty in the most surprising of places.
Piccadilly Gardens on a sunny Mancunian afternoon
the busy city stands in shock
at the thought that anything can happen.
Without the badge such beauty...
Saturday 15th October 2011 11:43 pm
I See You
I see you
with sensual sense
like the Na'vi.
Hungry for your love
yet I let your absence starve me.
Living on the spiritual sustenance of memory,
Sliced on loose lips
drunk on truth and Hennesy.
I see you
as I raise a glass to the departed...
to my departure from your life.
How can I tell my lover I'll literally travel oceans to be at her bedside
when I...
Saturday 15th October 2011 11:41 pm
A Lovely Nightmare
Memories still haunt you in dreams
the worst ones aren't violent nor perverse.
The worst dreams are the ones you wish came true
they haunt you with De Ja Vu
subconscious samurai,
donning swords and Fu Manchu.
Kreuger retreated, he knew he met his match
because love is the most infectious illness one can catch.
It starts with a thought, a flicker, a ...
Thursday 4th August 2011 6:34 pm
Upward Soul/Downward System
You can try to fight me,
But you won't beat me,
I speak my truth openly,
Never discretely.
OpenMind
OpenHeart,
OpenSoul.
OpenYourEyes,
Regain control.
I will stand,
I won't fall.
For I can't take another day
against the wall.
And in my heart,
...Friday 15th July 2011 7:14 pm
Heart Canvass
Silly scribbles...
Ah, but when celebs rape trees
and The Sun has page three
your futility has meaning.
You played dot to dot with my heart
before we even knew the full picture.
We were children then
and now we stand – as adults – amazed.
Drawing on the canvass we've created
my palate is wet with streaming dreams...
trickling into cons...
Tuesday 21st June 2011 9:14 pm
The Spectrum
I used to say I was Labour, better red than blue
Indigo thought shades of purple wouldn't do.
Then my youthful naivety died
as I realised they closed a door
on prosperity – exit clause four.
I toyed with the Tories to piss off my mum,
until I lost my money:
to them I was scum.
Stuck in a hostel
since
my blood mum was a crazy junkie,
...
Friday 10th June 2011 12:13 am
Nutty Squirrel
This squirrel is crunchy nuts
like Kellogs.
He's oats so crazy.
He makes Hammy look
placid, docile.
And with a cheeky smile
wrecks havoc on Hampshire.
It'll take more than a New Forest
to stop this rabid squirrel.
He subjugates snails
and bullies badgers.
Bonkers, he th...
Tuesday 7th June 2011 11:20 pm
Funny Onion
This onion could make any
man, woman or child cry...
but not with malcontent maliciousness.
No, tears of joy and laughter
bellow like church bells or sumo gongs
from the eyes of his audience.
He is without arms or legs,
he's carried on stage
whilst carrying the audience
on his shoulders... if he had any.
...Tuesday 7th June 2011 11:16 pm
Bisexual Poem
If I said I only had eyes for you
I'd be lying, lustfully leering.
But my hands are for you alone,
To hold, hug & protect.
If I said I only had eyes for you,
I wouldn't be bisexual.
But all possibilities end with you
and me.
If I said I only had eyes for you,
I'd be losing the point of this.
Our souls are an amulet
we both hold half of.
...
Tuesday 7th June 2011 11:11 pm
Mendres Monologue
I'm playing Mendres, the identity of the devil and lead antagonist in an upcoming British film called Dark Domain.
I wrote this piece as a spoken word/metal fusion piece for the project.
_____________
Some say the pen is mightier than the sword,
But they all fear the might of my demonic horde.
I'm Mendres, I'm the devil incarnate,
I use the Dark Domain and I seal y...
Monday 25th April 2011 2:02 pm
Make love, not religion
Here is a piece I've just finished for my introduction of "The Ascension" Alex Shane working alongside The Agenda vs The Resistance storyline that is currently dominating FWA.
...
Saturday 9th April 2011 10:00 pm
Socialism in my heart
So many fractured interests
outnumbering the capitalists
yet not united in their common goal:
A Socialist nation.
How can Socialism sit in government
when it does not sit in one's heart?
Just their mouths, not even their minds
just ask celebrity-Socialist Galloway.
We create a collective community
...
Saturday 9th April 2011 9:58 pm
When pyramids fall
I've been working on performance pieces to introduce some of our artists at key points during the evening of OpenMind Anticx Ascension: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=197652980257702
Here is a piece I've just finished for my introduction of "The Ascension" Alex Shane working alongside The Agenda vs The Resistance storyline that is currently dominating FWA.
...
Saturday 9th April 2011 9:57 pm
Race for freedom
Rome waits in apprehension,
As it's leader awaits a trial for his perverse intentions.
I sit & wait, hating the spag bollocks
injustice of justice.
Ireland's no better,
They instead fiddle accounts.
Universally, serpents spit poisonous proclamations
then declare such debts sovereign.
Only for so long can the people accept
"the way of the world"
before becoming it's cha...
Saturday 5th March 2011 3:03 pm
Fight for life
Humanity fears what it does not know,
But does not know what it should fear.
In descending from humanity in a powerful way,
the fallacy of an uncivilized civilization is revealed
and
the door to true humanity unlocked.
Lock the door to past then throw away the key.
Time to realize true humanity.
If we're made in God's image:
Create or destroy?
Or nurture with love
as li...
Saturday 5th March 2011 3:01 pm
Something to believe in
When you love someone you hurt when they hurt.
Their pain becomes a celestial embrace
fusing a broken heart with a united soul.
Some guy got pissed, but I don't buy it,
As I don't see how she could try it.
See if a girl cries rape, vultures say it's easy,
But guys can just say no freely.
Addictive infliction of pain makes for fragile hearts.
He could have said no,
you wo...
Saturday 5th March 2011 3:00 pm
Thou art pissed off!
Here's a new piece that I performed on Wednesday at Queer Contact's Outspoken and shall perform again in 3 days time at OpenMind Valentine's Special.
We ARE the art,
So believe me WE can make it.
The suits showing concern,
Like hookers they fake it.
It's not just the Fritzel's, R. Kelly's and the Glitter's,
The Top Cat...
Friday 11th February 2011 8:27 pm
OpenMind Valentine's Special Update/Radio's Monologue/Mobile's Monologue
Here is a two-part blog consisting of two poetic monologues which when heard in sucession create a dialogue. I shall be performing these at OpenMind Valentine's Special at Earth Cafe, 16 - 20 Turner Street, Manchester, England, M4 1DZ on Valentine's Day. There are still 8 performance slots left in the OpenSpace.
I remember a time
When songs were sung through me,
No...
Thursday 3rd February 2011 4:32 pm
OpenMind Valentine's Day Poetry Slots available
We've now opened up the OpenSpace at our OpenMind events for up to date news and information please visit: http://www.facebook.com/pages/OpenMind/140135849364508
The Facebook event page is here: http://http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=164226033624311
After our headliner and special guests we have 2 hours to fill with OpenSpace slots so if you'd like to read at a poetry...
Tuesday 18th January 2011 12:45 am
Bright Lights Off
Actress aboard a cruise ship,
Bright lights distant
Calling on false sun-Gods
Descending towards a light house.
Every once in awhile she stops... waits...
Feeling the earth yet floating on water
Graciously grateful for a fisherman's miracle.
Her honey sweet smile shines like sun in the horizon.
Islands pray for her to be deserted there,
Ja...
Monday 17th January 2011 12:06 am
Broken Bridges
That age old proverb
“it's water under the bridge”.
Simon and Garfunkel
obviously didn't know real trouble.
Pop trouble, soap trouble, celebrity trouble.
Here today, gone tomorrow.
Pick your cliché like wilted flowers
and rot in self-serving decadence.
Real people try to build real bridges
but when it gets too real
streams become river...
Monday 17th January 2011 12:05 am
The Death of War
It's not just war.
Theory and application
both reach the same
agonizing conclusion.
Free ourselves from the shackles of bondage,
of servitude, of mental slavery.
Fight for liberation without war's wreckage
instead know only awakening.
If an ideology exists so can it's application,
So I bid a not so fond farewell
to 'lest we forget'.
...
Sunday 2nd January 2011 8:30 pm
High Society
High society,
Smokes like a chimney.
A chimney?
Functionality devoid like their aristocratic embodiment
of ideas past, struggles forgotten.
Swap high society
for enlightened, united community.
Let's all take a collective toke
of the bong
of civilisation.
Greener than the scales
tilted against humanity
in David Icke's mind.
...
Sunday 2nd January 2011 8:28 pm
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