When she pressed on her glasses and drew the words near Their shape and their meaning began to ring clear The humdrum around her then faded away And her mind drifted back to an earlier day Where raucous and ready with small expectations She grew where her people had raised generations Her youth and her…
Category: Poetry
and there it goes…
And there it goes now again, Trinkets and snippets, Whipped up in a windless whippet, Caught and carried through dreamless air To a foreign lair. And here I hold you tight again, As if today’s embrace could shorten Tomorrow’s distance and the odds of coming back, Where dark is dearly held and clearly black. And…
bump
Closer closer till you burn, Now there’s no room left to turn… All or nothing, in or out, We have no time to throw about. I guess I’ve been a stupid guy, To stop and wait and not to try. I know sometimes it makes me sigh, As life and fate go tumbling by.
cast/go
Cast it back, Cast it out, Freckled innocence, Blooming doubt… ********************************* The present is the presence of past. Wrap and preserve it since nothing will last? ******************************** If daily we have the same lessons, And become as the message itself Absorb and engage all the pith of the page, And freely grow fat from our…
Sky Blue
Sky blue, What will I do? Sky blue And what about you?
Umpilton
Dredge… Shred first, taste later The hard-won destruction fakes its toll Ledge… Bled first, healthy again, The softer climates rust the weakly postured The milk slips over the edge of the bowl Bits and bobs sieze up and collapse Litter the verges and byroads Where they fall like dew, or like rain, or like driven…
Thus ends…
Thus ends the age of exploration Now Rules of Grammar and stuffy constants constrain Fixed and steady, RIGID and arbitrary While whipped on a whippet of wind, Deserted, rejected, injected and binned, Age turns the skin inside out And indoors retreated, energy sapped by drought, Deflated, negated, A simple progression fated comes about, This mortal…
Turlough
Turlough Here comes the flood The beat of rain in the dark, Here comes the water, Streams of pain make their mark. A shoreline appears, From the stone come angry waves, A sinking in tears, Of moments that nobody saves The flotsam and leftovers, Of the lost and the gone, Are tearing at the souls…
Onfeedence
onfeedence Money in the meter, Honey in my head Money in the meter, Frozen in my bed Hardly in the moment Hurry, get ahead, but Barely any movement, Somewhere else instead. And oh the restless guests they are not feeling all the best They are rattling empty bottles and complaining of the low Now come…
traction fragments
Are you going in? traction fragments Good grip in these tires. Good shit, as far as it goes. But I cannot keep it lit. A cliche that won’t hurt a bit. Easy now, in it goes. A spot of blood on your clothes. No need to bother, It’ll sort itself out. Take care of no…