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Combustion & Creation (portrait of a paranoid artist, smoking)
midnight disease :: a journey with hypergraphia
life arrived with a birthmark
burnt by the touch of a daemon shaped flame
leading the artist down a lifelong maze
only guided by the scorching Promethean torch
along the anointed namesake road
which delves into & through shadows
to dwell in that ethereal realm
vaporous as floating smoke from the cigarette tip
blown in a cloud be...
Monday 13th March 2023 4:13 pm
Ekphrastic Visions - February 2019 Collage Poem
Helix barriers all over the world
Riddles flow through digital death traps
What is a man now with no cheap cigars
A mad dead love of afterthoughts gone
Mad Tony's hologram cycles around the
Lanes of South Wales as Alexa
Shouts "Give us 20 pence!"
Ooh! I can see Winnie the Pooh
In The wardrobe!
The candle, the book, and the wardrobe;
Wet washing and dag...
Monday 11th February 2019 11:06 pm
Fake ID
D’you really think I’m gonna serve you, kid?
That fake ID won’t do no good in here.
The Follies ain’t some dive run off the grid,
Where punks like you can go to blag some beer.
You can’t fool me, I’ve seen it all before;
I bet your mother doesn’t know you’re out,
And if we have to kick you out the door,
She’ll hear about it, and you’ll get a clout.
Yeah, just beca...
Thursday 22nd November 2018 1:45 pm
Sonnet on Death
This is an ekphrasis on L'Agonie by Felicien Rops.
Sonnet on Death
Demons clutch at your rib-cage ladder
Grasping the arteries, choking your veins
Your bones are now fragile and ready to shatter
Oh dear, you're looking quite pale.
Your bloodless skin is as thin as paper
With cavities where worms slither in.
A struggling heart still resisting the Taker
...Friday 25th January 2013 7:53 pm
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