11am
the mother of a friend
will die at 11am today
of her own free will or
rather of a loss of will to live
in pain
she is serene
everything needed to be said
was
in the past few days
necessary arrangements were made
the near future is set
it is not my mother
not my end
but this cruel silence
we all share
Friday 12th January 2024 4:29 pm
11am
the mother of a friend
will die at 11am today
of her own free will or
rather of a loss of will to live
in pain
she is serene
evything needed to be said
was
in the past few days
necessary arrangements were made
the near future is set
it is not my mother
not my end
but this cruel silence
we all share
Friday 12th January 2024 4:29 pm
Deep diving
All I can hear
Is the shouting sea
Calling
Deep diving
The familiar, reassuring warmth of the near surface
The cooler layer
Fish and sea creatures
The pure and true silence
Cannot cheat, lie, hide
Reaching the deep dark place
So far down
You get to
Within
Monday 21st June 2021 7:56 pm
A question of time
The need for me to seek your time
To add to mine to multiply
The pebbles of shining instants
Laid down side by side
Carefree and careless of
The incoming tide
The need for me to waste your time
To be the void to vilify
This idea this chimera
That your fate is already
Waiting for you in
The next moment
The need for me to search for time
To quantif...
Wednesday 3rd June 2020 4:00 pm
Yearly Remembrance
Who dies on a Friday night?
Years ago now
The silly question lingers
A mantra
Not looking for an answer
Who dies on a Friday night?
A mantra
To scare away sadder thoughts
And complicated feelings and
Unfinished sentences
Who dies on a Friday night?
You did
Tuesday 31st March 2020 9:53 pm
Virus
Nothing has changed
Truly
Perhaps
The dreams of escapes smaller
The gaze fixed on a closer horizon
The circle of daily thoughts and walks
Narrowed down in rarefied air
Our common loneliness
More acute and visible
But
Nothing is changed
Truth is still truth
Life is dancing
As ever
On the head of a pin
Monday 30th March 2020 4:36 pm
Fading
The stories never told
dissipate
irretrievably swallowed
buried
out of sight
in the quicksand of memory
Take hold of my words
dangling on the hand
stretched out
So I can stay a little longer
Sunday 29th March 2020 3:21 pm
Right side up
We know each other
upside down
Every day we exchange
sun for moon
day for night
One awake
One asleep
keeping a careful eye
on our shared possessions
Geography suggests
a point of view
a direction
to our connection
...Friday 27th March 2020 8:32 pm
Nothing out of me
I am the bearer of silence
The tree that bears no fruit
The garden with no undergrowth
The desert with no illusory oasis
The shiny surface with no trace of true living
I am the great promised void
The proven emptiness
I live in the vast expanse of the unknown
I am the great toothless white shark
I am so close to greatness
I can taste it
Can’...
Wednesday 18th March 2020 12:35 am
Point of view
The river is mostly white
Clouds of ice drifting
Left to right
The sky is pure blue
River and sky
Have switched places
Where does the river go
At unhurried pace
Whilst the island and
I are standing still?
The river will always be
There
I will disappear (so will you, reader)
River and I
Have switched places
Both trying
...Thursday 26th December 2019 3:02 pm
Self discovery
I don’t know you well
Time is running out
On this dot between skies and hell
Anything else worth finding out?
I hear you sometimes write and spell
And shove it to the cloud
Is it to show or tell
Or to hear your voice out loud?
How can you keep so many secrets
When we share the same hideout
What about scares and regrets
Beneath the arrogant shouts?
...
Sunday 22nd December 2019 3:24 pm
The dead of life
The long flowing graceful stride
The sharp vivid memory
The naive youthful abandon
A young woman’s smile
Losing all my allies
In this wretched war
Nobody hears me
Shouting in the dead of life
Saturday 21st December 2019 9:08 pm
Winter in Florida
Leave the golf clubs behind
The morning power walk along the busy boulevard
The two to four at the beach (beer, nuts and cheap book)
The quiet evening at the gated community
Deep down you want
What we all want
A slice of Sicily
Sunday 15th December 2019 1:24 pm
Selves
Everyone is alone
But everyone is a crowd
The more lucid among us
Don’t mind telling
Who they hang out with
Tuesday 5th November 2019 12:25 pm
Sick day
Silently
The gray clouds moved in
All colours fainted away
Everything now black and white, no just black
I can’t breathe can’t think
Somehow can still grasp
The true meaning of misery
I can’t smell can’t feel
Somehow can still sense
The wind of despair
A man’s cold
Sunday 20th October 2019 3:49 pm
Park bench contemplation
There are all types
I thought
Canvassing the comings and goings
Of the disorganized crowd
From the park bench
The slow walkers looking straight forward
The effervescent teenagers
The dogs walking their masters
The deep thinkers looking straight downward
The oblivious young couples
The screaming toddlers
The bird watchers looking straight upward
The aged lon...
Saturday 19th October 2019 7:51 pm
War and peace
I don’t know
Which arrow of words and gestures
Will pierce through your armour
Move us to surrender
All is unfair in war
Of course
No shedding of blood here
Confrontation is an overstatement
Perhaps the odd flashes of
Aggression in the eyes
Mostly quiet tears
We both stand our ground
Waiting for the other to move
No hope of reinforcement in s...
Thursday 17th October 2019 7:27 pm
Reaching out
All the time spent
Nourishing the slow burning fire
The unending chatter
Within
Keeps you away
Existing only within the bodily frontiers
The mind as universe
A crowd of one
Next to you but
Alone
Too much to sort out
Inside
To venture out towards
The unexplored mystical landscape
That is you
I know you have the answers
And the r...
Wednesday 16th October 2019 11:45 pm
Deconstruction
I do not pretend
To comprehend
This complicated construct I
Landed upon
By the cynical miracle of birth
But I suppose
I surmise almost
There is even more to question
With what lies outside the frame
As with all good paintings
I hear you
Loud and clear
This incessant reconsideration
Deconstruction
Of social precepts
Is nothing but self...
Tuesday 15th October 2019 9:18 pm
No replay
Life is short
A one shot
Until shut
Love is life
No love is lost
But life is loss
Life is an angle
A tangle
With love intertwined
Life and love mangled
Life experience is of no use
A one time fuse
To amuse or to abuse
Until defused
Life is forced upon
A unique happenstance
A mysterious circumstance
An amazing maze
...
Sunday 13th October 2019 10:12 pm
Simple song
I am alone tonight
Sitting at the table
There is no light
Nor the end of a tunnel
You are here tonight
Sitting at the table
There is a ray of hope
Coming out of the rubble
We are here tonight
Sitting at the table
It is dark outside
A joy unfathomable
Friday 11th October 2019 8:39 pm
As far as the eyes can see
The days
Spent embracing the unknown skies
With a curious, youthful, confident gaze
Expecting more, ever more
From nature
And the unseen
Are long gone
The times now
Are not propitious for clear sight
The teary eyes struggle
Through the crowding haze
The expanse of the horizon narrows
The light dims
The other weakened senses take over
Frail
Fee...
Tuesday 24th September 2019 8:33 pm
The science of aging
Wrinkled clothes and wrinkled face
Sagging limbs and sagging mind
Sick friends bowled over
All strikes
No spares
Time pushes through the open door
The cosmic land of forgetfulness
Forgot the names
Forgot the dates
Forgot the words
Forget it
Losing all the wars
Gravitas to gravity
Wisdom to stupor
Elegance to deadpan
All dead end...
Thursday 19th September 2019 4:13 pm
There must be a way
Is there a way to be
The poison you turn to
Your best enemy
When demons hover around
Your burning flesh?
Is there a way to be
One of a thousand monks
Kneeling face down
Anonymous
On the cold, raw stones
Of your bodily temple?
Is there a way to be
A thorn in your side
To remind you of
The excruciating pain of
Not touching you?
There mus...
Sunday 28th July 2019 7:52 pm
Selfless selfie
We have it all wrong
Serial selfie abusers are among
The most selfless, the least egotistical
People we should strive to know
Really
This act
Repeated over and over (and over)
Of extending one’s arm
In the middle of, well, anywhere
Stopping time, and traffic and pedestrians
To share memorable pictures with, well, anyone
Of sunrises, sunsets, beaches,...
Saturday 15th June 2019 5:22 pm
Coming to terms
Sitting quietly on a seamless day
Contemplating the unsolvable riddle
Again
Searching for truth is out of the question
I am after
An agreement, a coming to terms
Considering…
Eternity is all time, so there is no time?
God is everywhere, so there is no God?
I ask
And everything else
Earthly possessions, love, friendship, happiness, desire, health, lif...
Wednesday 12th June 2019 3:34 pm
The dreaded train
Lying in bed
At night or in the morning
Looking up through the rectangular window
At blinking lights or fleeting white clouds
A perfect still life
First an underground murmur
The floor rattles, the window whistles
Then the roars, the thunderous cascades
Interrupted like clock work
clickety clickety clickety
Then the angry crescendo surely
Announces ominous dev...
Saturday 11th May 2019 4:11 pm
Remember
If I forget…
The slow blissful days filled
With miraculous nothings
Are with you
The light hand reaching out
To whisk me from the dark, cold places I sometimes live in
Is your hand
The names, the dates, the places, the faces
And finally, fatally,
You
Like my father before me
Please know
I am not me
And letting go
Is not treason
Wednesday 24th April 2019 10:12 pm
The burning of one's church
Churches have been burning everywhere
For various reasons since their creation
Some made of wood and stone
Most of beliefs and hopes
Each time the fire takes everything on its path
Leaving behind either ashes and water, or delusion and despair
In equal parts
Each time the scorching heat inside the soul
Unbearable
Now the cathedral is on fire
People congregate fro...
Wednesday 17th April 2019 7:41 pm
The possibility of a garden
Trying to access you through
Dishevelled words is
An hopelessly wandering venture
Your heart, mind and whole deserve
A flowery motif of
Delicately arranged, precious words
Exquisitely nuanced in pastel shades of tender feelings
But I keep ploughing through
Words smelling like dirt
Grey, sad and soggy
I keep digging ever deeper until
My hands, my head hur...
Monday 15th April 2019 4:48 pm
Let me tell you
Let me tell you
It’s not about seeking some undeniable existential truth
by scurrying through a life’s worth of pain and regrets and pain
Not about clinging to the shadow of an unlikely god (or not)
to justify the belief in a sliver of meaning
Not about the fear of technology terminating us or
augmenting our already overwhelming reality
Not about squeezing ...
Friday 12th April 2019 1:10 pm
Listen
Silence is officially dead
Total silence is nowhere to be found on this planet anymore
Not in the park, the woods, a lake, a mountain, the bottom of the sea
Not in a bottle, a church, a cave, the bottom of a pit
And certainly not in the long dark nights of our restless minds
We have chased away and killed silence
Loudly, excitedly, proudly, relentlessly
The...
Thursday 11th April 2019 3:54 pm
Correspondence
Lifeless, empty words
Thrown in haste
On cold-blooded paper
Feelings crossed out in shame
Sincerity submerged in ink
Furtive lies
Disheartening small talk
All over
I received your letter
Wednesday 10th April 2019 9:30 pm
Waste of time
Your stories are too long
I don’t have time to hear them
Don’t you know my days are numbered?
Your stories have too many unfinished
sentences crashing into each other until
they reach their unrevealing conclusions.
I can imagine perhaps your longing
to communicate in a flow of sounds whatever
is passing through your mind at the very instant
it is passing, so i...
Tuesday 9th April 2019 4:34 pm
Coming back
I am coming back to you For no good reason Eyes wide open, empty hands To kill time ...
Monday 8th April 2019 6:59 pm
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