A milkmaid's tale
I lived in this man-made mess
Entirely not of my own making
Men dined on my humility
Ate from my insecurity
Time was my enemy
My old name taunted me
Haunted and raped me
My dead child remained
Forever in my broken heart
A chain around my neck
I became forgotten
A gossamer ghost
Trembling from existence
Frightened by corporality
Wishing to be absent
To b...
Tuesday 27th September 2022 4:34 pm
Demolition
I don’t see any subtlety
No escape from bluntness
The time for diplomacy
Has been swallowed
By a time for profit
A willingness to destroy
No time for building
Only for destruction
Creation loses its place
To come in second
To demolition.
Saturday 30th July 2022 10:28 pm
Noah drowned
The warm soothing feeling
Of whisky laden blood
A numb fuzzy sentiment
Who bothers about the flood?
He drowned, you know
It was his fate
No saviour around
No-one at his gate
Waiting to wave a friendly hello
No-one as his cornerstone
Just the taste of vomit from below.
The warm soothing feeling
Of a laden missil...
Tuesday 23rd June 2020 9:13 am
Touch of a Butterfly
Sitting at the foot of the stairs
Captive of your thoughts
Prisoner of your emotions
I watch you from above
Your neck inclined
Untroubled by your hair
Free to share its beauty
To all alert enough to see
A kiss, a flutter of a slight wing
A modest light touch
Brings pure solace to your face
Your gaze searches and
...Tuesday 9th June 2020 6:28 pm
The Subject in the Picture
Golden was the frame
That surrounded you
A beautiful scene
Filled with a magnificent hue
- Nature's canvas.
Centrally seated you
Looked at the artist
And drove the object
Out of the imagery
Created an image
Of yourself
Fighting back
Alive with strength
You and you alone
Noone else can be you
He...
Monday 25th May 2020 9:29 am
Faces
The side of my face
Gave you a wide berth
And I dropped my gaze
To drop you down to earth
The smile on your face
Revealed you too easily,
my faith fell like a stone
and I stole away quickly.
The tears on her face
Gave way to waves of joy.
Dried up and withering
I became again a little boy
The grin on my face
Gave nothing away of the hidden,
...
Friday 15th May 2020 2:36 pm
When will this vicious circle die?
We stand and stare
Stare at those people
People who are different
Different to ourselves
Ourselves who are perfect
Perfect enough to stare
Stare at those people
People who are different
Different to ourselves
Ourselves who are perfect
Perfect enough to stare
Stare at those people............
Wednesday 13th May 2020 10:37 am
The time to feel alive
We drank to remember
We drank to forget
But most of all
We drank to feel alive
It was not at all a time
For lively celebration
But one for contemplation
Grinding out the days
To live through this occasion
Hiding behind our curtains
A peak at the world outside
Frightened and lonely
Wedded to the bride Isolation.
Friday 8th May 2020 10:15 am
Peace and Love
It's a sound you don't hear often
The whisper of peace and solace
A dream bound in resolution
And a warm consoling embrace.
It's a touch you don't feel often
The soft brush of a finger tip
A tactile motion full of desire
And a truly attentive lover's grip.
Monday 4th May 2020 8:08 am
Wishing well, living full
The hopes and desires of the wishing well
Bring forth from my longing eyes a watery droplet
That hangs for a moment and then slides gently down my cheek
Onto my lip awaiting the taste of the salty stream of my expectations
The flavour recalling a beautiful seaside scene, youth in its element
And a family outing to be cherished forever
A hopefulness knowing no imagined boundaries
...Friday 1st May 2020 10:32 am
Mirror
The mirror in the room
holds me quite tightly
within its glassy memory.
Standing aside from its stare
I know what its thoughts are.
Dreaming of a reflection,
reflecting on a dream.
Still, but still in motion,
an opposite movement
a trick of the eye,
thoughts backward,
it emulates itself,
and echoes all before it.
Patiently waiting for its time
to cast a li...
Wednesday 15th April 2020 5:28 pm
Fire
The smoke smothers,
forms a solid screen.
The fire frantically fights
for its existence,
twisting and torturing
the air around it
like a dictator leaving
nothing to chance.
The flames writhing,
and rising in their
hot blazing dance.
Friday 13th March 2020 10:44 am
Thinking of you, mum
I watched an episode
of some tv show the other day,
an old lady passed away
while people looked on.
It reminded me
of the day you died,
not so old,
you were still so young,
too young to die,
too soon to leave us,
and I remember
being by your side
watching your body
makes its final fragile moves,
your breath was weak,
and the weakness won.
I cried, an...
Tuesday 10th March 2020 1:53 pm
Myopic Hordes
The cracked ice was a sign,
an unnoticed warning
of the dangers ahead
but no one heeded it,
ignored it and
were blindly fed
by the cyclops' hand.
Nobody saw the distance
as so great and
the myopic vision
you foretold
was gathered unseen
by the hordes
running wildly
to their demise.
Friday 7th February 2020 2:43 pm
You are
A heavenly body are you
with your silken wings
and your golden hair.
A steady ship are you
with your strong bow
and your billowing sail.
A strong tree are you
with your skyward stare
and your deep rooted tail.
A beautiful creature are you
with your celestial smile
and your gossamer veil.
An ephemeral star are you
with your breathless frail...
Monday 20th January 2020 10:46 am
Un-nation
The flags fold in on themselves
and the nations give way to earth,
boundaries disappear as quickly
as they bureaucratically appeared,
and the land remains the same,
and the people do not alter.
The flesh and bones are unchanged,
to no-one else are we tethered,
a murderous group are we all,
killing our own, for what gain?
Friday 10th January 2020 7:37 am
Death of cruelty
The cruelty of the world
has defeated me once more
but the war still continues
this battle only evens the score.
Prevailing winds at my back
will assist in retreat
but the return will be stronger
with my swift wingèd feet.
Those craggy rocks of hate
split and break off overhead
but my quick agile mind
will render them dead.
Too late to hesitate
...Friday 3rd January 2020 6:59 am
The Fool
I lost out to the fool
who listened only to the proud
shut his ears to the complex
and shouted banalities out loud.
I lost out to the fool
who believed only the vain
graduated in the university
of who can I ridicule and blame.
I lost out to the fool
who trod the well-paced path
never strayed from its borders
now he will suffer my wrath.
Monday 30th December 2019 4:43 pm
Lead me on
She lets me dream
of rainbow streams
and takes my hand
in gracious dreams.
The path she treads
has been cast in gold,
and from ear to ear
listen to tales unfold.
Slight is her form
but strong her resolve
treading the road
in her heart I dissolve.
Tuesday 24th December 2019 1:58 pm
Beautiful You
For every ship that sailed away
you forever received two in return
the heavily laden burden of fault
from which you never had to learn.
The sparkling light of luck
shone always on your skin
and the bright spark of hope
built bridges from within.
Perfectly formed a beautiful being
the mirror blushed at your vision
a sight to behold and to admire
a form unn...
Wednesday 11th December 2019 10:11 am
The ledge
Sitting on the point
of a careless ledge,
gripping on for
this brute of a life,
the savage ghosts
of lasting memories
grasping and prising
the hard goat headed past,
grinding on, a moral morass
hazard lights, rabbit blinded
glued to the bloody spot,
a murderous intention,
a voiceless host.
Saturday 7th December 2019 5:37 pm
Goodbye voice
Imagine, you had sung
I listen silently, quite numb.
A broken heart fills
the shattered glass
from which I drink a
blessed, but savage wine
that soothes and burns as it
slides down my self-silenced throat.
Nothing more to be uttered,
the end of language,
it only causes fear and pain,
the bile that comes forth
is the nadir of vile,
and my teardrops
turn to ...
Tuesday 3rd December 2019 7:45 am
Unattainable you
I remember the beautiful way
you strolled down the beach
where the sun's shadow
danced so gleefully
because it knew the inner
solace and silence
that sang in your soul,
and it thrilled in your joy.
The waves bowed down
continuously in your presence,
conceding eternity to the
sunshine in your smile,
while I looked on in wonder,
listened to your soft breath,
...Wednesday 27th November 2019 12:36 pm
Sorry, I missed me
I drifted off into a reality where
soft sounds sadly rotted
into hard cacophony,
where people lived
loveless lives
and the arguments
that at one time
had seemed so far off
turned up on the doorstep,
wiped their dirty feet
on the old, worn out mat,
and entered in
to destroy the peace,
turned it into a relentless torture,
returned it to its distorted state.
...Monday 25th November 2019 6:47 am
Noone else knows
Let's walk through the park
until the moon says it's dark
Let's dance through the flowers
for hours and hours and hours.
We'll laugh at all the funny things
never answer when the telephone rings
We'll cry when we see those things sad
and promise that we'll never be so bad
Together stroll along the beach
and feel completely out of reach
Playing with the sand ...
Thursday 21st November 2019 8:11 pm
To believe in something
I want to believe in something
but I have found everything wanting,
it drains my body
and weighs heavily on my mind.
Hard roads, travelling on
a tarmac of vicious blood
seeping out my blistered feet,
and my tortured muscles
holding me back,
but dragging me on.
Wednesday 13th November 2019 2:12 pm
Parched
A sparkling drop of golden rain
dripped upon my parchèd brain
It took a while to sink right in
but now my mind is fresh again.
Monday 11th November 2019 6:33 am
The Human Effect
The last butterfly
flutters its wings,
drives the waves
on the other side
of a distant ocean,
then, deletes itself
from the existence
it fleetingly owns.
We watch until
the sun disappears
over the horizon,
and the butterfly dies.
Monday 4th November 2019 1:28 pm
Dry
I stare at you across
the empty, scorched desert
that has appeared so gradually
and so imperceptibly between us.
The mirage that we were has evaporated,
been engulfed in desiccated emotions
now lingering in the vacant space,
hanging like a burning haze,
scorching our skin,
hung out to dry.
Wednesday 23rd October 2019 7:27 am
Silent Poison
The silence stuns the sound,
points its finger at the hand
that feeds and drips
the poison into the breast
of the woman tightly
clasping the new-born baby
that no-one wants to own.
Turning our heads away
from the frightful and unsightly,
afraid to cross the threshold
into the fresh bold life
that could change our vision,
open our minds,
lead us into genesis.
...Monday 21st October 2019 10:55 am
A wind blowing through a life
A disingenuous wild wind
that blows through
the withered and weathered
leaves of a life.
A life left puzzling over its roots,
and its new growth,
outstretched limbs bending in the
ever-present breeze,
bowing down to the mighty
twists of stormy blasts
gathering unseen and unheard
all around and about.
Friday 18th October 2019 12:36 pm
Nude descending a staircase
The nude descends a staircase,
the spectator looks on,
a motion so common
that thought has forgotten
these simple movements,
a cinematic masterpiece
in a single frame,
a human shape whose
curves have disappeared
beneath the artist's brush,
multiplied into a living force,
a beautiful robotic cadence
reaching the foot of its brief descent.
Wednesday 2nd October 2019 7:01 am
Whispering wind
Soft swathes of September wind
stroke my welcoming skin,
its warm touch offers solace
to my stationary form.
A slow slight cadence
and a flighty rhythm,
this wind it soothes me.
Eyes closed shut so tightly
that sleep begins its
slow inward stroll
to silently steal my waking world,
and deliver me to the dream domain
where the calming wind
continues to hold me ...
Friday 20th September 2019 11:34 am
Morning sunrise
The jagged turreted skyline
emits its own kind
of dull fabricated ugliness,
hard smoked-filled tubes,
funneling the excesses
of materialistic output,
contrasting with the subtle
smooth outline of
the faraway forest
a rolling tide of greenery
an invisible outpouring
of breathable atoms
lovingly carressing
our stifled lungs.
Monday 16th September 2019 6:56 am
Thorn in her side
She drifted in and out of view
passing from gossamer to stone,
floating and then, sinking down low,
singing the words you wrote for her,
the sound now a sick cacophony
mocking your emotions,
stabbing at your heart.
Holding the now faded rose
that you had pinned in her hair,
but truly, a thorn in her side
had been your gift to her,
the beautiful bloom
was invisib...
Thursday 12th September 2019 4:08 pm
Turning my back
oh ye men of so much faith
scattering your deadly wares
like confetti at a wedding
without an ounce of thought
for the innocents on the ground
where moments before was fun and laughter
is now become blood and slaughter
how do you sleep in your beds?
have your dreams turned to nightmares
and your hearts to stone?
Monday 9th September 2019 6:52 am
Confess
A piece of my yearning
was lost to the churning
sound of a life laid bare
inside the confessional.
Seated beside a lost pirate
of the human race,
stealing unwitting souls
selling my skull and bones
to the undertaker for the
price of my wretched sins.
A reprieve for my soul?
Well, at least, that's what
he promised to me.
I had my doubts and
left him fingeri...
Thursday 5th September 2019 7:09 am
Labyrinthine thoughts
Trying to find solace in
the confinement of our
solitary minds.
No physical straight jacket
restrains our limbs,
only a mental labyrinth,
turning each corner,
to be further trapped
inside a prison
of our own design.
Held like the minotaur,
are we to be sacrificed
to this beast?
who is our Theseus?
who will be our saviour?
Friday 30th August 2019 7:41 am
Never be forgotten
The metamorphosis
was a planned operation,
and everything they did
went as smooth as silk,
but what they didn't expect
was the abominable reaction
of the normally patient, decent people,
the bile and the caustic outbursts,
all of the hate that spewed out
into the space around them.
Shocked, they fled and hid in the hills
until the tumult had died down.
They coul...
Friday 26th July 2019 7:31 am
Treedom
Listen to the illusory silence
of the growing arborial
presence parading itself
in the garden of our world.
A stillness that betrays
the ever renewing and
rejuvenating life-giving form.
Imperceptible impressions,
a virtuosity in itself,
claiming no prize
except its own existence.
Monday 22nd July 2019 8:28 pm
The Quiet People
The quiet, timid people
hid amongst the gathered flock,
cowered in the nooks and crannies
where no-one else wanted to go,
lowered their frightened eyes
when the others came around.
A voiceless legion tethered to anxiety,
tied to a heightened fear
of imagined temporal titans.
A tribe of mixed emotions
withstanding the advancing mass.
Thoughts of survival and
the ...
Thursday 18th July 2019 7:47 pm
Colour - Gold
Wealth and extravagance
have an association with you,
Many a fool falls for your shine
and many have died for you, too
For children we only wish
them to be as good as you,
while some chase just money,
those diggers we eschew.
Monday 15th July 2019 7:26 am
Incessant time
Oh unholy intimidating time
ticking your incessant tock,
crying out a second
swallowed scream,
gouging out the minutiae
to reach the crux of the matter
only to find it flattened
and sprawled out into
an infinite sense of everything,
a past, present and future tense
of the workings of the mind.
Friday 12th July 2019 9:24 pm
Always worth holding on
The treatment of doom
leaves me left in the gloom
of a day badly spent
and a life cruelly rent.
A storm cloud burst,
a lightening bolt cursed,
by night my demise,
by light I surmise.
So, so little I know
eyes turned down below.
Then, a glance to the skies
and I see my great prize,
the sun it does shines
and on beauty it dines,
the colour of summer
makes...
Tuesday 9th July 2019 8:28 am
My lost flower
The apple blossom that was
the scent of your hair,
the tint that lit up
every mournful evening sky
could only emanate from
your softly glistening skin.
I had hoped one day to wrap
you up and hold you tight
so, no harm should ever befall you.
My flower amongst the grasses.
My bloom amongst the stems.
I wanted to sigh and
watch your soft seed
fly...
Friday 5th July 2019 10:07 am
Hardy folk
Even the hardy folk
were brought to tears
on that black night
when all the years of hurt
became a single point
in space and time,
when all emotions
a volcano became
that was not to be held,
mighty in its wrath,
bursting violently forth,
burning through the steely skin
of the hardy folk.
Tuesday 2nd July 2019 7:17 pm
Humanity without the humane
The faint strangled cry
of a separated child,
parents detached
when the need is most.
An emotional bond
smashed to smithereens,
lack of food, lack of space
lack of sleep, lack of love.
We are bringing up
traumatised infants.
What example are
we setting for our future?
Does the human
no longer exist in humanity?
Have we become our
own worst nightmar...
Sunday 30th June 2019 8:16 pm
Afresh again
Starting the journey afresh
a zero point, a big bang,
an expanding universe,
the endless possibilities.
The long, soft puff of breath
spreading the bloomed spray
in a myriad of directions,
the unknown escaping
to sow itself into the lives
of the unsuspecting,
of the ones searching
for that, as yet, hidden pleasure
or thought lying at the bottom
of the deep we...
Thursday 27th June 2019 10:02 am
Love for you
If my love for you were a road
then it would stretch beyond the horizon.
If my love for you were an oak
then its branches would reach the highest heaven.
If my love for you were a lion
then its strength would overcome all.
If my love for you were water
then there would never be a thirsty mouth.
If my love for you were bread
then no-one would go hungry again.
My love for you is ...
Monday 24th June 2019 10:18 am
A natural concert
Surrounded by summer verdancy,
the sweet smell of the linden tree
and the deciduous arboreal presence
dining on the twilight sun.
The bright notes of the songstress
soothe my ears and calm my nerves,
that mambo rhythm cradles me
while I dream of glorious dances.
The floating melody is in full flight
and transcends the corporeal
to rise above the out reaching soul
t...
Thursday 20th June 2019 12:34 pm
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