Picnic In The Dark.
Lamplight on sand
Reflecting majesty of the sea.
Everything measured in tide
And wonder.
Moonlit silhouette
Of smoke string ribbon
Cooling on a brim
Of stars.
Ceasefire of the senses
Brush a cushioned foot
Across dune curtained outlets
Toe a line.
Distance is soundproof
Almost silent but the wind
Flickering mild suggestio...
Friday 20th August 2010 10:25 am
The Long Crawl.
Sluglike and heavy, weary of percentages
Rolling slowly on rough carpets of winter green
Rainfall aftermath damp and blanket atmosphere
Moving by the metre just after sun shower
'Little insect journey'
DONT LET THE GIANT FOOT FIND ME
The concept of scale is a cage in itself
'Little insect Auschwitz'
Chained to the radiator calling for god
Crawling in a ...
Wednesday 30th June 2010 12:53 pm
Alient
Stop the search.
Silence the satellites.
The little green men
Your fear determined
Wander not in distance.
We are the aliens
From planetry parables,
Violent harvestors
Of the solar garden
Delicate skeletons
Of the star field.
The question begins
And ends here.
We are the aliens.
Thursday 20th May 2010 2:26 am
Dyslexic Caption Readers anonymous.
Ronseal
The tin does exactly what it says on it.
McDonalds
Loving im it.
Argos
Shop for it. Don't argos it.
Weetabix
Have your weetabix had you today?
Thomas cook
Just book it don't cook it Thomas.
Morrisons
More morrisons to shop reasons at.
Nike
Do it just.
Pringles
Can't you just stop you po...
Monday 17th May 2010 4:31 pm
First attempt at a palindrome
Midnight
Of echoes
Screaming sardonically
Observing lunacy and humour
Eternity
Humour and lunacy observing
Sardonically screaming
Echoes of
Midnight
Friday 14th May 2010 2:08 pm
Third Person Omniscient
Out here on the may hills
Stillwater shines in silver thickets
And shrub
stumbles down a rock edge.
Fig leaves release in the wind
Where the scene is swallowed by sky.
The surface of the view
Obtained at perfect height
Defines the climb.
Looking down
Past the sedimentaries,
Cloud mint air and cotton distance
People wandering around
...
Monday 10th May 2010 3:47 pm
The Many Aspects Of Panic
The sun is not enough
To heat this day.
Clouds are feeding
On the weak season's
Inheritance of winter.
Traffic attacks the street like a beast.
There is road kill
Scraping the kerb's edge
Enough skin left
To form a smile
At certain angles.
The traffic light turns red
Little green man flickering
A chorus of sighs
From the ...
Wednesday 5th May 2010 5:45 pm
Shade-Walking.
There's a gap in the establishment
A narrow shadow
Sweating in the breeze.
Bristles of light flicker
On dim specks
Of misspelled graffiti
It simply reads:
NO MORE FALSE PROFITS.
An accidental but fortunate irony.
But no understatement
Has ever saved any
From what is real.
To journey between people
And escape the remains
O...
Monday 3rd May 2010 5:35 pm
Modern Saviour
He would certainly be admitted.
Who would believe
In the return of a prophet?
A dream realised
Is a failure in itself.
It belongs to the mind only.
To arrive in utopia
And find it is raining,
Earn the love
Of a perfect woman
Only to notice
She is a ghost.
This is proof
Dreams are for the mind only.
And as for the return
Of ...
Saturday 24th April 2010 12:52 pm
The Dawn Consequence
Sun heads west
Sky is a platform
Launching cloud
At multi-coloured dawn.
End of night, daybreak
Green, pink, orange.
More colours
Than you could
Shake a rainbow at.
Symmetry recedes
Shadows evaporate
Leaving only morning
And tiny pieces of darkness
Running for cover.
It almost had you fooled
The cruel delusion
Of ...
Wednesday 21st April 2010 4:21 pm
The Great Refrain.
An old man stranded on a kerb
Reciting the bible
Stops, rises to his feet,
Counts the coins in a coffee cup
Gathered from guilt of strangers passing
Turns his head
To face the sky yelling
"what does it matter?"
Another child is buried
In the fires of Gaza.
A doctor watches
Bodies maimed, decaying
In a stalemate war
He denounces religion
...Wednesday 14th April 2010 5:54 pm
I Wanted to be a War Photographer.
Living through a lens
Discovering countries
Creating sense from
Nature's disfigured corners.
I wanted to be a war photographer.
It seemed a dream - like direction
to acquaint meaning
Because where there is death
Truth is always near.
Thursday 8th April 2010 6:57 pm
Becoming Real
From the mist,
A silhouette.
Too distant for image,
Too near for a clear picture.
An energy
Only present
When shadows dream.
The envy
Of everything
Made of skin.
It is dark,
The road is cold.
No sound
But the earth breathing
And occasional flicker
Of rustling leaves
Gathering in communal,
Autumnal graveyards.
...
Sunday 4th April 2010 7:07 pm
As The Moon Prevails.
The sun stands tall.
Brave comes the moon invading,
Balance of light
Fading toward blindness.
Fingers pointed up,
Mouths opening,
The moon now devouring the sun.
Almost covered,
Half of it vanished,
Disappearing in surrender.
David and Goliath
In the sky.
This eclipse is biblical.
Its testament, a minute long.
But what lesson can be ...
Wednesday 31st March 2010 7:18 pm
Fireworks
Closed eyelids
Sunlight shining in
A half - opened curtain.
Uncertainty
Confronts the day.
Out through the window
People walking
In suits, sunglasses,
Matching scarves.
People I will never meet.
Events that will never happen.
The afternoon intrudes
Brutal, reliable.
Because you cannot hide from time.
At night there is exp...
Monday 29th March 2010 6:56 pm
The Linguist.
He only spoke in silent letters
And travelled the planet
In search of the perfect word,
Embraced each place
With every ounce
Of pronunciation
German, Spanish, Mandarin
Armed with a notepad and pen
He asked the questions
That always lacked answers
And nobody seemed to know.
Seasons crawled past him
Slow as slugs
Until one day
Fr...
Wednesday 24th March 2010 1:26 pm
The Unexpected Environmentalist.
Along the river bank
Greasy tide foamed slowly
Oiling the edge.
Rotting among dried crop,
A shopping trolley
Popped it's head above
The dark water.
A coffin for seaweed to live in.
An unusual air covered the area
Not queit mist,
Almost fog.
Plastic bags, half - dissolved,
Softly whispered up stream
With a silent longing
To get ...
Thursday 4th February 2010 11:22 pm
Various Complications.
It begins with the singular
Then complicates.
An embryo's worst nightmare
To multiply too many
And discard a familiar friend
So one dies
Love be the perfect poison
For the imperfect
Only the ugly suffer true love.
The world is an atlas
Of invisible physics,
Equations tame confusion
For soldiers of academia
And the poor parachute
...
Saturday 30th January 2010 12:05 pm
Sarcastic at half - collapsed ridge.
We walked for about an hour
Or so, talking a quarter of the way.
She brushed the blonde from her hair
In a fashion that mentioned hatred.
Not remembered hatred but a learned hatred.
However the hatred was mutual.
A couple for about a year
Or so, in love about a quarter of the time.
When I say love I mean
A lack of learned hatred.
The road mere...
Wednesday 20th January 2010 10:48 am
A Week In Words.
Monday.
The mad birth of the week.
Infant among days, bottle - fed
With the bold milk of dreary morning.
Tuesday.
First steps taken toward understanding.
Learning the language of time.
A slow process, a brave climbing.
The absent knowledge of consequence.
Wednesday.
The week's equivalent of purgatory.
Static and the day's...
Thursday 14th January 2010 3:56 pm
Serenicity.
Not walking but discovering the footpath
Young friends laughing at past troubles
All fears flayed.
The wind sings 'La Petenera'.
Furry - faced cats pedestrianized
Preside over freshly retired men
Puffing cheroots outside warm cafe's
Uniform replaced by jazz jackets.
Politics observe perpetually
From under wet sewers,
Bathing in the death of currency
...Tuesday 12th January 2010 1:01 pm
Beach.
Water wearing tide,
Blind men folded at the front.
Seagulls wash on the long shore
As elderly couples demand comfort.
Children play with pebbles
With feet of afternoon blisters.
The sun hides for a second
Behind the mildest of clouds.
Saturday 2nd January 2010 9:44 pm
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