Forward
Forward
A great door opens on a darkened landscape
I stand at the precipice of the unkown
A journey forward or an eternal void
I cannot know what is to be revealed
I am ignorant and childlike in my perception
Despite a wealth of experience and knowledge
The future holds no assurances
Faith speaks of eternity but who am I to know
I step forward with resignation
Th...
Wednesday 11th December 2019 4:30 pm
What we face
What we face
A tangled web of attraction and addiction
draws us to an epicentre of confusion and distraction
Repulsed by hatred, ignorance and prejudice
we walk on broken glass in the place where pigs lay
Lured by compulsive desire and rampant lust
we are thrown off course in a haze of dust
Cheated by lies and the voices of eternal deceit
clarity of thought becomes a d...
Thursday 7th November 2019 7:03 pm
A Solution
A Solution
A trickle of faltering smoke wound its way upward
many were left standing bereft
As the families of who were left
became as a column of smoke toward the sky
Harsh voices broke their numbed silence
a ragged group soon assembled
Mentally and spiritually disabled
there had been no time to even say farewell
A small orchestra on a worn lawn
began ...
Monday 4th November 2019 7:16 pm
Integrity,Where is your sting?
Integrity, Where is your Sting?
Philanthropists beware wolves come in sheeps clothing
Poets speak out with your mighty voices against deceit
The Masters of self aggrandisement have arrived
Party and personal fortunes their ´raison d´etre
These ferrets curry our favour and give pretence a new meaning
Their placard has two sides, each with a face
For these unscrupulous so...
Sunday 3rd November 2019 4:20 pm
They gave their all
They gave their all
A solitary autumnal leaf of reddish brown
As if a visitor from the past
Fluttered along the street lined with a silent throng
Propelled by the morning wind
It gradually settled on the steps of the War Memorial
A heavy scent of used gunpowder
Still pervaded the village from a night of bonfires
We stood silently and somberly before many names
Reme...
Sunday 3rd November 2019 10:17 am
The Front
The Front
Faces ripped off
intestines disgorged
Lice and rats eat
the entrails of heroes
Helmets with bullet holes
filled with cerebral refuse
Frozen joints, numbed fingers
burnt out dog ends
Squelching mud
foot rot to boot
Incessant explosions
mountains of fresh corpses
Humanity debased
for flags and monarchs
What a fucking hell
Friday 1st November 2019 12:13 am
For the Better
For the Better
On my study wall hangs a portrait
of a man, his son and a family of refugees
Walking with their meagre possessions
Syrains in a foreign land; a people in despair
They are displaced souls the victims of civil war
this family is one of millions throughout the world
crossing borders, leaving family and friends behind
Can any good come from such a trage...
Tuesday 29th October 2019 7:34 pm
A Collage of Autumn
A Collage of Autumn
A silent thunder of darkened clouds approach
light is diminished into a perpetual shadow of gloom
Sinister cohorts of ghosts dart about in macabre dance
the drums of the damned fill the air with stark foreboding
The obscure memories of past years appear from the sepulchres of time
a barely noticed cenotaph assumes a different identity
War is never...
Monday 21st October 2019 5:27 pm
A Reason
A Reason
A ponderous existence is our enigma in life
to experience the fullness of all is perplexity
Highly subjective we are intensely observant
the world is seen as a cinema screen
A performance in which we all take part
a drama of strange participation
Do I serve a purpose through my being here
is my individuality purposefully made
Am I a cog in a wheel of p...
Friday 11th October 2019 8:16 pm
One of Many
One of Many
I detest that cold biting wind
which chills me through bark into each ring
Those gusts that denude me of any propriety
as autumnal scales are blown away
to fall upon a carpet of other discarded leaves
A time to acknowledge my stark reality
to be resilient in the face of snow and hail
Along with others we give of ourselves
in uniformed fidelity to the sea...
Tuesday 8th October 2019 10:50 pm
You´re Living in the Past
You´re Living in the Past
(from a has been to a know it all)
In some cultures the elderly are regarded as the
custodians of wisdom based on life´s experience
In our advanced culture of high technology
the elderly are put aside as having served their purpose
Fashion is to be attractive and up to date
modernity is the way forward, the means of progress
Old Fashioned...
Tuesday 8th October 2019 8:49 pm
Nan´s Kitchen
Nan´s Kitchen
The kitchen was small and austere
an old sink with a single tap
for cold water alone
The window was draped in a net curtain
beside the sink an old gas stove
with four burners and an oven
Opposite stood a kitchenette
and little else that served any purpose
Linoleum covered the wooden floor
which was cracked and threadbare
In the corner behind a do...
Saturday 5th October 2019 8:42 pm
Loathing
Loathing
Indoctrination and radicalisation
instruments in the hands of evil men
Distorted political ideologies and religious zealots
creators of inferiority and superiority
Where many are deprecated and made worthless
who are persecuted or even exterminated
In the name of Righteousness
by the self righteous
From those in power
the manipulators
Arbita...
Friday 4th October 2019 11:00 pm
Bigger and Better Bombs
Bigger and Better Bombs
Should we build more new schools
with indoor and outside pools
More hospitals are urgently needed
let´s hope and pray our voices are heeded
Let´s plant more trees and clean up the beaches
including our land to its furthermost reaches
New universities for many to improve the mind
and money for research to restore sight for the blind
...
Thursday 3rd October 2019 3:31 pm
In Love
In Love
A time comes to fall deeply in love
consumed by a sensuous longing desire
A burning passion of emptying oneself
to be enrapt in the gilded frame of love
When all else is of secondary importance
nothing left to chance or distractions of any kind
A union of body, mind and heart
beating yea pulsating to a climax of exhileration
A time when all is brou...
Wednesday 2nd October 2019 9:51 pm
No Frontiers
No Frontiers
Birds carry no passports
the wind blows where it wills
Rain falls where it pleases
the fox and owl know no boundaries
Music is heard internationally
God is worshipped in universality
families are separated by national documents
Passports exercise border control
tickets with taxes permit travel across them
Pollution flows through the air
colds and ...
Wednesday 2nd October 2019 12:50 pm
History in Denial
History in Denial
General Franco is to be exhumed and his body removed
for years his statues have been argued over and often approved
Streets bearing his name now have new and different names
and so the politicians play their deceitful games
This handiwork is for the sake of distraction
to divert away attention in another direction
A failing economy with chaos can no...
Tuesday 1st October 2019 9:34 pm
A Green Planet
A Green Planet
War has been declared on all fossil fuels
The planet must be protected at all costs
Too little, too late
For centuries we have littered the world
It has been used and abused
Ocean beds are covered with sunken ships
Unexploded ordinance lies deep in the soils of many lands
Chemicals have scarred the home of humanity
Fish grow into grotesque mutations b...
Monday 30th September 2019 10:01 pm
Let them be....
Let them be....
Let people be as they are
Let dogs bark as a warning
Let cats purr with satisfation
Let frogs croak by their pond
Let us be who we are
Let us be what we want to be
Let actors be on stage
Let the angry demonstrate
Let communists seek for equality
Let gays be happy and in love
Let gypsies roam where they will
Let the believers pray for us all
...Friday 27th September 2019 4:24 pm
Daylight Robbery
Daylight Robbery
Conformity robbed me of my personal freedom
it took away my ambitions and desires
My talents were ignored as if they did not exist
and I allowed this to happen under my very nose
Time has passed by for there can be no recovery
I am not alone by any stretch of the imagination
Conformity, fear, conventions and tradition
with their societal prejudice...
Wednesday 25th September 2019 3:18 pm
Latent Talent
Latent Talent
There are budding scientists
and fledgling artists
who cannot be heard
because they live
in what is called
the Third World
We are deprived
of their potential and talent
because they live
in poverty with
no hope or grace
This is a disgrace
We send money
to Third World dictators
who are oblivious
to progress and beauty
...
Tuesday 24th September 2019 12:21 pm
Do me in....
Do me in....
I am a lesbian, a communist and a subversive
I am a gypsy, I masturbate, I think I´m gay too
This should be enough for you to do me in
rid yourself of your conceitedness and prejudice
go and don´t delay, be spontaneous and have your way
Make the world a better place and do with me away
Clean up your town, turn it white and straight
and in so doing why not ...
Monday 23rd September 2019 5:47 pm
Drawing in....
Drawing in....
Gradually, imperceptibly the nights draw in
they encroach with the chill of winter to foretell
As a blanket they cover a dormant landscape
there is no retreat, no turning back, the die is cast
the rubicon is crossed
Until the Feast of Epiphany we sink into a darkened world
only beyond is the light of a resurrected dawn
A time to slumber, dream, to drink ...
Sunday 22nd September 2019 9:53 pm
The Final Act
The Final Act
I do not want you to stand there as if dumb
required out of a conformist etiquette to be present
I have arranged my funeral as a theatre for all
for family, friends and bystanders alike
This time within these sacred portals will stain your eternal memory
as no other farewell has or ever will
My body will be borne on the shoulders of those who I love
this ...
Friday 20th September 2019 11:57 pm
An Autumnal Rhapsody
An Autumnal Rhapsody
Clusters of sacrificial colurs
in a bleated cry from a dormant world
In unison the days of autumn do ebb
from the gaiety of a summer´s warmth
It is the finale, the last movement
of a rhapsody which droops in sorrow
Threadbare leaves in a myriad of colours
give the landscape a farewell hue
A floor of sadness is littered between weary trees
as ...
Thursday 19th September 2019 10:59 am
Down Memory Lane
Down Memory Lane
Trams trundled along the centre of the road
as whistling kettles sounded a cup of tea
People queued outside cinemas as human snakes
with a policeman directing a swarm of black cars
Streets pockmarked with the shrapnel of war
vacant spaces between buildings where buildings once stood
Cobbled streets of Victorian days to rumble over
buses, trams and trol...
Wednesday 18th September 2019 9:37 pm
An Ancient Language
An Ancient Language
It is not Latin or Ancient Greek
that we find a language so rich and deep
It is not borne of a vocabulary or tongue
but from the heart, soul and mind of man
Found in the mists of time it comes to us
rich and varied are its sounds and cadences
For it can speak across all boundaries
reaching beyond impassable frontiers
Its sounds are an orchestra r...
Tuesday 17th September 2019 6:08 pm
A Moment in Time
A Moment in Time
A Railway Buffett Bar
on a rainy November evening
we sat amongst a throng of tables
as the air filled with smoke
Silently we sipped our drinks
wishing to be somewhere else
a place of tranquility and alone
but people pushed about us
The rush hour was in full swing
he looked searchingly into his beer
I at his profile deep in my own thoughts
W...
Monday 16th September 2019 9:45 pm
The End
The End
Bombers race in unison along
expectant runways
Laden with a deadly nuclear cargo
to dislodge our planet from its axis
As we are cast like confetti
into an inter galactic gloom
Leaving our earthly home abandoned
desolate and forever stricken
Leaders shout the futile slogans
of their defunct ideologies
Beauty is gone in a blinding flash
verdant meadow...
Saturday 14th September 2019 8:52 pm
My Other....
My Other........
I live mostly inside my mind
where I am fully consumed
Solitude draws out my creative spirit
as I sit uninterrupted and alone
I am the kernel of my being
cut adrift in a sea of discovery
I cannot be an island fortress
as I lack the strength and will
My other is always close at hand
as a rampart and shoulder of solace
Without his pres...
Friday 13th September 2019 8:50 pm
She Died Recently........
She Died Recently......
He weeps inwardly
behind sad eyes
His voice falters
as memories are recalled
He is broken
lost and unseeing
A veil of tears separates them
she has been taken away
Alone he stumbles
sleepless nights of dread
He is fearful
unused to loneliness
All sense of direction
has gone from sight
He mourns like
others have mourned
...Thursday 12th September 2019 5:53 pm
Our Destiny
Our Destiny
The leaves of integrity fall
leaving the stoic tree of virtue
They fall or are blown about
to the earth of abundant corruption
The sun hides behind clouds of shame
as the winds warn of impending doom
Seas surge with the waves of war
as the earth trembles on its foundations
A moon of lurid light deceives
a gullible landscape below
Creatures turn aga...
Wednesday 11th September 2019 9:02 pm
A Spiritual Home
A Spiritual Home
The soul searches for a home without
confined and content it seeks another abode
A palm lined, sun drenched beach
the lofty peaks of a mountain range
or within a pine forest of a needled floor
Perhaps a river flows to soothe this soul
or a city square bedecked with cafes
A foreign land rich in culture and cuisine
or a tongue, a language to entice
...Wednesday 4th September 2019 11:45 pm
Needless Burdens
Needless Burdens
I used to carry them as mindful burdens
weights which pressed against my back
Shackles on wrists and ankles
to impede my progress even drawing blood
They became a part of my daily slog
my inner feelings numbed by their heaviness
A once erect stature crippled itself
to become a shadow of my true identity
How much longer was I to endure thos...
Tuesday 3rd September 2019 7:03 pm
The Final Blast
The Final Blast
A gun salute reverberated through the trees
as unprecedented temperatures soared
With birds and wild life cowering for shade
The tsunami of summer had peaked
an audible sigh whispered amongst the branches
All remained as before except for an air of expectancy
Green leaves retained their lustre
hedgerows verdant with a harvest of fruit
A silent rubico...
Monday 2nd September 2019 11:27 am
He Stepped Inside
He Stepped Inside
The key was inside the lock
He went forward and opened the door
Alone and unobserved he entered
To find the gullible and the willing
He latched onto those who deprecated others
The resentful he nurtured
Unseen he cast his net far and wide
He appointed leaders to receive adulation
Their prupose and strength he fortified
He gave them full rein for thei...
Sunday 1st September 2019 9:59 pm
Moods
Moods
I join each day in the flow of its current
Compatible or not I try to adjust myself
The day often conflicts with my waking mood
I walk along a darkened corridor
Feeling my way with uncertainty
I welcome the unexpected yet cherish routine
Spontaneity can disturb or delight
Outside I embrace sun, shower or rain
Only the wind aggravates my soul
I react, respon...
Saturday 31st August 2019 10:08 pm
A Web of Deceit
A Web of Deceit
A transparent woven membrane
partially concealed in a corner of the room
Barely noticeable and constructed with no warning
its architect lay concealed and out of sight
It was a trap of indiscriminate stealth
as the faintest movement alerted the predator
Nothing was spared, no prisoners were taken
the architect devoured all who came his way
...
Thursday 29th August 2019 11:16 pm
Life´s Quandary
Life´s Quandary
Would we board a ship not knowing its destination
or catch a train without first determining its intention
Why then do we emabark on life´s journey
if we don´t know where our end will be
What provides the spirit of eternal hope
when we are least able to cope
From where comes our need for self preservation
if we lack any real sense of determination
...Wednesday 28th August 2019 5:36 pm
The Bottle
The Bottle
From out of a bottle
comes not a genie
but a cloud arises
as a fog to the mind
A hazy perspective is formed
as illusions are created
a temprament is tainted
The bottle is replenished
fog and mists do envelope
an abstract control is formed
which distorts and damages
even others about
Put the genie back inside
reseal the bottle
breathe a c...
Friday 23rd August 2019 10:42 am
Das Reich ist gefallen
Das Reich ist gefallen
Red, white and black
splinters and shards of cristal
Blood stains the pillars
the white is tarnished with filth
Black shines in uniformity
pellets cascade a rain of death
Beleaguered ruins stand as silhouettes
as dragons roar their fusillade
Papers flutter in a calamity of despair
red skies sound their sirens
White sheets in capitulation...
Sunday 18th August 2019 10:15 pm
Heart Attack
Heart Attack
A pinkish intricate organ of finite life
complex and forever pumping life
Valves and arteries a tangled web
without which all life would ebb
Then all of a sudden it stops
as the last blood of life drops
A blinding flash unpredictable
hastens the ultimate destructible
Life submits to death´s dark kingdom
no more activity, inertia or boredom
One min...
Tuesday 13th August 2019 2:21 pm
Damaged for life
Damaged for life
The house was drab and in need of paint
the curtains yellow with the stains of smoke
The garden lacked lustre, unkempt and ignored
as the gate swung to and fro in a whimsical wind
Inside it was stale, discoloured and unclean
full ash trays with old socks soaking in a tub
She sat alone smoking with a mug in her hand
propped up so as to see the comi...
Sunday 11th August 2019 10:36 am
All around us
All around us
Bones and ashes will ever remain
as with our memories they are the same
Vanished from this temporal life
we still possess their name despite
Nought can escape this earthly coil
we cannot outside its boundaries toil
All who have gone before us remain with us
their atoms and molecules still a part of us
We are physically held captive in this place
in ...
Saturday 10th August 2019 9:37 pm
The Elite
The Elite
These monsters wear their guilt on their sleeve
In their grandeur they are bedecked with duplicity
They live in impregnable ivory towers of deceit
With cohorts of the damned their integrity sold
Morality lies hidden in their disgusting latrines
Weilding power in our name with limitless guile
They forge alliances with tyrants like themselves
Squandering t...
Thursday 8th August 2019 10:08 pm
A Reverie
A Reverie
A butterfly flutters in orchestral flight
a symphony of delicate charm only to delight
Capricious of uncertain design it meanders
as we transfixed do similarly wander
Rich in colours, dragon red and charcoal black
with an elegance which we so often lack
It serves no master and obeys no creed
as it dips, climbs, hesitates with little speed
We become absorbe...
Thursday 1st August 2019 9:45 pm
The Emperor came to call
The Emperor came to call
Doors slammed, windows banged shut and curtains were drawn
as the grand cavalcade drove by in earnest procession
Those outside turned their backs to show utter disdain
no welcome for the Emperor was forthcoming
The Queen sat by him with a pinched expression
the Empress followed with the Queen´s Consort
Cavalry at the trot to hasten these even...
Thursday 1st August 2019 5:03 pm
There is only one
There is only one
Occasionally when a moment of silence arrives
I pause for a time of deep reflection and lost hope
Through the corridors of my mind
I seem always to arrive in the La Plaza
which is embedded in my mind as an ageless painting
The sun shines as people promenade
beneath the fronds of overhead palms
Children with cornets, some on their fathers´shoulders
...
Sunday 28th July 2019 10:49 pm
A Friend called to say......
A Friend called to say.....
From the determined and resilient
a feeble voice came from someone I love
From a dear and faithful soul, a lament
who had reached a darkened moment
I no longer possess any reserves of energy
without any dramatic sense of urgency
My zest for life has begun to ebb away
I cannot muster thoughts along the way
I am not afraid to die you know t...
Saturday 27th July 2019 5:06 pm
Hidden Recesses
Hidden Recesses
Concealed in the recesses of my mind
I search for precious artefacts to find
In darkened corners beneath old dust sheets
are cherished memories now well deceased
Past lovers, their memorabilia and letters
with a dust laden portrait of an English Setter
Fragments of jewellery, cufflinks and more
in an old discarded chest of drawers
A gas mask, dog tag...
Friday 26th July 2019 11:30 pm
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