Blog Entries by Tom (2013)

Fulfillment

Senses softened in the dark afternoon
This year is charring in the fire grate
So I pour out into the haunted fields
Looking for loneliness, for lines, for clues
To get a handle on all that’s happened
To make predictions on where I am headed

All around my body, the world’s covered by a sheet
Life’s decorator is preparing to paint the new year
This land spills on for snowy miles
My past r...

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Friday 13th December 2013 3:13 pm

They're Lights In The Sky, Kid

by Tom

It’s an endless stream of thought
that leaves your perspective shifted
On a train to some forgotten town
where your childhood ended

It’s the sort of water-colour sunset
that makes the windows gilded frames
The ethereal passing moments
with everything in tune with itself

I asked a man much older
when I was still a child
what are those
what are those, up there?

“They’re lights in t...

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Monday 4th November 2013 12:05 am

Tunnels

by Tom

Tunnelling in the dirt below my feet
I've been digging here all week
carving this hollow so deep
today, I hit bone

This is heavier work than I imagined
surveyed the ground from beyond the fence
And we both agreed that this was right
but now the toil is breaking me apart

As a new day rises
I'm bawling in the shower
never knew I could feel this pain
with the taps turned up to ten
nev...

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Tuesday 17th September 2013 10:40 pm

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Where To Hide The Body

by Tom

I walk around here plainly

acting so innocent most of the time

Who would think of it

who could think of what I've done

when faced with this curious smile

when sated by this quiet voice and caring words

no hint, no trace is there

of my dark secret...

Down every street of every city

through every subway, every alley

always flashing through my mind is

...

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Tuesday 27th August 2013 11:55 am

Coasts

by Tom

The heart was yearning

like hearts are known to do

The heart knew for what it was thirsting

as hearts often do

Standing too close to the window

hovering wild-eyed on the roof

watching the sun set through grubby glass

chasing peach skies on a push bike

Oh the heart knows that it is hungry

So the heart is quietly aligning

this vessel body towar...

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Tuesday 20th August 2013 11:28 am

Whereabouts

by Tom

What strange gravities compel you?
Which strong seasons
manipulate the focus of your mind?
What forces are at work
governing your silences and interactions?
What are the properties of magnetic north
that keep you so firmly held there?

Which habits formed into crippling routine
Which once-cradled ambitions did you let burn away?
What hope, was it you had, for all of what you started
whe...

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Tuesday 6th August 2013 11:09 pm

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