extract of thought
 
 ...you change the world 
when casting a shadow;
to change it meaningfully
you need to move  
from out of the shadows...
 
everything has a purpose;
everything has a state.
it's purpose is to exist;
to be formed
by chance
or change of purpose.
without a purpose
'it' ceases to exsist,
and becomes something else
the new purpose.
it can be found in  
the new th...

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I will take the crispy  toast

and get the milk

from the fridge and

put it back

And I looked at you

moving

As you smiled with dishes

In your hand

And I watched knowing

That even in this room
I missed you

And I held a hand

To your cheek
And
I ached at the
thought...

Tommy Carroll

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I breathed

her name against

her neck

She turned and

mouthed inquisitively

"what"?

I asked

of her the

time,

she checked her

non existing

wristwatch

I smiled

and went to

put on

my still damp

coat.

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Very many sadness

Very many dross

Very many leavings

That weigh a heavy cross;

If all the very manys

Had weight the weight of floss

Then all the windy blowings

Would blow away my loss.

Words and image Tommy Carroll

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I breathed

her name against

her neck

She turned and

mouthed inquisitively

"what"?

I asked

of her the

time,

she checked her

non existing

wristwatch

I smiled

and went to

put on

my still damp

coat.

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When Economics
has sex
with politicians
and Law
it spawns Asylums
in which
to lock up the poor
whether
dragged off to Jail
or
sent off to war
It's the
cell or the trench
for you that's

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The hour is slim!

the time to entwine

with her and

with advantage inhale

the heavy offering

from between the jaws

of her open thighs.

Persephone's tasty flesh

renders her cleft

of wet truth-

she can slake this thirst-

can assuage my ache

when enthralled against

the serpent earth,

with legs knotted,

we lay tangled

in ancient ruin.

words a...

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At what point
is love in balance?
resolved?
love is not an
unyielding beam,
but,
flects as weight
of want or force
of need offsets
another's wishes.
Yet
such scales can
never measure
loss nor the loss
of balance.

Words and foto Thomas Carroll

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Cats on mats
by Tommy Carroll

 25th June 2019

Wittgenstein says he:
'Languge merely pictures facts'

then changes his mind and retracts;

'It's more complex than I at first thought,

my Tractatus has all come to nought

for there's more to them cats on them mats'.

Words and foto  Thomas H Carroll

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Its size

and its sinews,

a walk-around

of my thoughts.

I'm looking-

seeking,

the oblivion

of the sheltered sun.

Words and image by Thomas Carroll

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When Economics
has sex
with politicians
and Law
it spawns Asylums
which
lock up the poor
whether
dragged off to Jail
or
sent off to war
It's the
cell or the trench
for you that's
in store.

Words and image by Tommy Carroll

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Jazz piano
 Slow
 in D minor
A note that's allowed
 like the pain
 that's caused
 and delivered
the shadowed sound
 from the speakers
 is the sigh
 that pulls me back
 to that place
 that she once held
but I wont respond
 just keep  
 the kerb 2 foot away-
no turning
 back around
 to hear her needs
my wants
 are the rear-view
 mirror
 that cause the
 eye's to blink
 wet ...

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Snip-Snip
gardening magazine
bits and pieces
print large
               text small
flowers here
blue shears crop wintry bargain buys
compost your neighbors  cabbages  
kneel and weeping dig
 
best prices paid for sheds
my hands ache with gay arrays  
                                    suduko and wire eats the bugs of heavy scent
Heaven scent and saplings bent
letters from read...

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She offered him a peach

he looked at the stars instead

The winking of a thousand suns

Wrote verse inside his head.

She lifted a burning ember

As lightning to his tread

Her searching smile

Of knowing thoughts

She claimed with nothing

said.

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Jan folded the letter
running a finger
along its crease.
 
She looked up-
 
somebody was explaining
functionality:
 
She stared
at the new argument
written on the white board
 
then returned to the letter
 
the fold:
another plane
pressing and creasing
vertices missing
corners peaking...
 
She sighing.
 
His orientation with her
disengaged;
they were now misplaced.
 
...

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'Langauge merely pictures facts'
then changes his mind and retracts;
'It's more complex than I at first thought,
my Tractatus has all come to nought
for there's more to them cats on them mats'.
 
Words and foto  Thomas H Carroll

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She offered him a peach

he looked at the stars instead

The winking of a thousand suns

Wrote verse inside his head.

She lifted a burning ember

As tribute to the dead

Her searching smile

Of knowing thoughts

She claimed with nothing said.

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She offered me a peach

I looked at the Stars instead

The winking of A thousand suns

Wrote verse inside my head.

She lifted a burning ember

As tribute to her face

Her searching smile

Of knowing thoughts

She claimed with nothing

Said.

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When Economics
has sex
with politics
and the Law
it spawns Asylums
in which
to lock up the poor
whether
dragged off to Jail
or
sent off to war
It's the
cell or the trench
for you that's
in store.

Verse & Photo by Tommy Carroll

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Just waiting

for the smile,

askance

"no? " I enquired

and waited

She sighed, looking

out of the window,

I leant forward

smiling.

"Askance" a word I'll use again.

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