Blog Entries by Twilbury Wist (2014)

And pathways

Are funny old things

Twisting this way

And that

Back and round

And forwards

Inside themselves

And out

It seems to me

One way

Or another

You get

Where you're going

Whether

You like it

Or not

And maybe

Instead

Of following

Your feet

You should look

Some place

Else

For most of

The time

Your feet will

...

Tuesday 30th December 2014 2:04 am

murikami's wood

You could let

A lot of things

Bother you

If you wanted to

The daylight

Breaking your sleep

The darkness

Of cold mornings

The noise

Of life

Dragging you

Along

Passing you by

Taking you in

And

Under

The people

Asking too much

Or too little

The gaps

Where things ought

To be

But aren't

The traffic and

The travel

When

...

Tuesday 30th December 2014 1:35 am

Tiptoe

Let's walk a little

Shall we

Through the

Shadows

And the endless

Corridors

Let's remember

The dreams

The nightmares

The hallucinations

See the break

In the

Light

The gaps

In the dark

Shatter the tiny

Pieces

That once

We thought

Were the glue

Of

Our minds

There is no

Purity

Only simplicity

Somewhere

Between

...

Tuesday 23rd December 2014 9:36 am

Shipwrecked

Words

Waiting beneath

The windows

Wingless

Yet desperate

To fly

From the ghosts

Which drip through

Through the brickwork

Out of the

Shadows

Into the puddles

Rippling with

Whispers

Of life

Opportunity

Hope

Helplessly

Trying

To quick step

And hot foot

Out of and

Into

The fading

Dawn

This place

Is one

O...

Monday 22nd December 2014 6:28 pm

Barefoot

You swap

Your socks

For your shoes

You swap

Your shoes

For the pavement

You move

Your heart

To your

Sleeve

To the gutter

To the stars

You walk

On egg shells

Tiptoe

Through the

Roses

Balance

On the thorns

Pretend

The spikes

Are a

Pivotal change

In your life

You do

What you

Have to do

And sometimes

You mak...

Friday 19th December 2014 10:48 am

pictures of living

Angels of stone

Cut from

The rock

Of humanity

Shaped in the

Form

Of the thing

We think

We should

Be

We carve

Wings

On statues

Because

We are safe

In the knowledge

That stone

Is solid

Reinforcing the fear

That

We can't fly

We hide

In our dreams

To escape

From the shadows

Shut our eyes

Tight

Because we

Do...

Tuesday 16th December 2014 11:57 pm

Lists
Words
In
A
Line
Lives
On a track
Things
To do
To not
Forget
Or at least
To put
Our minds
Into some
Kind of
System
Or routine
Though
For what
I'm never
Quite
Sure
Regulation
Sense
To stop
Us falling
Off
This planet

We love
Our lists
Maybe
They help
Us
Make sense
Of
This
Nonsense
Maybe
They provide
Control
Because
It seems
Above
All else
That's ...

Tuesday 16th December 2014 11:30 pm

Road Kill

It came
From nowhere
A plastic bag
Tossed
Between the cars
Pirouetting
Cartwheeling
Turning
And tumbling
Until
It landed in front
Of me
And at the same
Moment
As I caught a glimpse
I felt this
Bag
With my tires
And it wasn't
A bag
At all
And though I still
Hoped
It was a rag doll
Or a broken
Discarded
Umbrella
It wasn't that
Either
And through
My rear view mirror
I f...

Thursday 11th December 2014 11:06 am

All the little fishes

I waited
A long time
For them
To die
And when they
Did
I filled
Their space
With lots of little
Pieces
Of my
Imagination
Trawled the
Internal net
Of my
Own mind
Crafted where
They had been
With what was
To be
Lovingly
Obsessively
With clarity
And with vision
So please
If you will
Tell me
That with all
That time
And effort
That love
And loss
The acceptance
And the r...

Wednesday 10th December 2014 11:56 pm

Silver light

Sometimes

We have to

Get it

Wrong

A bit

We have to

Lock horns

We have to

Fight

The wrong battles

Make the wrong

Choices

Do the wrong

Things

Sometimes

We have to

Because

If we don't

We can't ever

Know

When it's

Right

And when it's

Right

We know

We got there

And the curly

Whirly

Pathway

Was the

Only ...

Wednesday 3rd December 2014 11:05 pm

Poet-tree

A poet

And their

Daemons

Need time

Though forced

Alone

For never quite

Comfortable

With the rattle

Inside

Their heads

They crave

Company

To keep out

The silent

Noise

The whispers

The alarums

The realities

Which play

Past present

And future

Inside their

Heads

Endlessly

And if they can

Manage that

And not

Go p...

Tuesday 2nd December 2014 10:38 pm

Life tales

They took

A boy

And painted his

Skin

Each line

Of trouble

Each time

Of danger

Each and every

Lesson

And they thought

He was willing

And maybe

He was

Or maybe

He'd been

Pre-programmed

To wear

His life

On his skin

With his heart

Full of secrets

And his mind

Full

Of wonder

And surely

All those things

Are too mu...

Tuesday 2nd December 2014 2:42 pm

The Fall

You know

That precipice

You stand

On the end

You look down

Maybe you see

Traffic

Maybe you see

The sea

Maybe you see

Your whole life

Flash

Before

Your eyes

Maybe you see

Everything

And maybe

You see

Nothing

But you stand there

Again

All the same

With the absent wind

Blowing

Somewhere

Between your

Ears

And the...

Sunday 30th November 2014 11:33 am

Silver and tin

And for you

Who don't see

The dark

Behind the

Curtain

I tip

My hat

It would be

A thing

To see

Sunlight

Behind the shadows

And not think

It a trick

Of the mind

We were

You see

Born

In darkness

And

For a time

We were happy

There

Yet now

We've been given

A glimpse

Of something

Shiny

And though

We have no...

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Wednesday 26th November 2014 12:40 am

The sums of life

And fate
usually has her way
Working out the
Sums of life
On her crystal web abacus
Spinning futures
In ways
That to
The human eye
Appear unfathomable
Illogical
Non-sensical
But we can't see
Into the far distance
In the way that
She can
A tremor
Here
A flicker there
And everything turns
Inside out
Or upside down
Or that's how
It appears
To us
mere mortals
But the spiders
...

Tuesday 25th November 2014 11:28 am

Tricks of the mind

And you will

Fade to grey

As they all did

As they all do

I'm not so sure

Your light

Burnt any more

Brightly

Will burn any longer

Than the rest

Of them

Heaped in a pile

Somewhere

In that dusty part

Of my memory

Corpses

Rotting their poison

Spewing venom

Through

decayed jaws

Of

If only

And ifs and buts

And the truth

If t...

Thursday 13th November 2014 9:11 am

Snow White

And it comes

To this point

And I ask

What am I

And I stare

In the mirror

And though

It's not broken

Or even shattered

There are cracks

And amongst the

Tiny broken

Webs of glass

I see

Different parts of

Me

Staring back

Sometimes confused

Sometimes amazed

Mainly bewildered

And in the shadows

In the very

Corners

The wo...

Monday 10th November 2014 9:45 am

Sometimes

Sometimes

There are doors

And you can

Open and close

Them

Bar and bolt

Them

Hide behind them

Or be trapped

Sometimes

There are windows

And you can

See through them

They can shelter

You from the rain

Or show you

Places

Far away

You'd rather

Be

Sometimes

They are so dirty

You can't see

Anything

At all

Some...

Friday 7th November 2014 12:42 am

Sheepless

Sometimes

You have to be

Aware

Of the world

Which wraps itself

Around you

I don't mean

So much

The womb

Or the tomb

Or even

The nuts and bolts

I mean

The bits

In-between

The pieces

We're usually

Too busy

To notice

Because often

They're the little

Signs

And symbols

The hidden robots

And secret assassins

Which point ...

Friday 24th October 2014 9:17 pm

mountains and mole hills

I have

A little thing

It's called

My life

I have a little thing

It's called

My heart

And within

All of this

I have

A little place

It's called

My world

And though

I question it

Everyday

And it confuses me

Every while

Still I wake

And sometimes

I sleep

And I know

How small it is

And how big

It feels

Yet still

I...

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Monday 20th October 2014 10:23 pm

The shove

Everything

Doesn't have to happen

Yesterday

And by tomorrow

Most of it

Will have changed

Anyway

These people

These places

These names

These faces

Empty shadows

Endless corridors

Twisting into

Madness

Certainly uncertainty

Poison and

The cure

Most of us

We have

Two feet

We have a spine

We have no

Particular

Place to be

...

Monday 20th October 2014 2:19 pm

sink, swim or make do

Moving water

Drowns the man

Who stands still

We are not

Here

For mediocrity

We are not here

To make do

I don't pretend

To know

What we are here

For

But pretence

Of a life

Is a cardinal

Sin

And doing what

We do

Because

Other people do

Because

It's what other people

Have done

Because

Other people expect

Because

The...

Friday 10th October 2014 7:52 pm

Waiting in Line

I love waiting
In line
Whilst the one person
Serving
Peers over
Her glasses
I'm not sure
What it is
She's expecting to see
But a long line
Of impatient people
Doesn't make her move
Any quicker
And the person
At the front of the queue
Is clearly
Cut out of the
Same mould
All the time
In the world
No life to lead
Nothing better to do
Than answer
And ask
Inane question
After ...

Tuesday 7th October 2014 12:46 pm

Forever

They looked
Under the floor
Searched the space
Behind the cupboard
And though
They found
Traces of snow
And a sprinkling of
Ash
There was little
In the way
Of what one
Might call
A clue
Yet disappear
He did
And vanishing
He had done
From a place
Where windows
Were for show
And behind doors
Was nothing
But brick walls
There was no
Tunnel of escape
No plan
Or plottings
Of...

Tuesday 7th October 2014 12:45 pm

fragile

There was a hole

In the page

Which

Unsurprisingly

I fell through

Paper thin cracks

And shards

Of dripped

Dipped

And wasted ink

Flooded my pores

Painted

And pained

My flesh

As the lost ideas

Of women

And men

Wept their way

Down my spine

And the world

From below

The whole of the

Paper

Was a papier-mâché

Mask

Of malcont...

Wednesday 1st October 2014 7:40 am

Simplicity

And the joke

Really

Is on us

With our tin hats

Leaking

In the rain

We all like

The poison

Too much

You see

We all like

The damage

And it fascinates us

An impossible knot

Tangled

And the more

We pull at it

The tighter

It gets

Yet what we don't see

Is that we strangle

Ourselves

Admiring the tiger

Fearing the stripes

And the...

Sunday 28th September 2014 11:49 pm

Wonderland

I saw it

The mirror

And I thought

For once

Why not

So I stepped through

Took on

The glass

The reflections

Of myself

The mercury warnings

The steps beyond

And as it

Melted

So did i

Pleasant shards

Of pain

And understanding

Hope and dreams

And it washed me

Through

Into a place

Where I could

See myself

And you

And them

...

Saturday 27th September 2014 8:32 am

You know

I've been thinking

About this

About the capital

Letters

And the line

Breaks

And the short

Unpunctuated

Sentences

And often

People

Ask me why

I guess

This is how

I see the world

And life

It is not

Smooth

It is not easy

And when it

Is

We do not

Think

We do not

Learn

For these times

Are fragmented

...

Friday 26th September 2014 8:20 pm

Telling

What the hell
Happened here
It would think
If it was capable
Of thought
As it wandered
Around in circles
Its head
Nodding in step
To its feet
Which was the way
It had always
Been
But something was different
And not just
The pain
In its head
And the blood
On its feathers
It had come
Out of nowhere
The vicious attack
For apparently no
Reason
Or none that it
Could remember
T...

Friday 26th September 2014 3:14 pm

Tightrope

~~Accept
The shape of
This world
Is different
To everyone
With eyes
Who can
See
With their
Mind
It is shaped
By their experience
Positive and negative
It twists
Everyday
A mirage
Of information
Uploaded
Inputted
Rightly and wrongly
Translated
Sculpted
By an amateur
Hand
Shaking
With the pressure
Of everyday
Living
This is not
A failing
This is no
Malfunction
This is...

Wednesday 24th September 2014 10:18 am

Wake up and smell 'em

With our rings
Of gold
And our hearts
Of silver
And our lead boots
Waiting
To trudge
Out to sea
We pour through
The gaps
Spill through
The fissures
Spitting and
Snarling
And bleeding
We glare
At the pirates
As we shuffle
Forwards
To collect
Our pieces of
Eight
And we punch
Our drunkeness
Into the faulty
Machine
Mechanically logging in
To the clockwork
We al...

Friday 19th September 2014 7:41 am

Gesundheit

Sometimes
I get to
Thinking about
Ordinary silence
The space
In between
When the black
Of your mind
Colours
The places
Underneath words
When the pictures
And thoughts
Line up
And the hum
Of the sound
That lies
Underneath
Drips through
Your consciousness
Painting your thoughts
Into ideas
Until the circus
Inside your head
Spins and whirls
And the shadows
Become people
...

Friday 19th September 2014 12:47 am

Time Bomb

You want to know
About the spit
And the sawdust
Shit
You haven't
Even seen
The blood
On the floor
The stain
In your hands
You feel
Your heart
Beating
And you blame
Everybody
Else
This rattle
Isn't a vibration
Of the earth
It starts
Deep within
It builds
Until
It comes from
A place
You think
You don't know
And then
It explodes
And you don't
Realise
You have
A gun
...

Wednesday 17th September 2014 2:08 pm

Fancy Dress

Sometimes
I open
My mouth
And people
Look at me
Goggle eyed
Or bored
And they
Yawn
Or say
You're deep
You know
And I'm not
Deep
I'm not anything
I'm just tired
This thing
Isn't so difficult
It is
The way it is
And if i don't
Spend
A bit of my
Time
Looking at it
Thinking about it
Well
I guess
I might as well
Not bother
And then
I might as well
Walk
With the zombies
...

Tuesday 16th September 2014 1:25 pm

From whence they came

They walk
With their eyes
Climbing the fences
Whilst staring
At the
Green green grass
Below
So close
And yet so utterly
Out of reach
The spectre
Of their once-wings
Ruffle
Below their over starched
Shirts
And their fingers
Twitch
With the ancient memory
Of freedom
They bend
At the knees
And waist
Like all good servants
And hiss and curse
Under their breath
But their ...

Monday 15th September 2014 1:22 pm

The factory

Sometimes
I feel
Like there
Are things
I'm supposed
To do
Places I should
See
People
I should know
But
You know
I feel
Like I'm trapped
In this cabin
Under the sea
Above the clouds
And though
There are no
Bars
I rattle them
Anyway
Along with
My bones
My sanity
My madness
And my
Sadness
And I see the
Big wheels turning
And I see
The spaces
Where the magic
Should...

Sunday 14th September 2014 11:06 pm

The mechanics

And sometimes
It's a shame
When you don't
Understand
The heart
Of understanding
When the pistons
Fire
But they miss
When they
Bump and grind
But they're
Left
To their own
Tune
And though
It's all about timing
Sometimes
It's about
Misfiring
And however much
Oil and dirt
However many
Mechanics
You throw
At the problem
This machine
Is different
And to caress
And touc...

Saturday 13th September 2014 10:44 am

Naturally simple

I know
How this world
Works
When I look
Through the
Fog
And the madness
I can see
The nuts
And the bolts
And the loose
Screws
Spiralling
Under the table
Nesting
In the dust
After all
That's where
We came from
That's what we
Are
And trying to fight
The invisible forces
Is ridiculous
Because
They're not
Really there
They're simply
A product
Of a man made
Stamp
Wh...

Friday 12th September 2014 5:37 pm

The Shadows of Clouds

Tiny eyes
Stare
Through magnified
Lenses
Blinking at a world
Hidden inside
A fragile and
Unknown mind
Seeing nothing
That is real
Obsessed
By ideas of other
People's lives
And dreams and stories
Made from
Candy floss
Blown by an
Internal storm
Carrying them away
Some place
Where they can't
See
Where they can't stand
A spinning carousel
Fed by
A haunted
Feverous...

Thursday 11th September 2014 8:01 am

Space Ape

I'm a step
Out of time
me
Part spaceman
Part robot
Practically futuristic
Leaping from
This dusty world
That is past
Before the future
Has blinked
Floating through
This bubble life
Oblivious to all
That surrounds
After all
Once we learn to fly
We don't have to worry
About the rats
Below
Whether they have
Tails or not
As long as they
Don't have wings
They can't touch us
...

Tuesday 9th September 2014 3:50 pm

The Poetry of People

Part the third of my experiment

please watch

http://youtu.be/BEefmiQbOUM

Tuesday 9th September 2014 7:52 am

The Circus of people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMmXXjBAp_I

(Part 2 of the animated show i'm hoping to perform. Please watch the clip- any comments are very much appreciated)

And the thing

About clowns

And their mystery within

All the like

And dislike

And the fear

And delight

The disguise and deception

The obsession and performance

Of the circus

That is people

When the...

Sunday 7th September 2014 11:56 pm

Bobbing for Apples

There has to be
So much more
Not this place
Full of squalor
Not this hole
Of steaming piss
And alcohol
And long lost friends
From here
There
And everywhere
And nowhere
I'm so tired
Of dirty holes
And laughter
Born of boredom
Of people
Barking
Everything
And nothing
Find me a ditch
Away from it all
Away from the dirt
And the drudge
Dredge my soul
I found my limits
And un...

Sunday 7th September 2014 10:19 am

The Seamstress

She cut people
From the cloth
And dressed them
In paper
Scribbling expressions
Of life
In wild crayon
Across their skin
She stitched tightly- lipped
Mouths
So they would be careful
Of what they said
For want of splitting
Their faces
And odd buttons
For every eye
Sometimes one
Sometimes three
To excuse
The double-vision
Of all the others
Some shiny
Some dull
To stop anyone th...

Friday 5th September 2014 8:43 am

The Burden

And we pour
Our souls
From shrunken lives
Withering vessels
Pretending
To hold
Heads high
And salute
Whilst the hard earned
Salt
Drips from
Our skin
Our eyes
Until we turn it
Into silver and gold
And some of us
Moan
About working
And some of us
Grumble about the
Pressure
Of not working
And all of us
Struggle
With getting
So many things
Wrong
Bleeding back
Into th...

Monday 1st September 2014 7:42 am

Shooting Angels

Most of us
We try
To scratch out
A living
With our broken bics
Blood and ink
Dripping meanly
In a vague attempt
To trace the idea
Of a future
From somewhere
Deep inside
And paint it
Against the world
With its cruel way
Of crumbling dreams
Just before
We reach them
Or wake up
Or both

And we struggle so
To make sense
Of this endless
Nightmare
Envying the wings
...

Sunday 31st August 2014 10:50 am

Water and sand

Think about
This fountain
It is water
From the sand
It is the movement
Of the moon
It crashes
In waves
It breaks
And it falls
And it moves
You
And within you
Whether
You like it
Or not
We are water
We are sand
And we can
Build castles
And if
You think of
One thing
Before you sleep
Remember
The ever changing
Of the desert
And think
On it
A while
Those dunes
Have...

Thursday 28th August 2014 10:16 pm

Dust n bones

When the fire
Has burned
And the ice
Has melted
What sits
In your soul
What makes the
World go round
Who are you giving
The chance
To work
Their way back
These cogs
Need oil
These spokes
Need constant
Repair
The bitterness
That rests
Deep within
Is only a mirror
Of your outlook
Honesty comes cheap
Happiness is a hat
You can wear
Or crease
These battles
Aren't batt...

Thursday 28th August 2014 1:08 am

The Way

I think
That's the beauty
Of life
Everyone
Is fluctuating
On harmonies
Sometimes
It's the right
Note
Sometimes
It's the right
Key
And sometimes
It's not
And pleasure
Is pleasure
Not a chore
And though
We might screw
This up
And we might lose
It now and then
It all comes back
And we nail it
Long or short
And that's just
The way
It has to
Be

Wednesday 27th August 2014 7:36 pm

The Horses Don't Run

And out of the
Wind
Come the
Waves
And out of sight
Comes the mind
What I'm trying
To say is
These things
Happen
These things
Surround us
This world
Is full
Of life
And you can spend
All your money
On a horse
That didn't run
Or rain
That didn't
Fall
Or you can
Look
At everything
Around you
And walk
Steadily
Along the
Shaking
Earth
And as long
As your feet
Don...

Tuesday 26th August 2014 10:05 pm

The Truth

Some of us
We'll drink
Til the cows
Come home
Some of us
We'll crawl
Til we get home
Some of us
We'll bay to
The moon
Until the salt
Burns
Our cheeks
And some of us
We'll look
At the stars
Waiting
For them
To fall
But you know
The truth
Like I do
Some of us
Is all of us
And we might not
Know much
But we do it
The best way
We can
And those animals
These sheep
All ...

Tuesday 26th August 2014 11:56 am

Journey man

These human animals
They're dirty things
They chew the scraps
Fill their boots
Spill the beans
Minds elsewhere
Thoughts anywhere
But matching
Ignorant breeding
Ignorance
Feeding the view
They have
They see
Of this place
Governed
By a man
In the sky
And excused
Because
The desire
To read the stars
Outweighs
The sense
To see
The stars
Without
Making lizard like judg...

Monday 25th August 2014 2:37 pm

The Witch

And she stood there
With her face
Pointed to the wind
Nose twisted
Twitching
Ready
For the signals
She didn't even know
Were being
Sent
And her hunched shoulders
Were forced to face
The ground
Which she only ever
Saw as
Dust and dread
And I wondered
Where the witch
Was
Or had gone
Where the curse
Had come from
Where the withered life
Which had wrecked
Her soul
Before s...

Sunday 24th August 2014 10:29 pm

Walking

He chewed on
The fat
Though in these
Lean times
There was little
On his plate
But bones
And he chewed
On his thoughts
Though the nights
Had been long and dry
So his ideas
Were sparse
He chewed on his jaw
And ground his
Boot into
The dirt
Looking hopelessly
At the sky
As though the clouds
Might make a picture
Of the answer
Even though
For most of the time
The question
...

Sunday 24th August 2014 9:08 pm

The Bone Shaker

You want me
To search
My soul
Honey
I spent my life
So far
Doing that
You want me
To know
Which way is up
All I learnt
Is that kind of search
Brought me down
You think
I don't want
To dance
With you
Take those steps
Baby
Those steps
I learnt from the womb
But
You know
That heartbeat
I've not found
Since I smelt
The air and
These roses
They don't smell
So fresh
...

Saturday 16th August 2014 4:32 pm

Empty plate

It's not going
To play
This way
See
Take off
Your blinkers
These horses
They're good for
Running
Riding
Working
But they aren't
The people
On this funny farm
And the cattle
They have
Their eyes
Wide
And they look
Forwards
Because only owls
Can look behind them
And I guess
There's a reason
For that
Forget about
The whispers
And the ticks
And the barflies
And the b...

Friday 15th August 2014 6:52 pm

Retreat

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You can take
A bit of my sky
You can hold
My thunder
Underneath
Your world
You can rattle
The bars
Of the machine
And plump
Your pillows
To feather
The lies
You walk upon
You can take
The lightening
From the lack
Of forgiveness
In my eyes
And breathe life
Into the rats
That you frown
Upon
With such
Disdain
But to survive
And remove yourself
From
The pedestal
...

Thursday 14th August 2014 12:17 am

Mother Hen

And tomorrow
We shall crawl
Into the belly
Of the big
Metal
Bird
And she will have her
Way
Night will be day
And day will be night
And none of it will be
True or false
Right or wrong
We will strap ourselves
In
Whether we like it
Or not
Our heads will roll
And jerk
And nod
Like the hundreds of
Other shadows
Joining us
In front and
Behind
And we will
Wrap ourselves
...

Monday 11th August 2014 5:31 am

Bombay Train

There's a tv screen
On a train
Playing endless
Black and white movies
No sound
The silent type
Of a man
Or a woman
Or both
Running at slightly
The wrong speed
Sometimes colliding
Sometimes missing
Always carrying
A certain look
Of lost helplessness
Occasionally
A sentence
Flickers
On the screen
And I'm never sure
Whether the message
Is for me
Or for them
Or for the othe...

Sunday 10th August 2014 2:59 pm

Pieces of life

There is a clock
On your shoulder
And its tiny hands
And invisible pendulum
Beat the life
Out of you
Minute by minute
Hour by hour
The bugs and flies
Scatter
Like dust
In artificial breeze
Yet time limps
On
As eyelids flicker
To fight
The inevitable
There is no flight
From here
There is no-one
With whom to form
A flock
And as much as
You'd like to
The pause button
I...

Thursday 7th August 2014 4:32 pm

Looking Glass

I mean
What did you
Expect from me
Huh
Let's both pretend
The answer
Isn't
Nothing
A house in
The country
Two point four
And a four by four
A nice life
And no
Questions
A patch in
The garden
To grow things
A place in the
Sun
To wilt
I mean
Come on now
You're no better off
Than me
Your place is
No greater
Than mine
Is this how
You saw yourself
Through
The sleepy...

Thursday 7th August 2014 4:31 pm

Bugs

They take their tablets
Everywhere
This crowd
Of electronic
Pill poppers
Naked without
Their portable window
Swallowing nothing
Around them
And everything
Brought to them
Through their digital screen
Locked in
Strung out
Hooked all the same
A demented generation
Connected by invisible
Wires
Trawling towns and cities
Airports and motorways
Countryside and forest
Robotica...

Wednesday 6th August 2014 2:56 pm

Parents

You made a man
Though
You knew
And didn't know
What you
Were doing
And you
Probably
Got it right
For all the wrong
And here I am
Standing
Breathing
A multitude
Of all your lessons
You made
A shouter
A growler
A fighter
And you gave life
To
Another sensitive soul
And for all
I never said it
I'm eternally
Grateful
Because
You
Gave me
The words
And the heart
...

Tuesday 5th August 2014 6:23 pm

Teacher man

You think
You got it
Teacher man
With your pay cheque
In the holidays
And the wine
Running
Through your veins
With mr government
On your back
Measuring your
Achievement
Your success
Your sense of attainment
Those little boxes
You build
Out of people
You build them
Better
You make them
Brighter
Whilst society
Claws at your eyes
No longer
Hides their whispers
Of di...

Tuesday 5th August 2014 11:23 am

Water and Air

What's the matter
She asks
Only the weight of
The world
My love
The things
We could be
And the things
We can
Never be
The lions
And the monkeys
The jungles
And the cities
The places
And the people
The mountains
In the sky
The tramps
And the vagabonds
The millionaires
And the paupers
The earth
And its axis
And can you
Change that
Can you mend it
For me
Did you ever ...

Monday 4th August 2014 6:17 pm

Orphans

We're all
Passengers
Sleeping
On the sliver
Of the storm
The lunacy of
This moon is
Wasted on
The insipid
Fallen generations
Forever trudging
Sunset
Dancing on ice
With grace and
Duress
Bewitched by history
Unlearning lessons
Muddying tracks
With pieces of eight
And tears of
Misfortune
Making the dogs
Howl

Lady Dementia
Spreads her icy fingers
Warning all o...

Monday 4th August 2014 12:43 pm

Deity

And it wasn't
Your wings
That made me
Wonder
Or the strange way
You held
Your hands
It was your
Eyes
Staring
At odd angles
Almost as if
You didn't know
Which way
To look
First
And I wonder
Whether
That was a slip
Of the artist's
Hand
Or whether
It was something
Else
After all
If you were
Sent down
And if there
Was
An up
Maybe that's
The way
You have to
...

Sunday 3rd August 2014 6:47 pm

Apeman

What happens
When you become
Too old to pretend
That you are
Tarzan
And
When you look
Into the mirror
It is
Your father's face
Staring back
Whilst your grandfathers
Look over
His shoulder

We all know
This world spins
Though we can't see it
We all know time moves
Though we can't
Always
Feel it
And then
Sometimes
There is
A jolt
And everything
Is throw...

Saturday 2nd August 2014 8:40 am

A Prose Poem- the forgotten memory

So we were driving through. Flashes of countryside and monotony. And these little places pop up now and then as they do. Over the brow of a hill, from nothing there are suddenly colours and smells and sounds and life.

And then they came in swarms.
And he was sleeping in the back of our transporter, as was his want. And they stared and smiled and danced around the vehicle. They banged their d...

Friday 1st August 2014 5:37 pm

Honestly Dishonest

Sometimes there are
Things
You think but
should not say
(Right?)
But it doesn't mean
You shouldn't
Think them
And yet
That you think them
At all
Is a thought worth
Studying
Though I suppose
You can't control
The things
That pop
Into your head
Whereas you can
Control
The things that
Fall from your
Mouth
And though this seems
Like a minor
Even petty
Difference
...

Friday 1st August 2014 5:17 pm

The Visitation

There's nothing wrong
With me
He said
I'm just enjoying
The view
That man is
Swinging
Not hanging
He said
And I feel the pain
And suffering
Of the whole world
There is no bother
Here though
He said
No more than
Any place else
And the more you
Fight
The more you lose
He said
Keep the beat
Or skip it
It's all the same
To me
No one is going any place
Any sooner
T...

Wednesday 30th July 2014 12:18 pm

The pretend past

And people talk
Without thoughts
Remember with fondness
Things that
Never
Happened
Relationships that
Never
Were
Draw pictures of their
Past
Which never existed
Even though now
They believe they
Did
And why
To make themselves
Feel better
To make themselves
Feel real
To make sense
Of the things
They can make no sense
Of
Maybe it makes
Their life
Worthwhile
Maybe i...

Wednesday 30th July 2014 11:07 am

Waiting in line

I sit here
Watching
Old stars
On new screens
And I come to
Wonder
What does it take
These days
To shake the people
Out of
Their rocking chairs
Their lazy boys
Because they all
Knew
Like I did
And they will know
Like we do
And still
They choose
A remote control
Life
With an electronic
Chair
And a TV
With all the
Interaction
And no interaction
And they walk the stree...

Monday 21st July 2014 1:03 am

The search

You know
It's these times
I get thinking
About the sheep
And the shepherds
And I can't tell
Who is more reliant
On whom
So they guide
And they're led
And if they don't guide
They die
And if they're not
Led
They die
And the little dogs
Yip yap
Their way
Through it all
Oblivious to anything
Other than
An intricate sense
Of what they have
To do
And a bowl of
Food
At the en...

Saturday 19th July 2014 10:49 pm

The Fool

Today I feel
My age and not
My shoe size
My thermostat is broken
And my temperature
Is going through the roof
An angry man
Is beating his little drum
Constantly
Somewhere above my
Left eye
And the sweat
Will not stop
Betraying the last chance
Of any secrecy
I could hope to have
Of the night before
I haven't crashed
I'm not broken
But I'm as close as
I could be
Without falling ...

Friday 18th July 2014 1:00 pm

Stolen from Radio

It's a morning of
Infinite possibilities
And everything
Might change
Showers heavy
Thunder likely
Time to cut away
This knee high rough
Heads are in the valley
Waiting to
Break the news
Afraid of losing
Their ground
Habits are shaped
Dependency and addiction
Form
And the lady of sunlight
Crashes through
The clouds
Shaking her golden locks
And spilling them
Across the sky
...

Thursday 17th July 2014 11:23 am

Washing Line

This thing they call
The future
Happened
Yesterday
This thing they call
The past
Will happen
Tomorrow
There are so many
Names for things
And so many drawers
And cupboards
There are chalk lines
On the floor
Waiting to be
Drawn
Waiting to be washed
In the rain
Whilst the skeletons
Dance in
The thunder
And the water babies
Drown in the puddles
This mirror
Ripples
In the...

Wednesday 16th July 2014 5:40 pm

This thing we do

Sometimes
It's nice
To be nowhere
No rush
In getting
Anywhere
Walk the streets
Feel the
Cobbles
Watch the world
Turning around you
Whilst no one
Knows
Maybe they care
Maybe they don't
And my feet
Move
My heart
It beats
And thoughts
Drip only
As you
See them
Now
Nothing to think
Of
Nowhere to
Go
The dusk
And a dirty
Bus
All falling
In front
And
Behind
T...

Tuesday 15th July 2014 10:21 pm

It is what it is

All in all
Things work out
It seems to me
That this is just
What they do
So you can
If you choose
Worry about
This way
And that path
This person
And that monster
You can lose sleep
Over tonight
Or tomorrow
Or today
Or the things
That have already
Happened
Or you can
Simply
Let them happen

An old man once
Said to me
Let be
Be
And though
I understood the words
I didn't ...

Tuesday 15th July 2014 12:36 am

Prelude

You want to know
A story
It begins
Once upon a time
And took place
A long time ago
And it was about
A little boy
And a little girl
Maybe they were brother
And sister
And this happened
And that happened
And there was probably
A witch
And a wise old man
And a step parent
Of one sort
Or another
And magic was
Present
Because that's how
Stories
Go
And the worms wriggled
And the...

Monday 14th July 2014 2:49 pm

ink stains

I crumple the
Notes
Because
I think
That's the best
Thing
To do
With worthless
Paper
It measures
Nothing
But ink
That has no matter
And it comes
And it goes
And it always
Will
If you
Try hard enough

There's always
A bar
There's always
A beggar
And there's always
Me
and I'm
Never
Quite sure
What it is
That
I'm pleading
For

Monday 14th July 2014 10:42 am

Milk

I never
Check my change
Because
At the end of
The day
How much change
Is going to
Happen
Without my
Knowledge
Without
My control
Without it happening
Anyway
Regardless
The silver and gold
Left in
Your pocket
At the end
Of the day
At the end of the
Night
Will or won't
Be there
At the end of
It all
Whatever is left
Is left
And there isn't
Any point
In crying
Ab...

Monday 14th July 2014 12:48 am

The Meeting

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Today
I met my own
mortality
For the first time
And she didn't look
In the slightest bit
How I expected
To be quite honest
She had no
Distinguishing features
At all
Blended right in
With the motorway
And the traffic
The road kill
And the crash barriers
On reflection
It's possible she
Wore a knowing look
The one that says
It happens to us all
What makes you think
You'r...

Saturday 12th July 2014 8:58 pm

Rage

Draw a map

Trace those lines

With care

And with caution

Shade them

With anger

Remember

You have been

Here

Before

You will be

Here

Again

You can scratch out

Crooked little cobwebs

Wherever you go

And when

You look

Back

If you are able

Or when you look

Forward

And pretend

You came from

Nothing

Then

You can choose

If you...

Friday 11th July 2014 2:04 pm

The Circus of People

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And the thing
About clowns
And their mystery within
All the like
And dislike
And the fear
And delight
The disguise and deception
The obsession and performance
Of the circus
That is people
When the curtain falls
And the make up's
Removed
The shadows peel back
To reveal
Us
Staring out
From our
Badly lit mirrors
With our watery smiles
And our hapless eyes
And our costumes
In pi...

Thursday 10th July 2014 10:48 am

Knotted

Today I discovered
A heart
made from
An elastic band
Someone had tied
A knot in the top
And a knot in the bottom
And twisted it
If I toyed with it
Too much
It lost it's
Shape
It was stretchy
But I knew
If I stretched it
Too far
It would snap
I could feel the tension
Between my fingers
So
I stole that heart
And now it sits
On my desk
Staring
And I wonder
If it will be
Noti...

Tuesday 8th July 2014 11:52 am

The Awakening

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And sometimes
Things transpire
They gather together
In secretive groups
And offer you a
Hand
In the shape of
A fist
From within their
Shadows
They punch you
Hard
And square
And fair
And shake your senses
Out of themselves
And back into
Reality
And for a moment
You see things
As they are
And you are both
Detached
And reattached
To this sham of
A life
It doesn't take long
...

Monday 7th July 2014 2:24 pm

Circles

I've done this all

Before

You know

And I want

To pour out my words

But my words

Are just the

Same

The feelings

Are just the

Same

Nothing changes

As much

As everything

Seems different

And I suppose

It will be the same

The next time

And the next

But this time

More than any other

I tried everything

And it still

Wasn't enough

And ...

Wednesday 2nd July 2014 1:16 pm

Easy now

Find the calm
Filter the pressure
Take the pace
Down a level
These things
They don't have
To run at
A hundred miles
An hour
The world
Will still be there
Tomorrow
As will most
Of the people
Let your mind
Heal
Let your head
Rest
There are too many
Things
To worry about
Over which
You have
No control
Whether this happens
Or that
Today
Or tomorrow
Is both in
Your han...

Tuesday 1st July 2014 9:27 pm

The mechanical hen

I know
The mechanics
Of this world
And they are
Ruthless
Robotical
These things
We have learnt
To call
Feelings
Go unnoticed
The machine
Rumbles on
Always
Forever
There is always
A spanner
Some oil
To make sure
That the cogs
Keep on turning
Because
They always will
Wether you
Stand up
Fall down
Dream
Or don't
This world ticks on
And always will
And the dead
They...

Tuesday 1st July 2014 6:51 pm

Under

Let's undo the
Hinges
Let's see what lies
Deep inside
Unscrew the brackets
Open the cupboard
Punch holes
In the side
Of our heads
Suffer the pain
That lies
On the other side
Of what we know
Tread in the place
Where the doors have
Been closed
For so long
Tread the dust
Tempt the mania
Scare ourselves
A little
I do know
What's inside
I know
The slugs
And the cobwebs
I k...

Monday 30th June 2014 4:19 pm

The Deal

Remember the man
Who turned to god
Because he sold drugs
Badly
Got beaten up
Badly
Got in
Over his head
And prayed
Sat in a car
Got taken
For a ride
Cried
And then
Another man
A bigger man
Maybe the big man
Personified
Stepped out of his
Own car
Leaned into the window
Said
I know
Your problems
I know your
Enemy
I know their enemy
And it's not
Your fault
And the smaller...

Friday 27th June 2014 11:10 am

The Sulk

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And I suppose
What it comes
Down to
Is ordinary patience

With irrationality
And impossibility
There is no fight
To be had
There is no
Point
In impatience
For the argument is not
Between two
But between
One
And to heavily
Coil the spring
Against impossibility
Is a waste
Of everyone's time
Especially your
Own
So roll a cigarette
Open a beer
Read a good book
Let the ...

Thursday 26th June 2014 11:48 pm

The escape

At night
She took out
Her eyes
Took out
Her ears
Took out
Her teeth
Regressed
Into that
Alien
Embryonic state
And prepared to fill
Her tired tortured mind
With another state
Of dream and horror
And inner daemons
And miserable excuses
That justified
Her miserable life
She gasped and moaned
And sweated and turned
Turmoil within
And turmoil without
Until she shook herself
...

Wednesday 25th June 2014 4:29 pm

The Tramp

It's too hot
To sleep
Yet we long
For these days
Of discomfort
When all we want
Is to wallow and bask
To sit in the sun
Let the day
Drip slowly by
Smile at the sky
Listen to the birds
Watch the busy people
Buzzing about their
Days
Trapped in their little boxes
Running their little
Machines
Sweating out
Their busy-ness
And their business
As though it were
The most import...

Monday 23rd June 2014 11:55 pm

Road Rage

The sun is shining
This day is
Going to be
Good
Put your sun glasses on
And calm
The fuck down
Don't chase the
Shadows
The angels and the devils
Will all come to you
However poorly
You manage
Your impatience
Smoke a little
Drink a little
Squat
Squint and smile
This pain is
Only temporary
However long
You try to prolong it
The caution
Signs are plain
To see
It’s that time o...

Monday 23rd June 2014 8:48 am

The end is nigh

All your socks
Are on their own
And there's a party
On the
Window sill
The sky has
Fallen down
Though the moon
And its light
Creeps through
And I hug myself
To sleep
To wake
Wondering
Always wondering
As I wander
Through the desert
Of broken
Empty bones
Calling the flies
Away from the
Bar
Queuing endlessly
In a rush
To get where
I'm going
Before I've been
Anywhere

...

Sunday 22nd June 2014 9:16 pm

The Wavering

Some say

She left the tap

Running

Because she was

Hurtling

Head first

Into a tumble of

Life

Some say she did it

To drown out the sound

Of all her ideas

As they spilled

From her pores

And dripped as tears

Forming puddles

Of what might be

Others say she did it

Because

Of the worry

And the strain

And very pain

Of a troubled

...

Friday 20th June 2014 2:10 pm

This Gig

Sometimes
It's interesting
At these things
Watching the sweat
Pour from
The ceiling
Fill the floor
As sound floods
Your ears
Like every other
Pulsating vibrating sound
Produced in this
Artificial sauna and hot tub
Of supposed
Enjoyment
Some people
With no affinity
To me
On a stage
With no affinity
To them
Sweat in unison
Trapped in a sticky soup
Without our
Jungle
But amon...

Friday 20th June 2014 8:47 am

fracture

Once
I had a leaking bucket
In which I collected
My time
And I looked
Occasionally
At all the broken
Seconds
And fractured minutes
Wondered if there was
A glue
With which
I could piece it
All
Back together
Wondered if
It was worth it
I thought about
All the lost
Time
And why I'd bothered
To catch its
Fragments
In a piece of
Plastic
A man made object
For a man made thing
...