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