January 2023 Collage Poem: Put on your Slippers and Kill
Restless spirit casts off his friar’s robe
And steps into the fatal arms of love
Let the wound bleed out all the bad blood
From the shadow monk
Lost hippy dancer takes a drug
To take her back but she is now 73
And no one looks anymore
Monks are too Friary
Mary Hopkins put her slippers on and
Whispered to Mao Zedong – put your
Hand in here and start a real revolution
Live in the slippers of a lost prince
Awaiting the revolution of Manchester Mods
Pesky magpies swarm a darkening pool
As books burn bright in Alexandria.
Nigel Astell
Sat 14th Jan 2023 02:29
A prayer is sent
to save a soul
not a whisper heard
close feelings reach out
peace and love answer
healing a broken heart
all is quiet inside.