The kalash
Shape-shifter-deliverance:
All that is, is not,
Numbed into meaning:
Sansculotte.
Occasional flowers,
In a city without sleep.
Miss Bo-Peep
Dreams in the sky,
Counting her sheep
As time passes by..
Moon people kiss,
Not like normal
People do.
Animals in the zoo
Dream their dreams with a broken heart
St Stephen with a rose
In and out of the garden he goes
Looks up at stars that travel far
Meets dead men in cemeteries
Bottled in a jar.
Climb to the edge of snow,
Sees occasional flowers blow,
Sit here, for hours and hours
Deciding what not to do.
Forensic examinations
Scatter the remains:
Fragility of a body
Bound around in chains
Devil's-in-the-detail
Condemned at the root.
No roof for the orphan lad
It’s nothing but the truth
On a precipice-by-the-sea,
Peculiar ways of thinking
Stay alive in me...
Russians worship icons,
Chinese they have smog
The promise of deliverance,
Is a false prologue.
Remains of thought and feeling
Echo in the brain;
Flower into vestiges,
Nothing stays the same.
John Marks
Sun 10th Mar 2019 21:28
Thanks Lisa. I try, in fact I'm very trying!? John