Most days I would try to write a poem; it is a practice, as I suppose is meditation, or smiling, or watching the world go by
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Slip
The words walk behind
to half catch the contemplation
to make a sense of not a lot to do
All the while there are whispers
in the gantries of the molecular mind
Trickle, trick. trickle, trick, trickle
All these hours all the while
whispers behind the conversations
Did you think, trickle trick
that would be the thick of it
to make a sense of not half to do
a poem from the collection Some Trickier Poems - Love with Conflicts - available as a kindle download or library item by clicking here
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Farmer’s boy
Easier
to drift off as the cowboy
Settle back
without a time to capture
Young boys, racing towards youth
Young men
blinded with lovelorn fractures
Easier
to drift off as the cowboy
Settle back
without a time to capture
Young blood, given for a truth
Teardrop floods
aching; set aside the tractors
Easier
to drift off as the cowboy
Settle back
without a time to capture
a poem from the collection Some Trickier Poems - Love with Conflicts - available as a kindle download or library item by clicking here
Monday, 12 March 2012
Build up
It is as it is
Or it is,
as we would want it to be
There is a washing line,
of football shirts in winter
of cricket flannels, in the height of summer
There is wanting
in the young girls eyes
but sadness lays deeper with the mothers
There is an ebbing tide
of bottle tops and dinghies
of champagne corks cheerful singing
It is as it is
Or it is
as we would want it to be
There is a smile today
A tear shared with a handshake
It is a sad foray
Pain bared for the mind sake
It is as it is
Or as it wants it to be
The cries of anguish
Set aside in quiet quarters
Cries of inescapability
building up defences
It is as it wants it to be
It is as it is
Sunday, 11 March 2012
Virginia
Folded over, folded in on your self
You reach out, with curled up tips
your tributaries; branches & firm centre line
settled deep from tip to toe
You take me to the harbour rails
let me step upon the boardwalk
All my summer was in the waiting
Only when the seasons change
do you turn into your full colour
Only when the seasons change
are you undone by my wild winds
You are ripped from the red white stalks
torn, you let me pull you into the breeze
You float, without waiting, to my floor
Dry sun, takes away our moisture
dry clear days take away our breath
until the day of gathering when we stroke
and caress; a private life in the public view
a poem from the collection Some Trickier Poems - Love with Conflicts - available as a kindle download or library item by clicking here
Saturday, 10 March 2012
Handwriting
Notes I made
forbade the thoughts
of sloping margins
Suggestions, of my own
that I struggled to cope
without I barge in
a poem from the collection Some Trickier Poems - Love with Conflicts - available as a kindle download or library item by clicking here
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