Consumption

I awake, awake with anger
Say in my mind all I feel of hate
Work the words of badness
Work words to grate
Grate all my feelings
Grind them to dust
Work through the torment
Clear an absent view
Open closed pathways

For the rest of the day
Crippled in chaos
Crippled from to do
Know that I have to
Know no desire
Grovel, grope inside
Grieve, leave behind
A weight that’s consumed
Consumed my kind











a poem from the collection Painted Toenails in Nortons Grate - Love with Varnish Appplied available by clicking here

You

You gave me my reason
I took it without thought
You gave me my freedom
I took it
I took it and I forgot

You gave me my belief
I took it to crush
You gave me my outlet
I took it
I took it to destroy

You gave me hope
I took it to devour
You gave me love
I took it
I took it and lusted for more










a poem from the collection Painted Toenails in Nortons Grate - Love with Varnish Appplied available by clicking here

Play with Words

Midas, Minerva
Miracle, meek
Blessed, beautiful
Bronze, bleak

August, artisan
Anthropoid, aardvark
Neanderthal, narcissus
Nordic, snark







a poem from the collection Painted Toenails in Nortons Grate - Love with Varnish Appplied available by clicking here

Equal to Zero

Commitment
Equal to zero
Never, not ever, except if its o.k.
Fall in line
Join the queue
Open time for rejection

Pity is not
Ever selected
Parting shot, failing words
Nothing more than meaning
At that instant in time
Opportunity bespoke

Courage to have no conviction
Desirous of freedom
Flee to be free
It just does not work
Any other way
Corruption without care

State the obvious
Pour the rhyme
Steer to be
That is the way
See if you risk
Losing it all

Read the line
Create the image
Cloud the issue
Take it on head first
Take it to task
Neglect asymmetric action

Proud to beg
Upstanding to fall
Crazed with distortion
Extinguish the anguish
Obliterate desire
Mask any malignant hope

Wreak havoc and teardrop
Crush chaos and cause
Eradicate ethereal thought
Bring into some being
An alternate
Hope




a poem from the collection Painted Toenails in Nortons Grate - Love with Varnish Appplied available by clicking here

Practitioners law

Out of everything evolves another thing
Out of each situation
Revolves another relationship
From where to eternity
Walks every one man

In to every love nest walks out a situation
In to every wrangle wrestles fear and hope
From where to affirmation
Will is upon every one man

Up to every level place is another pace
Up to every reality is a separate blight
From where in modernity
Expectation is expected of all men

Down, in the deepest creeps another heartache
Down, for ever to forage in desperation
From where to creation
Craves one man, and one woman alike


a poem from the collection Painted Toenails in Nortons Grate - Love with Varnish Appplied available by clicking here