Unite

Fifty-six hours from parting
Fifty-six hours untying the umbilical cord

Two days, no more
Two days from seeing you before

Seven years and one half from meeting
Seven years and one hell repeating

Mornings of madness
Daydreams of sadness

Days within secrecy
Nights without sorcery

Faith searches for forgiveness
Futile in any other guise




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

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