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Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Devil of Disruption

I walk the streets
Head down
Let me wallow
God let me feel sorry for myself

Before I read
Of the indisputable truth
Before I learn any more
Of the irredeemable I

These are not my walls
This is not my house
I am but a journeyman
The current luminaire

Simply passing through
I will though not just be
I will move on, I will
Become one thing or the other


from 
Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo
Christopher's Poetry collections can be found on iTunes and on Kindle by clicking the highlighted links

Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Patient

It was a kissing night
Kissing, kissing, kissing
Several days of kisses
Then a final kiss
Pressed against the ancient tree

You with that broken look in your eyes
A sorrowful damaged look
Though a look which finally said
Yes, now, eventually
I do so want to kiss you


from 
Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo
Christopher's Poetry collections can be found on iTunes and on Kindle by clicking the highlighted links

Monday, 30 September 2013

Suitcase

Lindens in that place above and below
Shared by earth and sky
Sapling by sapling with the Rowans
Set back, or rather set forth of the Weeping Willow
Born of timeless barks shadows, upon the Silver Birch

Would that these definitive species
Say something equal of me
As with your butterfly
That entered on the waft 
Of summers midday breeze

Tea, served on a companions tray
New friendships begin
Host and traveller
An overnight guest; we walk a parkland walk
Soft talk, dreams blended with meditations

Back at the piano, Satie's Gymnopedie plays
Pages turn on the endlessly symmetrical score
Gardens with lilacs, roses in bloom
Iced Martini, lemonade too, brimming over
Conversations; preparation for the after dark

A meal of suggestive spices, delicately laced
At table set, with wine, in impeccable taste
The best of clothes, perfume chosen
More than to say hello, before candlelight casts shadows
Onto that place where only our shadows are allowed to go


from 
Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo
Christopher's Poetry collections can be found on iTunes and on Kindle by clicking the highlighted links

Sunday, 29 September 2013

Heaviness of Light


I send you this splash of wave
Ask only that your letter distills the droplets found
Deep of sound unbound within
Make pure gin of the hope and the hip-hip hooray
You are coming to stay, if I am to have my way

I send you this chaos theory of a rectangular box
Ask that your fractals are light beams to bounce
Pronounced to climb and creep within
May pebbles skim on the pond like sea-swells
To tell of sands & play, dare that we share one day

Gifts from a time with time to contemplate
It is late, later somehow in the dark lined room
With the music of Anouar Brahem on the waves
Caves of grave generations without and within
May the perimeter of string pray to defeat delay

Travel with the fairies, dance with the fey
Only in our profound isolation
May my imaginations venture and climb
Soak up the rhythms; redefine denial, of that long
That long last loss, that one long lost loss of longing resign




from 
Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo
Christopher's Poetry collections can be found on iTunes and on Kindle by clicking the highlighted links

Saturday, 28 September 2013

Purple Sage

Twisted, two obligations
Various considerations listed
Insistent, feel the lost thoughts lost again
Abstain, you are tied to, lie as to self the same
Upside, downside, cushioned comfort field or frame
Lain with those extrapolated and pilloried stains
Regain a mind at once so clear, free of fear
No more of Baudelaire or Stenigot, not now
Not then, no paradise of shock, no lock of hair
As silk slipped frost, all cost subscribed fulfilled
Drilled into safe emotive cells, wellbeing that dwells
On the printed page, that tells of itself’s own story
Through the spoken word, so absurd
No reader, no listener, no viewer, no friend, no word
From the past or the future, only the untold echoes
Reverberations that you heard but could not put
To a time or place, as if the race and the line, the
Call of mine, mine, mine; sublime in it's truth
Dutiful youth to wayward...
Struth how might you hold on to this
Old stories been and gone, levitations and escapologists
On the silver screen, what do we mean
What do we mean, what do we mean
It seemed straightforwards, to tell of hurt 
In that the void of breath, or blood should
Be so impossible to state, unable to relate
As flowers wilt and waters dry, as passions rise
Their chosen time closed to cry try, try, try
Let her go, let it die, say no more, be so fly
As to tell it never mattered, may you scatter
Letters, sounds, utterances, the found remnants
Of lust and love, to be trusted by expense accounts
Recompense to follow old and trusted paths
Last laugh and all that; crap, you never said
Dead until death us do part, let's start again
The day of it, the all but forgotten Zane Grey of it
The absolute pure flight and foreplay of life


from 
Elbowed Out - Love of Listening to Michelangelo
Christopher's Poetry collections can be found on iTunes and on Kindle by clicking the highlighted links