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Wednesday, 3 September 2014

Findhorn

The dust of previous occupancy
Smothers any possibility
Of individual reckoning

Like a swathe of blankets
Thick in felt and embroidery
The weight of others is overbearing

Yet this place
Names itself
The centre for community

I wonder
Why do I feel so estranged
I determine to retreat to the pebble beach

Take solace with the solitary fisherman
Cast my cares to the clouds
Throw my woes on the rolling sea

The talk turns
To Finnish-lodges
In the heart of the forest

A place to sauna
& swim
Au natural

That sounds
More like
An engagement with life to me


Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Truly Lost

He was in a city outskirts shop doorway
Head in his hands he sat befuddled
The drink had hold of him
He clutched his navy blue carrier bag

No amount of explanation
Could he take in, on this night
This night
That was only yet in late afternoon

I won't ever see him again
Neither wonder at his whereabouts
Except through these few sparse words
Adios amigo



Monday, 1 September 2014

Van Mildert’s Portrait

At first I thought of it as a week of my life
Without a single memory 
I sat in the cathedral and pondered

Did I not go on to the rooftop
Was it not possible to look down on the prison
Are these simply, a nowadays, imagination

I am more certain
Of a formidable figure hung high
In the university dining halls

He was overlooking
Indeed overpowering the diners
As they sat in the refectory

As they stumbled through their lunch
As they remained, strangers one and all
Who left my life, without a single memory


Sunday, 31 August 2014

Airborne Consciousness

An urge somehow to contact a part of me, what part I don't truly know, but to contact a part of me with a part of someone other

By contact I mean a closeness, the sort of closeness that the word intertwined leads me towards; minds, bodies, souls, breath, intertwined, in contact, a closeness

Yet in this one room, with it's lustre and patterned wallpaper, how is it possible to transport or transfer anything more than voice or image or words written, how is it possible to soak wilfully into some other body

The key might rest in excitement, I stroke my body, there is an excitement, an energy that I link to another's body, to another's facial expressions. The excitable mind might be the basis of our transmissions

With my eyes closed I can visualise a rose, a deep red rose set against a black and silver mesh and denier backdrop

These connections are of passion, imaginations of Eros delivered through symbolic imagery that lays the forces of sensuality bare with expectation

Are these transmissions received, is anyone, anywhere in receipt of this hyper-power, are these super signals within received from any other transmission than ones own mind, soul, brain, body or ego

What is possible?
I set out to sleep with transference in mind, goodnight



Saturday, 30 August 2014

Dark and White

The word I chose was egress
The word you chose was egret
Both had a part to play in departure
Both played some part in recovery

Fortune favours those who depart
Whether with or without their will
Fortune plays her part
As they sit on the window cill
In search of all but doubt

The word I chose is neat
Petite yet swell
It tells me I've told you
The rest can go to hell

The word you chose
Will be from a wider vocabulary
Likely carry more gravitas
Yet, as this night draws in

I believe that words are our solace
& that this truth goes for the all of us