Fallen Leaf

I am a bully
I know bullies too
I am a bully
There are bullies at the zoo

The zoo that is the office
The zoo that is the mall
The zoo that is the schoolyard
Where angels seldom call

I do it for protection
I do it for a laugh
I do it without warning
There is badness on my path

Protection from the suffering
Being the brunt of all the jokes
Calling without muttering
Tied up, helpless left to choke

I am a bully
A bully through and through
You only can be a bully
When you have been bullied too

You too there in the office
You too there in the mall
You too there in the school yard
Where the bullies true do call


a poem from the collection Some Trickier Poems - Love with Conflicts - available as a kindle download or library item by clicking here

Deceive

I see you in your cell
dry stale bread
lukewarm tepid water

I take you to another hell
with talk of geese
in V formation

Flying free over Rutland Water
swell you say
it’s good of you to remind me

You talk of deer
of mountains, of polar icecaps
of memories, that you may live to slaughter

With no desire to dwell I shuffle
Some half hearted explanation
it could have been me was the gist of it

Nevertheless I turned away
I smiled a wry and wicked smile
for I was rather glad that they had caught her








a poem from the collection Some Trickier Poems - Love with Conflicts - available as a kindle download or library item by clicking here

Sounds Cape

Sibelius
Are you with me
does the word take you anywhere at all

Shadows made of life
silhouettes in a white or a greyer snow
are you with me
does the brightness take you anywhere at all

Minimalist backdrops
to the foreground of all our dreams
Only the silence pulls apart the tension
Are you with me
does the theatrical take you anywhere at all

Blood drops on the canvas
the initiation, with a knife of gold
Stalactites, mites in close formation
Are you with me
or does the rite of passage leave you cold







a poem from the collection Some Trickier Poems - Love with Conflicts - available as a kindle download or library item by clicking here

Background

It is a cool breeze
on the shoulder
Reminds me, how old
I have become

The northern connection
as if to smoulder
confides in me, I’m told
no more to run

Ancients, older than modern
whispers sweet trespasses
He waits
for the moments to reassemble

Moments, cold, almost frozen
waves in her hair
laughter in her eyes
sweet soul trespasses

The breeze is alive
in a northerly direction
On leaving one so stubborn
She decides to settle in the South


a poem from the collection Some Trickier Poems - Love with Conflicts - available as a kindle download or library item by clicking here

Rise, fall, surprise

Yesterday was autumn, or so you said
Today, in the sunlight,
are these the last throws of the summer

The Wagnerian crescendo, raucous
over the mountains, falls silent; floods,
once rampant fade calmly down the valleys

The monotone memorials travel on the leaf,
shimmering; invisible crests are embossed
within the fabric of our journey

Yesterday was autumn, or so you said
Instead, shrunk in short sleeves,
surprised again by the curtain calls of belief


a poem from the collection Some Trickier Poems - Love with Conflicts - available as a kindle download or library item by clicking here