Monday, February 28, 2011

Think

*think*

Most of all
I think of you
Perched on that place
With such scenic view
City below not knowing we
Perched above just us two
Enamoured and enarboured close
Sharing kisses warm as toast
Cool night air set aside
As together we two do slide
As A and B on Ikea table mated
So together fit so neatly
Our meeting thus celebrated.

Most of all

*+ most of all +*
Short and sweet
As fudge chunks soft
Not too expensive
No great cost
A little sweetness in the day
A little treat to say
You have been good
Reward yourself
You have been diligent
Explore yourself
You have been you
No more no less
I am guessing fudge
Is because you like it best
More than all the other confectionery
All words or deeds or actions
Most of all I like your lips
Pale and red and oh so sweet
Recharge my heart
Give thoughts sharp spurs
I have decided it seems
For all fudge delghtfulness
You are sweeter and more true
Than small chunks of confectionery
Which I sometimes do.

Someone elses dreams

** someone elses dreams **
Looking back always seems
A tunnel of someone elses dreams
What was happening disconnected
From what was happening to me
Sliding metal grates of fate
Closed behind me as I skate
Ever faster uncontrolled
Into the world of growing old
Wisdom barnacles on hull
Meant to slow me down they tell
I rip them off and count on speed
Allow no deep feelings to impede
The crash when it arrives
Be so sudden complete and everything dies
All the dreams that other dreamt
The perfect me the perfect gent
All are shredded and no more grow
I am dying fast or slow
Mortality has no soul
Death is where we all go
And everything we do before
In peacetime happiness or at war
Counts the same as when we are gone
Having bred or not
Lived or not
To dust we turn
Then electrons unbind
We dissipate into nothingness
Become a part of everything
How we weren't when alive
A being independant and alone
Living fast as we could run
Trying to outrun ourselves
Carrying Death to our own door
This mortality play is complete
We are dead and the good may sleep.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

resolve to live

* resolve to live *
Slow down heart
Deep even breaths take
This is life
No cause for concern
Worse things happen at sea
String the clichés together
Ignore truth of matter
This moment harpoon through heart
Expected and unexpected in same moment
There was not kindness there
In his gaze sorrowly resolute
Only embarrassment and pity
As if in ending this relationship
He had torn down your world
It is altered you think
Slow down heart
Deep even breaths take
Yet is no less than when he appeared
You have learnt some new things
Visited some restaurants
Got some good photos
(Once he is photo-shopped out)
Shared more than a few laughs
And yet on reflection
More entree than main course
Missing some essential ingredients
Such as full appreciating you
Else why would he be wandering off
Slow down heart
Deep even breaths take
There will be others
Different in character and outlook
Perhaps view them differently from him
Believe he was in some way better
Yet his life no longer matters
He can be referred to wistfully
On long Winter walks
As the one who was almost right
A stop along the way not the destination
For your life and heart and love
Slow down heart
Deep even breaths take
Tomorrow marks continuance of life
Yesterday is history
Today a leaf which will fade
No matter how sorely heart aches
Resolve to live anew.

Stone death

* stone death *
These lonely paths
Lost shores of imagination
Cast up upon shoals of sober reality
Beached from joy and passion
Instead steady beat of mediocrity
A mundane rattle in my head
Madness of unadulterated domesticity
As if all life were drained and dead
The doors and shutters closed
An off season hotel emptiness
Own thoughts echo in a place
Which should be crowded with creativity
Every loose washer dripping tap
Every metronomes constant chat
Marking time escaping
While devoid of challenge love or laughter
I die and shrivel up a little
With every passing tick
And at every escaping tock.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Who knows

* who knows *
Who knows what our world
Might be like or care
If events had been different
A lucky musket shot there
A pardon late delivered
A line of law more deeply abused
A decision not to care
If Chuchill died on the veldt
Or Hitler in a WW1 trench
If the communists had been crushed
If loving always made sense
If you had said hello
Rather than just walking by
Would the world be the same
Or so different we would not know
That what had passed was no more
The world in which we lived was this
Our eyes can see no more
And all those shadows of what had been
Decayed and replaced by others
As certain in Time
And just as easily flawed.

True politician

* true politicians *
Certainty uncertainty
Spinning tops and rails
All the horses fall
A true politician never fails
Is the fault of those
Who carried out commands
Winston's bloodied failures at Gallipoli
Those who failed Hitler at Stalingrad
All those little men who could not
Live up to the expectations
Of the politicians supreme
When a rail project goes over budget
Or a computer system breaks
The politicians know where to look
At the workers who got no thanks
Those same politicians keen to rub
Themselves against golden winners
In the pool or on the track
Who through their own efforts won
Shed their sweat and blood
As if the politician by virtue
Of a finishing line embrace
Was a vital component
When the winner won the race
Instead of a distraction
Which cheapens the celebration
And if the result is less
Than a win or a top three place
Politicians not be seen
For such results a disgrace
All the effort and sweat for nought
And politician does not care
Only cares for winners
Those who achieve and need no help
Everyone else a hindrance
In the politicians vision
If could automate the certainty
Remove human uncertainty
Imbue robots with the vision
Encapsulated on a politician's lip
Then always there would be the chance
All things most righteous be
And a politicial dictatorship arise
Whose benevolence or otherwise
Be evidenced for all to see
Howver the jumps are always far to tall
The horses always fall
And a true politician never ever fails.

Friday, February 18, 2011

24 hours from Mecca

** 24 hours from Mecca **
24 hours from Mecca
24 hours from Hajj
The dreams of a pilgrim are many
Of prayers and God and who to marry
One last great effort to show
Holiness of a simple man's soul
24 hours from Mecca
24 hours from paradise steps
Becoming less than a religious chore
Closer you get your soul demands more
To be enlightened and uplifted
No mobile or inanity to be twitted
A moment in a life to be devoted
On your lips words The Prophet quoted
24 hours from Mecca
24 hours from your heart
The trails been hard and many a stumble
Food is poor and accommodation humble
This is a zealous pilgrim's lot
For this pilgrimage earthly pleasures to stop
No need of body in heaven
This journey about the soul's reach
How deep how broad how righteous found
This humble soul with thoughts profound
Changed and charged by focused zeal
The world fades only paradise is real
Beyond this place of dust and sinners
Paradise awaits pilgrimages winners
24 hours from Mecca
24 hours from Mecca.

Carnivale

* *+-CARNIVALE-+* *
The sweat the heat the beat
Rio Carnivale place to meet
Sambaing amazonian princesses
Backpacking explorers daring
Lubricated by wicked rhythms quick
Nowhere parties quite as slick
Jesus watching from Mount above
At a city wide outpouring of love
From golden beach to damned favelas
Pan's music rich does fill us
When the scarlet dawn arrives
A spirit imbued still survives
The Rio scents of tropical sea
A fevered brash fertility
Every sound is Carnivale
Every heart grown carnal
No better place to ever meet
Than Rio in sweat and beat and heat.

New feet

++ New feet ++
Lightly new feet sweep
Across carpet and hearth
No weight at all they carry
New souls full of light
Uncomplicated in demands
A wash of water and love
Feed of milk to nourish
And an excessive load of sleep
Portioned out in bursts devious
To have you up before you found
Deep wells of sleep from which to drink
To refresh and rejuvenate
These new souls bright
Warm as fresh loaves
Tasting ever so sweet
With a single look or smile
Reset your attention
To absolutely complete.

The festering

* the festering *
Lightning strikes unusual
Not letting go standard
Holding too long onto what is dead
Till rots and festers in your soul
Sets a toxic septic poison
Destroying happiness from the inside
Is not until fevered days and sickness paralysing
Has worked its damage to all of you
That find yourself free again
To live and love and believe
In usefulness of relationships
In the good inside others
Till then the madness and sadness settles
And all of life is grim.

Inter-species meld

* inter- species meld *
A snuffling at the door
Followed by a scratching paw
The hound demands admittance
Some family love remittance
A debt gathered in her patrolling
Her barking at butterflies and birds extolling
My family live here move on
I am their dog on me their love shone

A chance of rain tonight
Wind at eaves whispers to fright
Small bodies in small beds
Nightmares threaten in their heads
A saviour near they require
Valiant warrior strong of claw and teeth desire
The hound demands admittance now
Will protect children with ferocious growl.

Soon sound of rain on roof
Signals a worried query woof
At a commercial break someone rises
Hound loudly celebrates life's surprises
As key in lock and door swings open
Hound with excitement barely coping
Bounds in with love and licks exploding
All now is well hound and family melding.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

all the same?

* all the same? *
My heart and social leanings say
They are all the same
We are as identical as slices of white bread
Or lumps of coal
Each only differs in culture and upbringing
In present circumstances found
Or perhaps past slights of fate endured
This wash of humanity
So many racial shades and stereotypes
We are really all the same
And yet my reason begs to differ
Our life is seen through perception's lenses
And if we each have different ones
As if we looked through an individual snowflake each
A unique prism with as much variance
As Notre Dame's lead coloured glass
Defining our lives and incidents differently
Influenced by life and self history
And by culture familial and social
Geographical topographical and metrological
Our world even standing in same place
Even in sharing the same moments
Will not be perceived in the same way
My reason tells me for all my emotive softness
Empathy with these others here
I am as strangely alien to them
As they are aliens to me.

Beating warriors *

* beating warriors *
Drunk on wine
Swooned by kisses
Afflicted by love
A warrior falls more easily
Than to an enemies guns

cease

* cease *
A thousand deaths a minute
Every cell in me ceases
To exist in life or love
Endings so violently complete
Every part of me recoils
Entire being on suicide watch
World cheapens to purely pain
Colour leached from paradise
Numbness of grey constant pain
Such are loving endings
When loving joy does end
A claustrophobia of stillness
Heartbeat is to loud
A clamour torturing
Life without meaning
Voice without sound
No escaping finality
Of who we were and are.

By the bed

* By the bed *
You leave a note by the bed
Sheets turned down and pillows placed
As if a hotel room
And maid has been and gone
This tidiness of mind
No clutter in your life
And your note is by the bed
Waiting for me to read
Fall of lines designed to ease
Pain of you going away
Is me not you I am sure
Will be tenor of your script
I crush the bedspread to creases
As lie myself down to weep
Your note lies unread beside the bed
You called earlier said you were going
A death of intimacy unexpected
Another man held your heart closer
More importantly you had given him your own
The note will explain how you felt
Set my mind at ease
So easy from where you are standing
Bed's hard memories do not ease
This troubled turmoil in my soul
Detacted destoryed and broken
Know I shall never read
Note left beside our bed.

....distant kisses.....

* distant kisses *
The distant kisses lure
Yesterdays interest compounds
All these days shared bind
Become a river flowing which is mine
Dreams submerged in together
Souls grow durable as leather
We felt the heat and the razor
Left us shiny new and lean
Tomorrow another fresh day beckons
Towards dawns light I feel we move
Those distant kisses growing closer
A tattoo sounding at my heels
What we had together
What I had was you
All the storm clouds clearing
Thunder rolls away
Lightning is inconsequential
Only the we still retains potential
Those distant kisses close
Feel your breath on my skin
All days past are yesterdays
All days forward align
Some great plan unseen
Forged in our togetherness
Building what we cannot see
Only looking back can glimpse
The grand edifice of we
As those distant kisses crash
Upon the shore of me
All Time and beginnings and endings frozen
This is the place to be
Loved and in loving never ending
This lover's love immortality.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Ever Love

***** Ever Love *****
Between you and me
Thoughts we have we see
The ideas fermenting deep
Imbue our souls and cells
Internal dreams in sleep
All these things profound
As real as sea or ground
Designate ourselves together
A partnership for better
A union forged forever
Outside parameters of Time or place
Wherever or whenever we grace
Is your face I glimpse
In every lover's smile
In every star delivered kiss
A comet once proclaimed
An entitlement attained
Eternal in form and thought
This love completely formed
Held fit and taut
In every day of life
Every moment or minute long
A pulse both deep and strong.

perpetual Valentine's question

* perpetual Valentine's question *
If a lover meet a lover
Coming through the rye
If a lover hold a lover
As if till Time should die
If a lover set a lover
God of Earth and Sky
would a lover love a lover
Till the day they die.

evolutionary thoughts

* evolutionary thoughts *
Easy courses of thinking
As water simple solutions sought
What we see and consider
Dictates the thoughts expressed
Ideas born from environment
Only environment we know exists
So blinkered strive to think anew
Of from whence life
What shapes and existence it could be
A world of water dominated as is ours
Produces a water based creature
If water were not our habitat
Instead sand or sulphur or gas
From that what would evolution mould
Silicone based lifeforms propogating
Communication via electric clicks
A hierarchy of evolution based upon
One grain met another
Animated by a hidden soul
A consciousness not found or weighed
Shot through with same desires as ourselves
To grow and thrive and create
Would they dream of us
Or have imaginations like ourselves
Bound by environment and fate.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Nothing simple

* nothing simple *
Simple toys amuse
Starkly contrast joy
Found in complex relationships
Over-ridding truth consistent
Humans are simply complex
Ruled by moods needs and indigestion
Rarely able to communicate in entirety
Other than simplest desires
Even then subconscious lurks
Ready to transform simple to perplexing
Or where simple exists
We endeavour to read a deeper meaning
Transposed on every communication
An expectation all perceive in same way
When in fact a separate codex each holds dear
Not always obvious
Even in plain view perform conjurations wondrous
This simple simple ape
Battering away at building relationships
With a limb broken from Tree of Knowledge.

New days

*** new days ***
A new day dawns
As Sun breaks from horizion
This day the first set we say
Of a new year of joy and woe
Laughter and pain
Is the human condition
To be always so
Even in providence most blessed
We can bring forth tears
Though in truth Fate and Fortune
Tend to shift on wind
If one day show visage
By next day or indeed next minute
May scrowl upon our endeavours
Turn the life we lead asunder
From wine bring forth vinegar
Or in joyous reclamation
Where vinegar sipped wine tasted
As the fierce gale upon your face
Turn into a following breeze
Lifting your footsteps and spirits
Towards the goals you had set yourself.

Doubt

* Doubt... *
Doubt waits hovering
Flits from place to place
A brushing touch applies
Insincerity and fear

Afresh the year begins

More than a tenth used, the year 2011 roars ahead