After 8

a** after 8 **a
These lizards tired sprawl
Wool business suits flap
A clumsiness to movements
Weariness of Time has them trapped
What energy once exhaled
Now parched the evening finds
Thoughts are rich yet tethered
By the falling of pulsebeat
Escape of all to sleep
In the gaps between each word
Mind a tiny nap occupies
And what was or could ever be
Sliced aside and gutted
Roadkill in the private lounge.

Sleepwalkers of Summer

** Sleepwalkers of Summer **
These long summer nights
Blue stretched lycra sky
Swollen Sun uninhibited beaming
We beneath bugs on the grill
Roads weep tears of tar
Dogs exhale noisily beneath bushes
Birds try to avoid flying
An oven heat consumes the air
Heavy in limbs and drowsy in mind
Sleepwalkers of Summer stumble
Ever onward in search of satisfaction
Wanting to live this time
Cavort and frolic in perspiring air
Be unbound unwound and free
For know beyond Summer heat
Closed doors and shutters of Winter cold.

Great leap to work

** great leap to work **
Another day of wake and fly
Intercity flight to save a ten hour drive
Instead a bus crowded flight of an hour and a half
The rub is the early wake-up call
The waiting for the plane to depart
Loading and unloading of bags and attitudes
Plying your high altitude flying ways
The benefits are seeing dawn on the wings
Clouds nitrate silver gleam
As on the runaway crouched waiting
For the takeoff leap and day's proper start.

Wait

* wait *
Words and deed and fire
The olden tales the best
Monsters are realistic
Lifted from malevolent evil
Nestled in a simple soul
From such uncultured nests rise
The spirits of our terror
Frightful fears of dark night
Between lightning flashes
When wind drags its talons
We catcha glimpse of something
Which evil caem this way
The travelling monkey of destiny
Pointed finger of fate
In every story participant
And real life must right now wait.

Light bright

** light bright **
Sun bright sun light
Scores windows clean
Turn mud to solid ground
Drains marshy Winter puddles
Gives us lift and sets dreams
In warmth and tranquillity
Bees fly and buzz
Birds in excitement flutter
A sense of Spring
Rebirth is the occasion
Waking from the dark
As days stretch longer saving us
From depths of grey tyranny.

Left

* Left *
Dream me a life
The constancy of occupation
Small bridge between here
And the sameness of tomorrow
What could ever be
Choices to be considered
Some decisions once made irrevocable
Others less significant than thought
No escape from life to lead
Only from channel life flows
Until all moulds broken
We have only the shattered pieces
To mark what was and what was formed.

* Radio electric dreams *

*-+- Radio Electric Dreams -+-*
Listening to music forgotten
Once rejoiced in by a younger me
Brings forth a tapestry of memories
Glass fragments of youth in my heart
Seems rapid world slows
Distance between the me of then and now collapses
Bridged by melody and lyrics popular
A million million heard the tune
And back then it was not so special
I would have marked it out for attention
Yet now it is a forgotten used train ticket
Discovered in a coat pocket
Connection to memories past and feelings once fresh.

An hour of tidy murder

** an hour of tidy murders **
These murders often sleep disturb
Images of blood and bullet pocked corpses
Howl of police sirens
The gaped last words of significance
The unravelling of evil aims
How their procedure yields the same
From a fly speck of evidence
Build an irrefutable case
No cries of sound deadener not blood
No misdirection or failed detection
Every guilty party is conclusive found
Arraigned and judged and no escape
While innocent are always freed
Allegations against them proven baseless
An hour including advertisements
Of tied up life in little bows
Where truth and justice win out
And no one about human rights does shout
The wrong doers get just desserts
And our heroes never desert justice.

Manic

**++ Manic ++**
Silently the heart creeps
Silently the heart leaps
Exultation in internal chaos
A war of inner moods
Excitement despair surges black
And always ebb and low tide
The stinking waste exposed
Of carrion picking crows
A murder of them strong
Elsewhere rooks are gathering
Black in form and black in thought
The devil's birds and first to arrive
Before the battle fought
They live to strip the corpses
Bone gatherers on the wing
These beaked monstrosities
No spell there is to ward them off
Of darker sorcery are they
Brought forth by the dark dog
Whose paws in your tracks ever be
These are the harbringers of the dark
The pit into which you inevitably fall
After blues skies and champagne thoughts
Effervescent confection of world's delights
Filled till you can fill yourself no more
When the mood turns dark and sore
Beyond the edge of light
Turn towards pitiless unending night
Away from all true and fair
Into the infernal sink-holes of despair.

Corporate days

* Corporate days *
No pyramid build shall I
No babylon tower to the sky
My achievements will be dust
Even before I am laid down I trust
The things I have done of little consequence
Yet they were for more never meant
An evolutionary tweak here and there
Gaining a shift in perspective
Trying to bring forward the issues
Which encumber someone's everyday
Make safer someone's investment
With which someone else may wish to play
Defining what is done and how
So better doing can be done
Make it easier smoother less stress free
Explaining to those who have a must to know
What occurs and when and so many why's
If laid end to end circumnavigate the globe
Victories are often small
Battles never fully won
Always a loose thread or run
Which must be brought to rest
Always the shift of change
In this monolith of myriad parts
The politics to be straddled
Against inertia to be battled
As the work of business tidal
Rises and falls and always flows
Through good days and through bad
Of profit loss boom or bust
Simple tasks done well always must
And with commonsense tuned keen
Pragmatic decisions made which keep
A company firing on all cylinders
Interests of employers employees shareholders and customers
In equilibrium notable
For the persistently shifting target
Of what constitutes corporate success.