Uninvited
Uninvited dinner guest, Forcing us to set another place, Demanding to be the centre, Overwhelming, centre of everything, All focus drawn to magnetic personality, You had always been there, hiding in the shadows, The worm in our apple of life, Who will you visit next? Who will feel your hot sticky breath on their neck? [...]
I will remember you – Christchurch, 22 Feb 2011
I will remember you.Through jandal summers, Meat pies heated and forgotten, Through bare-footed wanderings, I will remember you. Your mail keeps coming, cat meows for answers, Rolling-over – you’re not there, I vowed to never cease loving you, to keep it unbroken I will remember you. Frosted morning, clear days Cathedral rubble and a thousand [...]
Ukraine
By the time you get this I’ll be gone,They are coming, machines not men,There’s a lull now, in an intake of breathBefore the gods of wind and war will blow,This nameless place,A hill by a marsh, under a tree, by a road,You won’t find me – don’t try,Your letter is all I have of you, [...]
Depression
Look at me.My hands are dirty but my heart is pure,My brow is furrowed but my heart is soft.You’re the only beautiful thing here,Sitin’ on the roadside,Pushed together by despair’s rough hand,By falling together into a pit,Endless black, hopeless – then I found you.It found me. Love found me.You’re looking at all I have,I see [...]
I Got A Letter
I heard you’d been called away,To fields turned mud and the poets,The poets died, poems lived long,You lived your life on the square,On the up and up – no doubts,There’s a creaking on the door,Wakens me out of dreamy state,Postman’s got a letter, here’ some news,Its about poets dying,The cost of lands rising,Used to be [...]
Moon
White-knuckle ride,White-knuckle ride, I’m going to the place where nothing survives,Where no one dies because no one lives,Helter skelter, jump on 10,Slingshot wonder, hearts racing again,Slide-rule party – duct tape wonder,It’s a mission not job,Interplanetary evangelism,Reaching-out hands to the invisible,And the ride never ends, What goes-up should come now,3 men, a dinghy and some [...]
