I can’t remember the day that he arrived; not that it now matters,
He has just always been there, a pillow of memories.
In his warm dark eyes he saw the happy times of Christmas when despite his rejection as the mountain bike and computer games stole my attention he remained loyal.
Yet in those living plastic eyes [...]
The derisive charm of a train that never stops,
it allways stays with me.
Orange fields, open moons,
A country open wide,
Through a window,
Before the viscous sea wild.
Far away, underneath a thunderous sky,
That builds rolls and falls beneath volcanoes,
Into August raindrops, shining rails
That run away from the windowsill.
Endless Distance.
Honesty lost in the trees,
Rolling east into the sunrise,
Awake from [...]
Green grass Sundays,
Papers in the park,
Brown skin lazyness,
A careless beating heart.
*
Slumbers in the shade,
Swim across the sky,
Ice cream slowly dripping,
With the toddler’s tearful eyes.
*
Frisbee spun in circles,
Toddle, race and run
Hampers sit in sunlight,
baked by early Summer’s calm.
Limbo is a tube train at 12.49pm,
Limbo is belief, desire for a destination
No direction in how it can be achieved.
*
Limbo is the fragility of a love, left judged by insecurity,
Limbo is devotion lost.
*
Limbo is the eyes you have always looked into,
The lips you’ve never kissed,
Limbo is softer than she wanted,
Limbo was the thirty seconds she [...]
Beneath the window, looking down at the London leaf papaya,
Beneath the shivering tree,
All the day’s rushing, submerged.
*
Thumpng vein, dizzy heat, wrinkled steam,
Guts and organs floating within a wobbling cell,
I hear the drip, drip, drip, of the cold water tap.
*
The ship creeks with the weight of it’s ocean,
The tiny shreeks of nudity,
that come from a seabed [...]
City summer heat, bad dreams, stuffy street lamp nights,
Spinning visions of how big the world seemed to be,
When she was just a few hours from flight.
No thoughts of the things we could be, twisting hopes of careless might,
A vision of the world we see, feet slowly trapped in the sodden tide.
*
Something beautiful in the sadness [...]
A firework sparks to shatter the crinkled sky,
Gunfire in the valley.
*
A sparkler’s ember in the wet bog lies,
The landmine waits endlessly.
*
Explosions echo in the emptiness of night,
Old homes, evacuated buildings.
*
Faces of amazement, lit up like fireflies,
Heads bloodied with machetes.
*
Dogs barking running from the dancing fire,
Children hiding from murdered mothers.
*
Night’s silence marking the end of the [...]
The day is done, tomorrow waits
Slow sinking winter sun, slides down the icy sky.
*
A stick is thrown across the dew drenched grass
Dog’s running back with warm wet smiles,
Tail franticly bobbing, ‘wont you stay a while’?
*
Steel cold playground bars,
Hold the children as they swing around on a clinking chain
Higher, higher, higher,
Mother holds them back again.
*
So joggers [...]
Held inside your open hand,
Laying upon your patterned dress,
Sleeping beneath the oak tree,
While the sun reluctantly set.
*
Shadows drawn out across the park side,
Yellowing news on a crinkled page,
You asked me what I was thinking,
I whispered back your name.
*
Quick kiss, the lake that glistened,
Children chasing butterflies,
Toes touching, grass stained trousers,
Eyes rolling to the sky.
*
Hit high into [...]
Words of anger, words of revenge, fly like dust through the air.
Words don’t settle; they are left twisting in the storms of our memory.
Ruptured by hate, splintered by division,
We can’t understand, what we cannot see.
Death and destruction borne out in their tears.
Bloody walls, spattered and spurts.
Easeful death is a luxury, Blasted to bits.
Women in black, [...]
