Poetry

Wednesday, 20 November 2024

The Bloody Chamber

 We've read about necrophilia

paedophilia, and sarcophagia,

Never was it sillier than in the hillier

foothills of Transylvania, 

it was real turn pager

 blood sucking villanella

Sometimes a bit like Norman Mailer

But always made me chillier

Like on a cold November

But let's always remember

Not to forget the Bloody Chamber


There were hounds of love

And bats that bite

There were velvet gloves

And sword fights

Pistols at dawn

And chilling cold nights

Til you almost gave up your birth rights

As in a cold November

So let's all just remember

Not to forget the Bloody Chamber


Carter was smarter

Than a dumb darter

Her arrows hit the mark

Her archers were marchers

Who walked with triumph through the dark


Her heroines were Amazons

Her Amazons were Transylvanians

Her heroes were English men and women

But so were her villains

The Marquis did some bloody deeds

All grown out of twisted lily seeds

Of Ancestries that forced him to dismember

So let's just remember 

in this cold November

Not to forget the Bloody Chamber


Her mirrors were clearer than the hearer

With the lupin lugs

Her hugs were colder than the shoulder

That to a lover shrugs

Her characters saw themselves

Finally walk off her bookshelves

And into bright sunlight

And even the moon could sing her tune

And sew her yarn through silvery night

So let's remember on this cold November

Not to forget the Bloody Chamber

alright!


We've read of Dukes that make you Puke

Counts that had to mount

A child meek and mild

And pure as driven snow

Driven mad by his desire

She melts like ice in fire

And it's in the seeds the countess sews

A Countess I confess

I couldn't count a less

Unless she wore a headdress

made of Desmond Tutu's

Underwear

But a panting and a vamping

Went Lady of the House

Camping out under the stars

Of Jupiter and Mars

And Lily Plants and Geraniums

Rose gardens and Mister Lyons

Falling from Iron railings

And fathers breaking cars

And a daughter who never oughta

had got with that sorta

Fella, 

but at least he was a beast

And not a Vampirella

All under my umbrella

ella, ella, ella

Just like Cinderella

Sweeping up her Cinders

In the kitchen cellar

On a cold November 

So let's all just remember

Not to forget the bleeding, bleeping

Expleting and secreting, let's have

a secret meeting

I'll get some dead meat in

Bloody Chamber

Alright?


There were spaniels with

Jack Daniels

Pulling thorns from Lyons sandals

And midnight candles

Burning in the halls

There were vandals

Door handles

and phones

There were crones and bones

And stones

And Exs and hexes

And four poster bedzes

And medes of witch doctor

Tones

There were juvenilia paraphernalia

Not a paranormal failure

Nor a whiff of a storm

To be seen

Just a dream or a nightmare

Just Christ or a grizzly bear

Bearing his teeth at me

Devourings and showerings

With dollars for dowries

And flowery soury swedes

And powers that be, and powers that won't

And the wont of the seas

And the tides and the moat

And votives and motives

And ravens and cravens

And graveyard eyes of big blue skies

And whole goodbyes

And half moon sighs

And long white lies

Like fingernail size

That grow in your hand

In the night

On cold a November like this

So let's just remember 

Not to forget the Bloody Chamber

Of Angela Carter

Alright!

Homophones

 Buy some new shoes Hungary

sole - soul


Will that bee be on the flower in an hour?

Our house in the middle of our street.



hour - our


In an hour we will be at our house

In an hour the bee will be on our flower

I keep my soul in the sole of my feet

It's way passed the hour, our hourglass is passed the time in the present not the past

Two bees or not to be said the hour to our hourglass

Monday, 18 November 2024

The harder they come

 I was on the up

I was ready to fly

I was so hung up

And left out to dry

But I sure messed up didn't I

Well the harder they come

The harder they fall


I was all used up

On a dirty road

Far from the sump

Of the motherload

The gold was dark

And the dark turned cold

But the harder they come

The harder they fall


So slew me now

So that I may die

But be quick with your draw

Mind that stick in your eye

You know they'll make you turn

Or they'll watch you burn

But all you can do

Is die or learn

So the harder they come

The harder they fall


Just like that rock

High up on the wall

The harder they come

The harder they fall


And it could be a boy

Or it could be a girl

But the harder they come

The harder they fall


You could be a pebble

Upon the shore

When the tide comes

up you're gonna roll for sure

Because the harder they come

The harder they fall


And how many are there

Who could answer your call

When the lights go down

And the curtains draw

The harder they come

The harder they fall


And some nights are hard

Too hard for sure

When there's no shoulder to cry on

Except the shadow on the wall

The harder they come

The harder they fall


Don't make up your make-up

Before your tears start to stall

I won't believe your eyes

Before you believe yours

The harder they come

The harder they fall

Sunday, 17 November 2024

How to be alone

 I never learnt how to hold my own

Before I met you

I never learnt about the great unknown

Before you kicked me out of house and home

I never learnt but now I'm learning

how to be alone


Oh the tiger's of the night they 

are my rescue

Growling mouths and eyes bright

stalking through the fescue


And if you turn to me and laugh

About how all the photographs

Come out overexposed or under

Developed


Then I'll say I was learning how

to be alone

Thursday, 14 November 2024

Stop wearing my heart on your sleeve

 If we can make it through to Christmas

Then

Maybe it won't be half so bad

If we make it through to Christmas

I will laugh and shake hands with your dad


My heart was on the table

In the heart transplant

I really thought him able

But the surgeon said "I can't"

"I can't do it, Frank!" 

"This isn't what I was meant to do

Now I'm starting to cry"

Go on and pass me a tissue

I said to him look here Steve, just try!

This is your job

Just try to be a professional

Get back in the Zone

And make whole the decimal

He said, no I won't, I'm leaving

Now that's what I'm going to do

But I cried you can't leave

Why not, you can't stop me!

Well you're wearing my heart on your sleeve


Oh at least donate to me your kidney

Or play me the smallest violin

You must surely be kidding me?

But Steve said I'm maudlin

I said Steve, I don't care if you're Admiral Nelson

Or Napoleon with one arm

You can't leave the operating theatre

With my heart, you could do me harm

Come right back in here this instant

And put it back where it's meant to be

Attached by the left ventricle

And by the pulmonary artery, is that clear


But Steve did come back and he attached it,

But his head wasn't thinking straight

For he attached on end to my nose

And I've had more nose bleeds of late

Then he tried the right ear

And oh I filled up with blood

It wasn't that I was seeing red,

but that auditory canal did flood


Finally I said Steve

Put my heart back where it's meant to be

Sunday, 10 November 2024

Hove

 Heave ho

There are the cliffs

Westward bound

Heave ho

Shove off the sandy banks

In these mermaid ground

Low lie the jellyfish

Wriggling and writhing

While I'm in the crows nest

Rigging up the line 

Then

Hove, there she blows

She hove into view

Heave ho

On the line

That brings her into view

Over dunes falling down

Like deserts of sand

A thousand diamond water droplets

Crash in my hand

Heave ho

And the fluke splashes the water

Heave ho like rebukes

run from the mouth of the daughter

Heave ho as the lances

Shove in for the slaughter

All as the whale hove into view

Come through

 Did you come here?

Did you come there?

Did you come through for me?

When the night starts to darken

And cold is the air

Oh did you come through for me?


Where are the fireworks?

Where's the marching band?

Did you come through for me?

Where are the jugglers?

Sword swallowers and

Did you come through for me?


I put it in your hands

I left it up to you

Oh did you come through for me?

Did a landslide happen 

Did it slip out of your hands

Did you come through for me?


While I was looking for salvation

Did you make a stand?

Oh did you come through for me?

I was condemned to resignation

Like a wanted man

But did you come through for me?


Once I held the cup of nations

But you left for a foreign land

And didn't come through for me

Now I'm calling out on all stations

We've got to make a plan

I've got to come through for me