Poetry

Saturday, 9 March 2024

Devotional diet

 Goally, rolly

And a carpet of peas

Rolled up in a blanket

Set out upon seas


Fire and a banquet

Lamplit reliefs

Sugar candy mountains

Rotting young one's teeth


Rapacious raptors

And captors of belief

In capacious chapters

Read from pulpits beneath


Stone arches and bridges

Of a midnight's grief

When all the walls fall

We put up in good faith


Shattered the wrong foot

Chews its pavement of souls

Walking down the road

Of little self-control


Too much self-control

Leads to a traffic jam patrol

Where people cram in queues and ram

Their heads in petty polls


Changelings and shapeless things

Make jelly fish stands

Where octopus sell shellfish

And the selfish understand


Jealousy is a jellyfish

That stings and holds on tight

And will want to wrap its tentacles

around your throat tonight


But the beach is full of lost souls

And the sea awash with fish shoals

Diverting and divining the right

And searching in a rockpool for

Merciful relief

That all the pearls are oyster tears

Down along the beach


I walk my dog, my wolves are packed

Like sardines in a tin can

And the ice cream man he sells my soles

To footpads of the caravans


Which come past

Like camels cast

Ships' shadows out on the ocean

A followed fast

The murky mast 

creeps out of misty motion


My love is a lark, and sleepless dark

And dendrites of devotion

For thought sparks

The potted past in history's looking glass


Why do the seas, in constancies

bring back what we have thrown them?

Regurgitate the waste and hate

We've robbed and de-robed them


The shadows cast and I am last

To leave the rotting lotion

Of foam stuck fast to friends faces past

I once loved with deep emotion

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