Poetry

Showing posts with label countryside. Show all posts
Showing posts with label countryside. Show all posts

Sunday 12 September 2021

Country boy, city girl

 You're a city girl and I'm a country boy

Why don't we give it a whirl and see if we can't enjoy

Each other's company like a pearl enjoys a clam

You can live in my world, girl I know that you can


You won't change your colours like a leopard changes spots

And I won't change my temperature or run from cold to hot

And if we can come together and agree on each other's terms

Well I can see through your eyes and we can both just learn


We can come together like a city and a park

Never mind the weather when the sun turns to dark

There are many of us out there too many to compare

But if you can live in my world we can live right there


Here we are together through the summer and the rain

All the crops grow so brightly, greens are not in vain

Sometimes I get envious of the world I left behind

Well if I could live in your world why then you could live in mine

Wednesday 24 February 2021

Sun down on the West

 Sun down in the west

With the children breathing fumes

And choking on the China

Porcelaine news


Sundown on the West

And on all existence

As we wander into an uncertain age

Of Tv crews abuse


Sun down on the West

And the factories spewing toxins

In water streams for us to consume

And they it is all for the best


Sun down in the west

With the birds flying backwards

And the fishing lying on their backs

Breathing their last


Sun Down in the West

Oh see this life's lifelessness

We all struggle for righteousness

But are consumed by greed


Sun down in the West and my figures

Crack, are thrown on the wasteland

Of disease

And the scrap yard of broken dreams


Sundown on the West

Men lie broken shoulder to shoulder

Capitalism is not blest

They find as they get older


Sun down in the West

Communism's beast growls

Somewhere in the East

Hungry for the rest


Sun down in the West 

And it is all fools gold

Chasing after what has sold

And what we never really need


Sun down in the West

The promise of a dream

Crumbling in the scenes

Of Mountains and Mississipi


Sunday 24 May 2020

Heaven in Hell

And it is all just a little bit like
Heaven in hell
Your brothers they know you
Your sisters know you well
And this is all a little bit like
Heaven in Hell

The songs are like stringlets
The birds like silohettes
moving across the sky
Like burning cigarettes
Against a dying sun

The bog of tears
Like a rollercoaster
Floating in the sunrise
Like a May fly
over the pond
Daddy long legs in the corner
Of the ceiling bouncing off the wall
Joy of you is reeling
From the corner of the hall

There is a pulse in the blood in the walk of the fool
There is the song of the sea in the nautilus shell
There is a memory of my mother showing me
This Heaven in Hell

There are bricks and mortar
Sticks and stones
Bread and butter
Blood and bones
And all of these I know too well
As I walk into this Heaven in Hell

Song of my father, song of my son
Song of my daughter like a reflection
Down a well
Speaking from the forest
Speaking from the cave
Speaking from unseen trees that fell
Talking about a Heaven in Hell

Dogs in the dirt road
Talking like an old toad
Baking in the hot sun
Hiding under a stone
In the shadows of a tolling bell
Ringing out for this Heaven in Hell