Poetry

Saturday, 9 November 2024

Questions Where AM I?

 On what enlightened bay

Do the tides of time descend?
On how sweet an afternoon
Of light astray
Can the scarlet pimpernel festoon?
Where do the oysters catch?
And where do the gulls loom?
In the fasted Lapis sky
Beneath the hay making sun
How does the bracken grow?
How weaves the stinging nettle?
Through what thistle do the finches whistle?
Or over what cliff is heard
The peregrines steaming, screaming kettle

How comes it that I am here?
For to tell what enters mine ear?
And why for do the black birds mew?
Or the crow caw, caw
Or why do the rabbits run, lapis lapidary
Lapin lapping the blue from the sky
The yellow from the chicken sun
The silver from the harvest moon
The white from the clouds undone

How comes it the temperate chain lies unbroken?
The wind to cool, the sun to heat
How is it that words left unspoken?
Best describe this nature’s beat

Ode to a Buzzard

Oh Buzzard

Harbinger of death
Augury man above
On your miracle, spiracle of breath
What did the Roman’s make of you?
You man of War, of ides
The soothsayers look up to see you crossing the sun
Of their dark days
Skull as a battle warriors helmet, visor down
Omen days

Buteo, buteo
Occipital holes, below heavy brows
Beyond is the world
Within the oracle of her mind
The subuteo men go walking beneath
And she is like a goddess
Who holds their belief

Come visit this isle of the dead
A suitable repose
To make your hunting ground
And roses’ bed
You are always above roses and poppies
Scavenger, scanner
Of starvation’s horizon
The hunger circumference of your vision
Which fades with the sunset
And its ring is set by the stone
Of the moon.

Ode to a Peregrine

 Forward, forward all ye sea cannons.

All ye barrages of the swell
Here I stand in my cliff cabin
Knowing ye intruders well
Forward, forward screech
Ye of impossible reach
The scream of alarm into your soul
So schooled in the art of the fooled,
I am a witch on a broom
A thoroughbred racing down a fell
I am an instant in your time
I wear the disguise of death,
My hues and clothes demark me well
I am your first and last breath

Peregrine am I,
The Lord of the sky
The high Sultan of the Salty Perch
In my crow’s nest
I am scarecrow, caw, caw
Black the congregation of my high church

Fall in ye gulls, ye gabbling ranks
Commoners take turns to fish the sea with thanks
I thank not the gel,
Nor its green brown pell-mell
I am as quick as honey, I smell with my flanks

These eves of rocks I chose for the view
Those shore leave in the docks show
Where my shadow sheaves
And time me on clocks
I make landfall before Eve
May pluck an apple for Adam
And let it fall from her sleeve

Hunting a pigeon on the wing
It is a smidgeon of a thing
For what I enjoy
Is to play with this toy
As a train racing track
When I attack
I smother and sting
With Talon and Beak
I rend skin from wing
Then back to the nest
I deliver the rest
I am the postman with the fastest letter
I am the messenger king
The carrier of carrion
The bringer of tides
Don’t shoot the messenger if you dislike what he brings
Whether evil tidings
Or indiscernible things

The message did not return one evening
The bird was not heard
The vital war time correspondence
Fell silent in my mouth
Yet its secret I kept safe
For I did not speak a word

Thursday, 7 November 2024

Fooled myself

 I've fooled myself again

Schooled myself I'm vain

In the mirror of my mind's eye

I've seen me live and seen me die

On stage but always I must try

But I try and try in vain


All these tears fall down my pane

Like the years that fall like rain

As the leaves fall from the tree

I've fooled myself again


I'm Peter Pan, I'm Peter Pain

The love I've lost I can't regain

But in her ghost I see in vain

I've fooled myself again


We synthesize our souls don't we

The plastic you the plastic me

The Moon I see is made of cheese

I've fooled myself again


So show me something real in me

I want to know what it means

Am I just an actor in a scene?

I've fooled myself again

Dinosaur song

 First I was a live

Then I was petrified

Didn't know how to keep on living

In an Earth of fives

5 million dinosaur

Five degrees zero

After the five comets flew over

And one meteor blew

Oh the sky got awfully dark

And the sun it never grew

And Earth was like a black hole

And I fell into one too


But I'm just a tyranosaurus rex who

Got petrified in a landslide

And now I'm coming back home to you


Oh now yeah

Turn on the lights

Wake me up now

I've had 60 millions years of nights

And I'm ready for my come back

Ready to be the king who rules

Over this beautiful earth my friends

I wanna genetically modified

Monday, 4 November 2024

Samurai Sigh

 It's like a war between us

The body counts are high both sides

And blow for blow

We were friends now foes

We take an eye for an eye


But I am not looking

Though I seem to see

The Victory flag raised in field

That separates  you from me


You have won the battle

But I have won the war

When all your sacred cattle

go walking out the door


Separate signs and diversions

And symbols in the dust

That come of steely incursions

In the hour our words rust


Give me all your versions

Of your truth I know are lies

And I shall hold them in my hands

And hold them up to rainy skies


Let them fall between my fingers

Let them turn into the mist

For only that now lingers

When I remember how we kissed

Saturday, 2 November 2024

Moon face

 Now I don't think that you

Are all you claim to be

Because you hold the key

To my heart

And if art could be true

Why then I'd be with you

But you see that we 

are always apart


Oh hold the moon in your hands

I will try to hold the sun in mine

But you should choose the

Silver dart

Just know that the golden arrow

Hit my heart


In the day I love you

But in the night I love art

And I paint your image

In my head

If you ever shed a tear

Then remember me dear

For I will remember you

When you're dead