Shoesize
Evening nightmares evade a gibbous moon
With canny sublimation, molten incantations
Meld in candled pen and ink hard silences,
Reams of craven, puerile words, agitate for love
In the face of victory. Love is lost and awkward
Youth undone.
Grimbeau
Scroodles
Tag: writing
January 30, 2015
cruciformiste
Haiku sounds like
Aitchless cockney rhyming slang:
‘Intelligence Quotient’
January 28, 2015
Paulus the Gonk
Gonks: remember them?
stuffed baize effigies, hand size
Felted arms, legs, hands
Little humpty-dumpties
Head on the body
Jumper pulled over head
Secret policemen
Cook’s Wisty Armageddon
Cheap mister-mannish
dolls born in an oil crisis;
industrial strife
times when lights went off at ten
Mine was called Paulus,
A little gnome who welcomed
You to his home in
Densest Pogle’s Wood
It disintegrated
After various drubbings
in the old twin tub
with a sadistic streak
Gonks became old hat
Space Hoppers were the next fad
Never had one, still drives me mad.
January 28, 2015
Snowdrops
Four walls
do not a prison
make,
nor iron
bars a cage
there’s other
stuff
as well
January 27, 2015
Candescence
When
everything
is said
& done
then what?
Eh!
January 25, 2015
The Offering
Perchance
or deft planning
a scoop of baleful altar wine remains,
though not for long.
Rite of Spring:
callow neighbours nail eachother
to the paper partition wall – time
honours these home county behaviours –
some wayward blood drips through on this side,
my side.
I observe with some disdain treacly crimson goo
impinge clematis and home entertainment cables,
the main arteries of
reality are besmirched….
The orphan stale ham salad roll awaits
Ravenous, cavernous engorgement,
yields a surge of purpose, of demented potency,
to cut the crap,
make one’s mark,
utter and act.
January 25, 2015
Woodstock
Winston Churchill resonates at times.
These are some
hummings
Of my head…
Beaches, dog insurance, dead
Iron curtain, cigars, up yours,
Yankee cigarettes, Ray with an E, Smith,
bon viveur, bon mots, monarchista, landscape artist,
Black dog, Gallipoli, Narzees, Tonypandy,
Nobel prize for War, bricklaying, never surrender,
Field of human suffrage, chicken, neck,
Clemmie, Dundee Cake, warmonger,
Imperialist, always a bit pissed,
Figure of hate, derision, exasperation,
Fun, bore,enough.
January 24, 2015
Mates Motel
This
Weekend will comprise one diamond guest:
Familiar, nosey, potty, bumptious…
What is guest? A wayfarer, a punter,
A complicit victim of hospitality!
This is not a motel, there are no
Bed & Breakfast signs, no spiteful
Waiters spitting in the soup. No Bill.
Just the old, battered emotional baggage to
Attend to, false dawns, a restless farewell.
January 23, 2015
Noema
Merleau-Ponty
& Charlotte Bronte
Went out for a meal
He hazarded the haggis
She indicated veal
January 22, 2015
Homespun Truths
you can’t crack
an omelet
without
breaking eggs.
&
you can’t pin
a femur
without
broken legs
Grimbeau 