Turquoise Monster

Tolerance of intolerance Is written on the walls And leads to blood once more Core entwisted to the noose Swings in the shadows of the age Once more fascism is the rage

Isms cause skisms I’d rather have equality Cos people are people And should not depend on an identity Forged from labels others have given to them To stuff them into boxes and forget about them

Fear that’s within Takes that which lurks Festering hate Do you know this dark rhyme? Strange undertow Drag and degrade Loops of shame Burn the heart To ashes

“That’s the cross where Jesus dies I spies Mummy The cross where he dies It’s a top the tower Of that building the one like a fort” Little Mary has a thought “But Jesus is a baby in my tummy Isn’t that funny? In my tummy And he’ll be born on Christmas day So my […]

The Tome is reclusive in nature Hiding nestled upon the shelf In clusters of almost reads Leafs and leaves and sheafs With lives their own Collecting dust Raising silver fish To make lace of words Pretty in decay

Suddenly my world did seem so hateful nasty and obscene Cold within cold without I hate you I wanna shout You took my hand you took my trust And then you ground it all to dust

Zom B the zombie bee lived with his friends in the honey tree Looking for the grey stuff to munch He’d settled for some bones to crunch Thinking those humans where a sorry bunch And so Zom B the zombie bee set out for the briny sea where a plague hit the crew a plague […]

Bimbling bombling bumble bees are in competition with the honey bees Bimbling high and bombling low Flombering and womberling to and throw Large and fat they hum and drone Looking for the nectars home The nectar lives in the flowers bowl And bumbles bees need it to grow To make them big and fat and […]

You are a wraith to me now Nothing but a memory Faded to a muzy shadow On the page Flood damage has crinkled your edges Coffee rings daisy chain your face In little etched scars You are smiling soft and sad Sigh like the birds we always tried to catch as children Flit away and […]

Dark scars marked the edges of the cosmos Deep within the universal core slithering with a pulse Time counted in an endless rhythm that will end Will slither to a close Supping and sucking and draining the energy Moment by moment Until the fragments of time can be cut To another slither Creaking the gears […]