Turquoise Monster

Azure sky, azure sea Both trailing into Deep blue, studded with cream A mirror, a divide A gray smudge Marrs the perfection The land slicing intrusion

Rocks in red clay Rocks in the precision walls Rocks in the rectangle Clay matrix Clay cement Dark tomb Your own small cave Forever Or until the continents shift Shatter and crumple Your cave Your realm You have a beautiful view And we shall miss you Rocks above Rocks below Rocks around Rocks forever surround

What can you say When the sorrow is so thick It chokes you Leaving you gagged What can you feel When the sorrow is so large It blankets you Leaving you smothered What can you do When the sorrow is so keen It cuts you Leaving you soaked What can you be When the sorrow […]

Hold on too tight and you crush Let go and you lose Tether and you bind a trap Cut loose and you kill in kind

Tooth and jaw consume Hunger burns bright An orange bubble in their minds Green swirls slicing their stomachs Mostly hungry Always empty Predators of marine paradise Shadows large and fierce Hunger always

I am the cactus of the prairie I am the cactus of the plain I am the cactus of the equatorial mountain I am the cactus of the desert I am thick skinned I am spiky I am green I am beige and grey covered I am an oasis I am reaching to the sky

In the desert at night it is cold Ice in the crevices The sky is clear and dark Stars shine there How do you see them? For me time moves faster I live longer It is relative My stars are streaks I live in a blurred circle of white blue My desert My sky All […]

The theme this year is Games because of the Olympics this year – I thought it would be a good idea to write lots of poems on the theme and have gotten a bit carried away – they are all for kids and there is at least one Little Book in there. One thing though […]

Upon a Welsh Mountain Side Above a disused slate quarry Below a turgid sky In a fine hazy drizzle A monstrous pink flapping monster Perched on the edge About to take flight Fear sticks in the throat Fear jellifies the knees Fear pancake flips the stomach Fear trembles the lips But dad is there Smiling […]

Footprints in a ribbon’s stream Beads upon a string Minute leaves upon a stem They were made By a pachyderm Lifeless land this salt plain Giant evaporation pans Leaving just salt Where once sea Now desert Shimmers in reflected heat Nothing but the footprints Alone in the heat Nomadic outcast In a land Of sporadic […]