Dear friend, I love you But I am only free to say so As you are gone forever And I am married So finally I say I love you I should have told you But held my council And then things where never in the right places To say And I could not For fear […]
A sound A colour A sensation Golden dust Iridescence Candescance Shimmer
Beer in these places Bronze stags Burnished metal Chain link as fat as yer arm Wood chunky Pragmatic Blackened and scared with age Beer in glass barrels Indented in windows Handle reassuring and thick Mine has a big head Yours does not You laugh and say it’s cider
They say they have hearts of stone Or they are as hard as rock But watch the chalk powder Soft and obliterated It is stone, It is rock In water, soft as butter Clay is rock Rock that is malleable You can form it to any shape These people so impenetrable Are vulnerable just like […]
Beautiful rainbow Garden of the sea Looped around itself Flowers bloom Purple-blue Intricacies of colour Entwined White sands Azure-Turquoise Clear and pure The above world A mirror Clouded with reflected colour Shimmer and ripple
Creakings of the mind Send shivers down my spine In this place In this place Rainbow colour shard Memories will not be marred In this place In this place
I blush And sip Mine’s not even beer tangy citrus malt Shandy for me And cider for you Beer in the others hands Bitter for him Lager for her Ale, Stout And many exotic liquids And the biggest of them all? A mixer with a mixer in a thimble glass We laugh We joke
Little transparencies hide Ghosts amongst the anemones Hiding in tentacles That massacre
Predator in the Coral Jungle Abundant, hungry Always hungry Prey in the Coral Jungle Scared, in fear Always in fear A paradise of perpetual hell An edge world Finely balanced Between the starving And the eaten Make it paradise true Shift the paradigm Remove the predator Remove the hunger Remove the fear Remove the edge […]
Glittering skin, the sun screen sheen Bronze torso, firm and trim Can this be England? In the summer time Youth strutting Well groomed, showing their prim Parisian cafe sprawl Across Albion’s pavement Shoppers in bright colours Flit from shop to shop Lazily stroll beneath azure skies If it wasn’t for those little clouds And buskers […]