Turquoise Monster

Anthropomorphised concepts Creeping all around They need to be tethered Need to be kept down

The ghost rattled the chimney Chiming the dust of bricks Blowing through holes made centuries ago With nails cut into shape Jagged and misplaced in darkened wood Smoke curling, a hand for a moment The draft from ill fitting pane Scatters it before a hold could be took We clogged the sole With shreds of […]

A lonely thing Each fatal accident that could have been Is not, you slip the slipstreams Only seeing those around you go The ones you love perish One by one by one Until your luck is a curse Surviving red giant expansion Super nova explosions And wait for the end of a universe That will […]

New and pinkly lean they stand Wood like sentinels, puncturing jaded sky A mockery of the trunk, craggy bark Green coated and split within Grass bright studded with daffodils Covering a floor, so out of place Against a back drop of snow drenched hills

A raw WoPo poem: Around and around, each time changed By the minute, not enough to see Shifting beneath, unsteady feet Scratching the surface, uncertainty Bursting with multitudes of worlds Linked together, by the passage of time Changing the small and tipping Chaos onto the scene Sewing the threads of differences, barely noticed Epochs show […]

Darker are the dark places And lighter are the light ones But darker are the light places And lighter are the dark ones These domains of the Id These thought mirages Worlds of fiction Mirrors of our own