Archive for November, 2009

Hopscotch

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

This poem originally appeared on my personal blog in response to a news article. Hopscotch Here’s some chalk Now go and play Hopscotch was fun, in my day A small child smiles up at his mum Then runs outside in the sun And begins to draw the hopscotch grid When out pops his friend – […]

Galactic Death Throes

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

The Dead Galaxy Hung in the Vacuum A dark remnant Of a glittering time A ghostly structure Where the cogs seized Where the fire died Where there was an end to annihilation And the star birth The cycle broken the whisper of creation Silenced It drifted Dense in blackness With the Eater of Light Still […]

Dyslexic Thinking and the Origin of Thought

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

In the beginning there was not the Word It was late in coming Before the Word There was the Picture An image A concept A shape in the Mind Forming the Landscape of Thought Rolling indistinct and whole Spiking into hyper-realms A quitoxic state For to show the Picture To form the Landscape In another’s […]

Chaos

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

A butterfly stirred within in my curious hand Hesitant to take the offered nectar Golden, amber, sweet It’s tongue long and curled appeared Lapping gently with distraction I looked up at the sign Butterflies for sale, $12 Wings translucent in half dream light Shimmer, golden-blue It walked on insect legs tickling my finger The drone […]