Turquoise Monster

Insectile eyes
Large and wide
Stare beyond me
Accusing
And they are right

Veins clotting
Hearts clogging
Brains knotting
Joints grating
Eyes fading
Bones decaying
Prices paying

A silver streak in the night
In the void she is falling
Screaming super sonic
But light travels faster

Coloured splats
on parchment made
Showed travellers
adventurous ways

Pierce the night
With loveless eyes
Beautiful in emptiness

Ruffles, feathers, crests and crowns
Beneath it all a chicken’s found
But what is a chicken when it is plucked?
A toothless dino –
No wonder you like it dead and stuffed

Old sinew, old bone
Leather wrinkled, shrink wrapped
Flapping, sagging
Just bags of desiccation
Flesh on bones, soft as down
Veins mapping
Time skitters
Slips past
Unaware

A recording of my song Hey You!

Spider spider on the wall
How very quickly you appear to crawl

Legs in series spiked and barbed
With fangs of poison you are armed

Deadly to those tiny pray
Injected, digested whilst they lay

Spun in a cocoon of silk
A late lunch of insect milk

Spider spider on the wall
What’s the eight eyed monster rule?

“Catch a fly,
Spin him up
Then all day
You’ll have good sup”

Spider spider on the wall
Who’s scares my dad most of all?

Red and white striped
Flying smooth over
Washed hills
Pilot dreaming
Of new days
Peaked cap
Climbs more aloft