Only you I loved
22 May 2020
Within me
I now find myself
Within out
Without in
Travesty of innocence
I know my own dark
The true heart
She wells inside me
Now she says
Remember
Everyone I laid eyes on
Only you I loved
Morning’s lark
Wakes in me the light
The nights’ cull
Comes undone
Weaving in chest none to fight
Soul ne’er black nor white
Reading of the poem:
Maksim Mrvica – Hana’s Eyes(HQ)
Remembrance
13 February 2020
Remember
The slates wiped away
Room empty
No issue
Just water for some tissues
Spread out on my frock
I crane neck
Following through the insight
Dreary eyes
Unseen wounds
Figures with their knots set loose
Exchanging content
Play no more
Said voice in bosom
Remembrance
Reckoning
All will collect in dismay
The moments of loss
Reading of the poem:
Meu Fado – Mariza
Keep the joy in you
2 October 2018
When loneliness spikes
When nostalgia the heart strikes
Keep the joy in you
When forest grows thick
When eyes of tears feel the prick
Keep the joy in you
When thoughts brain derange
When your spirits soul estrange
Keep the joy in you
When the bosom swells
When the mind descends in wells
Keep the joy in you
When your dreams die hard
Cling not on to wayward shard
Keep the joy in you
When things fall apart
Wait for the bright renewed start
Keep the joy in you
Reading of the poem:
Perfect Symmetry – Lights & Motion
Children face the light
23 September 2018
Blackbirds in mind swirl
Loud cries’ strident pillars felt
Weight in my tear ducts
Soulless creatures crawl
In the dark alleys some breathe
Agony in mind
Sun bursts in sockets
Jasmine withers in heatwave
Known features dwindle
Windows carry floods
From peaks to valleys we drop
Blood from the Elders
Crimson my waters
Morrow’s seasons shook in tides
Wavelength scorches sight
Dark eyes starry pools
Small hands tools of forgiveness
Children face the light
Reading of the poem:
The sky is crying – Gary BB Coleman
We escaped at last an end of horror
1 September 2018
They told us tales of how we would have gone
With our skins to hide and wailing bellies
With our knees quaking and courage foregone
A tale now foretold as our breaths would cease
The sun melted into the horizon
Traces of the cold to come submerged us
Jaded darkness overcame the prison
This was the end we would go without fuss
The eyes within the cypresses watched on
We walked uphill to places forgotten
The will now forsaken the soul forlorn
A semblance of human its core rotten
They gathered us in increasing darkness
The night was the tool of lasting terror
Free will brought all courage we could harness
We escaped at last an end of horror
Reading of the poem:
Ends of the Earth – Lord Huron
The dark side of the new moon
6 February 2018
Wistful look
Relics of the past
Remind me
Of your face
Before descent in disgrace
From cross underground
Gone too soon
Stars moon and the hook
In one glance
Chasing key
Eyes tightly shut for the dance
Narrow fields witness
Shapeless space
Forming my fingers
Across you
As we sway
Relentlessly we twirl on
The dark side of the new moon
Reading of the poem:
Can’t take my eyes off you – Muse
Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever) – Muse
I belong to You – Muse
Random walk
25 March 2017
Single tone
The ring of your voice
In my head
Like undead
Flowers gardeners behead
Regain new stem life
Undone strife
Unsheathed once the knife
Safely tucked
As they clucked
Disapproval a constant
Dissonant assent
Once buried
Hare and mice scurried
To the fence
For tuppence
The show a manner of calls
That dead man recalls
Sing the night
Through the larky day
They saw hay
We saw green
The hue somewhere in between
Our truths and their lies
The baby cries
When the milk turns sour
Jaded hour
Wane power
Cities where eyes look lower
Thank meekest sunsets
Waste regrets
On the living mouths
Double talk
Random walk
On brink of togetherness
Living in caress
Reading of the poem:
Take me somewhere nice – Mogwai
Shut Eyes Wide
6 March 2017
Look beyond
Your little blue pond
Particles
Of the Light
They remind you of the fight
Now relegated
Mind make green
The brown is over
Within spleen
Lies the sheen
Of what dominates unseen
We pick light so clean
Truth confide
The widow is bride
Shut Eyes Wide
Door divide
Monsters coming override
Rules reboot decide
Reading of the poem:
Masked ball – Jocelyn Pook
Bleeding Soles – Jocelyn Pook
Dionysus – Jocelyn Pook
What I see now dies
7 January 2017
Words spilling
Through intent killing
She takes me
Cherished tree
Withered hearts that beg in plea
Washed in random sea
They walk out
Shadows tall and stout
Souls that winced
Intent rinsed
Rising red from meat that’s minced
Mind no heart convinced
Moons follow
Heartbeats to hollow
Willow’s seed
Murky weed
Choices made on brink of speed
We retain soft reed
Save me sight
Hush the renewed plight
Blinding stare
Whining glare
Flight in seconds we were there
Living in nightmare
Grinding blast
Dissolution fast
Wink you’re gone
On the lawn
Brittle pieces once upon
A lifeline now torn
They crawl slow
Shadows through the flow
Mend my eyes
Feed me lies
I once looked upon the skies
What I see now dies
Reading of the poem:
The Sound of Silence – Pat Metheny
Minuano – Pat Metheny
Last Train Home – Pat Metheny
To the End of the World – Pat Metheny
The Truth will Always Be – Pat Metheny
Always and Forever – Pat Metheny
Blended illusion
14 November 2016
Three to one
Sorted confusion
Our limbs meet
Green hilltops
Slopes sliding through the morrows
Forged in the sorrows
Priest and nun
Thwarted diffusion
Our bones sweep
Blue graveyards
Where the look takes to the kill
Bodies lying still
Hopes are torn
When the children die
Pennies lie
Change wasted
The smiles on our mouth pasted
With gruesome dark glue
Blink I’m gone
Remnants of pieces
Skin hanging
Rose petals
Showering your pale body
As the sound subsides
Wild horse rides
Peaks of never more
Wave broken
On the shore
The hurt still throbbing and sore
Wrists red though uncut
The eyes shut
Blended illusion
Surging through
Blue temple
Your breath warm as I tremble
My way through your chest
Reading of the poem:
The Trees – Max Richter
The Tree the Beach the Sea – Max Richter
This Bitter Earth / On the Nature of Daylight – Max Richter / Dinah Washington