My Luminous Horse.

Posted in Cosmicity on April 29th, 2008

Skyward,
mouthing Swinetown wind -
raking moon above grey veins,
rattling battle pennant bones
above a once proud clan.
Like airborne spires -
these aspirations
held aloft but not
in vain,
like spines of hope
knowing that they can.
This glowing beast
it will tell, it will show.
Display the mysteries
all should know.
Brothers and sisters!
Imagine a luminous horse
tethered high above the land
I call on you,
support this
plan.

Making a Decision.

Posted in Words, Cosmicity on April 18th, 2008

Apparently
you instinctively know
the right decision
ten minutes before
you actually make it.
What you were doing
ten minutes ago,
what was on your mind -
all becomes inevitable
like a twisting leaf
waiting to land.
You were
wondering weren’t you
and now,
you read poetry.
The answer,
is still
no.

The Wind Again.

Posted in Nature on March 28th, 2008

Oh they wondered what the wind was for
scattering kernels upon dark floors
raising arms like fronds in breeze
calling troops of last frost seeds
rising now above their needs
they wondered -
had they sinned before?
shattered deeds perhaps, and maybe less
but maybe more than click of knees
cornered bent for scattered creed
locked and chasing seasons tease
and here now, hearing now the wind
feeling whispering, teasing,
wind.

The Hardest Skill (lyric)

Posted in Lyrics on March 14th, 2008

Life is just exhausting but we must live it still
looking for redemption and a heart shaped pill
battered like a butterfly scared to jump from window sills
life is just exhausting but we must live it still.

Like the cracking walls we’ve built but never quite can fill
now like old-man’s cold and dragging fear of hills
there is a husk that won’t break open in the mill
like the cracking walls we’ve built but never quite can fill.

The choice is ours to make - I’m told we have free will
and someone also said, there are diamonds in the swill
maybe today we’ll celebrate our conquest of these ills
the choice is ours to make - apparently we have free will.

Sometimes feelings are the very hardest skill
like the hesitating rain before a suffocating chill
there are dark birds rolling like a wheel above a kill
and sometimes feelings are the very hardest skill.

And life is just exhausting and yes, we live it still
like cracking walls we build but never quite fulfill
the choice is ours to make we know we have free will
sometimes feelings, are the very hardest skill.

Mystery Poem

Posted in Cosmicity on March 10th, 2008

Like
faces
in a tear
raggededy
rough
as they are
the racing car
lamps of your eyes
tracing, scratching lines
towards the inward
imaginings of selfish ‘I’
whirling in surprise
chasing those that hide
already cold as shudders
break, like new waves in ice
across the movers and the lies
doggedly tough
as they are
like trapped sky cries
wrapped in furrows and twine
there, sighting cloudline
blistered gaze
falling now
with bow and rise
she’s a strange insect
flailing in a night jar
catching scent of moon
and twilight brings her soon
tell your pacing heart
these pulses, these flashes
these little arcs of light
they, are just
the start.

Ostend 1981

Posted in Cosmicity on February 12th, 2008

Have you seen
the proof displaced
lost belief just wandering
streets, touched past touching
quantums, atoms, molecules
streams as we are lead
in vapours wake
he goes
singing; grapevine broke my heart
let this troubleman be calm
no god, no good nor bad - just him
in mild european air
Real Magic is given to so few
watch closely and know
divine souls find their divinity
in everyone.

The Voice

Posted in Senses on February 12th, 2008

I’m the voice
and not the song
I am the voice
now listen on
I’m the choice
and not the wrong
don’t linger
like a tantrum son
I’m the voice
and not the song
I call you all
with mantra gong
I’m the wind
that batters on
no crown of singers
ambling gone
I’m the voice
and not the song
and now rejoice
I have this voice
and I am
strong.

Bereavement

Posted in Age on February 1st, 2008

I looked
to the funeral trees
and they looked dead like me
naked in this winter breeze
I turned
to the funeral trees
and they seemed black to see
wretched lost and born of thieves
I walked
to touch the funeral trees
and they stood firm in sombre creed
with sacred bond to spite the freeze
I fell
to lie among the funeral trees
and watched them change
and saw them grow
and soon I slept -
how gentle were
their pleas.
I dreamed
a hymn of funeral trees;
Come summer, come now please -
and time is now,
to unfurl
leaves.