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A Broken Heart
Flapping desperately on the highwayTrying to escape its precarious positionIn the centre of the outside laneStrangely stuck to the tarmacBlack wings flashing deep blueWhen catching the last lightWhat drew it down here?What prevented escape?A bit of victim blaming, I admitDid this crow delay departing?Stay for one last peckof the warm flesh that caught its eye?On-coming Read more
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Lights
On four separate pylons, one per cornerThe things to look for, Proper LightsNot strung out beads along the top of each standA symmetry of steel sentries attending the stadiumPerspective rotating the shining pinsAs the train curves into townOr the main road breaks into capillariesUntil proximity fixes the viewNeck craned I’d seek the service ladderWondering who Read more
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Tempest
Caps of Atlasdeafened by clattering hail stormsheep up and runseek the stone shelterleaving the flowersgulping fresh water~n.b. NaPoWriMo 2023. Take a poem, or fragment that was written in a tongue unfamiliar to the reader and write an original poem in English based on the sounds and rhythms of the original language.Here is the original, a Read more
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Funereal
‘We’ll laugh about this one day’ you saidAs the first handful of soil smuttered on the lidI looked at the other lads, all smart that day, in black coats‘Unlikely’ I’d replied, ‘There’s nothing funny about it.’Typically, it was sunny, belying the moodDaffodils dancing happily in the onshore breezeA few puffy clouds sliding past, against the Read more
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Snakeskin Boots
Dolphins threaded the white horsesFrigate birds drifted o’er our wakeWe hauled ropes in song, with cursesDolphins threaded the white horsesDreams of Frisco, gold in pursesSun kissed women, fine boots of snakeDolphins threaded the white horsesFrigate birds drifted o’er our wake ~ n.b. NaPoWriMo 2023 Day 4. Triolet time. CLP 04/04/2023 Read more
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On Moscow
Spiders eating each other in a jarI saw one, a Pholcus phalandgioidesthe Daddy Long Legs spiderEat a Crane Fly, THE Daddy Long LegsIt was a warm autumn evening.Fluttering, where wall met ceiling, caught my earThe spider’s small round body, an impossibly small pea-sized pea sizedeterminedly consuming its larger preyThe crane fly’s slow-motion crumplingjoint by joint, Read more
Journey of Words 