I wonder if you know
What we have now become?
You are that heart-shaped kite
Dancing above in air
While I grasp tight the thread
Not wanting to let go.
Dec 22, 2020
Dec 22, 2020 at 10:35 AM UTC
you
and me
waiting to see
you
smile
now seeing you
smile
and
that’s enough
Nov 28, 2020
Nov 28, 2020 at 11:51 AM UTC
There are words that do not need saying,
Words that are wrong or cruel,
Words that lead others to fail or cry,
Words that are sweet words of betraying,
Words that flatter or fool,
Words that weave a maze in the head,
Words that tell a talent not to try,
Many of these there are, although
There are also words that need to be said:
You are the best word that I know.
Nov 19, 2020
Nov 19, 2020 at 9:29 AM UTC
There’s tidiness here
And a full dream ahead
Pencil and paper set out
As soldiers wait to die
There’s sadness here
And some words of sorrow
Songs allowed to cry
Tears allowed to fall
There’s humour here
And laughter in my pen
Jokes brewing happily
Smiles served for all
There’s anger here
And a list of needs
Names and faces known
Rights to claim again
There’s true love here
And sweet ambition
Sun and eyes and skin
Ready for kissing
Nov 10, 2020
Nov 10, 2020 at 1:35 PM UTC
Guard your freedom flame: Do not permit
Events or people to extinguish it
Guard your freedom flame:
Or live a shackled life, corrode in chains
Without a vision of the sun or rain
Guard your freedom flame:
Or hear how truth is mocked by lies and lust
And let sweet souls be trampled in the dust
Guard your freedom flame:
See how turbulent times threaten its spark
Into the shadow and the waiting dark
Guard your freedom flame:
Share your spark, ignite hope for you and me
Increase, again increase, this liberty
Guard your freedom flame: Do not permit
Events or people to extinguish it
Oct 17, 2020
Oct 17, 2020 at 4:32 AM UTC
That night I saw you sail
on wind made into words
on surf breaking in sound
on foam-crested verses
and your song called again
rolled back and called again
in this storm of meanings
wrecks were made of reason
my tears became the rain.
Sep 8, 2020
Sep 8, 2020 at 7:28 AM UTC
It’s actually quite fun
throwing mud,
if you can accept it
sticks sometimes
to your own slow fingers,
staining them.
But gather it all up
in handfuls,
dirt, wet for preference,
delightful
as missiles targeted
away there:
At the dark heart hated
by us all
and by all means repeat
the treatment,
until the target becomes
the victim.
There. Hopefully you feel
better now.
Aug 25, 2020
Aug 25, 2020 at 3:54 PM UTC
go on label me
put a name against mine
state what you say I did
box me up
lock me down
clamp the compartment lid
go on label me
invent a sin or syndrome
measure me for size
say I am this or that
account for nature and my skin
or the colour of my eyes
go on label me
punch the card
ink barcode my arm
number me a beast
stencil my blood type
where it does least harm
go on label me
believe I've gone away
believe in your own system
and write it safely down
but someone else has labelled you
and someone’s labelled them
Aug 16, 2020
Aug 16, 2020 at 5:39 AM UTC
Hey you crocodiles
Fighting for words to claim as yours.
Hey you mosquitoes
Drinking more than your fair share.
Hey you vultures
Circling around the weakest of us.
Hey you spiders
Waiting for an easy meal.
Hey you apes
Battling for possession of a bruised rose:
Look up and see the stars.
Aug 14, 2020
Aug 14, 2020 at 3:01 PM UTC
I find there are no words for you
or none that on their own will do
your true ways cannot be expressed
whatever things swim through my head
are not enough to say aloud
and so intending what is best
here are my rhymes for you instead
Jul 20, 2020
Jul 20, 2020 at 5:54 AM UTC