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223 · Oct 2020
Gone South
A W Bullen Oct 2020
Shot loudness
from the crowding shout,
the posing packs of people
taking photos of themselves

got time to pick a slick
of litter left by those
who tell me that
my life has left
the planet broken

         - "please!"-

I could break
your gastric banners
in a manner that this show deserves,
embrace my inner misanthrope

and ***** off South to be with trees.
Context required:

I agree with the message behind the protests- who doesn't?

But a billion people making small differences can amount to extraordinary change.

Let your green spaces grow wild.
Drive less
Fly less
Eat less red-meat.
Walk
Cycle
Less time using the net
Read more
Educate ourselves.
Consume less- in all industries.

Small changes x billions..
Stop pointing the finger and start making informed choices.
Ultimately its up to us.
221 · May 2020
Flowed...
A W Bullen May 2020
yeah,
locked-down
but loaded,

got me
go-to beats
of Thievery



..... ain't no such thing
as too much sunshine.....



Snowed-in by
the blue-sky walls

apparently
the coast is clear......

time redefines reality
and drifts on outta here....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvRsn-5SqSA

for years Thievery Corporation have propped my go-to stash of  kick-back tunes- musical therapy  and plenty many-mucho eargasms-
Caught them twice in London- brilliant live...
Love to hit that play button, dip my toes in warm- palm beats, curl like smoke on the give of an old sofa,... and float out, blissed into the waiting cosmos...

Honor among Thieves
218 · Jul 2020
Thoughtless
A W Bullen Jul 2020
Threw the pebble
into the sea,

a billion years
in to a billion years...

a stoop, a grab,
a swing of the arm...

thought nothing
of it...
218 · Jun 2020
Portraits
A W Bullen Jun 2020
Myth explodes
in tinted showers
spectrums gather hidden forces
God-led powers coursing
through these vibrant linen layers.
 
Pith unloads
sweet minted flowers.
question matter, given sources.
Cadence laced with light, displaced
embodiment of prayer.
217 · Jun 2020
Guilt-edging
A W Bullen Jun 2020
...and there are days
           when Imagine you
in ways, I really
          shouldn't do..

But, ****!.....
         it feels good...
210 · May 2020
Paper Aeroplanes
A W Bullen May 2020
...we must never forget how to laugh...how to play with mud....how to make paper aeroplanes ..take this to the factory floor, the hospital, the old peoples home..the garden, the shopping mall, the office block, the hostel , the underpass.....give it to the crowds, the lonely, the children, the lost, the hopeful, the refugee, the destitute, the aged....it belongs to them, it belongs to us all
found on paper
210 · Aug 2020
Twist
A W Bullen Aug 2020
I have
elemental
emblems,
tattooed
on my knuckles...

there are
days she loves
to feel the forces
stirring deep within...
203 · Aug 2020
Resolving Host
A W Bullen Aug 2020
The shock
and awe of
ordinary mornings,
saw me,
hat-in-hand,
plans slipped back
to the protein grain...

for
all my
false geometry,
the same
old pseudo attributes
exposed,

cloned,
sky-clad,
in this laughing gas
of dissipating
aspiration,

nothing more
than occupation,
poked in fear
and sold unease...




they never said,
the way would lead,
to any place but here...


but here
is where I'll stall
to find particulates
of dream.
202 · Oct 2020
Untitled
A W Bullen Oct 2020
too soon
they are in everything
both in and in between
the knowing.

treasuries of episode,
the elegies of reparation,
somehow, going, lightly,
when a calibrated wind
vows warm

gone
grateful to this
small of mercy,
swore, there to be thankful
where a poorly driven splinter
can not take the best
of all they gave...

this saviour
comes, circadian
to set these fraught
emotions down.
an apogee of
deep-green-sleep
that pays the ghost
to rest.....
194 · Mar 2020
Straits
A W Bullen Mar 2020
So far,
the voices rally
from the vortice
of an underpass.
Endorsed by cavilled
penury, more yesterday
than newspaper.

but nothing here, can
change the course
of rivers.

Bent-double
in their algorithm
fixed within their fiction,
though, a sheathing of
their tar-skimmed blade
played life in minds
of old unplenty..

Winter-kin
they were,
come carapaced,
lenticular

Sat where
the startled couple char
that narcoleptic zinfandel,

untrammelled, in their
moon-trashed subterranea.
on those without homes.
190 · May 2020
Fatherland
A W Bullen May 2020
You remove the joy
then as sure as endings
faith will follow..

It takes time to beat the boy
the young can mend,
are resilient
but persevere
the cracks will
widen.

Fill that space
with fear,
shame
ridicule,
despair

let that
fatten.

Marinade
in isolation.

There you
have him.
Have him
beaten...

So kick him out
as Man.
Out
into the plan-less
waste of living,

Then watch the fruit
of all achievement
cast from your
own spiteful holding

rot beneath
the tree
from which
it fell....
not gender specific

there are many shot down by the starting pistol.
190 · May 2020
Last days of April..
A W Bullen May 2020
Gone sparingly
about the lane
as I have laid some
cause to rest

had turned
the tide of thought
to leave me grateful

then I look to you,
as if I could,
to find you there,
the where, you would

alive,
among the latter
days of April......
2 years ago today.
189 · Aug 2020
Lost Legions
A W Bullen Aug 2020
Sometimes
when unoccupied
I hear the cries
of my lost legions

skin dispels
its drops of poison
to the tunes of lies
and treason....

Discomfort
pinches as regret
denies the liberty of
forgetfulness ....
you know
180 · Jun 2020
When...
A W Bullen Jun 2020
We breathed so deeply
we could taste,
expatriating emptiness.

We  siphoned dreams
from mere escape
where minutes passed
like centuries...
180 · Apr 22
Erst
A W Bullen Apr 22
Seeing all

becoming

distant

Feeling time

giving, taking

seperating harmlessly

not longing for the velvet nothing.


Something
parsimonious

embittering
the marly glow

an antiquated
melancholy

speaks a name
I know
All in Time
178 · Nov 2024
Celestia
A W Bullen Nov 2024
Monosylabic

lower case

becalmed

day-harm, flexed
with love thin spread
and unexpectant

textbook closure
white-of-lie

two minute token
taken back, on track
to stormless sanctums

          -leaving-

binding plight
of Seven Sisters

supple, vexed
impressed, Celestia
nuzzled by the dazzle dog

          -of evening-
Friday
week done

left early

star clusters in puddles,
yesterday rainfall

weekend beckons
174 · Jun 2020
Simmer dim
A W Bullen Jun 2020
And when the means of reckoning
seem, but a smokey fiction
as the subtle strokes of artistry
fall prey to Time's advance,
When lenses cloud in sympathy
while, the known, becomes a stranger,
When sleep, an honest partner
leads that, favored slower dance.
When all is gently called away
to where it all began....
 
It is a child who breathes his last
in the image of a man...
Alzheimer’s
165 · Apr 2020
Shift
A W Bullen Apr 2020
ah-ha,
my itty harbinger,
of all-means-green,
All hail!

(a voice not heard
since Woodcock fell
on cusps of wet November)

Your two-note declaration
comes with umpteen possibilities

emaciated yesterdays
disintegrate in sound...
161 · Apr 2020
Indomita
A W Bullen Apr 2020
Of course
it has to end
one day,
it always does..

but not like this...

so, now is not
the time to lose,
that bright and burning
will, that serves you well
beyond the quarantine
of rich imaginations.

And, should those
feral torments run,
then face them down
assured, for you are
stronger with this love
that coves, your everything
and more....

Of course
it has to end
one day,
it always does

but not like this..

then,
to the sound of bells
we'll tell of days we braved,

together...
160 · Apr 2020
Transit of Venus
A W Bullen Apr 2020
There are flowers
on the railings

guess the place is
coming up for rent,

one wonders
where the love goes,
once the locks are changed
the doors repainted...

no locus
for the laughter
over Sunday tea
and homemade cake..

they scrape away
the old base coats
and blow the flecks
into the past
158 · Aug 2024
Salted
A W Bullen Aug 2024
Sea breeze
leaves my reasoned lips
a baffled map of goodbye kisses

wispish curds of milky-weigh white horses
riding out bespoke and breaking
making shore...

this day will never come again..

tomorrow
but a glib Gomorrah,
sorrowed in some foreign fold
of muffled do's and dont's
48 · 4d
Tyrant
Now your greening
leans too far

wearisome and uniform

both sprite and spark
of this years teeming brew

true full crown
a stable reign
of routine couth
unwanted


your sovereign highs
of ****** cobalt
burn the iris blue
summer seems the least of seasons

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