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1.0k · Jun 2014
Pink Blush
nivek Jun 2014
skies pink blush
how I love her
love she is
1.0k · May 2014
Driftwood
nivek May 2014
washed up wood thrown out the sea no longer wanted-
come to the end of its questing- worm eaten and barnacle
clad- this is where I come in- to pick up the seas discard-
and see the art therein hidden for the most part- created
by the ebb and flow of sand and sea salt water
1.0k · Jul 2015
schoolboy bedroom paradise
nivek Jul 2015
domesticated institution
the marrying sort
passed me by long ago
when just a lad
I knew I wanted to live
in a schoolboy bedroom paradise
unmade bed, clothes all over, ***** socks, half an engine, lawnmower,
etc,etc
nivek Feb 2015
sugary-sweet after bitter medicine
not too much
and you will come back for more
998 · Feb 2016
War Hungry
nivek Feb 2016
Where blue meets black
minds meet to share mystery
a birds wing, the songs of astronauts
the silence of vast spaces stretching out
tiny space dust particles forever travelling
the scientists eye at the end of a telescope, scoping
aliens who made the choice to avoid war hungry Mankind.
998 · Oct 2014
strict
nivek Oct 2014
torque is set
no overrun
over tight
over sight
or
under tight
feeble
excuses
can
bide
here
998 · Jun 2014
We bulge a little
nivek Jun 2014
this is a time for campervans cyclists and walkers-
visitors vie with the inhabited 500 or so-
we bulge a little but not too much-
we will always find room for more-
they come from all over and I mean all over-
And as for the main isle-
cruise ships by the hundred-
passengers by the thousands-
I am glad I moved to our smaller isle-
it suits my nature suits my mood suits my muse
997 · Oct 2017
wrapt mysteries
nivek Oct 2017
All things are a present to be unwrapped
and unwrapped again

a book within its cover
a seed within the fruit

a ghost within its skin
a heart within a voice.
nivek Apr 2016
Living within this crumpling skin
leathering to the elements
all self delusions crease and crumble
becoming one with the old leather settee.
They say you are part of the furniture
long before your funeral
sinking in the folds, morphing into a couch potato.
995 · Oct 2014
Reincarnation
nivek Oct 2014
if I were a kitten
a baby chimp
baby
most would love me

Reincarnation no contest
choice made
995 · May 2014
my guardian angel
nivek May 2014
my guardian angel woke me today
knocking on the front door
as usual I was too full of first thing in the morning
to be able to answer such a call
happens all the time
995 · Jun 2014
lovers perfume
nivek Jun 2014
the body sweat sweet smell who ever could-
bottles of bodies in profound embrace-
substitute for the love or love between-
the loved and loving perfume made-
and the sweet smell of heavenly grace-
mixed with it all is so much more you ever could-
995 · Feb 2015
Hermit Graffiti
nivek Feb 2015
every moment spent in genuine silence
is repaid a hundred fold in well being
995 · Aug 2014
slow down
nivek Aug 2014
will this spinning ball ever slow down
slow down enough to get off?
993 · Jul 2016
the magic cactus
nivek Jul 2016
I climbed the rainbow
rode the sky
the ancestors held me close
- hold me still.

The Vulture wheeled
flew straight out of the Sun.

My tribal drum beat
and magic dance
lasted for days
- and as many nights.

The Vulture drank
the magic cactus.

And we danced together
and entered the spirit world.
993 · Jul 2015
I Resign
nivek Jul 2015
politics always has an answer
but when the chips are down
resignation is the default position
991 · Mar 2014
Hungover.
nivek Mar 2014
A giant potion caught my sense.
The tentacles of love;
reach deep into my earth.
The heavy enveloping;
microscopic and immense.
Animating my dust.
988 · Jul 2016
unravelling DNA
nivek Jul 2016
the rope of DNA inherited containing all your perfection
all your weaknesses all your possibilities
tweaked in the primordial soup before time began
- you came from the stars then
and at your end, your unravelling, will be to return from whence you first came.
986 · Oct 2014
Pendulum
nivek Oct 2014
Winters pendulum heavy with sky
dark
Swings slowly to its optimum
strength
Scything through all the Stars
clean
984 · Sep 2014
Fruit Song
nivek Sep 2014
too little cherry blossom
and too much war
not enough fruit
and too much lead
982 · Oct 2015
forever free
nivek Oct 2015
you have become the river
a flowing clear crystal

a song forever free
of all endings
nivek Jan 2015
what can be said when all is known
except the conversations of silence
where all is said and done in a stillness
the sacrament of the present moment
981 · Jun 2014
while i lay down with Jesus
nivek Jun 2014
all night daylight like winter
snuggle up and snuggle down
that kind of weather
a day in bed Alleluia
the world will go on without me
while I lay down talking with Jesus
981 · Dec 2014
The Robin Red Breasted
nivek Dec 2014
The cold seeps through the walls these days
white covers the ground

Snow quiet as a nun
veils the praying world

The Robin Red Breasted
skips along singing Christmas Carols.
979 · Aug 2015
man bikini
nivek Aug 2015
never had a bikini
my chest is far too small

but when one walks down the road
a bikini, I do wonder

I cant help but follow my nose
and a woman wearing her bikini

is like *** on the beach
a memory you once had
979 · Aug 2017
10w the Poets
nivek Aug 2017
who would speak up for love
if not the poets.
979 · Jun 2016
letting go winter
nivek Jun 2016
summer love

reaching bones

warming

cold marrow
977 · Jul 2014
Orchestra of Rain
nivek Jul 2014
its the sounds of raindrops connecting
you do understand
that forms the orchestra
976 · Aug 2015
could eat a lizard, fresh
nivek Aug 2015
my mouth is like a desert
sore, raw, and sandy
a place the heat of the midday Sun
decided to rest in
now I blow radiation from lips
chapped and flaking pink skin
I could eat a lizard fresh just for its blood
to trickle on my swollen purple tongue
but reaching for the red wine in the fridge
is so much easier.
975 · Sep 2015
death bed poetry
nivek Sep 2015
holding your breath, holding out
for one more time
to sing like a bird of paradise
nivek Feb 2015
curled around wisps of soul make their way out through the windows
onward travelling in all directions and none
the dissipation of steam evaporation
silent invisible life of the poets song
sings in tune with the tuneless time of history
the present moment gone and come around again
curled around wisps of soul make their way out through the windows
onward travelling in all directions and none.
973 · Aug 2015
to her bosom
nivek Aug 2015
dispersed
energy seeping
****** by cold
hearted cores
eaten out
the maggot
and the worm
all take a turn
while earth
returns
to her *****
children
the dreaming
wonder lands
betwixt
living and
the dying end
of all things
973 · May 2014
traveller
nivek May 2014
I have travelled years
to come this far

and discover you
a traveller too

on a shared ticket
to ride
972 · Jun 2017
a candle lit for love
nivek Jun 2017
A candle lit for love, borrowed light from the Sun
my simple prayer is heard before it is spoke
before it takes form from lips into words.
You always know our hearts, let our hearts be love
a flowing back and forth from creator to creature
and creature to creature in perpetual union.
972 · Jun 2014
smell of perfume
nivek Jun 2014
sweet torture
and heavy laden
I cannot hold
anymore flowers
972 · Aug 2015
Born and misunderstood
nivek Aug 2015
the birth of a child
sublime
I never recovered

from the very start
I looked around
searching for my exit

Born and misunderstood
my crying
was just crying

And all the midwives
along with the doctor
said "its just normal"
nivek Aug 2015
I feel less depressed when it blows and rains
seeing the sunshine makes me too wistful
- cyclists and walkers and campers go past
and I havn't walked any distance now for seven odd years
except of course in my imagination
and hope carries me as far as Heaven
a short distance I know, but you can travel that road forever.
968 · Sep 2017
i live within their tribes
nivek Sep 2017
manifesto is not for this creature
politics are a conundrum

poets are simpletons
simply put

I love Ants and Monkeys
to me they are 'community'

along with the soil
and stars and all the moons

I live within their tribes
and I find I am accepted.
966 · Jul 2015
triangle
nivek Jul 2015
I never found fulfilment in a right angled triangle
but playing the triangle was as close as I got to mastering a musical instrument
I have refused to be in a love triangle
and have a triangle tattooed on my left foot
but the relationship between Father Son and Holy ghost
the three in one and one in three
the Holy trinity ,could well be seen in a triangle of sorts
966 · May 2014
attention seeking
nivek May 2014
the *** -lid keeps rattling
wont leave me alone
966 · Sep 2014
Geraldine the Donkey
nivek Sep 2014
I got on a plane just to fly
got in a car just to ride
walked down the street, because I could
rode a donkey, a friends pet, Geraldine,
never again!
that Donkey had a mind all its own
and stubborn, just doesn't cut it!
965 · May 2014
Grandmothers
nivek May 2014
seeming endless consciousness
with dreams in between
woven and knitted
how grandmother used
to make tea and cakes
go on forever and a day
959 · May 2014
Rain
nivek May 2014
we have rain today
the kind that collects
runs in small rivers
down the road
everything is dripping jewels
so needed say flowers
vehicles splash through puddles
sending sprays of rain
back into the air
but its summer rain
the refreshing kind
glad to be alive kind
958 · Mar 2014
Fidelity.
nivek Mar 2014
Someone fell into your eyes.
I cannot replace:
or erase them.
957 · Jan 2015
fermentation of poets
nivek Jan 2015
stuck onto a rock with sticky glue
to live an uncertain life
two feet with one in front of the other
wobbling on the spot
wishing for the wings of a bird
never materialised
trust in your gut and make sense of it all
is it a wonder fermentation is so popular
957 · Sep 2015
a physical separation
nivek Sep 2015
look after yourself
a well meaning sentiment I am sure

and I have not the heart
to tell the truth, "being physically separate from you, is looking after myself".
956 · Mar 2014
Meat
nivek Mar 2014
,,,, I like my meat pre-packaged
wrapped in cellophane, clinical ,
never thinking it was once living
driven to the abattoir
for others to do the killing
956 · Feb 2017
dare to be, and to be you
nivek Feb 2017
its a truth ' they broke the mould when you were born'
so do not frustrate yourself with trying to fit in to some notion of what it means to live to the full. You are already unique and consequently only a unique way of life will content you.

letting go the frustration
I found freedom
and dared to be
and dared to be me.
955 · Nov 2015
Wind Witch
nivek Nov 2015
Wind booms around every wall of the house
hitching up her skirts she grows bolder
and her feet kick the windows as the sky grows darker
a mad witch intent on destruction she whistles spells
while a thunderous noise comes from deep in her belly
we all cower at her incantations and murderous temper
waiting for the wildness to wane as the witches madness passes.
955 · Oct 2014
eternal consequences
nivek Oct 2014
waterfall rumble rush cascade
splash churning bubbles
deep calm pool
small ripples
eternal consequences
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