communication
does
exist

green
like velvet
soft
inviting

lay down
and rest
with me
be me

let it go
embrace
freedom

Your kindness will light up the dark caverns of my heart
bring to mind my warring thoughts
and I will buckle under the weight of myself
until mercy once again is in the ascendant, and love welcomes me home,
the prodigal and faithful personalities torments, reconciled once again.

to sit on the grass is to sit with love-
love of grass because its grass-
and because its green-
and because its free-
and because its very existence is a confirmation of love

your words poet
sing their song
In my innermost
each word completes
your welding craft
into memorable poems

Lifelines spiral past the unwary conformist
conforming to a type they read of in the papers
and now preaching someone else's mind as gospel
while their own was lost so long ago in an ocean of stereotypical.

scrabbling for words
the spirit world
takes me to her breast

some kind of dinosaur
is how it can be

and at my age you come with a dowry
or two to be considered

any kind of useful

sleeping and never truly knowing
if tomorrow you will be around
alive that is this side of the grave
is living on the edge supreme
what a journey to be undertaking
and no pun intended,
onward bravely
when you know no-one gets out of here alive

Digging six whole feet downward
called trenches
the irony of the depth of a grave
was far from lost on us

a babe is born in the light of fire
held aloft to the fire in the sky

once again the tribe lives on
new- born

and the womb of women
swollen

the magic and mystery
of manmade fires

the wide sweep
intricate you
captured for a moment
loves freeing
uniqueness

not one single sausage sizzling
no burgers or ribs dripping
this is a wet summer bereft of BBQ
the first this century, an omen, maybe .

Rounded up, given a chance
all the senses talk to me
but deeper yet, God likes ice cream
and the flight of a Bumblebee
yes He delights within this temple
all that is simple and cute and tiny

nothing sweeter than a Jenny Wren
singing outside your window;
a visit from a happy friendly neighbour.

again you drag me out the depth of forever
to sing a song of light
to all who are left standing and those who are not

I try to hear what hearts are saying
birds in flight
all  committed to one or another

love of gold and silver power lust and fight
Innocence and Sainthood
Way down on anyones mind

I gave away my heartbeats to a black dark night
sculpted a stone into a new heart
with each daily news break hanging from my dreams
like silk shrouds for all the dead of just one day on Earth
while the night unfolded her mystery
and my heartbeats were pulsars in a distance too great to travel
while my stone heart was stoic and hardened to grief
I make paper flowers , now, out of black crape, for all those about to enter the land of the dead.

Cheese.
Grapes.
Crusty Bread.
A common meal.
Fit for Royalty.

Part of you cradles a star
that's why the Sun loves you

your dust is cosmic
your spirit eternal

the light of your star
a heart made for love

silky slow summer
idles away the hours
caught in a cosmic barbecue

walk out the shopping mall
its a twenty four seven
given that you will spend
all of your money in time
take a break from carriers
all that plastic to suffocate
unwary and the very young
need to learn this lesson
calorie cake coffee new look bargain
you can change your reflection
just for a season look wonderful
walk in with no money
walk out knowing freedom

The shining of minds
eye of our storms
This is where we meet

the knocking on the door is hard
voting time for politicians
canvassers know no respect
for the party voting for silence

let me hop skip and dance
across the meadow
so full gentle with life

a seed moves on
to be
all it can be

never cling to anything like your life depended on it;
the complete opposite is true.

overcome me with love
and I will dissolve

Offered 'Free Delivery'
'Nothing to pay for three months'
'Buy one get one free'
Makes you wonder just what is the true cost?

A barren planet
bereft of life
spinning silently through space?

yes who could deny
skin covers your
skull
and you have eyes

God must love faces
so in love
just keeps coming up
new variations

Love is so obvious
it fills all denial

That's why
so many run away

Or run to
what is denied

the immigrants tale
living cold

late night
American gangster movies
go hand in hand

Hollywood has much to say
bout the advertisement of gore
some who have lost loved ones
And loved ones themselves
Talk the talk and walk the walk
While we eat popcorn and drink soda

a minimum shrinking in the doing of things
until an absolute is reached;
freed up to write your words, poet

Our moon is full
the orb of our meeting
waiting to be found

woman take it as fact
your qualities
are your character

and what that character
expresses with
mind body and soul

Today is a day for Vikings
ships lay sedate and loaded
On the cusp of the harbour.
To Jerusalem as told :
Theorkneyingasaga
And tie rags to bushes
to witness those who
chose home over
Crusade and pilgrimage
and died in their beds.

Black and white photograph
lives lived
A whole lifetime ago ago
in a forgotten time forgotten life
Nanna Flynn and Uncle Clarence
live on the wall photographed

...its the judging that separates so badly..
..to the point of no living up to any ones expectations..
...alienation and violence go hand in hand..
after the judgement...

the one you listen to least, hurting your self reliance
may well be the one you would profit from most
laying your faults and weaknesses before you
so that you can work with grace to heal and move on
from all that negativity spawning within you

We all have suckled at Eve's breast
lifted up in Adam's sweat
felt the pain of mothers
witnessed Adam working hard
only to fall time after time
on knees in the dust, while Eve
pain of childbirth, wept,
into a universe of silence.

nothing stops for Monday
routine keeps busy, hands
made for making while
the devil grinds his/her teeth

the most disgusting I ever seen
is a human put to death
and not by some other animal

your art shook my foundations
disturbed my complacency

now I understand
why you are so needed

plain as you are
your voice came to me

and then I realised
it was I who was speaking

The rockabilly Rock Doves are here
Along with the sensational singing Tree Sparrows
The Geese are getting it on
With the screeching Gulls
The Cockerels popped the cork hours ago
And the Starlings keep it going all day
Too many to mention  names of the backing singers
But here we try Curlew Oyster catchers.....
And the chorus goes on.....and...on....

Popeye I see you downing spinach
by the can  
your cartoonist heart giving strength
over Brutus
adds so much to my cooking spinach

Disempowered
sat in the dentist chair

nothing as sobering as a cop stopping your vehicle
even when you are riding completely legitimate

and even then with the latest figures of stop and search
you very may end up in the funeral parlour, if your black **** offends