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1.6k · Aug 2014
Tarzan v Robinson Crusoe
nivek Aug 2014
Tarzan, I really liked the African animals,
and sure the freedom of the jungle

I guess looking around,
I chose the desert island

Robinson Crusoe
always took me somewhere else

the sedate living of it all
yes, without the strenuous swinging
1.6k · Oct 2014
DRACULA
nivek Oct 2014
Dracula scared and ******
many victims into his game
Ancient stories- re -vamped
Black and white movies-
Holly- Holly wood
White witches and blood -suckers
How the world fell in love-
With masters of Horror and gore
Someone who lives on our Island is the Top Vampire of the Vampire Society(fact)
1.6k · Mar 2015
charity on a doormat
nivek Mar 2015
love touches the pallor skin
a rainbow half hid
faces look outward
from a doormat
arrived in an envelope
with a free pen.
I keep the pen.
1.6k · Oct 2014
Single Red Carnation
nivek Oct 2014
A single Red Carnation incarnate
waivers in the storm-
spilling colour into the wind-
defying all the odds.
late bloomer
nivek May 2017
love will lighten your steps
carry you all the way

love is true to itself
can be absolutely nothing else
so put aside your fear, your doubt, your searching in all the wrong places.
1.6k · Mar 2014
Sensitive.
nivek Mar 2014
I have been crushed
by a breath of wind
Words formed
from nothing
into nothing
into nothing
....simple breeze
1.6k · Nov 2016
unable to speak a word
nivek Nov 2016
silence reaches down from the farthest corners of space
claims my inner voices' be still and listen'
and I find myself listening for days unable to speak a word
and into the void of silence I touch the stars.
1.6k · Mar 2014
Tribal
nivek Mar 2014
Curled up in sleep
Babies of womb
Did you forget?
our shared
beginning
1.6k · Jun 2014
Bellies Needing Feeding
nivek Jun 2014
Tractors chug
and the new ones Zoom
up the road
Pulling all sorts
trailers and implements;
all to tame the Earth
and help thrive livestock
to fill fridges and freezers
and bellies needing feeding
1.6k · May 2014
insurance
nivek May 2014
whipped up
wind of change
picks me up
plants me in the middle
of frenzied worlds
phone calls from insurance companies trying to sell their wares
1.6k · Mar 2014
Mind Games
nivek Mar 2014
Street to street
political
ambush


Vote.
1.6k · Dec 2016
sighs of relief
nivek Dec 2016
Angels follow me around all day
how they must sigh relief
when I finally lay down to *sleep
1.6k · Apr 2014
The Hell Of Self Concious
nivek Apr 2014
Addicted to love
in spite
of oneself
1.6k · Sep 2015
wind chimes
nivek Sep 2015
Wind has a lot of say here.
Winter in the northern isles
- poets are more wind chime than anything else.
1.5k · Jul 2015
one sided
nivek Jul 2015
tell me something new
and I will not believe it

I want to journey
to know myself

this little heart pumping
deserves a break

all stories told
are one sided
1.5k · Apr 2014
Easter
nivek Apr 2014
crab and lobster fishermen
will tell you
the resurrected growth
at this time of year
outstrips all
1.5k · May 2014
Wild Gardening
nivek May 2014
Wild Gardening:
in it for the bees
and bugs and birds
1.5k · Sep 2014
Persistence
nivek Sep 2014
Sky has put on her pink blush for one more try
Persistence is now her middle name
And if you don't think she's beautiful
then you **** well better think again
1.5k · Sep 2014
negative
nivek Sep 2014
negative is excellent,
could'nt live another second
if you were kind to me
1.5k · Jul 2015
Weaving Baskets
nivek Jul 2015
The desert is a place of contemplation
weaving baskets.. to be sold in the market
and talking civilly to flies and scorpions
1.5k · Feb 2015
Sunrise
nivek Feb 2015
wearing the fragrance of the Moon
her star-heart sings
of dawn's long reaching light

and at midday she sits cross legged
atop a small hill
watching people dance in sunlight

when the eve comes around
you will find her
getting dressed-up for midnight

and all the sparkling stars
a crown
she wears till Sunrise.
1.5k · Sep 2014
Chemistry
nivek Sep 2014
I cannot deny chemistry
being its slave
I can only try to appease
if I take the latest medical advice
nivek May 2016
You park your lard *** **** on the skin of a cow and call it your new leather settee,
strap your feet into hide worked boots and stride across the Earth, all at the height of fabulous fashion.
Slap another slab of flesh on the barbecue and call it steak
(rare please) right next to the rack of ribs sizzling,
another brimming mooing cattle truck pulls into the abattoir,
and they say all the farts,of all the cattle, we keep eating, is destroying the climate all by themselves, but you wont find that information on the menu in a fast food shop serving burgers by the millions, or the main discussion at a barbecue, because lets face it, the meat in front of your nose has done all its farting, and its far too late to help save the World by some form of self-denial.
1.5k · May 2014
sundial on the wrist
nivek May 2014
searching shadow made-
its way over the horizon
great sundial of the sun
swept all before and after-
sunup and sundown
sundial on the wrist
Mankind slicing to pieces
the day before the stars-
of black night take over
1.5k · May 2021
10w 502 Bad Gateway
nivek May 2021
Bad Gateway
On Repeat
Reel to Reel
No way out!
1.5k · Sep 2015
one small chilli pepper
nivek Sep 2015
a tiny monumental birth
you let out a surprised "hey"
after so much thinking, "all is lost"

a visit to the greenhouse to water plants
and one small chilli pepper
has begun to grow!
1.5k · Jul 2014
The Advantage Of Solitude
nivek Jul 2014
the advantage of solitude;
away from wagging tongues
the bitterness and accusing
1.5k · Sep 2014
Coal Miners
nivek Sep 2014
do we remember times past
In root or stone or tree
the mask of the minstrel
Ancient oak and Jester
a maiden dancing, with lover
some news we cant be bothered
a wedding in the Forest
Bury the dead with all solemnity
a child brought to birth
In modern times, he will never
go deep in tunnels, dug by his fathers
1.5k · Mar 2014
MUD.
nivek Mar 2014
I slipped and slithered
in mud,
loved it.
I hate the washing.
I like warmth
and appreciate cold.
Maybe I will learn
to love the washing.
1.5k · Sep 2014
RIP
nivek Sep 2014
RIP
the gentle spirit
roams memories
Your memory
1.5k · Jan 2016
10W Weaved DNA
nivek Jan 2016
Love is weaved DNA
equally accepting good,
and the bad.
1.5k · Jun 2014
Side BY Side
nivek Jun 2014
aged bodies
the payment of years
lived
Hearts as big as engines
expanded by love
self giving
They walk side by side
in- step in-tune
that old couple know more of loving
than any youngsters alive
1.5k · Sep 2014
Misunderstood
nivek Sep 2014
I will dance around all day
prepared to dance around you
for as long as it takes;
I have been dancing all my life
even from the first moments out the womb
Misunderstood they slapped my ****
and I came up sharp; realising in this new world, they didn't dance
nivek Aug 2016
Could have taken the path to compassion in a family life
- where love and hostility teaches you enlightenment
But I gambled on the Camel ride to the oasis
-surrounded by a hostile environment
Where hermit poets work out their salvation in the weaving of poetry
- and in the silence of solitude and the inward journey.
nivek Apr 2017
I doubt I will be eaten by a Great White
I do not live in South Africa or Australia
and the two great water bodies just down the road
the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean are too cold here for that kind of shark.
I doubt I will die of thirst, or from hunger.
No wife will have me killed for the insurance money.
I will not be killed in a failed space mission, or crash a plane into a mountain.
No, my death will be quite ordinary, run of the mill, nothing to write a poem about.
1.5k · Aug 2014
Playing Cowboys And Indians
nivek Aug 2014
We found mutual love
while rolling around in grass
wearing daisy bracelets
imagination took us;
American Cowboys and Indians
this was our first awakening;
we always took the side of the Indians
nivek Oct 2014
I want to be counted in the company of sinners
the marginalised;
Where Jesus loved to keep company when on earth
and saves for eternity.
1.4k · Apr 2017
language of light
nivek Apr 2017
the language of light fills the sky once more
comes down to share our table
- life pulsating from out the Earth
clear clean water.
We eat our bread and drink our wine
while the Sun shines on all we do.
the language of light throughout the Universe
- crackling stars
our hearts pulsars
love a river, an ocean wide
dive on in, in reckless abandon.
1.4k · Aug 2015
chasing love
nivek Aug 2015
dancing along your tongue
under your breath
names of lovers hide

those you side glanced
winked an eye at
chased around streets

young so very young
to be in love
lovers scrawled in chalk

a handful of magic
the poems you wrote
in secret, secret, love
nivek Aug 2015
for now I feel the full weight of your words
back bent muscles ready to snap
and as I stagger along a flint strewn road
my feet cut bruised blue black
the shouts of tormentors reach my heart
once again the world crucifies a man
just a man, a mans truth embodied
you too stand in the crowd, and witness
1.4k · Jul 2014
nightlight
nivek Jul 2014
singing goes on all night
the birds down the shore;
their notes clear as the nightlight
which is daylight encroaching
1.4k · Nov 2014
whistling
nivek Nov 2014
when the wind whistles;
she whistles for you.
1.4k · May 2014
Storytelling
nivek May 2014
tide is racing to shore
the best of friends

embrace
and tell their stories
1.4k · Jul 2014
Father Son Holy Ghost
nivek Jul 2014
Please forget-me-nots
hang round my neck
a necklace of loves
1.4k · May 2014
Bagpipes continued
nivek May 2014
all in black
suited and booted
wandering
back the ferry
the memorial
has finished
the bagpipes
lay silent
1.4k · Aug 2014
expectations
nivek Aug 2014
I do see you
and I do hear
but you must drop
expectations
1.4k · May 2014
Women And Beards
nivek May 2014
beard as long as you cannot imagine
this I see as a test
of my conviction
to be real in the face
of so much fashion
here today and gone tomorrow
other men on our small island
cannot help but mention
my beard
and I tell them I got the beard
and they got their woman
1.4k · Apr 2016
10w Of Busted Butt
nivek Apr 2016
I busted my ****
unconventionally
busted it all the same.
nivek Oct 2017
Ophelia's eye will look down on our small isle
sometime early Tuesday afternoon
the lull in her fury when all will be deathly still
and still we will hold our collective breath
when Ophelia ramps up her swirling skirts
and sweeps all before her powerful frenzy
continuing on her ravaging way
sweeping across our small archipelago
as we cower in our matchstick towers
and with awe and fear and stunned silence
all pray to our gods for deliverance., from Ophelia.
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