nivek: Poems

10w The Garden

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Garden

sheer variety of wild flowers is astounding
and colours, colours

10w the gateway

nivek May 2017

10w the gateway

there is a place beyond suffering
suffering itself the gateway

10w The Gaze Of Love

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Gaze Of Love

from outside creation
the creators eye

gazes in love
always

10w The Ghost Protocol

nivek Mar 2021

10w The Ghost Protocol

your ghost is very familiar
with haunting known frequented places.

10w the gift and the wound

nivek Oct 2023

10w the gift and the wound

the gift of words
and their wound
never far apart.

10w The Great Songs Of Birds

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Great Songs Of Birds

sing a little as much as you can
- and listen

10w The Haunted Mind.

nivek Oct 2020

10w The Haunted Mind.

The haunted mind.
Myriad memories.
Imagination madness.
Stranger than fiction.

10w The Hunt.

nivek Jun 2020

10w The Hunt.

flesh buffed
swanky clothes

all the moves
humming latest tunes

10w The Journey is Everything

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Journey is Everything

to trudge up the mountain
cradled in adventure
and pain

10w the king is in the altogether as naked as the day that he was born

nivek 6d

10w the king is in the altogether as naked as the day that he was born

maga megalomaniac
wears the crown
to hide his balding scalp

10w The Lifelong Bump

nivek Sep 2023

10w The Lifelong Bump

Bumping into various familiar faces
and not all being welcome

10w the light in your eyes

nivek Feb 2024

10w the light in your eyes

a final heartbeat
last sigh
the vacant look
fading light.

10w The Lunatic In The Kremlin.

nivek Sep 2023

10w The Lunatic In The Kremlin.

untreatable full blown psychopath
with a nuclear arsenal on tap

10w the lunatics are taking over the asylum

nivek Jul 2024

10w the lunatics are taking over the asylum

empires wane
history witness
crumbled dust
eaten within
rampant corruption

title: a take on lyrics attributed to Pink Floyd

10w the mad and the bad

nivek Sep 2023

10w the mad and the bad

Rattling on their cages
the mad and the bad
vent.

10w Theme

nivek Oct 2020

10w Theme

theme, flow, running through
a poem, discourse, points of view.

10w Themed Muse, Mused Theme

nivek Aug 2023

10w Themed Muse, Mused Theme

theme more than muse
but could be,
that's my muse

10w The Mind of Mankind.

nivek Nov 2019

10w The Mind of Mankind.

a nebulous cloud.
which star

to follow?
to be found.

10w The Morgue Experience

nivek Sep 2023

10w The Morgue Experience

time your name tag be tied to your big toe

10w the mulling of dreams

nivek 5d

10w the mulling of dreams

open spaces filled to the brim
all connected interchangeable dreams

10w Then They Would Not Be 10w Poems

nivek Aug 2023

10w Then They Would Not Be 10w Poems

maybe if they were all strung together
- ten word poems

10wThe Ocean

nivek Sep 2014

10wThe Ocean

but for all that water
war would happen
more often

10w The Office and Messenger of an Angel

nivek Oct 2023

10w The Office and Messenger of an Angel

Angels do appear from nowhere
yet have come from somewhere.

10w The Older You Live

nivek Sep 2023

10w The Older You Live

****** functions keep finding you out
the older you live

10w The Open Window

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Open Window

Dogs intermittently barking,
tractors chugging,
bird song and
human chatter

10w The Petty Affairs Of Man.

nivek Sep 2023

10w The Petty Affairs Of Man.

the Spirit is vast,
unending incomprehensible mercy,
eternal incomprehensible love.

10w The Phenomenon Of Man

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Phenomenon Of Man

utterly pure evil entered creation
Mankind estranged, fell from grace

10W the poet and the poetry

nivek Jul 2016

10W the poet and the poetry

The observer and the observed
where the absurd
is commonplace

10w the Poets

nivek Aug 2017

10w the Poets

who would speak up for love
if not the poets.

10w The Poets Demon

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Poets Demon

focus on in
nail that down

spew your guts
poets

10w the power of life and death

nivek Dec 2017

10w the power of life and death

many fires are lit
fanned into flame
fuel stacked high.

10w the present moment and differing realities

nivek Jul 2020

10w the present moment and differing realities

Aliens could be living everywhere where Humans are not present.

10w The President

nivek Oct 2020

10w The President

white faced blood drip drained fake tan starved of oxygen

10w The Process of Poetry

nivek Sep 2023

10w The Process of Poetry

Keep running in the dark.
Catching up with the light.

10w The promise and the lie. "I can sell you a potion to give you eternal life"

nivek Aug 2016

10w The promise and the lie. "I can sell you a potion to give you eternal life"

I drank the elixir till I could drink no more.

10w The Quest of Hello Poets.

nivek Nov 2016

10w The Quest of Hello Poets.

I travelled for decades to sit and hear you sing.

10w The Raggedy Man

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Raggedy Man

Crow song 'coast is clear'
raggedy man
no longer scares

10w The Rant And The Song

nivek Sep 2023

10w The Rant And The Song

some rant loud about life
unfair life

another softly sings

10w The Reaping

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Reaping

sift and sharpen
a spilled harvest
dogs on the loose

10w There are no walls

nivek Aug 2023

10w There are no walls

on the surface, words
a song, heard
a silence beckoning

10w there is always a bigger picture

nivek Aug 2023

10w there is always a bigger picture

the weather can never get it perfect
so never complain

10w There Is No End To Books

nivek Aug 2023

10w There Is No End To Books

freedom can be found in books
but not all books

10w The River Of Love

nivek Aug 2023

10w The River Of Love

river of love
constantly flowing

river of love
a heartbeat

10w The road to death

nivek Mar 2016

10w The road to death

adrenaline rush

senses red alert

danger of death

come down.

10w The Rub

nivek Sep 2023

10w The Rub

values are going to clash
some want power and gold

10w The Saints

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Saints

great minds have given hearts
-given lives that love may live
-great hearts loving forever

10w the sanity of life and a death cult

nivek May 2017

10w the sanity of life and a death cult

sanity does not destroy itself
life is meant to thrive

10w The Serpent

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Serpent

slipped over my tongue
promising to do better
licking wounds

10w the serpent eating its tail

nivek Feb 2021

10w the serpent eating its tail

Happiness is fleeting
sadness the same
whereas peace is forever.

10w The Serpents Breath (Kremlin Spokesperson)

nivek Aug 2023

10w The Serpents Breath (Kremlin Spokesperson)

all puffed up and spitting profanities
so, so snake like