.       Misconception


  Under the crust, deep

  in earths core, wells of

ink colours which source

  inspiration for flowers

   erupt with radiance

without fail, in Spring.


  Summer heat brings

  forth an evaporation,

    dehydrated plants

   loose their essence,

     thus fading into

   memories oblivion.


   In Autumn / Winter

replenishing resumes

  by means of a prism

pipe which misinformed

    people continually

presume to be a rainbow.

Western
      All Lies


     Ukraine!

Show me your

company and

  I will tell you

what you are.

.                If         .

               The

              Earth

              Was

               Flat


            N      B

     I                      O

A                              W

R                            S


             Would

                 Be

             Straight

                 As

>>>—-ARROWS——>

.            Am I A Terrorist

                          ?

     Somebody once told me that I

     have an ability to incite people

    to light a fuse even detonate a

    bomb by just reading my poetry.


    But I am a vegetarian, yet, not a

  solitary person has been seduced

    by my passive humanitarianism,

     that, despite furnishing recipes.


   I don’t know anything at all about

explosives, I have never wounded a

pheasant, snared a rabbit, or hooked

  a fish, but it is true, my pen bleeds.

Dam Lies


Pure sources are joined

by con tributaries, but as

they become rivulets and

convey their content to a

captive audience further

downstream to channels

joining seas and oceans,

their waters are muddied

purposely, with the intent

of deceiving its recipients.

Dams are constructed to

harness the flow, depriving,

often inducing conditions of

drought darkness & ignorance.

Truth Fairy


We were all nurtured on lies

    marketed as fantasies,

    but main street media

  still do the adult version.


History, is not Herr story,

    but theirs and those

  who compiled it for our

consumption, was them.


    So,, there is no such

    thing as a tooth for a

   truth, while fairies are

controlling the narrative.


Frank’s diary is so Grimm

  because it was written

in ballpoint. three years

before Lazlo Biro invented it.

Wagner


Richard: your name has lent

Itself to a new movement, an

  orchestra for multipolarity,

against crescendo's of evil.

They expect everyone to

believe in their genocide

but not a word about ours.


They expect everyone to

turn the blind eye, while

they extract a gold tooth.


They expect everyone to

view them as victims and

us their national antonyms.

.          A S S A N G E 'L


      In Judaism goats were

       laden with sins of the

       village then sent forth

       into the desert, to die.


       They were known as

        escape goats, from

       whence derived the
  
    modern term, scapegoat.


   Angels were journalists of

    God, messengers, town

   criers, paragons of virtue,

       underwriters of truth.

    
    In Biblical times, the ***

        symbolised service,

   suffering, patience, peace,

humility, but above all, wisdom.

mass shooting


i only heard the headline

before a power outage.


catholics or those others

was my first thought.


but w.a.s.p's don’t go

to mass on a saturday.


could be Jews, though

they have synagogues.


our lights came back on

and the mystery was solved.


fortunately it was not a noun

but the american adjective,


where EVERYTHING is *large scale

The Enola Gay

Hiroshima Emoji

In Haiku Format

I Parked 4 Night by

Le Poet-en-Precip

He was Irish and in

his bare feet

he wrote Limericks

in rhyme

and talked all the time

in an accent that was

ever so sweet.

Cityscape mirage

                          illuminated raindrops

on our window pane

Disclosure


Jacques Cousteau, NASA

even David Attenborough

all failed to explain what is

and has been a universal

disappearance mystery of

man made metal objects

in the area of Bermuda's ∆


Now, finally, what has been

evading the finest scientific

minds on the planet can be

put to rest. An Irish lyricist

following Odysseus made a

most ingenious deduction.


He maintains that sitting on

the bed of the ocean is a

Greek Shipping Magnet.

Insomnia


When I see a flock grazing

on the hoof surveyed by a

lone shepherd leaning on

a crook I wonder because

it is I that count his sheep.

I’m a bohemian wandering bard

old dogs take the road that is hard

I abandoned convention

because I’m prone to dissension

a knight errant with a ceiling that’s starred

Wall Of Words



This is all a poem is,

                   prose and rows of

letters in groups with

                    gaps and spaces

between each course.

               Every now and then

one might need to

                insert a long phrase,

these are the lentils

                             of literature.

The only difference

                    between masons

and poets is their

         composition techniques.

Bricklayers tend to

                  construct from the

bottom up and they

             don’t use punctuation

marks, whereas

           lyricists do the inverse.

But mortarboards are

                not the sole domain

of intellectuals.

       Their completed creations

have a visible symbiosis,

                             works of art.

That is until some low

                 case rascal graffiti’s

it with

         B      L       O     C      K  


C     A     P     I     T     A     L     S.




Finn. 29th April Greece.




Dedicated to Roger Waters

of Pink Floyd author of

Another Brick In The Wall.

The lyrics were a reaction

to his time at Cambridgeshire

High School where teachers

were of the impression that

children were homogeneous.

Hence the term just another

brick in the wall.

                 <>

I’m an autistic dyslexic expelled

from school because the system

failed me. The poem which is in

toothing format is attempting to

draw a comparison between the

poet and bricklayer who may have

actually been in the same class

at school. But what is more

important is how the author got

to show the poets frustration

and gave him a schizophrenic

delinquent character bringing him

to deface what he had created.


What is also worth noting is that the

poem was formatted in with is known

in wall construction as  “ Toothing “.

That is when bricks are left with gaps

where the mason can pick it up later.

This of course is a metaphor for the

poet and his everlasting expectation

that which caused his mental inertia

all his life, will any time now pass.


But this is an innocent naivety, the

wall will never be completed, it can’t,

because the poet never did or will

achieve notoriety, thus, he will never

get a mortar board from which to

trowel the jointing material to finish.

Barkoded


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Ps

Last night near the van, a sheep dog

took to a sequence of barking which

I memorised. In Greece, the dogs stay

out all night with their flocks, hence the

poem in Bar (k) Code.

Democracy Of Flowers


Sunrise dispels the illusion

of floral grandiosity.


Look at me declared the Poppy,

I am redder than a Carnation.


Sunflowers claimed that they

Were taller than Marigolds.


We Lavenders have perfume

Not like the droopy old Iris.


But The White Rose of Athens said,

“Our colourless shadows are similar”.



Demos Kratos first bloomed in Greece.

Four masted ships

breaching horizon.

Sails ushered by

same breeze as waves

breaking on foreshore.

Congregated pylons

convey justified

concern inland.

Revelation


What pains me, is not

what I am cogitating

but how to transform

my autistic inspiration

from form dyslexia, to

a version appreciated

by conventional minds.

The shortest distance
between two points,
of view, is a handshake.

The shortest distance
between two points,
of view, is a handshake.

Handshake

Extended arms overcome to reconcile
what was once divided and separated.

Perhaps one or both has to reach out
further, even to a protracted cantilever.

Age, tradition and culture arch backs
but a bow does not mean genuflection.

Traversing a span to overcome and reach
beyond voids of indifference takes ingenuity.

That which connects links of a chain
straddling the sprocket, is a split pin.

The cross of Calvary did not vex Jesus but
we let anger obliterate our viaducts of life.

Yet rehabilitation is achievable, 427 years
of damaged history was restored at Mostar.

Beach Combers Dilemma.


A rod for my own back, telescopic to

boot and a reel to addle my head.


It's a fish killing implement and I a

sympathetic vegetarian predisposed

to humaneness, hence the dilemma.


Throw it into the deep tidal swell, let

Thalassa thrash it against the rocks.


But am I depriving someone to feed a

hungry family, (of refugees perhaps).


Theres a trawler wrecked, livelihoods

destroyed, am I holier than thou?


Who am I to pass judgement, let he

has not fished cast the first troll.

Nor a Hand


This mornings fog hid her from sight

a ghost ship adrift that set upon a reef.


She’s an auld wreck they be telling me,

abandoned, gave her soul to the seas.


Anonymous, salt corroding erosion stripped

away her dignity, almost a dry dock divorcee.


A be the days when she graced the waves and

her womb weighted with maritime magnanimity.


Now not a flag or a ribbon, not a bell or a gull,

not a rope or a chain, nor a hand, to guide her.

Senescence


There was a time when I

could inhale sufficiently,

to sigh effectively, yawn  

satisfactory and sneeze

without any rehearsals.


There was a time when I

could hold my **** long

enough to unbutton my

trousers, but those days

have unfortunately gone.


There was a time when I

could stretch without pain,

yet, what I can truly say

though, is that have not

one iota of faith, in a ****.

The Imagine Nation



      When asked where I am from

    I no longer mention my country

      by name because people will

      soon enough realise that my

     accent is the noun, not a verb.


       I come from a place where

  daydreams are never interrupted

by darkness because it’s a marriage

of preoccupation with nonconformity.


Curiosity gives an illusion of genius,

insight and resourcefulness are the

true collaborators of artistic invention.


   Panache cannot be consumed.

Sprung.


Reynard was of the impression

that he could pull the wool over

Sheps eyes while the flock was

still in the shearing shed, but the

Bellwether got wind of it, so he

headed straight for the pen and

composed warning sign, in poetry.

                 <>

The Fox is out on the peep

not for chickens or ducks but for sheep

he’s disguised as a lamb

even Baa's I’ll be ****

but alas it’s an octave too deep.

A flat sheet of light gauge iron

has zero load bearing tolerance

but once it is corrugated, not only

does it incorporate aqueducts, it

also provides an excellent weight

bearing covering from rain.


When God created the universe,

the initial intention to protect it

from the elements was considered.


The idea was to have a permanent

dome made of glass in the form of

a prism, which would light up when

the sun shone through it.


Unbeknown to God (he doesn’t know

everything) his wife had done a course

In divining and she got right good

at finding water.


Ever since she has been doing her

utmost to wash the colours from the

rainbow.


Sure didn't she drain the moon, it's

full of dry craters, even the cow

jumped over it, not a blade of grass.


She's a sorcerer.



sorcerer
noun
witch, diviner, occultist, voodooist, sorceress, enchanter, enchantress, spell-caster.

The wood turners dog is called

sap

He's to big to sit one ones

lap

He runs around trees

And barks at his fleas

But when he stops it is usually to

crap.

Dyslexia


Wind turbines waved

arrivederci at animal

transporters on their

way to an abattoir as

surface water spray

diffused the red sign

which spelt P.O.T.S.

Sequential  


Canines are content with one

life, whereas Felines are full

   of angst because they are

  cœrced to perform a series

  eight unrehearsed encores.

Anomaly


         When the dog

      was gifted a bone,

      he was in the now.


     When he buried it,

    he was in the future.


    When he dug it up,

    he was in the past,


(looking for the present).

Rainbow


A flat sheet of light gauge iron

has zero load bearing tolerance

but once it is corrugated, not only

does it provide aqueducts, it can

also furnish an excellent weight

bearing covering from rain.


When God created the universe,

the initial intention to protect it

from the elements was considered.


The idea was to have a permanent

dome made of glass in the form of

a prism, which would light up when

the sun shone through it.


Unbeknown to God (he doesn’t know

everything) his wife had done a course

In divining and she got right good at

inding water. Sure didn’t she drain

the moon dry.


Anyway, God finished the dome and got

the painters to colour it in, but his wife

totally disapproved of the shades and she,

out of pure resentment tried to wash them

off and has been doing so ever since.

I’m in Assisi, it’s full Of Holy Mary’s,

Vegetarian’s and Ornithologists,

     But not a donkey in sight.

Upskirting Venus.


                                   *

            (

     The crescent moon was a

     concave optic, suspended

     beneath a visible Venus in

    the twilighted sky, at sunset.


On the horizon, a ship at anchor

  impersonated a perched village,

shimmering in a desert of darkness.


Lesser stars arrived and peered

deviously through perforations of

the celestial colander, because it

was officially by then, nightie time.



7 pm West Coast Sardinia

        23rd March 2023.

Time Piece


     If history repeats itself,

  Then, now has an eternal

   Echo, therefore, the rote

    Recitation of repetition,

      Verbatim is both futile

     And therefore a totally

     Unnecessary exercise

  Because freely suspended

   Pendulums resist change

On their plane of oscillation

Which is why the grandfather

Clock on a See-Saw nothing.

Temporal


   I got no receipt with the present.

  This means I can’t go back to the

gift shop [tomorrow] and exchange

it for [yesterday]. Ah well, I will have

     to make do with it for [today].





22 March Guspini Sardinia.

On an extremely wet day in Mallow

County Cork Ireland when the eaves

were dropping, a conversation was

    overheard between a paranoid

schizophrenic and his altered ego

  in a wall mounted cracked mirror.


  " I can’t live with myself because

   YOU gave me a split personality

  and now I don’t know if I am a He

or a SHE or an IT and while WE are

   in this predicament of being in a

       state of YOU pluralisation

   THEY are all talking about us “.

Enlightened

We don’t mind the rain

and not a person yet,

has seen the dew fall.


As for the mist, it’s a

mirage, an illusionary

interpretation of fog.


We don’t mind the wind,

so long as it doesn’t

blow the clouds away,


because shadows are

egotistical self-seekers

always soliciting exposure.


We don’t mind the night,

sure don’t you know that

we drink THE DARKNESS.

R.I.P

First came the arthritic

seizure followed by a

visual external decay.

Joint immobility, loss of

edge, cancerous pallor.

      Rust In Peace.

          Scissors.          

               \ /
               /˚\
              0   0

Le Grand Bleu


The Mediterranean is a volcanic

crater filled with with a liquid

which would never make one

feel blue even when bathing.


    Some say it is an inkwell

  surrounded by a parchment

with a margin called a beach

where people wear foolscap.

Night Earned


En route to our undecided

Destinations we encounter

Accidental rendezvous with

Those of like mind who have

Thrown caution to windmills

And adopted the no rein policy

Of Rosinante Miguel Cervantes

Horse, who led the adventure

Without any input from the Don,

Dapple or indeed Sancho Panza.





8th April 2023 7 Pm Corsica.

Waves
~~~~~~~~


What’s in a wave?


When one thinks about ships

In the night in passing, there

Is a mention of distant voice

Then a silence and again the

Darkness


Ants on en passant have a wee

Tete a tete, but modern humans

Lost what was one a reflexive

Impulse.


It is why, while on this caravanserai

I take the time to notice those coming

On the opposite side and bid a brief

But meaningful recognition of their

Courageous expeditions to where

We had just been (and deserted).






13th April 2023.

On the road to Assisi.



Ps.

A dog can detect prostate cancer

And is reputed to be 98% accurate.


Cat’s on the other hand are capable

Of a 100%, but they'd rather watch

You die,

Because of prostate I can’t

hold my ****


Yet there's never a convenient

abyss


I’ve tried climbing a ladder

with an overfilled bladder


But at the top, t'was the wind

ruined my bliss.

Palestine


Horizon, their metaphorical

dam, restricting our waters,

but lunar activity will drain

  its foundation and lower

   the level to irrigate us.

2B ou pas être

n'est pas le question

mais la matriculation

      de la Corse.

Excavation


         Walking across a field I

     stumbled on an empty hole,

     a fresh earth mound beside,

      with visibly active worms.


      It could hardly have been

       for a gate post, fence or

      tree, a bit larger than that,

      no sign of a pick or *****.


          There was absolutely

     nothing but a handkerchief,

    ah: I recall hearing only days

  ago that Al Zheimer’s dog died.

Tumors


      Democracy is an operation

     nations use to eliminate the

    spread of cancerous growths.


  Brexit was the surgical removal

of East Tumor (as the Irish call it)

       from the European Union.


        Palestine currently has a

           malignant swelling

  metastasising on its West Bank.


  After acupuncture, the one on

   Russia’s border is going into

           a state of remission.