From Verse to Terse

Is that Vlad to Worse

            Or

A poorly worded haiku

Because in the Duma

They are saying, it's a

Limerick, check your IQ

Deepression

Pending on how profound
one is capable of going in
thought it's in these depths
one finds pearls of wisdom
hidden beneath sediment
which when stirred upsets
the mechanics of the mind.

A
         Prognosis

In the future, now will
always be present and
from past experience
It will be no different.

Ocular Activity

     There can be no creativity
without secrecy this is why I can
never R.E.M.ember my dreams.

Palace Thine


You can banish their poets

and bend their nibs and break

the lead of their pencils


You can dry their wells and

parch their earth, but you’ll

not drive them to diaspora


You can build your walls and

blacken their eyes, and cast

them your indelible shadow


But they won’t wear no shroud

and they’ll shout out loud because

their spirits have not gone fallow

$ N A K E           H A R M E R
  

  Rouble Bubble Gaz Oil Double

     Vlad Is Putin On The Blitz

    Sensing dollar is In Trouble

    Duma rolling round in Fits

.           Doing a Line

    In the beginning poetry
     was not yet composed.

  Yeats country didn’t exist,
nor did Limerick or Haiku,
Ballad, Lament, Elegy, Ode,
Sonnet, Villanelle or Acrostic.

 God intended proliferation.

Soon after the first rhyming
 couplet began to do a line,
the quatrain was born and
so it spread, hence the word

                Universe.

Ode For Palestine

Where does one go to find
a peace, in place of scorn

When all the stones are
thrown, and at them sworn

Why has our rockery become,
their wall obstructing morn

What desert rose can live,
if sunlight’s not being born.

      
                          
.                 Judas Tree              

                                
     One day when the leaves of

   empire vacate its tree, skeletal

   branches and a bark-less trunk

will be wondering if it was autumn.

                    Shhhhhh

        “ Its roots were pruned "

I didn’t shout you an e((((**,
it was an expression of pain
but you didn’t consider the
content and why it is that it
came back via the grapevine.

If I wanted to talk to myself
I’d stand in front of a mirror
or call myself from the land
line to mobile answerphone,
but not at such a fever pitch.

Before Tafara, the dyslexic
uncle of Malsi died, he is
reputed to have given her
a letter with instructions on
how to negotiate with the
squatters by quid PLO quo
rather the Ham-as which
apparently is not Kosher.

.                                       يهودي شارع الإسلام
                          
                               ON MALSI’S FIRST DAY AT

                                 SCHOOL THE TEACHER

                                 SUSPECTED THAT SHE

                                 WAS SUFFERING FROM

                                  DIALATABLE DYSLEXIA

                                 WHEN ASKED TO SPELL

                                        JEW RUE ISLAM.

Malsi was asked
what colour tank
top she wanted
or her birthday.

'Not Sinai Grey
like Israeli ones'

Leaven
                                 Bread.


Some days Malsi’s mother
put more yeast than usual
in the bread. She said that
when it was ingested it had
a metaphorical magic, like
sun rays rising over a wall
put there to block our light.

I never did give it much thought
  until my mother died, but the
title term seems such an alien
   concept when one has lost.

Parable


     Malsi, who had never                            
    been out of Gaza was
    picking olives close to
      the high border wall.

She said to her grandmother
   that she wished the trees
     were much much taller.

   But why her grandmother
                enquired?

To which Malsi responded.

     “Because we'd have
   a far far better harvest”.







موعظة


     مالسي ، الذي لم يفعل
    من غزة كان
    قطف الزيتون بالقرب من
      الجدار الحدودي العالي.

قالت لجدتها
   أنها تتمنى الأشجار
     كانت أطول من ذلك بكثير.

لكن لماذا جدتها
                استفسر؟

الذي رد مالسي.

     "لأنه كان لدينا
   حصاد أفضل بكثير "

.              Uncle

There is always an uncle,
many, but one is usually
peculiar, we’ve all had
them but never expected
to replicate. Well, we do,
as if it is preordained and
no amount of free will can
alter a DNAshole’s destiny.

I think

Therefore

Islam

But it is not the reason
For my insomnia

This is because I am
Woke

And holding a vigil
With reason

On the oasis of life
Where mirage manifests

And the illusion of
Caravanserai is real

Bedouins and Barbars
Black eyes on barren sands

Where oil the cause of crude
& blasphemous obscenity began.

Infidel's


Who are the victims of
colonialism ?

I ask myself the question
every time I hear the answer

Who are the beneficiaries of
colonialism ?

I tell myself the answer
every time I hear the question.

For every action there is an
Equal and opposite reaction.

Reverse Colonisation



Cause and effect.


            Oil


  Western Greed


    Allah’s Claw


           (˚>

  According to
  The Gander.

Expatriated

A refugee has a reason
To go, I have no reason
To stay, it's almost exile.

A refugee has a reason
To go, I have no reason
To stay, it's almost exile.

A Partygate Goad
            -----
Downing the Hatch

I drink

      Therefore

                   I were

                    I was

                    I is

                    I are

That’s it I weren't

Well, only 9 minutes
At 10 next to eleven
Asleep for most of it.

Rees Moggy

There is no need for night,
Everyone knows that, the
Technology has been here
Since Edison’s discovery.

The reason governments
Continue with darkness is
For MP’s to exploit the law
They sleep during the day.

Striped Pyjamas

There are no perimeters
The night is an expanse
Larger than imagination.

  There are no walls or
  Sirens or spotlights or
    Centurions on duty.

   There are no cells or
       Bars in windows
     Or parole boards.

  There is only anxiety
  Depression and fear.
   Insomnia's a prison

On the island of insomnia
(((((((((((((waves)))))))))))))
never cease to wake the

               shore.

Debris dots the tide line
a solitary beach comber
sifts through yesterdays

               score

  Sands of time filtered
  ((((((((((echoes)))))))))
in shells voices the sea's

                lore.

Elocution
       Evolution

    When figures
       of speech
  metamorphose
    they become
         letters

Looking Glass

I did wonder how he shaved
with such poor vision, I had
to really peer through the mist
just to catch sight of his face.

Later in the morning he returned
with a piece of newspaper that
had a red dot on his chin. Custom,
his wife has one on her forehead?

Bar “ Hight *** “ in news

          selling pork Pi’s to queues Root

Square filled with Jews

B L <o> N K

      The moon has a pied a ciel
          hide out In the southern
            hemisphere, a boltole
       escape form the light of day,
        shadows find refuge when
compassionate clouds congregate,
          but at least we can blink

((((((((((

     No matter what expression
    of despair one voices at the
        oracle of reverberation,
      deja-vu, is in echo heard,

Goggle eyed Googler

                     On identity parade

Sleep waking in dark

Musical Contradiction

Al Dubln wrote Lullaby of Boadway
but Fred Ebb wanted to wake up in
a city that never sleeps, not Seattle.

Falling asleep has no antonym
discrimination against insomniacs

<o>

            20 Winks

  Insomnia is not chronic,
If it was it would be diurnal.

Before he decided to sleep

         he telephoned Little Bo Peep

              She said she felt lousy

                 And feeling drowsy

Because the bell whether’s one noisy sheep.

.                   I
                 took
               a night
            cap to bed
        a dunces cone
     In an effort to stop
   me thinking but soon
I woke with wits in my hair

         <8>.    "     <8>
    (                              )
                    L      

                 --O—




Finn. 16th/17th April 2022

Moon river must be the
Milky Way and that is
Where the cow that
Jumped over it came from.

The difference between
Waking up from or to a
Nightmare is insomnia.

The night watch man is
A jeweller with insomnia.

Since the fire at Notre Dame
Quasi Modo sleeps Belle Etoile.

"Insomnia means waking up of
  someone you didn’t sleep with”

I would like to build a
house with railway sleepers
  Then I wouldn’t give two
    Hoots about insomnia.

What have insomniacs
  And rough sleepers
     Got in common?






Bags.

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      If Frere Jacques
  had insomnia instead
of tinnitus Pavlov’s dog
would have had Petit Dej.

Nyctophobia
                  a
        Stygian Saga

Asleep full of nightmares
awake counting sheep an
owl became rooster when
   the moon sun did leap.

Seattle insomniacs
  Are Sheepless.

but for New Zealand

             Insomniac musings would

have no audience

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The Samaritans

               only interested in

suicide haiku's

Sleep is a latitude
Between two hemispheres
I’m in the aurora borealis

exhausted moon took

                        a long time to nod off

shut eye after month

Pendulums are metronomes
   Insomniacs use to keep tempo
     with their circadian rhythms.

I feel like an owl
at bed time but I
soon begin to bat