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Michael John Jun 2024
i

do you know what i don´t like
lily asks looking into the void
i don´t know sprouts or freud-

people who stand in front of
mirrors-the vain-the rude-
no,a book that falls apart as

i am trying to read it..
page by page by page..
(o no don´t..)

-hell hath no rage
like the state of my insides
(i won´t..)

ii

well.don´t read it then!?
what if it is something i have been
looking for..for years?

and what if someone has written in
the margin or under-lined words?
(tears are near)

telephone numbers
shopping list
test the pen..

iii

what if it smells of love
and the dedication reads:
to daddy from timothy

happy christmas-2 thousand,
kisses..
a plane ticket or train..

a flower or book mark
a bench in the park
that changes my life..

iv

you hear of books
changing people´s lives´..
perhaps,they fall apart

too..mine, was crime and
punishment-i was assaulted
by it-typical..

v

could have been worse-
her boyfriend was a boxer-
that guilt should be such

remorse..
and redemption through love
and faith..

vi

brings one to the stranglers
and a ticket given
a gecko on the wall

a butterfly on the glass
another light day
all the same..
Michael John Jun 2024
i
i

i do not mock the sun
a war no-one or nothing
wins

i know as much as the
gecko
late of residence

on our wall-
upside down
charging at the

near invicible
and surrounded
by monsters..

ii

i have a hat and
the captain´s shoes
but that means nowt

i am in
i am blue
i am out..
Michael John Jun 2024
if football or music is war
then,what hope is there?

if police are gangster
the ice-cream-man warrior..

a towel on a chair..
a colour..

a book to fire
history or

geography
hey,what is yours

is yours and
what is mine is mine-

trade-love and
hate-misunderstanding..

if..
Michael John Jun 2024
consistant like a snake
begging for change
what is in the store-
war..

you want what´s mine
you want it all
it is just your way-
war

it is inevitable or
such
what a bore!-
war..

look at the past
look to the future
a dying bird-
war..

it is the truth
or lie
on it´s ****** way-
war..
Michael John Jun 2024
now, i like to think i am
more sensible
(44 years have not been
in vain)

perhaps,a tad more cynical-
but not many,
stay the same-
though, there are those

who´s ethos and character
from conception to expiration
changed not one iota..
i do envy them..

ii

i thought,if you can´t
change your mind
then,what is it for..

i was in the captain´s shoes
looking in a new portal
through an open door..
Michael John Jun 2024
i

today is the solstice
lily,what shall we do?
light a candle or two
join our minds

with the world-
the great festival of light!
together we are might!?
energy enfolds-

are we not one?
little bits
of the pantheistic universe..

ii

shoes were by down fall..
(anecdote alert)
they would n´t let me on

the plane-(are we not
to have a good time?)
thanks to the pilot..

i see myself at king´s cross
in t-shirt and shorts
the captain´s shoes..

minus two-
cold and broke
with-out a smoke..
Michael John Jun 2024
i)
i)

it is hard to judge your
own creation
ask any mother or god

(i am neither)
and i write and forget
or to forget

that i might write
another-something that
means something

or might change the
cosmos and everything in it
or just go-do-ray-mi..

ii

this is the fun-never knowing
but using my thumb and
middle can create

indifference puzzlement
love and hate
in some ambigousness-

left handed fate..
or a play with words
some loch ness

iii

monster at the gate
going-ahhhhhhhh!
when it turns absurd

but keep on going
regardless-what might occur
something of interest

like art or wait..
life is short
and death is long..

iv

try not to say
what is the point
(cause it´s an oblong)

pointless questions
a dirge or some long lost song
that has no effing ending

but goes ding-****
but makes millions
happy..

or why bother?
long long the flow
of tiny little things..!

v

once i dreamed of
fame and fortune..
lily, are you listening?

why,she says marking
her page-what is she reading-
her own poems..here´s one-

a)

i wanted money
so i could eff off
the factory

(or office..)
the time piece
like a ***** or rack

-the monster of
silver and black
that nailed

into my head and
heart
so lost but accurate...

(i might rise late
and drink good coffee
yawn and be happy..)

b)

fame seems a bit
of an oversight
who to trust..

when it´s lost
something indefinable
the strangers babble..

i was me
now,what to say
what is it i

thought it was
things change
but to what..

vii

what is she reading
her own poems still
here is another one..

it is called


just to
**** time:
in the mind
if you stick pins in mine-

a second hand..stretching
on a rack never to come
back..elongating and breaking
(thumbs *******)

you see me
in the factory
looking up at three
and again at five..
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