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Mar 2021 · 67
i knew the moon too well
Michael John Mar 2021
i

i knew the moon too well
i would not like to dwell
there..

i don´t really understand
why man
needed to go

there seems to me
had we spent the money
wisely

here instead
say,on pollution..
then we might be happy

here..
but i´m sure
there is a lot

i don´t know


ii
Mar 2021 · 55
i knew the moon too well
Michael John Mar 2021
i)

i knew the moon too well
we are all water
after all
under the fur..
there are two spells-

one by the birds
this from the rats
they cast
into the centres
the healing begun..

both love
true
since
time
began
or a little
later..

ii

oi ******!

iii


i knew the moon too well
the past by sell
my self
your self

not much to do
boo!
to do
an ivory cast

gods yo
yo
y
?

something to
make
the water
go

something for
lover
sighs
o

something for
us to
aspire
too


fire
from air
a future
now..

iv

i knew the moon too well
familiarity bred contempt
i look to your eyes instead
and ping my heart went

anew into a new hell..
Mar 2021 · 1.5k
i knew the moon too well
Michael John Mar 2021
i knew the moon too well
over familiar
from her arms i fell
like the water

in an ancient well
reflected her
eternal
earth mother

a mired hell
her purr
her smile
a lover´s

shell
a lost word
a rat´s spell
never heard..
Mar 2021 · 65
i know lets
Michael John Mar 2021
i know lets
harass
an old man
(oh

no
his age
is un-
important)

we will
force him
from
his
home

- starve him
so he has to
******* his self
come
!

and in his death
we can cry what
a sin!?
to die
by his own hand..?!
Michael John Mar 2021
purple flowers by the window
reiterate how ya doing
to a world of suffering
(has been but always so-)

there a lilac of inspiration
and a crown of hope too..
toward a life comes
a time we all once  anew..
Mar 2021 · 69
the birds in the trees..*
Michael John Mar 2021
the birds in the trees
the flowers and the bees
but you don´t get much
for nothing..

a monkey and his fleas
the pod with it´s peas
but you don´t..etc

the mrs on her knees
the neighbours shouting,please,
but..

salt from the seas
all we see
really..but..

the crap on tv
and
the crap on tv
but..

the birth of you and me!
and blessed eternity..!!
but you don´t get much
for nothing..
a spontaneous ditty while preparing the daily egg..
Feb 2021 · 218
do you ever look
Michael John Feb 2021
i)

do you ever look
at your reflection
for the first time
a song or book

or a poem
or a sign
a triangle
or circling

a lost time
ed
d
eh?

(teachers would ask
s. what are u
?
what can you say

(i hexed their ***
but good)
a frown  grown
like a mushroom!

a reflection
a dark hood
glass
a noose..)

ii)

they say,
the first world war
was the end
of our civilization..

when a whole generation
was slaughtered
followed by a virus
that did for millions

iii)

in the mirror
a day
of unashamed care
will once be us

a clear cool water
will slip by
a sweet prayer
times love

equals
alway
s.
and for

ever
er
r
.
doodle..
Feb 2021 · 87
do you ever look
Michael John Feb 2021
do you ever look
at your reflection
for the first time
change your mind

a new conception
a song or book
a poem
alone-

by maya angelou
she says,
nobody but..
when i read this

my heart breaks
my testies lift
too  talented
her hard life..


ii

i confess
i stole my copy
to her
a rabbit before
headlights (lol..)

sorry,
forgive me
i love you
would she berate
me..

will you mine
be
did you have money
i could not help
it
i treasure it

i loved your
poems
but i feel guilty
timeless

truths
filler of hearts!
full of wisdom
all love-
all..

mended me
mends me
i have paid
we pay..
inspiration from the poet
maya angelou
Feb 2021 · 310
you like to mess with my
Michael John Feb 2021
you like to mess
with my mind
?
with swirls
of light and dark?

love´s distress..
(this delicate pearl)
what you find
?

well for yous
a stark
tight
circle!!

call love!
will make ye
mental
and happy too!!
Jan 2021 · 94
A butterfly for the
Michael John Jan 2021
i)

a butterfly for the
very eye
it made some wild
cry
a whole with
my
eyes

a whole
aye!
t 'was i
blind?
my life
by-

and by..
silently
i, moon
on a
loving see
sighed

a lost child
love tried
I would bide
hide
hi
h

E ar
M usic


all i ever
needed
all i ever
wanted
all
A
ll..

ii)

when i was
small

iii)

now i am
T
all


iv)

a lost soul
bargain basement
sold
dreams soiled
hard boiled
foiled

v)
but music
remained the
same


vi)

that is life
a ty to lz..
Jan 2021 · 102
the wild flower
Michael John Jan 2021
i)

the wildflower (symbol
of pretty-power)
a second,a minute,an
hour-

bee´s love there
my eyes stare
red,purple and
yellow

so fair!
gone such care
that may blight my
heart-
the very air

colour!
so window
love now
my torturing

brow..
start and go
say howdy
do..

ii)

colour therapy!

iii)

the wild flowers
below my window
gods tears or
d'or

for you and me
to assist our trip to
reality-
sobriety!

iv

it was easy
for down hyacinth laan
when c. made me
crazy

and walking on sunshine
sang in the factory
a solitary
hand

waved from, across
the high way,
brushing away
his tears

as i brushed mine
what remained of my mind
so long ago
say the wildflowers below


my window..
beloved
waving
hey s.!

iii)

we got lost
in wind
and the past

hopeless
i despaired
only once
but sought therapy
in colour..

iv)

on hyacintha laan
canals and order
logically
and free

a little lsd
a precarious balance..
a wild flower
bridge over the

san luis rey..
my budgies
my cats
my hat

v

time
a last taste
of wine

vi


i had a washburn
nice old thing
golden brown
sing

sweet like honey
i called her
n.
in

fine
and dream
such beauty
never seen
only the last verse is partly truth.or first rather.
Michael John Jan 2021
is there anything new
under the sun?
some word unknown
and true

well.
there are the *******
wildflowers
by my window

that whisper
and stick
my tormented soul
that lick

and kiss my brain
saying howdy!?
heavenly colours
new and old

pains
dance and jig
whee
but sooth

my brow
some how
biff and pow
flip my wig..
Michael John Jan 2021
i


the flowers below
my window
lance me heart
so!

purple, reds,
and yellow-
into bleeding
parts

oh..
and sooth
my feverish
brow

with their
love
and how
like a wish

like a dream
of youth
anew!
the flowers

below my window

ii

stroke at hours
and months
and days

through
eon
s

black
and white
gone

cheer my
soul
make

this life
cheerful
the sun

the swallows
like a dream
so young..

iii

they feel
i feel
cacti

behind
and above
the blue

sea
sky
a tiny

lizard
scampers
for cover..

iii)

with a dandelion
at his throat..
a lonely

wizard
a heat
chilled

a lost word
this world
beat

you
me
wanders

cut
only
silence

hears
up the
tread

to the all
diminishing
portals

a butterfly
or fired
eye

a bright bead
from his
sleeve

like glass
looked
by

he see!
wild bird!
he see!!

by
and on
purred

ahead
what is
coming

o lord
the room
red

on the alter
bright
the heart

of man
a wave of
his gnarly

hand
a little laugh
for hell

and loved
a dagger
to be

held up
cry the
whole

world
poised
and

glints
dead
red

the old
way
whispers

back
stayed
faith

love
and belief
children

whispers
he
a universe

of one
reason
listen

to our
godhead-
pantheism

the wizard
rainbow hard
drew from

some heavenly
auroras
sweet dawn

of unite
an adoring light
the ring of

we
glory
glory

iv
Jan 2021 · 70
now i am on
Michael John Jan 2021
now i am on
page 81
put upon
karma´s song

not to mention
c  white skin
red red in
eye green

lonely mine
small blue van
tulip maddened
loving

i was kind
she said n man
i was kind
joes garage

budgies
cats
molly and
morcha

to combat
depression
i painted
or

went fishing
c
would say
something

that destroyed
me
then she
told her m and

d
what we did
over dinner
honey


sometimes we
had fun
sometimes
c

and then
someone again
i suffered
like anyone cared

i tried to
give hope
la
we recited

leonard cohen
i worked
on my
guitar

i had some
******* breakdowns
b
i was in pain

nearly all the time
fed yo skinny
***
s


ii

waited
i read
hemmingway
not for

me
read
dostoyevski
went to


iii
see fiet
in her canal house
boat
with 26 cats

8 dogs
and a chicken
she gave hot
t

to me
she rushed
in her 2cv
she laughed

and said i
was a lady
kind to me
kind to me

i went to
the riks
museum
jan steen
said she

a minor
but the anarchy
of that sweet

era
there is fun
in her huge
pile of

books
skaters  zipped
past
a cat

everywhere
heat
once children
brought her

a swan
and she gave it
a kiss
and it flew

off
fiet
sunday
depression

smiling...
page 81 of my biog..
Oct 2020 · 126
I do not know if
Michael John Oct 2020
I do not know if
the world has lied
i have lied
i do not know
if the world has conspired
i have conspired against love
the atmosphere of torture
is no comfort
i have tortured
listen,
even without the mushroom cloud
still,i would have hated
i will not be held like a drunk
under the cold tap of facts
i refuse the universal alibi..

like an empty telephone booth
passed at night and remembered
like mirrors in a movie palace lobby
consulted only on the way out
like a nymphomaniac that binds a thousand
into a strange brotherhood
i wait for each one of you to confess..

Leonard Cohen
Oct 2020 · 86
my biog
Michael John Oct 2020
My biog-
now so
a dog
a hog
slurp do
**** the
marrow-
i stood lonely
by a bog
and angels song
beckoned to
me
a monkey
a cat
should
i have gone
slipped
in to
the fog
what price
hesitation
a mice
a rat
some one
else
always
not me
o
there songs
beauty
I
listening
rapt
lah
lahg
laghing
laughth
laugh
so merry
Singing
!
should
I
I
go..

ii

that is one
i thought
but  at
evil
lurked
with
sparked eye

near and in
o golly
somewhere
near
angel song
wickedness
asunder
there

dark willed
patient as
long
waited
i stood
waiting..

iii

o
then i spun
the devils crown!
an old crow
grinning

the badness
of so
much
just too
much

castigated to
such
an effed
place
some

disgraced
settled
by
adjacent
wickedness
o!

an­d laid
bare!
by a bog
i wonder
what happened..

iii

i lost my shoe
in the mud
not a pathfinder
(i may add)
the voices
levitated
out the water
and sung
i thought
what is this
the devil
shone near
too many
fruit gums
i controlled
the mix
the women
were beautiful
in the quiet
no birds
or trees
nothing
but these
exquisite
voices
i wondered
what was amiss
did they want
something?
sometimes a child
with too much
time
i was 9
or i was ten..

iii

i went many
times
well
three or four

each time the
same
voices
singing

lonely child
halucinating
already old
confused

was it love
generated
from within
my
brain

mayhap
should i have
stepped in
a front
page headline

of the local
gazette
was it just
to put
some fear
in

standing
by
a bog
an incident
from my biog..
to sell copies

no
i am on page
40
i can not
write prose
but some may
say
worse

a little boy
of nine
and a haunting
or a vision
or a battle
tween good
and evil..
Sep 2020 · 53
two cats fight
Michael John Sep 2020
i


Two cats fight
at the door
we wear night
if any law

might apply
then or was
it  has
laughed

swung away
on some wicked
lonesome
tree

like a lost
tense
we menace
ourselves

**
hot
the
knife

to
our
own
throats!

ii

and I
try to write
a biography
but it is too painful

for me
m
and i
can not write

anyhow
it´s in
my brain
now

and if the
past is any
thing to go by
it is ´nt


apparently
so why bother
but as i say
it´s in my brain

and it will be true
never mind effing
slander
o my pain

fait accompli
for hate
for love for
money

it will be true
distain
clever dickey
the truth!

let us hear
be seared
struth!
warts

cold heart
burned soul
and all!

ii

(well no
spoilers)


iii

cast a spell
a tight
little circle-
a pearl!

in their
soul-
like a weight
of gold

a wee
that folds
rot away
in sweetest

bile!
why,
heart cold
burned soul

which held
forth
what harm
what harm

the loved
pearls
dissolved
it howls

to me
and it whispers
(to you)
endless

ly
they are
what will be
merciless

ly
no pity
caress
melting

less and less
and where our
poor
sanity

some tiny
measure
reversing
a half life

dying
round
and round
and roundy..!!
Sep 2020 · 34
words bored
Michael John Sep 2020
Words bored
silence revered
god loved
man abhorred

hate soared
love accord
i hoarded
soon dead

life lead
spirit fed
yea forward
quietened

the poet said
silent wed
black and red
tread

collected
a moon
and sun
backward

easy
by hard
hard
but free

wove
to love
hove
o dove..
Sep 2020 · 45
that is true
Michael John Sep 2020
that is true
harry*
we know
nothing

he would
have
liked
sham

jimmy sang
hurry up
were

going
down
the
pub..
*aristotle said we know nothing..sham 69..
Sep 2020 · 64
love god
Michael John Sep 2020
love god
god love
what dove
dove what
you should
i should
when would
would when
could now
now could
then now
now then
hard
drah!
word
lost found
found lost
hungered
hunger
red
present
moment
love god
god love
doves..
Sep 2020 · 52
if my mind
Michael John Sep 2020
i


If my mind
no longer mine
said oh fine
fin-

a stop sign-
the end signed
all good kin
in

love find..
i say fi(e)!
shark fins
circling

what´s been
or even
threaten
threatening

threats
threat
what has gone..
****-going

hex
circling
no longer you
ex

ii

x
no was
some
errant
fingers

in distant
pies
now
they

know
no?
you...

is
how
irrelevant-
try again!

why
lol
question
s

if they
can do this
what else..
we shall see...
Aug 2020 · 65
if the bird
Michael John Aug 2020
if the bird
in the agave
ceased
where should
i be?

(so,
dead, long,
long,
ago..)

word,
if conferred
amid
the congress

one great
unbroken
thud
delectable

we
wonderful
before
the pantheistic

nature of
all..
(as it began
tweet)
Aug 2020 · 90
if deferred
Michael John Aug 2020
i

if deferred
another word
but
or

absurd
tut
can
am

i
mother
sky
purred

such glory
birth
or dying
see

hear
an infinity
in
the bird

song
(hit-****)
in the
agave..

ii

fallen tree
ah me
on a dime
everything

everyone
must
(secret-
tusk)

love ridden
unbidden
thus
be..

iii

i say none
asked
first
or last

spaced
´tween
the branches
nothing

laced
won or lost
your hand
after

all these years
still precious
teeth gone
hair

gone
what now
if then
deferred..
Aug 2020 · 56
there have been strange
Michael John Aug 2020
there have been strange
going-ons´
in the agave
the week gone-

the summer
beginning to wane
the wheateaters
a trifle

familiar-
they say
play us  a tune
good head-

let us arrest
and rejoice in
this moment
or

(some bread
would be nice)
summer is near-on
over

autumnal´s
melancholia
just around
the corner-

play an air!-
on that old hohner
(in g)
-down by the sally gardens..

after breakfast
with the egg still
on me
i fulfill

this request
plenty slide and
trill
a sweet memory-

more may be less
and their silence
is last
the green grass

what was is now
dry straw
the swallow balance
on tall

soar
and fall
with accompanying
twitters

cast
their happiness
nail
the moon´s

beam
still..
in the distance
a paper sails

-deer cross a
stream
at sunset
brown

and greens
i rush up
a hill
into town-

the end
and well-mannered
the black and white
tailed

but slowly an
encore
a refusal
there are chores

one castigates
from behind the
gable
sited

brevity
able
sorry
i have

to wash up
perhaps later
and worry
a bathe

you may fly
i an old
penny
in the war..
Aug 2020 · 41
if revered
Michael John Aug 2020
if revered
there may be
tears-

yesterday
there were three
blackbird

in the agave
they looked at me
without  

rancor
question
or regret

quite
quiet
quit it

i thought
sure
persistent

an inordinate
pause
they ordained

with their
glance
i said

i am
the head
of a church

and considered
wallace stevens*
returned

to finish
the washing up
uh..
his great poem-13 ways of looking at a blackbird..
Aug 2020 · 38
if reversed
Michael John Aug 2020
if reversed
(fie-a mild
blasphemy..)

or you
and i
we go

back!
you and
i

happy or
sad
(mostly)

jesus,
if
not then

for then
lost
or best

dead-
much said
thus

wink to
a blind
man

a moment
in
the past

dude
gravitas
gratitude

a rainbow
of then
now

and if-
harmony
a kiss

a hand
if
reversed

would be
the same
so..
Aug 2020 · 59
i´m afraid
Michael John Aug 2020
i


i´m  afraid
too-
nothing
new

how are
you..
still,
soon

be dead..
roses blown
rat´s fed
soul

dis-bursed
star sown
partly
us..

ii
i never thought
i´d be
the head of
a church-

paganism
for a new age
the old religion
pantheism

the worship
of light
and adoration
of nature

brother
sister
sharing the
eternal then..
Aug 2020 · 84
books are much!
Michael John Aug 2020
i

books are much!
long lost
tactile friend

of the mind
and heart-
touch

to thought..
now and then
always

they be
full of
everything!

why
why not
mayhap..

ii

i buy a book at the market
there is much to consider
(in no set
order)

(lily bathes in stilled
cores)
odor
or

art work on the
cover
author

dedication
to lover
marker

a flower
telephone
numbers

some accounts
to daddy
love jimmy

christmas
1955
preface

underlined
die
print

ing
bind
in
­
condition
not in
cost

17 shillings..
by the same
similar

50 cent
lent
library

newmarket
bankok
hostels

bantam
puffin
pengui­n

mm
7 reprints
have i read

these
save
trees

a bar
a beach
strange thread..
Jul 2020 · 39
if reversed
Michael John Jul 2020
if reversed-
love is
us

-this occur
-that obscure
obvious!

same bus
moon verse
soon her

soon me
all together!
tree

song bird
thrush?
lost purse

reimburse
we..
telephone

number
no need
insisted

bus conductor
cupid´s
while

big smile
nice eyes
her stop

go..
end..
began...!
Jul 2020 · 39
if reversed
Michael John Jul 2020
if reversed
the devil tell
the truth
in echo´s

well..
time though
we can be sure
here-

is our knell
straight
live
and direct..
Jul 2020 · 42
snakes are not
Michael John Jul 2020
snakes are not
hypocrites-
(we transfer
our worst
qualities
on to
nature..)

i picked a snake
up by it´s tail
and it sunk it´s
fang into my
hand
(and was not the
least sorry..!)

i gently prized
it´s delicate jaw asunder
and put it
in the long grass
-no half ***´d
apology
over the shoulder
or

complaint..
i don´t know why
i can´t help it
i have always
been like it
no-one loves me..
i am hated..

away untouched
and forgot
silk and dust
in perfect
present
shake belly
eyed beauty
one way
only..
Jul 2020 · 33
i dedicated time to
Michael John Jul 2020
i dedicated time to
learning
hours every day
so i could make
a living

hour after hour
every day
year in
and year out

at the beginning
of each decade
and
at the end

i said
i will
a way
devotion

try and
try
again

(i even
stopped
drinking)
then

and now?
now
..
.

ii

so as many
do
o!

a dream too
nothing new
no

go
gat a
job
boyo..!

iii
Jul 2020 · 56
gone blank
Michael John Jul 2020
gone blank
blank gone
one crank
crank one

varicose vein
upon me ankle
was i vain
rankles

i dreamed a
way
without
reflections

your man
looked in the
pond
but reversed

the only use
for a mirror
casting
hex

pin pricking
the universe
and joining
hands

she said,
i experience
i dreams
love fed

do not f a friend
soon be dead
son and daughter
love weaned

love giving
proud
volume
loud

(i write
crap
when
blank

something
tap
well
hell..)
Jul 2020 · 119
a kestrel
Michael John Jul 2020
i


a kestrel
in the agave
looks back at me

(when  or) if
an unstoppable fo
rce
struck

an unmovable
object-
what might be?

i play county
down
now,
f away..

ii

but leave me
soul!
leave me
my heart!!

o beauty
most
o eye of
god

fly like
a wild dream
we must
all

part..
life´s crust
is hard!
for a sweet love

in such delight
truest
sight

the kestrel in the
agave
wants another

but i am old and
rust
i have forgot

sundry jig..
i learned along
trout shores..

iii

my love is
baking bread

lily says
she is fed

up and stoops t
o
dead..

iv


head..
said
lily past

some
latent
blinded

heat
wait
last

one
man
band..
star of the county down-an old aire..
Jul 2020 · 24
the flowers are no more..
Michael John Jul 2020
i

the flowers are no more..
(now only desolate straw)
but their love-like spores
leave our old hearts raw

off and away to far shores..
how the past leaves sore'd
the purple and yellow ore
amid god green to the fore

like my lovers hum after  
******
or
the sweet swallows..

ii

still alive
i love my wife
times i hate her
like wild flowers


a hammer and a wall
screaming neibos..
or the hawk in an
agave

freak so
give me
regard
my beauty

so i play an old
aire
love
me god!

(and i think
he is mine
but of course
i am his)

iii

i smoke one little
joint
i am ****** all day
good news kids..


iv

can´t spell
like some infinite
circle

forget that bag
i read great novels
in rapture

to find an answer
russians in
human nature

i recall walter
i remember t
he played

my guitar
hour after hour
and a guru

they hung
by his
shoulder

he had some
vision
he changes his

cigar holder
i wait for dinner
early mop heads

that blue
grass
my recluse

neighbo
he would
like to ask me

about the carpenters
as an intro
they let

you help
he had influence
there was hotels

long before
i barely remember
oh,mr postman..

v

soon it was then
to a turn
i wait when

like deserted
post
love loss

i watched
the cost
burn

my heart
to
toast

i scrape
and
cursed

but like
sand
start

to fail
salt to a snail
bad to worse

i try
nowhere
to eye-

elbow
dan dare
no more

bill and ben
flee here
is mr

gardener
a wild flower
little ****

broken
heart
and reality..
Jun 2020 · 58
two tone!
Michael John Jun 2020
i

two tone!
owt note
love lily
was it

sanity
it was
when
i was twenty..

ii

i enjoyed the raucous
beat
and wondered
such depression

iii

eat
and drink
paint
flicked it

made a curtain
or a portal
into the next
world

became a vegetarian
i have a regret
but ****
unfurls

as they say
was crazy
on occasion
lsd was not

for me..it all seems
so right
if
he had not

i would not
a chain of events
only to end
rather obviously

how
the dawns early light
and claudia
s. saved my stupid

head and i had
wild breakdowns
yet it was good
the bulb factory

see lovely haarlam
and the dam
frite and cheese souffle
fishing

and the spring
mad colour
most time on
a bicycle

ever
i would
go
see

fiet
in her small
house boat
she had

3O some cats
1 chicken
so many books
a cirtoen

yellow
and happy
she said
i was once

a lady
and give
me tea
of a winters

morn
the cold calm
the frozen canals
iced balm
Jun 2020 · 43
song has gone
Michael John Jun 2020
i)

song has gone
for ever
(but not for good)
something

severed-
a head held
(with out-cost)..
the barbarian

is at the gate
and he asks
why?
and we answer

we don´t know
but someone
shall pay..

ii)

freedom
sing
we
e!

in our heart
is eternal
melody
come!?

wild things
in wacky
times
and

syncopation
if need be
join hands
dance

and dance
dance
o
.!
Jun 2020 · 46
guilty me
Michael John Jun 2020
guilty me
mint tea
May 2020 · 125
letter from spain
Michael John May 2020
letter from spain
i know that you two
have all elation!?
i hope your not
hitting your
head too much
i do
i catch my toe
in my music stand
and yesterday i lost
my glasses
it is good policy
to stay put
bathing is quite
interesting
cockroaches are
becoming abundant
spelling is patchy
i curse days
of excess
thankfully
i cant remember
now i like
moderation
sweet sense
sweet mary jane
on occasion
a cup of tetleys
and love song
bide like the
andalucian
the dear little swallow
circle the agave
the butterflies ******>numerous
no pollution
o the sparrows
the cacti are red
diamond shines
forth
i wake at sparrow
****
with a galloping
heart
soul seekers
feed everyone
i tried a new coffee to
day
i read either
whiskey galore or
the fall of the house
of usher
i keep a poetry
diary
a fine short story
writer john mcgahern
collected stories
and in a napolean
coste state of being
stare at the sea..
May 2020 · 77
time is very cruel
Michael John May 2020
time is very cruel
for when there is only
memories
we have no memory..

it is like a duel
in monty python
my mind disappearing
come back!

come back i yell
i will bite your ***
o i recall
but not feel..

ii



!!i left my banjo
i did not care
how i savoured
el vino

i slept right beside
the sea
in the summer
i remember

the sss
as it swept
the hot night
gentle dawn´s caress..

iii

to the long and exacting
beach road
to cognac coffee and backgammon
i recall a viking mouth open

wake up drinking and laughing
arguing with everyone
scratch and laugh
b is fighting

iii


fit..so i dug holes
it
i
and what-not..

effing bricks
effing and
effing that
ef..

i painted
i panted
o my pants
blue

and white
but kept clear
of cement
r

loved the cement
wagon
and backgammon
i liked diamonds

and rust
bean soup
the bus
and backgammon..

the cinema was some fun
i did the garbage truck
i cleaned the beach
b and i

worked at the museum
there was scant electric
and we slept 25
in the old cobblers house..

i picked tomatoes
and emptied the glasshouses
we treasured
i had some charming land ladies..

who fed and doted upon me
c
with her snowy long braids
she would cry-mikali..

lo there was bean soup
we shared the fire
and she would remember
an old lover..

i studied a single tear
descend her cheek
i had one old room
over the sea..

the bars were open
23 hours a day
bean soup was cheap
good bean soup..
May 2020 · 49
to my friends!
Michael John May 2020
to my friends!
i am your friend!-
when i write
i think of your light

when i play guitar
it is to your star..
in the shower
and during a light

shower..
sometimes a minute
sometimes an hour
to your health!

and to your families
health!
the world is strange
and wonderful

nothing is all
we make of it
our self
and we are..!
May 2020 · 55
the wild flowers beside-
Michael John May 2020
i


the wild flowers beside-
like yellow eyes
and purple brides
emit cries

with soulful bye-byes
oh shy
time and it´s tides
soon to die

a while to bide
soft sighs
to blind
trumpet cry-

ii

my window show
in a green nest
cacti flowers
are scarlet

and i saw two fat lizards
dandillion breast
dove and swallows
snow north west

small fishing boats
two or less
some freaky cloud
it rained less

then
or than
the sea loud
the breeze chilled..

(when
i won
proud
my will..)
May 2020 · 107
clowns with fake bells
Michael John May 2020
clowns with fake bells
your name
what to tell
a game..

what a ******* hell
no particular aim
say well
the blame

lies well
lame
jester bell
love wains

hate swells
what a dame
he fell..
(fake dumb bells..)
Michael John May 2020
the wild flowers below my window
think i am one of them
in this they are not completely wrong-
i too look to the sun

and they don´t know the words..
i wave in the spring breeze so
they are purple and yellow
sometimes hopeful trumpets..

and sometimes we curl within
and think
dream of bees
recall past lovers..
Michael John May 2020
before the woman runs home
shouting are you home
before the begun to turn
us..

not before breakfast
but at the split awakening
became a distant end
on the magical bus..

now and then my friend
i played my part i did my
bit
i have learned to cuss..
Michael John May 2020
time goes slow when i got eczema
on my paw
i smoke marijuana
so the itch like straw

depart here and the howling fire
that burns my finger so
replaced from red planet
by soft meadow

and clear water..(in four
minutes or less..)
anyone else concur..?
May 2020 · 118
may day
Michael John May 2020
may day
yay mad
(ay ay dm..)

mad yay!?
may day
ya ya md-

dam!ayya!!
yam yad....
yad yam...

dya mya
ma da yy..
day may

d a y m a y
d a y m a y
d a y m a y..
Michael John Apr 2020
i would write a testament to my uncle ron
who only allowed to play the guitar upon
the toilet then

rendered forth with frankie and johhny

a song i love to play
got his revenge by leaving the
door open


i remember going to school
with satchel over my shoulder
stumbling by the door

a tyrant his wife aunt mary


a classical pianist
though a lovely lady
class..

i grabbed some breakfast
uncle ron came downstairs
in his silken dressing gown

and burning the cheroot!

and headed for the bar..

i love that song..
sunday morning..
Michael John Apr 2020
the wild flowers below my window
a purple gown and overgrown
the sky is grey and softly blown-
the birds have taken back

what was always theirs then..
and what we can infer
is when and if and how
the moment a rolling stone..
Apr 2020 · 53
i love you sweetheart
Michael John Apr 2020
i love you sweetheart
a good start
long and short
love´s merciless caught

experience has taught
naught..
still a ****** net
of cheer and upset..

a nice start
what bottomless shout
gosh,live and let
what a trusted out-

i witch
a charm sort of loved
beguiled and such
by love circled!?

the start touched
a manic dove
to always be
youth

!
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