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149 · Jan 2022
there is faith for
Michael John Jan 2022
there is faith for
all
a pantheistic
ball

love-hate
birth-death
a tree
easy-peasy!
149 · Dec 2021
yesterday and no fibbing
Michael John Dec 2021
yesterday and no fibbing
a robin unbidden
like a mad bobbin
threatened-

crying we are no
good!
but that is the way
it is..

still,you have the
choice-
it is a ****
sandwich!

put out the light
and take a bite
god,
we have a name

or go
somewhere
where it is
exactly the same..
148 · Aug 2021
it is a new day
Michael John Aug 2021
it is a new day
when i am how to say
etc..!

three small letters
free of fetters
free!

(dodging the men
in white!)
here the moment

light-
linear in little
brown whens-

not if or but
when-
certain..
147 · Mar 2020
got to keep writing
Michael John Mar 2020
i

a)


got to keep writing
o note to self
i remember my life
sleeping sand hard

concrete worse..
now i have a dicky hip
no surprise
i should have worked harder

and paid rent but the more
i worked the more drunk
i got
and i worked hardest

when drunken..
(but insane..)
so i took refuge in
reading


b)


the written word
became god
there is sanity
in tolstoi

i roamed with anna
but more transfixed
by bbd as he played chess
things looked darker

but by the waves
life is grand
war and peace
s you ran off with

i hope you are well
and realize by now
the gravity
of your offence


c)

i had to forgive you
because you had recently
married and now was
on the run..

and her brothers were hot
on your trail
you see for every corner
and the loud door

i should explain that s was desparate
for liturature
so for a brother
i lent him

peace when i was coming to the
end of war
and he swore
so he married

they were drunk
he said the party was on
war and peace..!
he knew her a week..

they had his passport
they had shotguns..
we got very ******
sorry,about the book

good man yourself
what a party man
o s you just wanted
to get married..

what an effing party
in this old fisherman´s cafe
on the sea harbour
we laughed...
athens port side 86..
147 · Feb 26
down under
Michael John Feb 26
down under
they dig gold from the
ground and put beer in
their belly

thay don´t care about
the flies or if they are
smelly or the telly..
say-

they have a dream!
a golden seam
as long as your arm,mate..
and no dingo

croc,snake,spider
mechanical doo-daa
bureaucratic laws
will stop them..
147 · Jul 2017
thanks roberto !
Michael John Jul 2017
when i hurt or
was down
i like millions
the same
no doubt
found
release and
comfort
in your
lovely songs..

why
i dunno
but
with love
i would
like you
to know..
147 · Dec 2022
dahab now,there was
Michael John Dec 2022
i

dahab now, there was
little town
with  big heart

carpeted and corral
a breezy crown
laughing hearts

nice tea
hashish and
camels

it is simple
and relaxed..
dry..

ii

i settled in
with the bedouin
little goats

traipsed-by
golly, the sea
was blue

nearly died..
i can´t recall
me

but i guess
it is still as
beautiful
145 · Dec 2021
do the bunny rabbits
Michael John Dec 2021
do the bunny rabbits
shine!?
oh,like the sun
knowing and in
ignorance..ah..

their very look
fine
up and down
smiling and laugh..
la!

what do we want!?
nada..!
like the air
and wine
it is free just to
be..
like beer and pitza...
145 · Feb 2022
so long to another time
Michael John Feb 2022
so long to another time
just a fall
finger print in crime-
to hit a wall
some bitter wine
love on  call-
(hold the line!)
and that was all..
on the toss of a dime
a late night brawl
ah, she was fine
(lithe and tall)
far gone say neon
the rain bawls
and crying
his stammer and stall
-her number a crucifiction
she has  *****
for two ear rings
silver and gol´d..
spies a phone!
and play a dirge
lay of stone
his thirst
someone written
some thing cursed
451-
(lust a prefix-)
(hey!we are nt done
you one fancy trick!
yo sweet one!?
-resentment thick
like alone-
bitter as pitch
hard as bone
called it..)
a ring tones
ring-ring-silver
and gold-hello-
a disembodied voice
bring-how expect me
to answer when i
blowing your best friend-yo
mama-you there!?
our hero takes to the
air-
you there!
like he paper
in a fire blown
to coole air
woed and woe
!
you there,darling,
i wrote this,
like a poem within
a poem-as you wiped
the blood off my face-
called-(silver and gold-)

I was low so god
knew he brought you
to me..
(when i lay k.o.´d)
and i believed anew
as i saw your eyes
two fallen stars
from the firmenent
such a treasure hoved?!
(of silver and gold..!)

(beep-as a man sows
so shall he reap..)

so long a time to
another one
the begining to
the end from
genesis to revelation
451 the ignition temperature of paper..
Michael John May 2018
it is about and in a fine spring
the all and thing wild flowering
craning their god like seen joy in
ecstasy..

as little birds laugh twittering
a mild breeze everyhow flowing
across and to blue fresh scenes
a love of endless sea..

grief and death banished why
in this holy birth of the legendary
sign of our sweetest beginngs..
sigh the moon and suns to see..
144 · Jun 2021
man has lost all trace
Michael John Jun 2021
man has lost all trace
of his woman
-a spirit of love
gone!

and in it´s place-
materialism?!
(roman above
athens!)

but in her face
still,a wisdom
and hell
all depends..
some thoughts of carl jung..
143 · Feb 24
a
Michael John Feb 24
***
a new dance in-it!?
called the nitid
do the..

nitid-the nitid wings of
the dragonfly shimmered
as it hovered over the pond!

(nature is great inspiration!)
look now, i am a fish
looking up-an alien

or a god..o the colours..
what´s with the hands?
gills..

look i wave my tail!
very nice-like green
and blues..

early to be smoking
best time
the breeze blows..
143 · Nov 2018
i am time surfer
Michael John Nov 2018
i

i am time surfer
i crawl through space
i am in your brain
in..

lily you are high
again..
witches ate that
pretty one..

i am inside
do not hide
i can read
your mind
they were burned

ii

lewd creature..
it is mushroom season
how ever
don´ t eat them
as you go along..

lol..i could nt wait
i met everyone
it was free and it
was fun..

as all the colours played
and my perception grew
or i thought it did..
from a far..

i spied the groundsman
strolling over
and dogs like magic
a lovely clear morning..

it is a short grass and
no frost
you lose something
no..

i put them in cider
i made spagetti
now you can get a kit
let my self not get
the better of me..


iii

lily pipes up
they are natural
god meant us to get
high..
that is so..

but not to ****
each other with
guns or sabre
or rock..

we hid and were
just prey
while searching
for magic
i found
friendly
interest..
Michael John Nov 2019
i don´t know if i can wait
i don't know if i can die
do i believe in fate
(life a lover´s sigh..)

i do try not to fear
my eyes unborn star
while outside rain falling
and leonard reads his poems..
143 · Jan 2021
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..
143 · Apr 21
dear lily
Michael John Apr 21
dear lily,

it is nice to write about
the past
the dice already cast-

i am safe at my terminal-
anything might have happened?!
and present a blast..

we look back and laugh..!
hardly recognising ourselves..
(was i really mad and suicidal..)

then,i had a glimse of you!
on your old bicycle-pressing
on..up a hill..
142 · Jan 2019
music is space
Michael John Jan 2019
i

music is space
when that is
then we are
happy stars

like lace
or a kiss
hear soar
inspire

some lithe
gaps
a blithe tap
and fire

in but between
near
and far
pat

pat
pat..
142 · May 2020
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..)
141 · Jan 2022
i am not
Michael John Jan 2022
i am not
a pipe or ***
a monkey or sot
a dash or dot
a little or lot
a babe in a cot
why,when,or what
cold or hot
living rot
a distinct blot..

i am on the other
a fair listener
a brother
a sister
a mother
a father
further
nearer
hand sand
a magic wand
canned and
desparate dan
an avid reader
exotic and bland
black and tan
ollie and stan..

i don´t care much
for twits or aircraft
kits
wits
twix
that´s untrue
small bits
of stuff
too tedious to
go into
fascinate..

i am old and
young
i am dead and
gone
i am an acorn
a pagan
a lucky stone
amid seven billion
odd and even
i don´t hate
this seems strange
hate is healthy
like love
i worry
if i can´t hate
what..

i am musical
this is all
for me
i played the guitar
immedietly
and cant stop!
a top or head
the little girl beside
me was so enamoured
she said she would be my girl
friend
i started playing the
penny whistle at thirty
and harmonica some time
after
and then the violin and
drum in spain
the mandolin is fun..

i read poetry for thirty
year
before putting pen to
paper
sometimes i wish i
had not bothered
and sometimes i
am glad..
sad and
mad..

it is a point
but less
an ing with a
bless
i sky
i am at
sea
a bull
a lull
a sea gull
sea gulls..!!

i can tell you
something about
sea gulls
but what is the
point
i am resisting
smoke
i am empty
and full
i loathe thats
ok
killing time
bats are col
or cool or perhaps
anything that can
fly
loathe is somehow
lithe..
i like hats..

cats
rats
bats
fats
waller

cosy flats
welcome mats
pitter patt
rain in the
small wee hours
flowers

not so much
less a point
today i was thinking just
how worse
can it be
i think about the generation
lost in the first world
war
to die so young..
i got three books at the boot
sale or two, one is the prose
of pushkin
i like to read a short story
at breakfast
and something by the author
of cathy come home..homeless in
the uk in the sixties..
it puzzles me that the
richest country in the world
for a long time, had such
poverty..

but it does not pay to
dwell on such pain
i got three dvds-
some how an end
begins-
i watched marlene
ditrich as
a powerful russian queen..
clever trevor
and nina hagan
i can reccomend..
and jack london
the short stories there
of..
love is a suitable
finale..
Michael John Apr 2018
i


lily,
i am adventurere see
on some great clipper sea
but no pressed, no not me,
but to find courage and honesty!

i love robert louis
conrads style
i want to be..
gauguin..free,
in a mad spree..
a pearl in your teeth..
beauty...!

they see land
the tree..
rites of passage
and stars,
lily..
and god..
old by forty
and some forsaken past
and riddin stories..
to driven quite mad..

there s one about me..

or i tell this one anyway..

when i was chased by the hotel
manager by moon light and
gun point..

treat us like *****..
stay in that *******
fire hazard..
i held her back..
she threw stuff at him
***** got his gun..
it was fun..

ii

so we curled up
on a park bench
and watched the stars..

iii

she said
lily
it was filthy
and bunched a pillow
case
that slammed the distance
and surprised his face..
the other followed this..
he could not move as
he was too ******..
the sheet was a full sail
beauty that shot past..
and engulfed him
and stood a ghost..
i thought this might end
badly..so what seemed an eternity
followed while he fought his way
out and an expression to be..
golly..i thought,you should live
with her..
he ran off for his gun..

iv

he was only to show
room..
how did it go so
wrong..

v

so he runs back in
what a nice day it
had been..

we had a royal
harbour do..
cognac like mothers milk..

shame to die..with his gun..
there involved some ****** struggle
i noted myself in the middle
i should stay in this hole..
we giggled..
ah mercy..

and the long and winding descent
backward we went
our hotel manager wants us dead
i wouldnt haunt this bet..
lily you witch!
i am innocent..
and out..
down and out..
and no room..

but the warm night
and the bright orbs
our real friends..

we cried down the stairs
to our muse
our true friends
be ours..and ***
else..down and i
our true alleigence..

he waved his gun at us
he showed us eternity
we went
rather live in any tent..
then wave that infernal pistol
at us..**** your tip buddy..
and we choreographed..
while she charged..
on our park bench
we laughed
down ..

vi

you were only to show
a room..
that is not so much

i guess you were a ghost
it was a memorable stay
we had a nice day

a cognac in every bar
sun,poor day to die
dead in some hovel..

because of some why
down some night most
lily
what say..

a long winded
141 · Aug 2024
happy
Michael John Aug 2024
happy
are you happy
define your terms?

never mind-
in my mind
is neither afore

nor later..
i do no eat
and eat

i do not want
and want
i do not point the

finger..
i do not covet yours
with beady black eyes..

i do not cry
at the drop of a hat
i do not laugh

like a giraffe..
i have a bath
my nose is clean..

(as we say)
today is today
and dying can and

can´t..
like a cruise into
the obtuse..
141 · Feb 2024
and we wonder why..
Michael John Feb 2024
and we wonder why..
where is the light
er..?

i am medusa
and angel of blue
a fallen star

waiting
do you like whitman, paul
he is like my grandfather

whereas emily
was an eccentric aunt
poe a weird uncle

pope a mad insect-
i like them all..
do you fear for

the future
o clever trevor
another hero

sometimes i just write
the first or last
thing

sometimes i think and
perhaps too much
and then change it

change and change again
and think where did
that come from

exploration
stops the dull
intellect under

the lash
where is my stash
i just made it

up
improvise
clive-

an awful name
i had a relation
never lend them

money
fame and fortune
they have all

come out the proverbial
let me tell you
paul-
141 · Mar 2022
you get paid for selling
Michael John Mar 2022
you get paid for selling
shoes
you get paid for cutting hair
i want to be paid for
playing the guitar..

you get paid for selling
stocks and shares
you get paid for selling
time-share
i want to be paid etc

you get paid for selling
weapons
you get paid for selling children
i want to..so on

you get paid for selling ******
you get paid for selling ******
i want..


you get paid for nothing
you get paid for nothing
i..
tick the box..it is easier to be just about anything than a musician,or any kind of artist ..if you were wondering..
140 · Aug 2017
so i learned the guitar..
Michael John Aug 2017
so i learned the guitar
with belief and ardor
driven by love and
threatened by gangsters..

mr. stevens, gentle teacher
carcassi guilini and sor
there was the time sand
where dedication lingers..

in his rails and drifter
the life of the traveler
his sweetheart´s hand
hardship and sufferings..

oh the old furniture!
wet arpeggios
and brightest andante
all that anonymous..

ah..the sunsets were
the irrefutable  lore
ah all the bonny lands
for better or for worse..

so harmonics preacher
the deepest core..
all recalled in wand
of magical verse..


all remembered in entire
in a lingering flaw
a travelling heart band
a gold listened purse...
140 · Jun 2023
and yet why not
Michael John Jun 2023
and yet why not
was a bar on ios
called why not..
there was also
the far out,
(i imagine they are
still there..)
the far out, was
a place where americans
met americans they had
met in amsterdamn ,
berlin or venice..
there were london gangsters
stranded and dangerous..
we plied our trade upon the steps
of the far out and bruce springsteen
played day in and day out as
the wind blew..
******* women cut hair in
the gentle surf and the young
frats had their pictures taken..
the scandanavians had the best
tans and most of the money..


we lived in a donkey hut in the hills
overlooking the harbour
where the sun set
amidst hustlers and go-go
dancers..
the ferries came and went..
one bus to the village and
another down to the beach-
down the road was the
my way..

in the village there was bar
after bar
a disco near a windmill
retsina and souvlaki
people packed into
squares
i wonder now what we
said..
now and again
someone who lived there..
140 · Jul 2021
silence seems to be
Michael John Jul 2021
silence seems to
be
one plus one
young a
cool fortune..
(we
feel
cheated
naturally..)

a million
quietly
we may see
total that!
which is not
neutered-
equals two..

poetry by
consensus!
may turn to
guess
three
!
a bambino!

four and finally
a hushed house
or the sky
what wants
some distant
cry
you and i..
139 · May 27
i
Michael John May 27
i
i like to be free, says lily
my self is mine own
completely and though others

are fine-the sun and moon
so-it is to me, is my first loyalty
o little sisters and brothers..
139 · Nov 2022
i have always liked you
Michael John Nov 2022
(i have always liked you
because i never
knew you
or known you
or know you..)

i haver spent the summer
reading Maugham
he knows people!?
the narrow corner-

the painted veil-
tales of death and betrayal..
some dark hilarity
brilliant character portrayal..

also,the moon and sixpence,
-the story of Gauguin
the south sea islands
a frolicking faun

and the tragedy that is
human
in his tireless endurable
style..

i like Somerset-Maugham
he is dry fun
his short stories
another time.-.
138 · Jan 2022
i wish the red would just
Michael John Jan 2022
i wish the red would just
go away
i am fed up now
a few days
a lost cow ok...

an unmade bed
some dull party
a mountain low
a sixth toe
taboo

we poets are made
to starve
half is half
and none is
none
truth is economical..
Michael John Apr 2018
we danced around the may pole
though sometimes it rained
i watched the falling rain
and considered god´s soul..

(ribbons of red white and blue-
though what jingoistic sentiment
had to do with panthiestic beauty
i did not know..)

still,the grace of the little children
something old and something new
sometimes the sun shone
how sweet the circle grew..!
137 · Aug 2023
we are like battleships
Michael John Aug 2023
we are like battleships-
i  a sub-H1-H2
(we play for kisses)
shock blew

me socks off!
and the lights gone
there are muffled cries-
ah called love..!
137 · Oct 2023
when you give me nothing
Michael John Oct 2023
when you give me nothing
it is the greatest gift
i bend to kiss your feet

for from nothing
will come everything
between love and hate

sweet flowers
seconds minutes hours
your smiling eyes..


and that is three..
there s jenny with the tea
news traffic and weather..
hey,lily,thanks for coming
it´s been great fun-!?
one last question-imagine you
were an alien life form
what would you think of
this world..?

i

it´s predestination would
be a love word-erm-its
position,the moon,sun and all
suggests design and faith-
(there is a magical sequence
that smiles on this hypothesis!)
i would think how utterly
beautiful it is-
how endlessly fascinating-
what exactly is an effing
fish-?

ii

a gold fish?
in our respective
glass receptacle
(cruel cruel)
in small circles
trailing ****
one in seven
waiting..
manner from heaven
wanting to let
change it
waiting
bored and distorted
waiting
to be
flushed
down
the
t
o
i
l
e
t
...


thank you, again,
you re off home?
yes,we are off to a
halloween-fancy dress,
with paul dirac,
what are you-
a hedgehog!
oh nice!
here, a complimentary
copy-
         i´m reading at
books etc on saturday at
twelve..come along steve..
thanks, ill be there..cheers-bye,
au revoir...lily..
137 · Mar 28
so,
Michael John Mar 28
so,
so, like the ostrich you stuck
your head in the proverbial sand
(lily the merciless)-yes,

but in my defence-the position hopeless,
as thatcher defined the times,
there was no alternative..or is..
136 · May 2018
lily,why not..
Michael John May 2018
lily, why not
a t shirt
heat was hot
an open heart
work would
donkey hut
time stopped..

dear to me
a treasured boot
wait..
white cut
blue eyed
the great truth
an old blanket
said stars about
my own route..

lily,young then!
youth when
a day eternal
a planet suite
how sea blue
how skies blue
how warm bread
nothing all and
not possible..
136 · Oct 2020
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..
135 · Mar 2022
when i remember the door
Michael John Mar 2022
when i remember the door
the light from a jar
the shade of a car
a backyard star
wallpaper-

a blinding river
a little giver
varying aroma
warmer
getting better

pedals
nettles
bordem
the perfumed
garden

azimuth
my mouth
trout
nowt
out
a new coat

valliant
ants
cant
selling apples
door to
door..

jars
jarred
sword
my bycicle
bell
telling

hills
sitting
still
fill
full
will
and so..
135 · May 2024
poems for the bath
Michael John May 2024
i

poems for the bath
what is that book?
don´t wet it-
i don´t know-
i only read a line from
the blank page and it was
an anecdote as told by a psychiatrist
about one patient that had penchant
for nitrous oxide (or laughing gas) and
when he was in the depths of a recurring vision,
he understood the secret of the universe! but
on awakening could remember nothing..
this tantalizing scenario repeated until he
managed to write down his revelation and when he
came too, he rushed excitedly or excitedly rushed to see,
that which he had written-the secret of the universe!?-
he read,the smell of petroleum permeates through-out..

ii

bit of a let down but is that a lesson..?
(poe,hides a smirk and licks his bits..)
next time..
135 · Apr 11
dear crow,
Michael John Apr 11
dear crow,

what we do to animals
we do to ourselves..
full marks for blake

though some will differ
i know no greater..
a vision of the angels..
134 · Apr 2018
i am an adventurere..ii
Michael John Apr 2018
i



long wind
about 40 second
s..
from begining to end..
but in rewind..

effing eternal..!
ah..the cool park bench
then we got the cops
they were cool too..

under the beautiful orbs
we shared a cigarette
and watched the stars
like so many ghosts..

getting older in
same moment..
never never
repeated..

ii


i reminisce lily girl friend..


iii

before i am dead..
i will sonnet it

how
start at the end
lily backward..

iv

sitting we by the great will of god head,
we shared a smoke and watched the brightest stars,
any,we were alive of stoutest hearts,
not ghosts..never..never..never..she said,
we laughed..and gave yesterday´s old sad bread
to the ducks..we will recall the past war-
they say go to hell go there go very so far,
for i would rather expire...yet....be dead,

we were blanked and from the ******* harbour,
he ran off for his gun after a ghosts
stance and i thought this cost..(and i so lost..)
she hurled stuff at the night right manager,
then soon about second we were like hosts
reflected and shiny it´s love the most..
134 · Nov 2024
playing music joins
Michael John Nov 2024
playing music joins
the dots
or fills the void
(an ink blot blown..)

i imagine it the same
mind set as meditation..
unifys the self..
(a smile for a frown..)
134 · Jun 2
i
Michael John Jun 2
i
i am chuffed that you will act with honour
and kindness and i will try to reciprocate..
so  we can be friends..
133 · Aug 2018
olives and gazpacho
Michael John Aug 2018
v

olives and gazpacho
toasted bread so
potato salad
hummus **..

in the glass
no
mais wee
there from
long ago..

undeniable
now
i
know..


o lord i see
only..
Michael John Feb 2022
when confronted by the mirror
do we see a thief there
and do we call it time..
regard each furrowed line

with deploring sighs
as merry clock chimes
the jolly swagmen here
a bounty of grey hairs..
132 · Aug 2017
what do i recall..
Michael John Aug 2017
what do i
recall
of 7
days in
americai..?

i
remember
my clothing
scattered
around
jfk..

downtown
central
bus
station
i

­turned on
my
antennae
sky line-
an

insane
beehive
play-
away
buzz!

took
a greyhound
bus
to
a

small
town..
hitched
from
there on..

the
coffee
was
appalling
they

stars
the same
i
slept
under..

tried
to
walk
thunder
and

rain..
met
others
they
were

friendly
or
mad
and
stared..

a
ch­ocolate
cookie
a
feast..

the
country
side
scowled
or

so it
seemed..
the
rivers
unhappy..

miles
of
fast
food
dim

lights..
day
4
played
my guitar..

day 5
can´t
remember
smiled
lost..

day
seven
got
on
a plane..
131 · May 2024
but..
Michael John May 2024
but not so much
the pit and the pendulum
(i can get slow torture
any old time..)

poe, we have a guest-
he does n´t like people
(i wonder who does)
he sees all-!

he sees the dark and light
but cares for neither
dull are opels bright
in his eye-fevers

like the star and half moon..
what is it you want?
to write and be a poet-
and you-a musician..
131 · Oct 2019
Untitled
Michael John Nov 2019
i will never fall in love with you
because cause be
just like this blank
space meaningless but true-

never an accursed determination
rather i am a reed in the breeze
or chaff
one eye on the moon the other

on  your charms..
ah, you cry semantics
well, i am not ******* wordsworth
laugh..

i will not fall in love
knaves fall in love
love sure as the end
because cause be..
130 · Mar 2023
what is the difference
Michael John Mar 2023
what is the difference
´tween a fence
that keeps out or in
(round the heart that is)
topped with razor
and such in sin
of  unrequited loving..?
129 · Apr 2024
two characters in fiction
Michael John Apr 2024
i

two characters in fiction
compare the modern day
to the medieval:

bells, says lily-chimes
any event of import
was announced by a peal

or a single knell..
and today?
telephones..

ok..what else?
-bling and excess
jewellery on eels!

?
an addiction to mythologies
-in computer games
star trek and such


love(the legend of arther)
designed to free but
enslaved by babble..!

thankgoodness
for the renaissance!
advanced by english..

ii
prior
there was no detail
no grey area

it was either
good or evil..
punishment absolute..

god or the devil
cruelty unbounded
and now..?
129 · Jul 2017
here i go..
Michael John Jul 2017
oh
i
have
a
poem

god
i
have
something
to
say..

but
you
would not
credit
it..

anyway..
life is stranger than fiction..i got that right!
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