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Michael John Jun 26
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 Aug 2017
do you know why i write?
well it is not for you or anyone
else..(unless it is..)i write for myself
if,this act of selfishness or egoism
(or dreams..)

or a line to shine on your
beauty..to fill in our part..
to make me reel before
your splendid heart..no..

or is it a voice that turns
my stomach to water..no..
i write for me!you hear!
or maybe your  love so

bravely caught like a snow
flake on the first tongue..
i write for me..for me
or may be your eyes

that burn and will throw
great inspired reckless fear
into some white..
and be..!for ever!..no..
i write for me..
Michael John Mar 2022
do you remember yourselves?
do you recall your arrogance?
ah,it was yours!?-
we were a species of non-human-

there to increase your wealth..
your beauty enhanced,
were you the law
of a proud land-!

but you got what you deserved?
a little bird has told such
and it came from the core-
your own hand..!
i am asked if i remember myself-
Michael John Feb 8
enough babbla
recite a poem
from your new slim
volume, lily-
(ya-what´s new
pussycat?!)
ok-this is called-

fame and fortune

a butterfly ruin
an apocalyptic tune-
mansion to prison
via the silver
spoon..

i dreamed of a flower
a great sun!
what was true..
when every smile
loved only myself..

nice..delilah..
another!?
ya knock down the door..!
Michael John Jul 2023
enough it seems
is two eggs
and lightly buttered
toast-

coffee..some
preservative..
yet,with-out love
we can not live..
Michael John Jun 2023
enough it seems is
never enough-
depends-blood or
lucre..?

tough, life is
o so tough..
needless hates
strange miasma..
Michael John Jul 2023
enough so it seems
is not stealing
cheating-
hate or love..

nor even dreaming..!
(no-none of the above..)
what really twists our melon,man,
is saying the truth..
Michael John Aug 2017
so when in my dreams you rise with splendid phallus,
you say be my finest ***** just give yourself so..
i run my tongue along your shaft looking into
eyes that begging and mouths that moaning fast-us!

union lover..take all this loneliness and crush
my aching heart..with gentle ****** in teasing..oh,
now,push it through my ******* head do push it through..!
eradicate me and this lone shell this hushed curse..

outside in the little tree in the dawn castings
two blithe birds are the first of a new day idyll
there they stretching and yawn in the peace and grey hush..

because there will always be this here universe
because we will always love and be this here wild
because always through this here endless time that is..(amen)
Michael John Aug 22
every line is a matter
of what is not there-
when your mouse sticks
and coin imprints itself
upon your elbow and you
can´t type for doo-doo..

i woke with a poem
in my head and the line
take the colour blue or
eg..was what was missing-
and the universe featured
but more than that
a case of not here..
Michael John Apr 20
every man must have at least
a place he can go-
(crime and punishment)

fearful sentiment..
may i never know
and you also..
Michael John Sep 2023
evil is good perverted-
(that cuts to the quick
lily..)
attributed to paracelsus

give me something to
consider-
the shopping list
the blue skies..
a nurse on tv last night injected her patients with bleach..
Michael John Oct 5
i

examining the hair on
her arm pit-she says,
there is nothing we
have n´t killed and died for..

the emancipation of women
our morning cereal-
the supermarket is a trail
of death and devastation

not to mention depression and
exploitation-at 30 per cent off
not a big love or happy way
at any cost..
Michael John Dec 2023
excuse me-(it is quiet as
a sparrows ****..)is this true?
it is what i remember but
perhaps imagination
or perhaps i was healing after
seeing the road accident..
or maybe we are surrounded
by invisible spirits or energy-
i don´t know..what is true?
my mum went to school with you
is that true?no i just enjoy annoying
people-a lot of it about-shall i continue?
if you want..

and so i biked home not a worry. i kept it secret being a secretive child and looked forward with anticipation to my next excursion to the quarry. (when i said the most banal things i was disbelieved so there was little point in trying to relate my experience.)it was the summer holidays i believe and i went the following day or the one after and biked past a huge viking and onto the road to greater casselton or little castleton or whatever. and it seemed a dogs age before i sped past the awful place where i.  got hit-(fortunately he lived! )and looking for the hole in the fence which was easy to miss..
i thought about marking it but this would just draw attention and then others might disturb.so i pushed through the trees and the hill became sandy and i struggled to push my bike. but at last found the entrance and took up my place by the waters edge.
i would compare the reflection in the water and wait..sure enough
there was a repeat performance nothing differed. only this time something was flashing in my eyes and i looked around to find the source of this annoyance. i shielded my eyes and traced it to the aforementioned bush upon the hill.in hindsight it was a mirror or bottle but then i was perplexed. i thought about climbing the steep path to investigate but i was held by the sight and sound show. this time i thought i would carry out a little experiment.  the voices were aloud enough. but i edged forward into the deeper water and looked as if i would take a substantial step. having no intention what-so-ever!and the voices grew in volume that made me jump back.! so i then stood and considered the ramifications..so, this was an invitation..i wondered..and when i was back in my original position the voices returned to their original. (such is death i dunno..)
   their voices became so loving and i considered..after that they seemed to recede and i went away and came back the next day for a repeat performance. this time it was interrupted or had nt began i can t recall by another. i was aware that someone stood behind me.
Michael John Feb 9
fame and fortune (2)

when the girls swoon
love discombobulated and
pure as a mountain tune
i would croon-

woke from a dream
i was a great flower sun!?
love was true
every petal a golden smile..
Michael John Feb 10
fame and fortune(three)

the last wyvern
regret to burn
lonely, like seven
bathrooms-

like a flower that never
ends
truth evaded
for every smile..
Michael John Jun 13
feathers-
a nom de plume
light and sweet
a mystery

heavy or less..
look close
read the signs
are we not blessed..
Michael John Jun 13
feathers-
what is heaviest
a tonne of them
or a tonne of stone

or your heart or mine..
good question..
examine one minutely
and god you may see!
Michael John Jun 13
feathers-
emily said,
hope is a thing
with them..

woody said
without them..
we say,
one in our cap!

there is the miracle
of creation
perfection..
Michael John Sep 2017
i have only just noticed
but today i am a different person
i wondered what happened
though it will be soon done..

i have tried to be someone else
every day
i don´t usually notice
until i listen to music!
or pray..

it do come a surprise
so,whom was i yesterday
who am i today
and who tomorrow..
Michael John Aug 2018
****,it is hot
is it hot ****,
hot ****,is it
it is hot ****..

not a question
a not question
question not a

doubt mind
mind doubt

out!
.

;
Michael John Sep 2018
five minute poem
it takes six to die
so this should be a cinch
already one has gone
so that is what we say
hold on
that is another
and **** happens
a third
i am my own winch
who else
who is else
yes, good question
when i am you
and the other
u my bro or sis
then,perhaps
light will
walk this blighted land
that may occur yet
anyway time presses which
is beyond words
which are rather a waste when you
think about it when
love stares us in the eye like some black
bird with it´s cheeky tail held high
anyway times up..
Michael John Dec 2018
iii

five minutes to go
do you wonder
what to do

do you ******
your neighbour
or find a better

view
or put your affairs
in order

tilt your hat
go what..
five minute

warning..?
kiss your cat
apologies

i did that..
and that
and that..

jeez
that was
fast..

tie your
lace
admire

your
face
say

your
prayers
mind

your
own
busi­ness

pass
the
bones

check
for worms
change

underpants
some days
five minutes

kiss the
way
back and
forth

i shall
return
burn


ask what is
the time
go blip..
Michael John May 2021
flower
near by
but far

heart
is we due
we are

purple
lilac
caught

by our
hairy
parts

for ever
or never
me

raison-
d´etre
me darlin´

crazed
colour
are we

bees
be
b
Michael John Dec 2021
for a while i thought of
nothing
-it allows the self to
sing-

from that voice is
bidden
a  well of
understanding..


refreshing and
new
a void of me
and you!

with no past
and no future
only now
can begin..
Michael John Jan 2019
i


(foretell or predict
and issue edict..)
an eagles flight
a witch´s *****

a pigeon´ s eye
circle´ s wise
a lost sigh
by and by

bye and bye
my lovely..

ii

o dark wit
foul it
hate t
i

frogs left
nut
cut
rain blood

stir and high
a swine´ s cry
lord of flies..!
up dark wiles

raise and heft
from cold flame
come forth
grace of evil

thy will
be done
forever
and on..

iii

left and about
tight to reversed
death and birth
to up and earth..

before master
white appear
red here
near and

nearer..
great fire
from sand
to blood..

dust of bat
curse at
fear
hear..!?!

howling and
wild
o bile
comes sister

comes brother
call ruler
of
all..!
although on the white-ish discipline..it is fun to write some dark **** now and again..
Michael John Aug 2017
when i first picked up the guitar
i found i could play straight away..
something in am on the fifth...

the little girl next to me said.
i will be your girl friend!
(i thought,i was on to something

here.).and made it my life..
the time most lost or stray
the time of self destruction..

the time when wished dead
time of no time really..
i found i had forgot that...
thanks to gavin barnard for idea...!
Michael John Oct 2019
as regards free speech
a hoary old chess nut
why pick on chess nuts..?
you get my point..

perhaps better to remain
silent
live in a donkey hut
peace with in reach..!
thoughts generally inspired by a letter to nick cave on the red hand file from george who has some issues or was he just fishing ..bless..
Michael John Aug 2017
the friday before the whole fried
salt and desultory shake hand..
the news man intimated
words like latest and limited

exchange and we all will be informed
sold the last language..he cried..
there were our leaders grim face
there was the sky sea and land..

there,  the missiles casual arced..
the world quite another place..!
no more fish or dow index..
no more no next..

on friday last we stayed indoors
no more music at our behest
the dance so many deaths
waiting by the walls..

we avoided birds and eyes
and broke the silence with
a silence..
the flies caught in honey..

the world turned to see
all the toys lay
not much to be
not much at all..
Michael John Oct 2023
from the oven
we take love
and sit still in
the garden
the bats bewildering
above..lily sighs
and says, are nt stars
smug, then-i don´t like
them-a past time
no-forgetting-shackling
man and repeating hate
and cruelty masquerading
as future times..

a lotus eater (eating
pizza)-a land where past
is forgotten-the moment betwixt
sunsets......................
4 pm a glass of cool
milk and a twix-
(i don´t recall
tennyson..)

how many stars are there
paul?
more than ten, lol..!
if there were proof
if there were proof
but all there is-
all we have-
(lily is short on words)
only the silence..
a little bird sings..
Michael John Dec 2023
from the sparkle on the hill
the enraptured child
-watching him

in this god forsaken
wild
still..

the silence of the devil
a howling
reflection

of the clouds and sky
take a little trip
just he and i..
Michael John Jul 2023
frustration
can be
onomatopoeic
fun,lily

(-don´t hit
your head against
a metaphorical
wall)

climb a tree
on some moon lit
even´
recite an ancient
canticle

we are children
of the light
feel the magic!
tick-tock
unblocked..
Michael John May 2021
i)

F sharp
was her
favourite

mine
is
E flat

worlds away
night to day
i called

i said,
E flat?
she´d say

F sharp!
i dawdled,
she flew

forward
and back
i thought

she did
she did nt..
i said

G flat!?!
but the
retort-was

(inevitable-)
D sharp..
(i

should have
known)
we had no-

common
but,
love..

ii)

her laugh
F sharp
mine

E flat
she said
that´s funny

i said
not really
i stayed

quiet
(in E flat)
she told

an allegorical
tale
of faith

and loss
she asked
you know what

i call that?
i said,
let me guess

nothing in
common
but love..?

iii)

we met
one food fast
day

She said,
i know
your an E flat-?!

i can always
tell!
(another one..)

so,
began
our sojourn

in hell..
who paid
we split it..

tbc..
Michael John Jul 2017
gentle
but
so
strong..

god
love
god love..

fertile
this cosmic
river

run
wide
ours

universal
sweet
our

lives
all
toget­her..!

happy
and
wild

god´s
love
us

burning souls!
god´s love
god´s..
Michael John Jul 2018
i

give me my lifes´
the day crowded bright
and the night sumptuous..

give me my pretty wife
where love at first sight
bind us..

give us two souls blithe
fused as light within light
sweet bounteous..

let us soar and dive
like content swallows might
time in lost happiness..

( and let trouble and strife
bind-us the more tight
like our first kiss..)

give then to two one life
white to white
whole as stars

as love unto death
might break apart
and ride the cosmos..


ii

the jonah by james herbert
a heist goes wrong and a colleage
is shot..

just another debacle for our hero
in a long list
that has him transferred to the

drug squad and east anglia..
to live in a caravan..
keep his eye on the locals

and drink strong beer..
ellie his partner
makes him eat

and they fall in love
though various tentions rise
due to his troubles..

some flash backs
a left baby in a toilet
sadistic stuff at the orphanage..

bullies and dodgy collars
his step father is strict
he is an ornothologist..

there are drug related incident
a dead vole
a us pilot bites the farm..

some little boy thinks he
can fly..
the water supply
some pilfering

some heavy knocks
some bad lies
some kitchen

small potatoes
but all part
of mr herbert´ s charm..

a huge storm
the spooky old mill
a wild trip..

and regression
bad men
bad men..

lot´ s of struggle
the raw products
towed in by trawler

assembled by the knights
torn
and a lost twin..

a monster in the flood
where others die
a maitre d..

a ***** salesman and
his girl in a caravan
the fishermen..

helicopters and
victory for
the forces of good..

and the jonah
gone and all
is light..

the end..
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..)
Michael John Aug 2018
i

gosh,look at the time
half past two
must dash
bird lime..
moon cane
how are you
purr
i´ m fine..
i´ m fine too
even so
sun frazzle
brain..
yes,
you love
you love
**..
then
gone
do
stone..
more paper
how life
has
changed..
how we
manage
bird lime..
blind
we are
the stars
dazzle
moon cane..
only yesterday
we did our sums
and today
we are the sum..
birdy
doest thou
dwell
on tomorrow..
moony
the sun
will
shine..
in our mind
will be
see
will..
hope
and
glory
scissors..
and joining
a great
hand
in your´ n..
god
bless
it takes
genius..
never taken
the eye
off
the ball..
for every
ladder
a fallen
snake..
things have
a way
of even
and out..
can i say a
colour
here
gray..
or rather
grey
is very pretty
bird lime..
moon cane
is that the
time..
gone three..
we never really
untitled
no
no named..
lol
cared
did nt worry
oh no..
stoics
burning flames
kind
and unawares..
or war
one penny
four blackjacks
and a blooming
sweet twilight
to boot
things were
different..
moon cane
seems so long
and yet
very brief..
know what you
mean
every word
a lost diamond..
a dew drop
in the early
morning
sunshine..
long as you
have
your health
blinding wisdom..
moon cane
bird lime
i mind my own..
do you..
and what do you
do all day long
flip,look at the time
drink wine..
lol
those were the days
think
says or said..
argued with everybody
easy a bell tolls
off stage
my life has been..
yes,a curious affair
there were so many
occassions
so many closed
cages
moon cane
and do you know
what saved us
apart from a
******* clad
don´ t
sixth sense..
go..
bird lime
stuck
along
then..
silence
is the
most
listen..

ii

we held our tongues
he was a screaming hushed
silent jungle
quieted throne
moon cane
all alone
never mind
the time
a diving hippo
crocs slip in
and birds
flap away
ever silently
baby
beware...
here is a
cross
some so
there lurks
light like air
then sweet cruelty
you hear that
less that nothing
lurking traps
the day quiet
why even the trees
beseech in prayer
still rapt
listen a sigh
the fear is held
like the rose
tween rot
in the silent
in the variance
move real slow now
and listen
we know
nothings glisten
do this waiting
what is to wait..
Michael John Nov 2019
go to a party with you friends
it´s  the details that will destroy
not some general mistake
like lead in the wine vats

like a crumb on your lips..

it is just those insignificant
when there is no mercy
two wires nearly fail
a rip that curls

the light on your hair..

it may all seem so
other world
but all of a sudden
some everlasting fall
brings me down

and your warm hand

it is so common place
so utterly bland
from brown to beige
and back to brown
small town

the fun in your eyes

i can´t be fussed
to cussed
go even to some
wilds party
change my socks

but you are my star dust
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..
Michael John Mar 2018
i

hey..siesta..what a way
lily will slide and sway
slink over a randy black
widow spider..

to the dark gods a prayer
spinning a sweet hop on her back..
after reinacting death throes..
paint her toes..

she sings lotus eater blues
making my soul sore through
a little ditty with no tune
i say, i love her too..

ii

i read corso´ s
friends
for the first
time
in many
years..

there is so laughter
and tears
in his economy
and so wise..
every one in there..!

some of the lines
like old friends
some just so
fresh too
gregory corso..

iii

i had the legendary
penguin
what was the no..
gens berg
ferlengetti
corso..

iv
Michael John Jul 18
grumpy at the psychoanalysts
bares his soul and sole:
scene one-

well,mummy thought i was
a prince-
but i was a monster

now,now, i´m a monster
who thinks he´s a prince..
i feel pointless

is there redemption doc?!
from this vicious circle
(tick-tock..!)

happy, in a neighbouring
antechamber
peruses ******-november-

-one ear upon the door
notes in the margin-
not..in..this..life..fatso...
Michael John Jul 19
grumpy looks askance,
but doc, what of love,
beauty and giving-
romance..

what of faith and generous
ity..?
-a  brotherhood of man!?
(use the tissue box,please..)

happy´s laugh circles
like starving vulture-
loving betrayal-
boy,what a maroon..
Michael John Jul 16
grumpy and the dog
at the seaside-caption one-
a pair of bare feet-hairy and thin-

just look at all these tourists
coming here!
putting the prices up!

what kind of people like to pay
high prices?!
STRANGE PEOPLE!.. (that´s who)

is this our country or not?
money i suposse-
all is money..

love is..a cruise..and
i never been on one..
(a smiling face..)
Michael John Jun 2020
guilty me
mint tea
Michael John Nov 2018
guns as romantic
hand fill
if every time
before sabre..

then a rock
before we hid
today lily
pontificate not..

take us back to
the virginal earth
cooling..
brings back with a bump

too many guns..tooo many
if i had a purple cherry
for every gun shot on
television..

what a pathetic metaphor
still,to be fair
i killed a blackbird once
with an air gun..

and i have been plagued by
them ever since
so what happens if you ****
a man..

some are quiet ok
and others not
brilliant
and that illustrates

how different are we
lily..
i shot a song bird
this has scarred me

is it time for the caves
i would not
if on a saturday night
or  in the dark

open country
surely
well all be sorry
by first light..
thankyou to matter..
Michael John May 29
i

had their first lesson
free-
two little boys in bandannas
would be bon jovi..

a guy with a smart guitar
had half-rhythm-
never heard of before..

a beautiful lesbian
drove a beetle car
would rather walk her

dogs than practise..
and so forth..
i learned patience..

ii

and that is the
finest thing in the world!
(i don´t know if

it´s finer than music
but then what is?
answers on a post card..)
Michael John Oct 2018
haloween
we never celebrated
haloween
though day today
existing..

haloween
the monsters and
what
in the world..

or from a dark
middle
on the edge
haloween

not defect
show me your
rabbit..
a rat..

a boy in a mask
meets without
skull shining
haloween!

listening
trick a treat
with glowing
knowing
thin..

haloween
where there may
have been
there was none

it is
haloween
no real
feeling..

what given to
that singular
expression
empathy..

more of a crazed
rapture
what a saliva
dribbling

haloween
i do like tapping
he said..
and rabbits..

dracula
fire
marshmellows
no pumpkins

carved into
cackles
the walk
we never cared

for haloween
day off
no
business as

normal..
Michael John Jul 28
hap i´m back!
and you can have a bath
f i am-

there´s a 20 per cent off
at the gas station-
bathe-you-dog!

did you ever hear of anything
so cheap.....
in these days of high prices

and higher profits..when
i was young i was a bit of
a radicle-happy..

we believed in people before
profits-but the in-fighting of
the left  

and the shift of the centre
to the right all pathed the
way for the discrepancy

between the rich and poor
greater than the victorian age
the billionaire..

i got on my bicycle
dissilussioned, i travelled
h:what about that bath...?
Michael John Jul 31
power corrupts, happy
even or evening in
poetry-the urge to go on
and on-like the falling rain
or a moment for two spheres saying
hello-well you can imagine..

happy,says he can and
scoots across the carpet on
his ***-as an affirmative..
written spontaneously in about two minutes or less.to king crimson..and the sheltering sky..
Michael John Aug 1
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..
Michael John Jul 30
happy!?
when i was a little boy
i found i could play the guitar
automatically

the little girl next to me
was amazed and said she
would be my girlfriend..
but mixed reviews-the

gangsters threw me against
the wall and threatened me
to play and then they threatened
me to stop..

do not tell me time is linear
for i know it is circular
something in a minor
so i played under the stairs..
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