I arrived needy, wanting. I was thirsty for all. For all things glittering. I had been nine days… And so I showered, swiftly soaping off the wilderness. I ate, and I drank. I chatted to Glasgow […]
Category: Poetry
Her Time
The clock stopped at 12.17 the time when she invited me to see her vision of scenes that she wanted me to be painted on but not in. But I wasn’t OK with that and in […]
Discarded
My pencil penned poems I’ve torn into flakes, now a tattered jigsaw scattered by my gently opening palm. Those musings. My emotions. That descriptive prose passage. And oh, the rhyme… Now… Time bound spindrift, floor bound ghosts. […]
Unfinished 1
I raged with her against the filth, at the man. She didn’t believe in anything, or in me. She didn’t trust But she told me everything. She had me guilty For being me. Me, a […]
She Laughs
Her nose Unlike any other Yet perfect Placed ideally Twitches Deforms Her eyes Not saucers Not full stops Like lasers Beaming Piercing Her mouth Creased edges Lips damp Swollen pink Arcing Open […]
Becky
Each time we meet I sniff her shoulder A safe place to greet her A safe place to smell She reminds me of love Those scents I inhale Those life saving hugs but I’m […]
Neighbours
Her lifeless, pock marked face, eternally gazes blue green, greedy for neighbourly beauty. She litter’s dreamscapes with her pall,[…]
Army Man
Stumbling, glaring, booze rich haze triggering, clench fisted posturing. Puffed out chest under designer. Parrot Display your power. Attract your women. Attack soft target. Wanker.
Thesauras
Thesaurus is the magnitude of tome a precocious youth may perchance prefer, expecting to attain mature comprehension of dinosaurus that garrison the reveries of salad days. Thesaurus is not such a treatise but an unimaginative, […]
Directed At You
You are to blame. You Yes, you. You who sit there, Placid Dead With your eyes open but shut With your ears hearing, but, but With all words sleeping Yes, you. […]