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heartbeat

a collection of poems

Whimsical

27/4/2020

 
like a calm blaze
my beard
crackles
against plastic

how did I get here?
I, a wingless angel
a spike in the heartscape
that bus stop out of town


I was waiting
still, I wait
nursing ashes
invoking fire

Clouds

30/4/2013

 
archipelago horizon
I rest on my raft
direction, not my own

my meaning becomes
to savour the world
the way it was meant to be seen

Frangipani

1/1/2013

 
grow my strength
cleanse shadows
tattooed across
the weft of my existence
before the end of the day
 
if a breeze
rises stronger
or a shadow darker
it is too much
 
under the weight
I was given
I wish my heart to splinter
 
I want to savour all fragrance
again

Et in arcadia ego

1/1/2013

 
he came to us,
riding a night
a mare, a messenger
news was his sword

slicing through tranquillity
we sat and stared
as the last flame licked the embers
then change gushed in


hope may travel in rusty caskets
euphoria is the tip of an arrow
peace is housed in beds of poison
but love

is always measured in cups

Leapfrogging

1/1/2013

 
impossible voltage in my plasma
a therapy of light
whispering farewells behind the café counter
the invisible airport now closed
due to excessive coldness in this war
 
a spirit of endurance
peeping through windows
of difference, as the estate displays
the different stages in life
putting on their show
 
there are people here who still worship St Elmo's fire

Rain

1/1/2013

 
I played God for a while
but failed in my quest
looking for another like me
deep inside grand machines

in the palm of my hand 
magic mirrors of knowledge
promising perfection
assuring deliverance

in every brushstroke 
across my neurons


now colours fade
travel into one another

as God falls short of His will
and under the cloudburst cries the man

Wire

1/1/2013

 
it began with hope
to reach that time between two stars
arms raised
hands shown
harm banished
hungry dawns
tossed
so far over the sacred hills
the past was changed to change the landscape
 
I carry rubble, rough concrete
in a pocket
a pebble, smooth as a scar
in my brain
shiny as a gleaming pot
so poisoned no one can eat from it
so clean to touch to sniff and see
 
a handful of stones is my empire
a mouthful of souls is my tribe
 
 
we're safe they say
but our hearts never did get out of that house in time...

Flourish

21/12/2012

 
clouds stuck in power lines
filaments, words
the unspeakable wires an artist sketches
as two lovers separate
guitar strings, stretched
egg emulsion sprayed on prison bars
fishnet webs

you, a spider, me? a fly

entangled, entranced
beyond hope 
unreasonably 
lost in dance

Fortress

12/12/2012

 
between my lips as I seek
to fathom your temperature
sleeping like a swear word
lies the secret I won't tell:

I abandoned my passport in an unfriendly hotel
never feeling more direction
than this certainty
that I'm going nowhere

Wrong side of the world blues

19/10/2012

 
I woke up this morning
Just as you lay down in your bed
I woke up this morning
Oh, just as you lay down to sleep in your bed

My mind is so confused
I got the wrong side of the world blues



I said have a good day
But I was really meaning good night
I just said have a good day my darlin
but I was really really meaning good night

Sometimes there's no excuse
I got the wrong side of the world blues...
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