a poem a day
makes jack happy and wise
it doesn’t really matter if it makes any sense
or rhymes
poetry
useful prison walls
useful prison walls
ice-bricked windows locked thought-tight
structures force freedom
Don’t like poetry?
Don’t like poetry?
Why don’t you take a haiku?
It’s easy enough.
Poetry
People shouting roses
Fists in anger, hearts in love
Calling for the change to come
Rhyming hills
Rhyming hills and rills
with frills, spills and crocodills –
Spring can cause those thrills
Poems tell the truth
Poems tell the truth
Like cherry blossom falling
On cold Spring mornings
I hear my words in my voice
I hear my words in my voice.
Of course.
But if you then roll them round your tongue,
smooth sour sweet pebbles of thought I have,
are they still mine or are they now yours and yours only?
There lies the man who will not hear his words
repeated by another.
He closes his ears and eyes.
Another’s interpretation must be
of and in itself
a wrong one
and this dissonance will misshape the future.
But I am willing to take a risk.
Words past written are the past
and your voice overtaking is just one of many.
I shall sit and record and listen and wonder
and perhaps never write again.
Perhaps
There is nobody there I know
You are not there I know
But in the darkness I see your face
and reach for you
Inside my chest I feel your warmth
and reach for you
I reach for you
Perhaps tonight
Perhaps
Bushel
He hid in full light, a shadow invisible between the beacons. Damp light is easy overlooked and overshone, raw talent takes pressure to spark diamond sharp. With time his eyes became clearer and noticed, but the glow of his words faded in spotlights. The crash of a lightwave foreshadowed flowing; life stories stuttered and ended.
On World Poetry Day she said
Don’t like poetry. Don’t like poems.
She said.
I like words.
She said.
Your words. Not poems.
She said.
I did.
