The human denies itself on this earth Not because it is destructive But because it denies it is an animal The most self destructive act In the whole of the kingdom We call the universe Face the fact we are animals And the marriage will be a long one At the moment It feels like we are calling the divorce lawyers Each and every day The deluded arrogance of knowing too much But really knowing too little How simple How different life would be If we accept that
Our insignificance
I look out of my window At the man made world Trees seem insignificant Birds as fragile as dust Humans drag coffee to unknown places Cars storm past the moors of our concrete But somewhere There past that giant building A storm is blowing A cat is singing The sun is living Our insignificance is ringing Records are breaking The world is spinning
Flowing with time
I decided to write the most free thinking poem That leaves this earth and has me flying through the rain
Shores of discovery take me to ages when being alive is not a mistake Coast to coast Memory to memory In love with a woman I can never have Take me to the sunshine To the islands of my hearts Give me hope through the madness Release me from the pain
I am happiest to be alive Now This moment is beautiful Sing Dance Kiss me sweet Remember all I’ve been through It’s beautiful Streaming with life Bridges Time I can see Ithaca in the distance Flowing with time The water keeps slipping from my hands I picture Penelope laughing The sirens have finally taken me
I look out my window at the London gloom Live my years as a traveller A foreigner to these emotions Free thinking but high Soaring through the gates of heaven Touching the crisps of hell Smiling through it all Looking forward to the future
Can we live life in a free thinking way? Why not? But then we would really be living As free as a bird
The bookshelf
The wooden shelves remain dormant Collecting dust and a tear or two When I buy my first book I put it in its place proudly Happy at last To finally have overcome emptiness And the universal silence The words fall into place Like jigsaw pieces The paper cut fine Ink radiant Letters slip off my tongue Like sweets Someday I dream of many books Aligning the shelves As trees last for thousands of years Clinging on to dear life So I will read heroically From one generation to the next Stories passed down Along humanities curve Helping us create our own With new born eyes
Grand union
I looked at the cat, The cat looked at me. And the rest as they say, Is history
Constellations
Years stretched out across the tombstones Lavenders of light swaying back and forth Like a ship lost at sea
I feel like a singer with stage fright Remembering the constellations in the sky Now daylight is constantly speaking to me in other tongues
Is this a play with words? Or a play with life? Am I too sensitive to my inevitable downfall? Plucking each string without any passion Following the book methodically Dancing this waltz alone
Under the blazing sunlight I await the empirical night The moon’s fullness The stars and their glory Fate’s darkness And like a hummingbird In it’s odyssey to far offshores I raise my wings And fly
Cats
Humans have dogs as pets Cats have humans as pets Whose buying the Christmas presents?
Memory of a woman
The memory of a woman Her smell Her touch Leaves me breathless for her kiss Again and again
Remembering the shores As close as the sunset Boats swaying in the horizon Miracles of the blue Like her mountainous figure
Tummy so soft Pregnant for the stars And the ghosts of time Reaching her sensitive lips As sweet as pears
Milk falls from trees From passing cars The radio plays music Her dance is poetry We lie in bed content
The world rushes by Whilst peace exists Outside a war is brewing The sky has darkened The heavens are opening
Rivers loosen this earth Make life simple Always leading to a sea On this boat we sail together She looks into my eyes genuinely
The memory of a woman An ancient coin unmasked Drama in the semi circular theatre Has me pleading for more Has me living in other ages
She takes me by the hand Leads me to my resting place Here I lay in aura Her body like vines Pretty as grapes and addictive as wine
Can we ever be free?
I want to be free
But can I be free In this man made world Of celluloid dreams?
If I take off my clothes And run in the jungle Will I find my place in the sun? Will pain be a burden no longer?
I want to be free So now I have my answer Is this possible in this man made world? Do the jungles exist no longer? Am I purring for an afterlife?
I hear the sun calling me One moment of freedom Worth more than billion dollar yachts and pennies My cat winks at me
Stuck at home on a rainy November afternoon
Looney poets. Starstruck. A universe of little people. Giants floating in outer space. Jack trying to climb the bean stalk. Just escaped from the insane asylum. But he wants to get arrested. He wants to go back in. Rapunzel’s hair is flowing like a looney poet. The bins are alive. On their way to the asylum to meet you. The most crazy one of all. Your name is Adolf. All these statements are false. The revolution is still alive. Long live the beard and the moustache. Stalingrad is pregnant with twins. Joseph is a boy. Marilyn is a girl. She talks. He dances the tango. In America they say. Lets play ball. Elvis has left the building.
Bus journey
The red bus takes me to work Winding up and down autumn roads Leaves are falling in my mind Pavements are shattering in unison With the yellow lines And grey tarmac Aged like centuries Man Cars shoot past On this repetitive trip A daily commute to mundane mundaneness Madness reigns like the lonely king of nothing Skies part Ships sail The echoes get louder The bridge is for crossing With the howling wind
The king of nothing
I am the king of nothing Living in a godlike sky The only one surviving in loneliness Stretching out across faces
Here there are no words No ideas or beliefs Trust has no place On this throne of denial
But here I am most alive My thoughts most clear My desire to wake most urging Time like a lunar eclipse
I am the king of nothing The king of everything Free to experience life Like an innocent child
Striving for a perfect world
Imagine living in a world where everything is perfect. A paradise where we live forever, Where everyone is good and time does not exist. A place where all are beautiful and talented, This is a contradiction!!!! Such a world can not exist. For in order for perfection to live, Hell must also strive, There to climb that distant mountain, We must sail in that violent sea, Reach for the stars, Head to the comfort of home. Would we recognise the sun with no rain? Feel a smile without sadness? Understand love without hate? Swim in the ocean if not for land? Hope for a touch if not for war? Is there music in the madness? Can you hear the poetry in the chaos?
Magic
Roses in bloom. The blue sky. Sun beaming on my face. Crisp morning air radiating. Breathing. The gift of an embrace. Her smile. Love in the afternoon. Sipping a drink by a river. The storm of a city. Finding my way to a sea. Swimming in anachronisms. A potion of reality. Why do we need more?
The waterfall of understanding
There was a time when I remember I was happy A time when I was breathing with life Where everything seemed right And I could do nothing wrong Those days are partly gone For to truly understand the world A certain sadness must accompany you on your journeys A tugging at the difficulties A calling to the rhythm of life Like a twig going down a river towards a waterfall Lost and alone and transitory But the drop is beautiful Down below Clear crystal water for you to rest in Surrounded by nature And a meaningful song Now I understand the true beauty of being alive And it gives me hope That one day I’ll be happier again A peace of mind I should not give up So I’ll keep searching along the road It is my road after all And the sun is oh so high in the sky I am almost flying I feel a smile etching on my solitary face Who knows where this waterfall will take me today? The skies have mesmerised the mirrors The reflections tell only half the stories Rivers gaze back at me with a certain sadness Happiness is all in my mind Maybe I should let the water take me And enjoy the ride Like reading a book The mysteries are the most important part Already I’m starting to feel some joy In the waterfall of understanding With these words of hope I sense a great freedom coming As the water keeps flowing for a lifetime Of sadness and joy Sadness and joy Sadness and joy Sadness and joy
Green tree
The tree roots penetrating the concrete Rising up over the city Where buildings rise Man walks over centuries of ash As the tree breathes with time Nature has its revenge over man The greed and the destruction Too plain to see Reaching for the heavens and creating a hell But earth will live on after we’re gone The grey slabs hidden by greenery in bloom
Blue and white
White clouds travelling across blue plains Like window panes to another world The pain of the distance too beautiful to conceal A feeling of smoke from rolling trains Blue miracles of the ocean Our invisible emotions shattered like dust The real desert And the imaginary music leading us on To the awe of the whiteness Surrounded by ocean If we try we can travel from one land to the next The journey will be long But if you look up at the sky One day you will get there
Set sail Gather your thoughts The strong morning wind is blowing The sail is reaching for the waves Finally my love the odyssey has begun Ascend and descend and fly Into the beautiful Take me home sweet truth
Beautiful moon
Moon take me To another world, Where time is timeless The cold night air fresh, Feel the rush of excitement Inside me grow, I walk to the music Of this oval song, The moon so full It can eat me If I don't eat it first
Dark sky take me To another world, Where stars are alive The city streets twinkling, Feel the rush of excitement Inside me grow, I walk to the music Of this oval song, The moon so bright Its yellowness calling me I dare not look away
Can you hear the sound of the rushes weeping?
Time with its healing hand Touches moments and memories Lost in the night As daylight is breaking
Can you hear the sound of the rushes weeping?
Love with its wings of doves Flies over temples Lost in the jungle of hearts As rivers rage into seas of freedom
Can you hear the sound of the rushes weeping?
Life with its eternal longing Stampedes across wasteland Lost in paradise As the horses journey is beautiful and strong
Can you hear the sound of the rushes weeping?
Loneliness with its repetitive drum Awakens the army Lost in a war As the soldiers march to the sound of their own victorious song
Can you hear the sound of the rushes weeping?
Laughter with its sweet truth Falls between mountainous kingdoms Lost in ravines As the echoes last happily in mouths of remembrance and hope
Can you hear the sound of the rushes weeping?
Death with its knowingness Returns to the written word Lost in melancholic books As true as the fathomable night and more open than time
Can you hear the sound of the rushes weeping?
Heroism with its bright light Shines like the summer sun Lost in blue islands As the sea comes and goes, comes and goes touching steadfast shores
Can you hear the sound of the rushes weeping?
Bravery
Take me away to the ships The ones travelling to new lands Where warmth is a gift of natural delight
Let me float in the water In your sea of love Where happiness is something open and simple
Sleep by the fire in the stone house Touch my hand like a lyre As great as the mysteries of the sky
Don’t ask for too much Now the storm is blowing Wait for a lifetime for the sight of land
For time is like a shell If you put it to your ear You will hear your life sailing on
Heal me like the salt bath Trust the long lonesome road Drawing you in to this transitory painting
As lost in the sky as the blue of the sea Remembering the poets of last night Shining like this ship to bravery and beyond
Seasons
The winds of change take me to sweet pastures A loving breeze cools my hair now autumn has come Fields of longing fields of hope surround me Like a leaf I land in the middle of natures paradise Merging with all the landscape and time itself Neither belonging nor not belonging But free
Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent with his Arles
City of hearts and swirls
Paint like spirals reaching holy prostitutes
Sun mixed with snow as passion rides high
Ears let loose on riding plains
Of thunder and rain, hearing the love
The beauty of the sunrise takes us to the crying sunset
All the colours of the universe mixed in his bowl
Of torture and stains, As crows release the primitive storms inside
Churches collapse in tiredness, As Christ wakes from the cross
The three Marys rush to his bedside
Lost, abandoned, alone in the yellow house
Boarding his life away in religious lies
The snarl of the human animal, Beautiful
Van Gogh is my friend of the motionless night
But his paintings seem to move like light
Move me inside like a song
An Ancient Greek tragedy, chorus, comedy all in one
The love of a brothel teaches me hope
That the satellites will return to earth
So we live closer to home
Rush like the fields, paint like the stars
The blue earth surrounds me
My brush in my hand
I sit on my yellow chair
My green shoes are heavy from the soils alter
The reds are coming out of the masses
Resting on this coast
Where my cup is empty, smile still feeling
The woman by the window
The man in his favourite hat
The thread goes round and round
One leg on this chair is broken
Dawn is breaking
I must set out to paint
Art is my life
A way out of the artifice
Arles snarls in the mist
A train is cooing in the distance
The past is all there is
Just give me time
I'll get there
Poem
The non believer Is the eternal dreamer Looking out across the universe Dancing to his own song Not subjected to absolution And a life of knowing Everything is simple Everything is beautiful Life is to be lived Amongst the stars Getting ready to be discovered Like the perfect kiss Everyday is a new day Lost in the sunlight Gleaming with fortitude Driven by desire
Cheer up lonesome traveller!
Drink the sun Like a glass of wine Toast to good health And all the love you find
Family Tree
Universe rain down on me Your collection of sons Like a family picture book Shining for all eternity So beautiful to look at Each star a mind of its own Brooding with laughter
But these memories have faded into you Left forever up in the dark sky Something to remember me by As bright as if they were picked from trees Blowing in the summer breeze Happiest when the moon is full Melancolic houses rest as horses do
So just throw me into that sky Let me have one last dance with you Scattered like an ocean of daisies In the fields that mean the most to birds so true Fly as the angels do As stars light up the night's smile Candles flicker on the windy table so close to you
Torchlit universe
Torchlit universe Clouds sunlight blue breeze Holding on to the streams of traffic down below Where the waves carry me to distant shorelines Fresh air surrounds me The polluted mist rises to the surface Trees green love shadows of past mysteries Floating like gravity in the slipstream Buses like shuttles to other worlds Space time peace In the distance the bombs are dropping Universal hell Tanned ships fighting for survival Clouds sunlight blue dreams The war is over Memories abound I sit in this cave alone The echoes travel from here to there Always keeping me company Showing me the way The earth spins round and round The sun at full blast Daylight is breaking Can you hear me calling by the river’s edge? Is it dark where you are? The countryside moves into the city Torchlit universe Torchlit universe Begins to speak to me Dance Dance Dream Peace
Pausing to reflect on my life so far...
Momentary Madness Song Sing to me Dreams of love Birds flying Shouting for help from themselves Descending into the forest Wings flapping Womens orgasm Rights to be disabled in the womb I can see You again Sexual desire Voluptuous whore Jokes are nice Like you Love you I look into your eyes Brown as the sky Photographing madness Memories I enter into the abyss A new man
Summer Dream
Hot summer nights Laying By the beach A cool breeze surrounds me Feeling as High as a kite Floating in the aura of happiness Suspended in disbelief At the simple nature of life
For a short time Away from the mechanical city And all that jazz As I am Dancing ontop of buses Almost touching the concrete sky The bliss of smoke Raining down on me Living A surreal dream inside the altogether true dream of the blue Natures curse Is a good way to be alive
London
Fields of rubbish Catapulting to the moon Levitating through our lives Like a political snowstorm Crushed like garlic In the outer galaxies Where the suburbs moan For beautiful women To descend as suns do And captivate our hearts Sending us to postboxes Marked xxx
PAINT
Paint my love Paint like you’ve never painted before You can create anything The horizons are yours Breathe with time Float in the ethers of life Sing
A sea.
A sea Is the master of all mysteries Giving birth to life and death Stretching across millennia and moments 5 minutes feels like a lifetime Floating in the salt water Diving into the unknown Resurfacing and breathing in all the beauty Looking out across the whole world Finally belonging somewhere In the depths of your soul A refreshing madness The ultimate sadness Releases me into the blue See
Lights in the darkness
City of lights lighting up our hearts like a plethora of stars
In the distance far off galaxies far off people the daily commute
And then the darkness a sea like universe playing with time
Our minds as waves reaching a clearing and then the lights
Lighting up the night the way candles stow away the storm
Heading our way then missing us creating new galaxies and space
Time eternal time the eternal blackness and the lights
Planets encircling the vastness and the torches of the new suns
Carrying the roads home through the voids of painful truths
Time moves like water
Time moves like water across this sea of hearts Swimming in the ether of the invisible drum Taking me to islands a long way from myself Rolling like thunder in the impossible salt of thirst Sky as ocean, sea of blue, yellow as the sun, descending on man
Time moves like water across this sea of hearts Rising to the rhythm of a momentary song Touched by madness and the moon Lost in song, sea of hearts, begins my story Rattles my drum, hisses like fire for momentary man, sparks of stone carved in marble
Time moves like water across this sea of hearts Beginnings and endings and no replies Echoes of madness, caves of gods Natural order and human chaos Alone in the universe, lost in space
Time moves like water across this sea of hearts Keep sailing on starlit ships Keep dancing to your invisible song Keep swimming in the middle of azure jungles Keep drinking the salt water that leads you there
Time moves like water across this sea of hearts Time moves like water across this sea of hearts Time moves like water across this sea of hearts
Love lost me My only friend That night Rain was falling Hitting the window Like your last words
Tonight, by canals I roam I hear footsteps Of long forgotten hope Calling me back again Awakening my spirit Burning so brightly
But I can not return The war has begun Ships have set sail for new lands Time is never-ending My heart is broken Like a cry, my life echoes all around
Lady of the Knight
Lady of the knight My lady of the night Take me to a place untouched by man Where the rosemary grows And the horses dream of peace
Here armour is purely ceremonial loss A great show put on for all the town to host Crowds come from miles around For her beauty succumbs even war Flowing like her hair as if Apollo was alive Chasing Aphrodite with beams of sun and delight
When it comes to sex Love is ashamed of showing its face For pleasure is a good thing Better than pain
Lady of the knight My lady of the night Take me to a place untouched by man Where the rosemary grows And the horses dream of peace So alone yet so alive In the middle of nature's fauna
This skin is travelling like silk embroided Across soft landscapes where the milk is dew Bodies entwined like well known branches Trees twisting and turning for thousands of years Having seen the whole of history save face
Even though money is the name of our peace Ours minds alter our hidden world enthralled Our animalistic desires raging in Greece Hot temples explode in awe and ash The ships captain roars land ahoy to us
For she is my lovebird Flying to Rome The Empire is over But so is the dawn
Stained sheets and embarrassed smiles Shower curtains and sweat like thirst Cigarette ash and bra like smoke Dirty underwear and laundry day Goodbye feels like hello The lady ushers her night away
Lady of the knight When will we go to war? What am I really looking for? Is it love? A girlfriend experience? Something more? Or just like you I want a connection A bit of affection To know someone holds me tight All through the stormy night In the distance thunder roars The sound of the battle cry The drums beat louder The horses neigh Hold me some more This dream feels real Humanities first! Kiss me lover again and again I hear the crows and the bells crying In unison my love in unison Sleep peacefully and don't look back Orpheus Yours truthfully I love her
Togetherness
Nature's dream is setting fire to the film reel, The picture is chug chugging to a halt Frozen in time on lonesome pillows, white as snow, like prisms bringing all the family together, like a nation of flowers rising to our knees Applauding and wanting an encore still stuck in a theatre's paradise Live on Just one last song to see us home, We'll go so far as a dream can take you The place erupts as if Vesuvius has woken, The little shop by the corner is still selling bread Kites are flying for the new year, awakening valentine hearts like mine, here Pompeii is just minutes away This is nature 's dream, calling us ever so sweetly, as we waltz into the moonlight forevermore
Horses
We stampeded like horses, Across lands of the dying moon Setting fire to the sun, And the oceans of time As free as the birds of the sky, Where time has no place
We waited for no one out here in the twilight gravities Dreams took our hearts to deserts of rain and peace Our bodies sank beneath the stars and rose like ashes of wine Bonfires encircled the world like a mist covering the night, City scapes, Us all
But freedom has a price for we can never stop rushing from hell Stampeding through the light at one with the chaos inside Drinking our lives like a party of heavenly flowers Blooming through the madness encircled by the pain
Rising to the rhythm of a melancholic song Caught between heaven and hell Freer than the oceans and the waves More lost than the night
We stampeded like horses, Across lands of the dying moon Setting fire to the sun, And the oceans of time As free as the birds of the sky, Where time has no place
The Greatest War
The real war is pulling at the heart strings
Breaking with the dawn at the crescendo of this guitar
Moving through the years like sunlight lost at dusk
Never knowing what creates it, what becomes of it, who we are
The real war is inside us
Fighting through dust, eternal thoughts
Hoping for peace, as loneliness shatters
Each realisation of the darkest void
The real war is emptiness, looking into an abyss
Sailing to centuries, unbeknown to bliss
Flowers wither and die when we touch one another
For each of our truths a mystery to us all
The real war is crying, open, shy
Caught like a moment in the net of our eyes
Thunder rolling in immortalities skies
Pain caused by the weaknesses of the tide
The greatest war is inside
Guns blasting to the night, Just as
Earth shatters like a kiss
Time rose towards my mind, frozen, helpless, singing my lines
The Magic Trick
Temples have risen out of the depths Oceans have sunk to modernity’s clause Past lives are threatening to break through the magic Magicians are disappearing out of their hats Pagan drums are swimming with the mob Individuals are loosening the rip chords The tide of history is setting
Ships are setting sail for Crete The minotaur has spoken As we enter the labyrinth Freedom awaits Theseus takes Ariadne’s hand in marriage And we begin to love life again Not with the eye of witch hunts Not with the need for good and evil
The temples they have spoken The magical world we believe in has vanished As the rivers and oceans in all of us are let loose on the world Good health for once is a virtue Anyone for a game of cards? As we gamble our life away I wake up from my soothing dream A bunny rabbit appears out of my hat And seduces me with its innocence
Consume or Die!
The temples they have blasphemed
Centuries have run riot
Across civilizations of war and peace
Where one monkey became billions
One brain turned into nothing
Exploding like stars into a mixture of a desire for everything
We have become a race of consumers
Not loving life, just feeling the need to buy and buy
Then sell our lives at the nearest exit sign
Whilst indicating the other way
Cars remain frozen in a dangerous salad of money
Only the electronic screens carry on
Taking over the world with one click
The machines have risen to the surface
They are flying as humans walk to non entity
Depressed and lonely for change
Not conforming to the norms in all the newspapers from here to the sun
Shouting for individuality
But the motto says:
''Consume or die!
Live or fly!
Spend spend spend
Enjoy enjoy enjoy
Do not think''
Think again
Glide to the nothingness
Torches of remembrance shining down on the sky
Medieval cities of hope crucified in pagan glory
Think again of peaceful light
Praying to the darkness
The roar of the lion who consumes no more
In the jungle we will live with the stars
Our only friends
Think again
Watch the films you enjoy again and again
Time is lost in shops that destroy
Sunbathe for Mars, sunbathe for Venus
Snow capped mountains, baseball caps, home runs
America is lost, the Empire is over, the dream is over
Wake up from the doldrums of society
Ancient Greece the birth
America the death
Consume or die!
Consume or die!
Bring back the Pagan Gods
Throw heaven and hell in the garbage trucks, every Thursday
Live again
Accept ourselves as good and bad
Live again
Love one another
Live again
Mount Olympus has erupted!
The messiah is getting laid!
He's high on coke
Consuming his last ego with a sugary taste
Long live the animal
It's beautiful
The stars have fallen on our patios, searching for peace, a peaceful drum
The Christmas sales have begun?
Eyes wide open
The fox is cunning?
Be cunning too
Live your life?
Live your life
You only have one
NATURE
This city as a temple
Holds no power over me
Attached like a puppet
It falls subdued
The strings being commandeered by the crowd
Whistling for a change that never comes
I am alone
Lost in the moment
As a river passes through time
Buildings rise then fall
Overlapping against the natural elements
A struggle ensues between what is man made and truth
TRUTH
What is truth?
A cry into the night
The howl of the wind
Rustling of leaves
Underfoot
Our imaginations start to grow
What is truth?
Everything apart from ourselves
Only our breathing keeps us awake
As we look up at the sky
And dream of yesteryear
Lost in time
What is truth?
It is not knowing
Being helpless, being unaware
An alive animal
With a tortured heart
Forever dreaming
What is truth?
It is what is in front of you
The moon, the sky, the endless night
All these things and more
It is beautiful
It is the only thing that matters
LOVE
She is as elusive as the night I miss her like the day Her breasts flow with honey all around the world In time she gives me love I travel along the highways of her legs To rich cities of her mind Where travellers meet from lost continents Selling rare fruit Her voice lingers in pine trees And tastes of olives I can smell the future throbbing Her skin envelops me
As I am writing this letter I think i am in love Though i have never met her Or spoken to her She is the daughter of the world The hills have broken The ravines have been set free Nothing can stop this feeling Taking forth The rightful heir to the throne The queen of hearts Teases me with her genuine smile
But she is always one step ahead of me One city away Further into the night One breath away from me Rushing like the tide She is as elusive as a magic trick Ordinary yet shy Longing to hold her Through thick and thin As the mist covers the city In the distance wilderness lights I hear a train calling home
She is as elusive as the night She is the daughter of the world The hills have broken The ravines have been set free She dances to the music She is everywhere and nowhere Commonplace yet rare Lustful and part of me She is love She is love Holding onto my tenderness Fresh apples falling from trees
OUR LONELINESS
The bells ring out for a peace of mind Ushered between the darling rain Which falls from lonely hotels Where I sit and write this book On lonely tables
And think of the time when I was young I had the whole world in front of me Now I'm lagging behind this lonely lark Trying to fly to a beautiful song Murmouring lonely poetry in a lonely shell
Where I spent summers relaxing at bus stops Years spent sunbathing in the winter snow Cold but warm in a lonely blossoming Of flowers I give to a girl She loves them and sighs
''The smell of perfume in the skyline Hides the horror of lonely hearts Lonely me and lonely you Beginning to cry but beginning to laugh all over again As the echoes get louder in the caves of our past''
Howling like the lonely wind Blowing like the lonely wolves Hunting for nuts and berries Inside the sun Glowing like the fire in my car
Driving to phantoms and loneliness Under the moon of the dying gun Shooting up like lonely trees Thousands of years spent waiting For the Ancient Greeks to come
Wait Quiet I hear someone The lonely footsteps get louder Time floats on the lonely slipstream In multitudes of loneliness Lonely one I hear you lonely one
There is a miracle glowing To understand one's loneliness well Down a lonely church evaporating in water Into crimson dreams of dust and lungs We were fish once, were we lonely then?
Breathing bubbles to the surface When shall we come to the surface lonely one? Like the lonely sun Who is the biggest lonely one! As love shone The only one who loves everyone
MY MIND
The fort stands firm and tall Beyond the walls the army rumbles Inside the people run to hide As catapults are launched like fire
There is no way out I have been trapped here for weeks The food and water is running out Our soldiers launch arrows beyond the moat
Just as the enemy have broken through Just as they have destroyed the walls As their soldiers are rushing into the arena The draw bridge is opened
My mind begins to fight back abruptly The impending attack is held back The walls are rebuilt No one is ever allowed inside
REVOLUTION
I moved through banana republics shaking those pom poms like there was no tomorrow Greeting the bard with a solid 'neigh' We were horses you see, donkeys to be more precise Eating the field as it rolled on from the past to the present to the future Like a glorious sunrise or sunset I forget which I have more important things on my mind Like eating this banana Charles Darwin is back The monkeys will have their revolution The only reality
ANGEL
Your my angel Your my truth Your my love that helps me through
Your my animal Your my day Your my light That keeps me up all night
An ocean A volcano A dream A universe full of stars Angel dust calling me millions of light years away
Through the darkness I'll always know I'll be floating away Into you Into the mysteries The temples of our hearts
The best way to be The angel in the half light Rising in time
...TRANSCENDS EVEN TIME
Pure freedom transcends even time
Stars flowing in the blue sky
Night lost in daylight, lost in me
Even if I had a choice to go back
I would keep heading to the horizons
Of momentary peace, a lost calm blue sea
Up there in space time doesn't exist
Only a friend to me now
Blowing bubbles in the slipstream
Like a child I'll live forever
Alone in the blackness without air to breathe
Haunted by the past and the full moon
Howling like the wolves in my heart
I love you dearly gravity float away to be
Pure freedom transcends even time
Hunting for ancient treasure in the ancient jungles of my life
I have to break free to nothingness
An ode to everything
Lost in freedom yours sincerely
ENDLESS BEGINNING
Across the wind Rush words of time Alarm bells opening up new possibilities Each morning a thorny rose grows More truthful, more poignant Its flower leaving me speechless And ready to run the race to
Decades of torment Under grey skies This everyone goes through Lonely valentine hearts like mine Singing freely like a dolphin In love with love itself
Hate to leave this world empty handed And lonely as a pill Courting the sky Vast impossible sky Opaque Dreamlike beauty shattering the peace
As peaceful as a dove Married to me Longing to break free from words Undescribable Momentary Free Free
Take me back to the end of time Where I wither and die Alone Together with the blue Endless beginning Rush like words Stones temples and pilots Awakening the fight In me the desire grows
Keep breathing Beautiful friend Through the miracle dust To glorious oblivion
THE STATUE
When I was young Time seemed to last forever Like snow at christmas
Now the rains have come Washing away all the beauty Leaving that snowman worn
Age like a mountain Reaches a peak The descent below otherworldly
Soon summer And the great truth Bronzing my skin like a statue
Lost in time For the whole world to see Naked forlorn
ROW
Take these oars
They will take you anywhere
Anywhere in the world
Just row
The journey will be difficult
But the oceans are free
Dangerous and wild
THE LOST LOVE OF THE DERANGED POETS
The lost love of the deranged poets
Surfing through the streets of tinsel town
Breathing in all the fumes of the celebrity nut crackers and
Like lions in the night of King Arthur's round table we were
Spinning like a merry go round on a buses desire
Toppling regimes of change the world lunacy
Fidel e o and all the dinosaurs
As only the silence remains
The lost love of the deranged poets
Laughing until the end of time
A fish on a hook at the end of the line
Getting off the tube train like a lamb to the slaughter
Greek Easter in dictatorial London
Moustaches and stilletoes and all that love
Love love love love
As only the silence remains
THE JOURNEY OF AN ARTIST
A man runs across the field passionately Golden wheat shining on him like the sun Green grass and brown mud merge with him As he gets faster and faster, non existant Almost like the speed of a skyward bullet He is part of nature, the only man part of this world The part of the puzzle, brushstrokes of emotions Rattling like the trees, shouting like the blue sky As great as the air, as alive as the colours Tortured like the stars, endlessly shining Collapsing in front of the horizon again and again A beautiful moment captured at last
THE PRISON
As wind swept sorrow moved my brow I sailed on to the present with beautiful sails Always knowing I wasn't to blame This prison was man made for us all At least I can look outside at the sunrise The sun swallowing up everything Like oysters in a romantic triste
The others they think they are in heaven Too, imposed on them by man They laugh and rejoice at the fresh air Whilst I sit with them in this concrete cell At night the moon comes into the space Offering me a respite and some hope That one day I'll be freed But the key lies with them, will they understand what they have become?
THE FAMOUS POET
I write poetry and It makes me happy No one knows me But inside I am famous Passion drives us all My words are therapy Here in this great moment I am most alive
THE CITY
One day I will break through their ranks I will knock down their walls Fight everyone inside This city will be mine
But what then? When I have my freedom What will I do? What will there be left to do?
I will still be alone Even more alone Struggling to break through invisible ranks Knocking down invisible walls
Better to let them win As they waste their time Closed inside the city walls Fearful of my solitary cry
EVOLUTION
Time nailed down like a harness For our human ways To push and pull through the darkness For heavens above The animals thump their chests Monkey see monkey do
AEROPLANE JOURNEY
The cloudy desert of the mountainous terrain Appearing out of the mist like a space odyssey A lost planet hurtling through outer space
Time an ocean of love orbiting the stratosphere of the lost poets And the merging of the land and sky Deep in the imperial mist Sailing through the desert of the lost cause
Shaking like a leaf in orbit Spinning like a top of a beer bottle In plains of reemergence Exciting phantoms of the sky Love poets repossessed in artichokes of heroines Where nothing is plane boring but constantly high Higher than the aeroplanes flying in the sky
Silver templates of the white clouds Forged to earth like the knights templar And mist nothing but mist But feeling blue Sometimes I reach a clearing And descend like wings to the dawn of time
Ditto Shade of pink horizon Sunshine pouring Beautified dizzying harem of mine
ARTICHOKE HEROINES
Artichoke heroines of the dull dull night Playing the drums with their blue hair Sad big eyes as full as the big black moon A lonely voice but the devil may care Waterfall of my imagination pour pour and pour
To Fly
A hawk hovering over the populace In search of its prey The belly of the beast Screetching Panic spreading As the helpless run inside Hibernating for the winter Autumn Spring and Summer Its wings floating like fear The nuclear apocalypse A mushroom cloud Rain falling from our eyes Looking out from cinematic windows As nature continues its journey Man frozen A road less travelled The car screetches to a halt His wings reach to the heavens As Icarus gets too close to the sun
Nietzsche's Journey
The man finds his way out of the wilderness Struggling through snowstorms and mountainous terrain for weeks Alone in the jungle His first sign of humanity A postcard town A modern metropolis The railways Casinos Airports Witnessing one after the other His individuality scorned The sunlight of the masses Tarnishing his thoughts The journey vast The air impenetrable The lion roars
Blue Sky
Blue Blue sky All I see is that blue blue sky Closing my eyes When I wake Blue Blue sky Starting my journey The beginning of a war Smiling or sullen Lonely and crowded Bemused at abstraction Blue blue sky All I am is a blue blue sky Vast and bright Long lasting and high Repaired forgotten Longing to fly True but transparent False but alive
Love Letter
Roses bloom after summer wine Skies fill the cities beating rhyme Crows perch on temples lost Everyone loves at cost
Morning is like evening air Never knowing never care Who is tortured? Who is true? Who is really in love with you?
The Romans are coming
The Romans are coming But they will not stay for long After they see the state you're in
The dinosaurs are coming And they will stay for a long time Because with you, Is where they feel most at home
The King
Inside for months The world sick Factories about to explode Eager to get back to gloom Doom and all the above Blue skies persistant free for the first time in decades centuries People like ants The common herd Eager to build their civilization The smoke gone The smiles gone Nature happy Their masters dethroned The queen abdicates The king is dead Hail Macbeth Madness reigns Eager to spread their seed Plants growing Trees sprouting The air fresh But still man moans Self destruction Annihilation Press the button Do it Peace The first flowers start to bloom A warm dew floats over the earth Birds sing of a life once lost Sing to me, O goddess Muse, the wrath of...
Thunder In The Clouds
Cast away from the world Buried in the house Chastised for individuality But the joy of living The thunder in the clouds.
A lone dove On its journey to far off lands, Rainbow sunsets speaking to me Their mellow tune From high above.
Pacing to and thro Like voices from the past. Smiling at all the lays ahead That beautiful, ephemeral Stream of light, Clinging to the night.
Ghost Hotel
The waves travelled like tornadoes Across humming ghost like hotels Reaching out to the future Accepting our past Looking out to the great beyond
Has the ship come home? Out there in the horizon Where all the sky is black Stars shining on our brilliance Sailing to other worlds Your world and mine
Paint peeling off the walls The roof almost caving in Nature invading the concrete jungle As weeds sprout through the door Giving birth to originality
I am all alone in this room Wind pelting the window with rain Our universal pain
A spider weaves its web round the fireplace Outside in the distance I can hear the hunt Drawing nearer but fading away
I hum a tune That reminds me of yesteryear I am that ghost Who died long ago
Trudging through the snowstorm At the dead of night Frightened of my shadow
The life of a puppet
I am but a puppet on a string Being pulled this way and that Rising to the sound of my master's voice Collapsing at the strain of knowledge
Few books guide me down this road The mechanical tonks of my walk The illusion of someone else's words Taking me to someone else's house
The puppeteer pawns his craft As the audience sits in awe Observing this play of movement Constrained inside this box
I am but a puppet on a string Being pulled this way and that The awkward silence outside the theatre Allows these dreams to come to life freer
Sea Change
Sea change flowing on through time, As each man journeys wearily home, Rushing in and out of the waves on pillows, The past a distant dream foretold.
Who knows where we will arrive my friend? As we stand on the shores of chance, Looking at ourselves sailing into wild romance, A mirror image has us in a trance.
Deep blue disappearing into the night distilled, Our senses at one with the stars, Memories of a lyre being played once, Across the falling leaves of autumn’s yard.
Sea change whistling in the wind, Of a life ever changing sweetly sung, The sky can never be as true again, Each morning a new beginning, a new end, lost in tongue.
Night
Night Darkest night Deep in the unconscious Of the blackest depths Of the animal That we have forgotten to be Bring me daylight And the roar of the light
Spinning top
Ships to warmer pastures Clouds hidden by the sun A reef in mid orbit Setting by the half light of day
I walk to the sound of my rhythm Forlorn yet strong In mid winter I pray for summer Blue sea shells I put to my ear
And I hear the sound of love Streaming through my fingers The smell of seaweed on my tongue An oval moon perplexed by the spinning
Of the top on my table The one where I sit and write my dreams Ever so often I wake up And light a candle like a plethora of stars
Forever hanging above my bed Earth a shallow river Forever trying to find the sea Showering its space dust for millenia to come