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
Find yourself
Don’t find yourself
Hocus pocus
Invisible lull
Nostalgia
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
