Pre nup 

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

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