Showing posts with label Plant Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Plant Life. Show all posts

Thursday 28 February 2019

Trees. Simple.


Little Man


Its just the wrong type of stuff, is all,
Shoo, shoo, shoo enuff.

Hey, little man, d'ya wanna know something?
Its your mama you see,
I kinda have a bit of a thing,
I kinda wanna spend some time,
Y'know, like, getting to know things,
Like
Your mama.

Like what she likes,
What she is,
And could be,
I mean...


You don't really mind do you ?

Its not like the right stuff would help much,
And I'm not sure it wouldn't be warmer,
Or calmer,
Or, well, you know.


Its your mama you see,

She could be interesting some time,
A shoo in, or near to,
And sometimes little man,
That's enuff, shoo,


Shoo, shoo, shoo enuff,
Little man.






Little Liar


How can I get my shit together
When those whose frame I grew to
Have no frame now
Nothing is true
Nothing is true


Crowley had it with
"Everything forbidden is compulsory"
"Do what thou wilt
shall be the whole of the Law"

No conscience ? When you've always ?

Liar liar liar liar
Pants on fire.

Never forgot the horse switch
Broken plate glass lie, so small,
Against the hypocriticall.


 
Live.

Live inside this comic farce
With me and us and you,
Visit life, from time to time
We remember what to do.




 
Mindset.



As if you can ever have
The "Mindset" you had 3 years ago,
Thank god !
Keeping forward.

Sense of helpless innocent optimism,
Brought about by heavy misery.

Which now has matured
Into a meaner animal.

With less reason to be
Than ever, but somehow optimist,
Keeping forward.

New "Mindset" with strong tendencies,
To return, could be self-defeat,
Going back.

To innocent optimism,
With any bloody luck,
Heavy and strong, but mature tendencies.

As if you can ever have
3 meaner years
Thank god !
Less reason for heavy optimism.




There really is "something" about trees isn't there?




 
Peeling the seams
From legs of heaven
And arms
With cotton dressing
With silver skin below
With haste and eyes
Quite focused to the task
And hurry
To teeth, to tongues
To flesh valleys and
Respond sincere
Hard decisions, made haste
And last layers are at last revealed
And lust exploration
Painful signal defloration
Symbolised, and peeled
And then thought must leave
Betrayal by the naked
Animal now thrust and gaunt
And frenzied sincerity
Rushes blood, adrenaline, sex
Into the mental hours
And mental bruises
Physical Venus
With detaching splendour
And barmaid wonder
And the connected
The found
With sweet white definition
And dark intent
And the damp peeled seams
And knickers on the floor
And the hideous bed
Denying such admission
And finding splendid hurry
In heavenly valleys
Symbol of gaunt animal response
And sincerely naked
With haste and eyes
Betrayal of signal tongues
Sincere truth must now leave.




Stonesexy.

Her throat is dry and cracking
Voices mingle intimately in trance
Speech becomes irrelevant anyway.

And the time stretches again
Into pockets of endless thought.

Her tongue sticks to the roof of your mouth
Mingling with the slowness of it all,
Love becomes irrelevant in retrospect.

And your mind stretches out to nothing,
Into pockets of infinite moments.

The slow-mo lovemaking contains no fear
No love, but mingling with the sheet,
The irrelevant scent of oils.

And the high stretches to hours,
And pockets of senseless regrets.



Withdrawal.


Listening passively, and not hearing,
Switching off, and not seeing.
Sounds "cotton-woolled" and dull,
Only mulling inwardly,
Chewing the cud, of recent events.

But beware, not for nothing,
Do warning bells ring, and,
Buzzing lights speak out.

You leave a corner of your mind,
Monitoring at the slightest level.

In your own world, do you live ?

You must hear and be ware,
You cannot shut out all.

The phantom screams overhead,
Lifting...instantly muffling.

Oh, how quickly you withdraw,
Like an upturned winkle, or whelk.

You leave the warning bells,
In a corner of your mind.




Back to single figures.

Hash-tag "trees" maybe? Or "Poetry" or "Bollocks"

I dunno, let's run it as an experiment......

#trees
#poetry
#bollocks

#wayofseeing

Hmm, I doubt it'll make a scrap of difference.



That was February.

Already a 1/6th of the way to the next one.......


Friday 31 August 2018

Ending and Beginning. Omega and Alpha.


Kettle’s On….


And then the tiny ‘te ching’ of the heater, the ‘sss’ of the kettle on the stove, the crunch of the heart on warm shale.

Teaching.

Missions to other dimensions of stupid wisdoms = ˚45

But my love is far from obtuse.


I hope closer to tuse.



And to wisdom, though far from my judgement and closer than yours it seems,

Through this kaleidoscope/telescope, camera


Crappy old recycled papered sketchpad

It seems.

It sometimes seems, beyond Danny, beyond Carl, beyond Mama Mia, both and less,
Beyond me, and before.



Close inspections, microscopic interventions, and a nudge to the wise.


Too much wisdom blinds the self-obsessed Djin.



And his smoke/mirror entrapments for you, and all of your dreams,
Passported to just anywhere.

Stamped.



Pummeled.






The Empty House Of Janus.


The chained door to the empty house,
That isn't, containing

A wolf, a jackal, a cow, a cat, and clown,

Janus should be the master,
For the number of faces is more than one,
Per body.

The silent dark, without,
The silence within,

Contained within is the prismic soul,
Of the clown,
The anarchy clown of this circus,
The circus of deaf fools.

There is but one within the unchained house,
But one, but one what ?
Many-faceted, many lives,

Not truly the nine of the cat,
Nor the sacred cow,
Nor the unfeeling wolf,
Nor the false-humoured clown,
But just one.

The chain keeps them all out,
And all of the one within,
Away from the world.

Janus looks down from the door,
Patron of travelers, and me.

Static on the carpet of this circus,
Static in my solitude.

The empty house holds the wolf within,
And in my ears echoes
His lonely howl.



 
More Birdsong.


And then the moon sung me a song,
Not a terribly good one its true,
But she told me I'd been all wrong,
Was never really meant for you.

But my sun-god argued my corner,
Saying that I shouldn't hang back,
But he can't see the doubts adorn her,
Or the moon concealed in black.

I could still hear her faint words,
Coming through the evening air,
If you decide to go hunting birds,
Do you think it should be fair ?

I laughed and caught the tune she'd thrown,
I knew that you were only an air,
I whistled it round, then up and down,
And knew then I didn't care.


(Fairly sure I've already posted this, but hey...)





Perceiving You.

How do you see me ?


I see me as


A lunatic sitting dribbling insanity
From your motorway bridge
Onto the fast executive.


There was a dead Ent in the river.......I was surprised, as I had no idea there were any around here.


Snippet of Conversation.


My eyes burned the skin beneath,
The hidden layer of living.

My eyes char, and you flame,
I guess this is my way of giving.

The cat purrs, the clock ticks,
I slumber in the after-glow,
Last night is so far behind,
I just thought you ought to know.

My eyes fall out as you tell me,
That there's something I should hear.

The promise somehow remains unworded,
Hidden by protests, driven by fear.

You hurt, I hurt, perhaps the cat does too,
Who knows about allaying love ?




My Confession......*


*  I've been Blackberrying...... Made a Blackberry & Apple Gin variant.....not sure if it's going to be any good, but as I'm not a Gin drinker, it can only be an improvement......

* I'm not a murderer.



 
Infectious Laughter.


Fill me with your bastard fire,
Where it hurts most,
Deepest burning pain of
Guilt senseless infection of
A false lovers' life.

False words filled with deep truth,
And a crucified sex-life,
I died in three whole weeks,
And your telephone,
Couldn't just do that to you.

Love you, hate you,
Its not the same as real life:

Real life, pain and highs,
I died once more between your thighs,
Fell drowning out of your eyes,
And never believed my own lies.

And the paradox that faces us,
Who has been astray ?

I drove a thousand miles,
To your house and back,
To see the fire and to die,
To watch satellite shite,
And to catch a bastard truth.

Neither of us really believes the other,
And I'm the one with an
Imaginary bastard fire
In my imaginary bastard loins.

It rains, so ? less often, never more than,

Who gives a toss ?

I sleep in pain, next to your
Clean and poisonous motherhood.


NEVER EVER USE "Not Waving, Drowning"

It's BEEN DONE TO DEATH.

All because of a fabulous old Public Service Film in the 70s......

Every would-be poet since has used it, no really, even if they don't admit it, it was such a powerful image..... So, here's mine:


Image Of A Drowning Man.

Heavy storm, high sea,
Falling rain.
An open scream.
Salt water.

"Hey luv, that man's waving !"

In the queue for the check out,
Domestic tensions mount.
Scaling inclined fears,
Tiers to a theatre.

Pounding head and pulse,
Hand puts change and tickets
In the opposum's purse.
The climax brings more silence.

Image of a burned
A burned out car.
A dead baby,
Heavy storm,
High seas,
A brother's scream.

Salt water
Brine for the dying.
Infusion for the spiritual,
And death to the drowning.

"Hey luv, that man's waving !"



 
Poor White Girl On Loads.

What do you think they'll call you
Twenty years from now ?

Wild child, you're such a child,
Your eyes made black
As is your style,
Your nose is full of bitterness,
Taken through a straw,
Wander in you wilderness,
Who could ask for more ?

The car stops and out you get,
You don't know who nor where,
But some promise your appetite has whet,
And so, abandon care.

No cash, no sleep, no lifestyle,
Or one I can cope without,
Empty stomach, churns up bile,
I think you won that bout.

Wild child, a flawed model girl,
Did he promise you the world ?

Or just more dope to stop your mind ?
Do you think I'm so unkind
To tease you back to reality ?

Sense and sensibility,
Bright and capability,
But senseless death will knock,
Knock, let him in.

What the hell do you think you'll be
Twenty minutes from now ?



My Rose cuttings......not terribly promising, but they're not dead.........5 reds & one white/pink.......

My last post got 11 views.....and I bet at least one of those was me. I won't give up though, some were way over 50........sheer bloody mindedness is keeping me going..........

Feel free to share though, if you're in any poetry groups or anything......

Happy Friday all 8/9/10 of you.......



Sunday 12 August 2018

Thought Gardening at Night

Walking Way Back When.



Did you ever really know?

The rabbits might have gone,
But landslide sentries are still here,
Squirrels few, a cock pheasant, a hen,
A slow swirlwind of memories,
And love.

Time out.

No heron-stalking, just flooded ground,
Massive water-flow, a soggy challenge,
Underfoot, and muddy dogs,
Cold, but contracted to be a survivor,
You too, with your thousand miles.

Did you ever really see?

The foxes, and rabbits, long gone,
The hollow I once saw an owlet,
Now over-grown,
Dead and brambly.

My life?

A scarred tree, another name,
A ghost squirrel moment,
Skittering across the cliff face,
Parental caution,
And a love, eternal, but nevertheless,
Dead, deaf, crippled.

Where did all the rabbits go?




Hibiscus late tonight, in the rain...... 



 How damned sexy are roses??






Love this but it's BRUTAL!










The trouble is that eventually, when I have posted "everything" that I think worth bothering with, and do break into the new start, and re-worked things that have been gathering dust in an old folder on my shelves for longer than I dare think.....that there are going to be times when I think...."Aah, that one fits in with my thinking/writing at the moment" or some such....

Hence there might be an odd one that has appeared before, so indulge me.......

Friday 15 March 2013

Dawn Tree





Stereotypical "Tree-in-Mist" sort of shot.....Have no idea where it was, but it's pre- my having a digital camera....

Thursday 14 February 2013