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Ideaphor

Body Ocean: 24

Children's Works
Thank You:25 Poetics: 23 Irenium: 22 Songs of Spheres:21
Rock and Wild Velvet: 20  Mermaid Memories Silk and Gold: 19 Thymetaphor: 18 Ninnets: 17
Rhymennets: 16 Crimsonite: 15 The Moon Lines: 14 The Body Air:13
And Other Sonnets: 12 Between Prometheus and Orpheus (Sonnets):11 Situational : 10 Billboards and Boglands: 9
Illumine My Ithaca: 8 A Traveller's Guide to Pollypsychophinadalium: 7 Neverbridge Stone Roses: 6 Poetry of Ruins and Rains: 5
Published: Poetica Rainbow Ryder: 4 Published: The Geography of Time: 3 Published: The Son of Eternity:2 Published: Command the Moon: 1

Poetry

Poetry is the magic germinating out of the miracle of life

Billboards and Boglands

This would be the 9th Collection

 

Billboards and Boglands

Here you come on the red tape's wings
On a bed in need of some compassion
In a room where space is strangled: zero mercy

Here you are devoured with the scent of the air
That died and continues to rot, robbing you away;
Walk through the tired doors and lethargic corridors
People there get paid seeing the pound notes on your face

Each day they tolerate you in the hope that
By tomorrow you are yesterday's news
And they tire-talk with half asleep eyes
As though still they are capable of being kind to you
They are still here and serving although they
Skip out the bit where your ought to read
That your misery makes them honeyed money

Here in kitchens things and nothing blend in
One absolute stink that ferries the space
Bathrooms' sticky maps stile out a stomach soar;
Toilets need not toil for you are out of options

Here it might appear dry but it stands on thin bogland
Bed, breakfast cereal and milk seem nearly nought
People coming or going as reluctant prisoners
Pass through as though in transit at an airport

They do not know whether they are coming or going
Yet a sense that they want to go somewhere else
That is like the island under water still developing
Although still out of sight beyond the haze of hope

This billboard place that says stay or go does not matter
Bogland boils down in the anacondic non care
Barely one manages to breathe and wait for that
Under water island to hurry on appearing

A transitory trapedium, tired, tedious and tough
Carelessness scoops up the air and shares a dryness
A dryness that feels like dead winter's rough skin
And you long to disappear somewhere else sooner
The bogland where big and small equals the same

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Violet

A violet
In the touch of rain

Virtuoso
Stands
Radiating

An opening
Invites
In an arresting
Respite

The raindrops
Appear pearlike
On the lips of space
Violet

An opening
Invites
In an arresting
Respite

Aha! Violet
My wet arresting violet
My window to dive in
Deeper than the shallow
That surrounds us in our
Tedious daily waffles

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To Read the Following Poems Follow the Links

The Inner Phantom

I Search for the Myth of Life

Like a Blown Kiss

Rainbow Lady

East Grinstead

Epyllion

Circularity of Our Understanding

Playing I do with Words

I’m no Macbeth

The Straight Line Theory

Keep Falling Starlike

Slaves of None

Through the Window

In the End

Theory of Spin

A House of Clouds in the Sky

The Bud  Dramatics

Sizzling

 

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Foliage of Our Sweating

On night river bridges hold the vigil of togetherness
Under the guard of little winter lights

People on vehicles and buses half way between
Warmth and cold think home where destiny's comforts lie

Warmth is the state where warm blooded long to be
Yet there it gets spiky and prowling

Time leans on silence as though it does not give a damn
About the time of things or state of things

November night readies her radiating cold outfit
To call it a night and go to bed soon to be snoring

While the homeless under the bridges wonder
How the myth of bounty spreads outward and stay stuck

In the cold on Southwark Street that is steel sore
With still memories of shooting and serves people

People that are still there in the cold cul-de-sac
In need of a space to walk and clear their head of fear

Night neighs towards her bed we head towards ours
Cryptic castles enduring the endless daily debacles

Sleeping only serves our biological clock that ticks tocks
Tomorrow awaits as another unfolding of the deck chair

On the beach pebbled or sandy or muddy matters not
Hourly surely rate hollows out foliage of our sweating

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Our Figurine Safety


Safety surely sojourns out sleek and serene
In surveillance tapes from cctvs' tails
And shadows our insular walls

Where moss of our once upon a time
In dire dehydration wishes wet touch and
Writes up local anesthetic and its working out

In a map of hibberdy gibberdy hide outs
Where our figurine aesthetic files up
All misfired materials damping out

There in this secure area of sure shot
Our occupied walled space punctuates
The shuttered and shattered selves

We are the surely safe in the water
That can no longer wet us
For it has died in our material entrapment

For water forgetting the rule of law
Flowing slowly lowly downhill or spreading
Outbound with its life in the liquoring current

Is surely dead yet we have hired an obvious
Octopus to recite us the regulation of oblivion
So that the fact equates fiction and we fail

Absolutely to notice that rivers were and no more
And that the rectangular and shut machine eyes
Are our hollowed once upon a time expressions

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To Read the Following Poems Follow the Links

The Inner Phantom

I Search for the Myth of Life

Like a Blown Kiss

Rainbow Lady

East Grinstead

Epyllion

Circularity of Our Understanding

Playing I do with Words

I’m no Macbeth

The Straight Line Theory

Keep Falling Starlike

Slaves of None

Through the Window

In the End

Theory of Spin

A House of Clouds in the Sky

The Bud  Dramatics

Sizzling

 

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