The room was dark the light bulb broken
Only a flickering red spot suspended
Above a drum-shaped silhouette I discern
A doorless capsule of metal and gold.
A mystic summoning lure and my curiosity
Possess my pace and steps I … CONTINUE READING »
Capable of violence
The man lied on white linen
Immaculate sheets of a hospital bed,
Swollen eyes red scleras
Broken capillaries bruises of violence.
His neck held still his body covered
He had been beaten to near death,
Afore his wife struck to … CONTINUE READING »
Misbehaviour
When I look at people I search
For traces of their essence a glimpse
Of their spirit passions and fuels
I strive to see beyond
Earthly qualities and flaws.
To my defeat I must confess I fall
Into a trap … CONTINUE READING »
Commodore
I dawdled idly down the dock at cockcrow
When my attention was captured by the howls
of an imposing man mustering a frantic crew
from above the decks of an entrancing vessel,
Navy blue body white spotless sails
A masthead … CONTINUE READING »
Shame
All animals by nature seek
A lair a shelter from threats to existence
Inclement climate and stronger predators
Ineluctably induce fearful creatures to hide,
Only wandering the lands when in need
Of nourishment and lovers to procreate allow
Species to … CONTINUE READING »
Ancient Travellers
They travelled for eons through light years
Endless voyage they chose to land
For an instant the time of an impact
On a planet of blue green and brown.
Imparting their wisdom and knowledge
To aborigines confusing them with gods… CONTINUE READING »
Unnatural
Marble powder and cement
Bronze and plaster of Paris
Sepia names of fantastic creatures
Unnatural nature captures my eyes.
Elegant shapes graceful imagination
Sinuous bodies ibis faces tales of fighting fish
In realms of fantasy clashing with reality
Evolution of … CONTINUE READING »
The Sentient Mouse
The mouse was taught to open cages
A hero to liberate his inmates,
When he did he would be granted
The requital of mirthful reunion.
To researchers’ dismay the little rodent
Persisted freeing prisoners even despite
The absence of promised … CONTINUE READING »
Close Diaries
He was thirty-three when he decided
To leave, the familiar feel of his country home,
Little village an abode, to his childhood dreams
And wildest hopes.
Bought a one-way ticket to the East, tracing
Back the path of a dawning … CONTINUE READING »
Placid nightmare revealed me a truth
Time and again when I close my eyes
Morpheus decides to carry me
To a familiar place a cliff, white rocks
An endless sea, afore me reflecting
Refracting light beams in all directions
Whilst to my sight there is just … CONTINUE READING »