Back and forth my thoughts sway and shudder,
Within me I hear the menacing echo of their ebb
And flow, billows breaking onto amorphous rocks
Amassed to build craggy sharp ravines I strive
To climb, they scar me and scorn … CONTINUE READING »
A day in the life
‘Is she as good as she looks?’
Asked a stranger to an old man carrying
The wicker basket where she blithely lay,
As he strolled her, along the sunny avenue
On a warm spring day.
‘Try her,’ he answered, handing … CONTINUE READING »
Behind my eyelids
I shutter my eyes to see an infinity
of ruby hues reflected on my eyelids
they paint my horizon, take shape as I focus
an expanse of endless fields
filled with crying roses
each tear a droplet of morning dew… CONTINUE READING »
Saving Silence [or Misophonia 3]
Whilst Gordon engages in combing the world
Musing on a square inch of silence, sauntering
Through life into the depths of virgin forests
Desert islands, climbing mountains to dredge
An endangered species playing the violin.
Silence, dawn breaking across six … CONTINUE READING »
White Walls of Black History
Miss Ashanti ‘36, a mulatto beauty, the fruit
Of white men’s pleasure, taken in black damsels’ arms.
Her guardian her uncle, on the Gold Coast she grew
To become a queen by white men courted and pursued.
Jealousy stabbed her … CONTINUE READING »
My sole desire
There is a place, where velvet
Emerald moss blankets ancient rocks,
Shaded by myriad multifarious lush trees,
With which the rocks fancifully coalesce
To artfully raise walls, a secret path an arch,
Beneath which flows, a torrent,
Its voice, gentle … CONTINUE READING »
Let them live
Enchanting notion of life
One which one may live
With a smile, tears only but of joy,
At dawn, bliss before a shining sun
It rose it rises and it will rise again
Elated by its enveloping warmth.
Enchanting notion … CONTINUE READING »
Look at me
As if I were all that exists.
As if I were the only remnant of beauty left.
As if I were your sole desire.
As if nothing else mattered.
Look at me.
Hypnotise me with your gaze, let me fall… CONTINUE READING »
Aflame
They creep inside you, slowly, enter
Through the soles of your feet you can feel them
The tingling sensation of a sting, electric impulses
Penetrating from the exterior within
You, leisurely strolling through nerves
Upwards, along your legs, delicately caressing… CONTINUE READING »
Blossom Shells
She does not look at herself nor contemplates
Her beauty her sheer existence inspires her
To move, swirling particles, orchestrate vibrations
To create multifarious wonders of mighty awe.
She melts snow, into gullies, lymph seeks unity
In streams, flows down … CONTINUE READING »