Sunday, February 14, 2016

Excavate Passions

Excavate passions, dig out the old name -
a dusty beauty, music - thirsty sound,
let her memory clink in your heart, claim
all space; every emotion astound.

Let her have that one moment once again
where she had had you drown, a photograph -
captured in her light, all you could remain
was a stillness that always seemed to laugh.

Dig out the lyre that lulled you into life.
Oh, look at her a seasoned ecstasy!
Tonight be draped in the nudes that ran rife
in her little world, your dreams' embassy.

Let her carry you to the other side;
let the pure of your passion defeat pride.

Saturday, February 13, 2016

No Masterpiece

My poem's not a masterpiece -
read; do not ask for peace.

I'm a handicap, handle me -
too much of a fire, candle me?

Try me on your voice -
maybe I'm a song of choice.

Let me ring in your ears;
let it bring you tears.

Only do not reduce me to a God!
Love me, worshipping is odd.

Erruer?

And I'm wanting to walk
on the purest snow -
is that where I've erred?
For wherever I go,
there's dirt.

And oh,
the night chokes the moon;
lesser of it do I spoon - 
the moon in my silver eyes.

And I keep the clocks
that had stopped
sometime ago.
Is that where I've erred?
Wanna know.

Where the grass was crushed,
off-shot mistrust -
is that where I erred?
I only needed to walk
on something untouched.

A blank sheet,
all to myself
and I'll write undeterred.
Do not tell me
that I have erred.

Friday, February 12, 2016

I Twinkle A Jade

Tulips ocean my heart; I twinkle a jade -
cancerous, the memories we never made.

Reality's whirlpool caught another road;
I slip on slopes of Time and hours, evade.

Your thoughts own my lips; I smile to self -
militant, the joy 'bout me; why, I was betrayed!

My laughter's a gale colouring our silence;
you preyed upon a heart that never played.

This being yours, this forgetfulness!
I'm happy tonight; another death, delayed!

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Chasing Feathers

Since when have you been chasing feathers, heart?
I watch you tear hollow hoops, steer stages
into myths; I eye you vie for the dart
that is destined for circles and cages.

Here, I look at you from this higher plane -
a spectre unravelling Time's coarse snares;
I see you impel fires; dream, spin, spur rain.
What not have you been doing all these years!

Since when have you been evading weathers, heart?
I see you invent minutes, forget seconds;
I watch you tackle deaths, your births abort;
and I look at you target dead ends.

Be lead not by will, wisdom or your wings -
fall, but a prey to invisible winds.

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Eyes are the Gaps

Your eyes have been drinking all the fissures
that taint our story of love, maim the field
of warmth; and break the circuitous leisure
into hours of disbelief, doubt, pity,
feigned indifference. You even give in
to desires you do not really have -
taking the shape of a body, trying
to emerge a form... It is nothing but
the failure of wax to die a meaning.

Eyes are the gaps, my love; seeing is judging.
Give up your mind and find the nothing that
has always perfused love - you will be free,
even of me.

Monday, February 1, 2016

A Lot More Than Silence

I'm leavin' you these columns
where phantoms fume -
I'm leavin' you autumns
that scents consume -
I'm leavin' you the ghosts
that poetries stray -
I'm leavin' you coasts:
foam blighting the bay -
I'm leavin' you azure
mating with grey.

Grey.

I've smudged the old paintings
with my beautiful eyes.
I have longed to hear the first cries
of our love
as it is held against the bosom
of time.

Look, I shan't contain within me
the galaxies you talked of -
I'm leavin' you words
from the time you walked off.

I'm leavin' you the truth
I couldn't dismantle.
Lips, fingertips and clips.

I'm leavin' you torn sheets
and curly thoughts -
I'm leavin' you my defeats
and secret plots -
I'm leavin' you trampled innocence -
I'm leavin' you a garden
and the torture of a fence -
Soften, harden,
melt, regret, love, despise -
I'm leavin' you a lot more than silence.