The pretentious prattlings of a piss poor poet
For many years have I
Alone wandered
On the uneven path
Of my life
While the darkness devoured me
And my fears assailed me
And my guilt besieged me
I would cry on the wind
But no-one heard
I would scream to the stars
But no-one cared
I would shout to the emptiness
But no-one came
And on I walked
Isolated
Desolate
Scared
Scarred
Longing for the greater night
To overwhelm my tired soul
And end the pain
07/02/2018
Leave a CommentI scream to the wind That blows through forest And grass and me I scream to the wind That howls and cuts Ice cold, hoar sharp I scream to the wind That whines and listens Not to the pain I scream to the wind And cry my fear Cold, unheeded, alone
09/02/2004
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Winter mist and morning
Grey ghosts of trees and geese and people
Weary homeward trudging
Warmth awaiting
Harbour from a cold hard day
03/12/2009
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Darkness grows
Days' light destroying
Trees dim
Through cataracted windows
Sounds still
Silence reigns
Sweet day ending
25/11/2009
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Scudded greying cloud
Dark sky framing
Soaks green grass ground
Raging race rises
Tear bringing, death giving
Force of nature wronged
23/11/2009
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Winter storm blowing
Lone leaf on branch falling
Buffeted by the breeze
Earthward bound
To rest with still hallowed friends
Forever
19/11/2009
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This too crowded island
Drains me
Cold wind, cold rain, cold people
Chill me
Sadden me
Make me
Homeless in my own home
Take me
On dark, dark roads
Going from nowhere
To nowhere
Through brick built jungles
Sterile sanctuary of sterile souls
Grey dank faces watching me
Through dusty windows of dust minds
Unattractive, unappealing, unclean
Living corpses crying
Putrid babbles
Of nothingness
And hate
Yet I remain
Unheard
Unseen
Unwanted
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What about me
Living just to be
What they want me to be?
No job, no wife, no car
No life to live so far
And they just talk and cheat,
And lie and steal and bleat
About each other
The truth they smother
While this world bleeds and stutters and dies
But their lies
Stifle our cries,
Our goodbyes
To those we love
Both those above,
And those below, now and always.
No-one plays
In these streets any more
Everyone is shut behind their door
Afraid to give
Or live
Their lives.
Earth strives
To breathe
We leave
Our children
Love hidden
We face each other
Lover,
Friend, another
As strangers
09/12/2000
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A room
A crowd
A silence
Possesses me
Alone I sit
But surrounded
Encased in humanity
And I am afraid
Of what?
Leave a Comment Moon shining down Upon a lunar landscape Of reds and browns and pinks and blacks and greys and greens Shimmering in the heat Of a thousand ovens Quiver trees stand guard Over vast emptinesses Of sand and rock Hot, burning my hands As I stoop and touch their barrenness, Their wildness and their loneliness I feel as if I am alone With this landscape Nothing exists but us Both blown by the same hot winds Both scorched by the same hot sun Is there any reality but ours?
15/02/1991
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