redator in the Coral Jungle Abundant, hungry Always hungry Prey in the Coral Jungle Scared, in fear Always in fear A paradise of perpetual hell An edge world Finely balanced Between the starving And the eaten Make it paradise true Shift the paradigm Remove the predator Remove the hunger Remove the fear Remove the edge […]
Alphabet Soup (first published on Turquoise Monster) My mind is swimming in alphabet soup Letters clog the synapses And punctuation tears at my lobes Syntax is setting down roots between the hemispheres Hard curved consonants fill the ventricles Soft airy vowels stuff the cortex Metric metre measures all the gaps Structure breaks the blood brain […]
This one first prize in it’s category for the European Space Agency Create Your Own Space art comp. Did Life fall into this cradle This Earth, this home – We now attempt to climb out of? Or is it more than a cradle Some crucible or potters wheel Shaping and baking us in forms renewed? […]
My Warrior Geek (first published on Turquoise Monster) Alaric the name unfolds Warrior King of legends mold Uber Geek in strange Nu Spk Two in one Wearing black for fun Alaric my Wonder Geek Fighting zombies in his sleep Forking daemons Spawned zombie child He’ll fix the system for a while And when it breaks […]
Shy (first published on Turquoise Monster) Shy sits silently Shrouded by curtains of curly hair Staring scared from below lashes Squashed firmly into shadows Watching with secret hopes Crowds dancing Loud is the sound Such a slender slight form Shy retreats Shy’s voice is lost Scared away today No one notices anymore The scintillating scene […]
Ice (first published on Turquoise Monster) At the beginning we were like snow flakes Elegant and bueatiful Slowely drifting through the sky We landed on the ground Blanketing all in pure white Rainbows glinted off of us But then we lay and they trod upon is Changing us into dirty slush Dangerous, slippery A trap […]
The Cactus (First published on Turquoise Monster) In the desert at night it is cold Ice in the crevices The sky is clear and dark Stars shine there How do you see them? For me time moves faster I live longer It is relative My stars are streaks I live in a blurred circle of […]
Salty Solitude (First published on Turquoise Monster) Footprints in a ribbon’s stream Beads upon a string Minute leaves upon a stem They were made By a pachyderm Lifeless land this salt plain Giant evaporation pans Leaving just salt Where once sea Now desert Shimmers in reflected heat Nothing but the footprints Alone in the heat […]
My ensuing death (first published on Turquoise Monster) My ensuing death Barks at my heels Demarnding to go for walks Asking for water With languid eyes My ensuing death Packs itself neatly Into my luguage Hoping to holiday In the sun My ensuing death Follows me to the bath Popping the bubbles Leaving a hard […]
A Child’s Story (first published on Turquoise Monster) In the Beginning The stars where bueatiful And surrene But then the moon appeared Scattering crumbs off Self in their paths They tasted and became hungry Seething with desire Angry with avarice at each other The throng moved as one Distorted where their pretty faces as they […]