Fairy Tale (first published on Turquoise Monster) Bread crumbs stretched for miles Children follow them in hope Crushing blow Of avian beak Tears of innocence Tears of fear Crewly abandoned not once but thrice No food, no love The pesants life Little feet bare Mud stained fretful This time lost This time without recourse Bread […]
Scandal Vanished (first published on Turquoise Monster) Scandal Vanished with my life As did the debts The whinning morons And the bad parkers of the world In fact the whole world vanished Leaving serene milky blackness I stretched back in the warm fuzz Ah – relaxation at last
Spirits of Trees (first published on Turquoise Monster) Leaping greenly spirits of trees Jumping high for the joy of air Who kisses their cheeks Smooth in waxy cuticle Into the trees they pounce Making nests for birds Dropping boughs on the hunter Who enters their domain
Neptune is Bound (first published on Turquoise Monster) Neptune is bound in with shame In a water cave so dank Walls shimmer green efferesance of the sea But it is not the sea Not the salt brine his tail fin craves In osterization A prison of his own making The Sea Queens wraith Imprisions the […]
Seeds (First published on Turquoise Monster) I sit beneith the flame tress Sipping mango juice Wanting oogarly In it’s milky sweetness The sky is odd here But not as different as I thought Edges too sharp The ground glitters Earth red and orange With large flat grey stones Ox pull carts With solum eyed boys […]
Galatic Death Throws(first published on Turquoise Monster) The Dead Galaxy Hung in the Vacuum A dark remnant Of a glittering time A ghostly structure Where the cogs seized Where the fire died Where there was an end to annihilation And the star birth The cycle broken the whisper of creation Silenced It drifted Dense in […]
The Maiden’s Dream (first published on Turquoise Monster) Green and leafy forest light Watching over maidens plight Purple night dark and cold Witches plot, evil bold Red rose lips cold to touch Drank the poison with her lunch Black and dark the misery sleep Hoping waiting faeries peep Greying hags place dragon there The maiden […]
Chaos (first published on Turquoise Monster) A butterfly stirred within in my curious hand Hesitant to take the offered nectar Golden, amber, sweet It’s tongue long and curled appeared Lapping gently with distraction I looked up at the sign Butterflies for sale, $12 Wings translucent in half dream light Shimmer, golden-blue It walked on insect […]
The Music (First published on Turquoise Monster) The still sad music of humanity Pulsed in my ears, making them Bleed with incencerity I cried to the requriem Of their freedom, Dirged in drum beats Of heart The harmony of life Split me asunder And poured my entrials On the ground Taken as cat gut – […]