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Tuesday, 27 August 2024
Thine
Taylor, Hudson, I longed to be.
His work, the weight, I sought for me.
A heavy yoke, I wore; not free,
Until I saw his rest in Thee.
The Crux and the Chrysalis
Meaning is excruciating. Reality is crucified.
The pain, "the Scroll of Life of the Lamb Slain," before the world came, is plain in existence.
Existence is suffering. Death is destiny.
Resurrection is written in blood, "in the blood of the eternal covenant".
Sunday, 18 August 2024
Solochosis
Like a gelded brumby, I fence-pace and spend long hours staring into the corner of this well-trodden mind.
I am captured and separated from my undomesticated kind.
Thursday, 8 August 2024
Soul’stice roots
This wet winter soul’stice, drenched by this incessant dripping; torrential memories of a million moments lost: the company of companions I used to hold, not dear enough; new acquaintances without the notice nor need to want us.
Saturday, 27 July 2024
Saturday, 13 July 2024
Inexplicable
I am a raft on the dark wading for land
I am adrift in this rift trying to plan
I row in my hope making a way
On a draft that parts where I hold no sway
Friday, 5 July 2024
Two Tails
Mickey Duck was dux of luck with a head of ears and size
His shorts of extroverted red and yellow boots were prized
His gloves of white were cleaned at night much like his feathered back
His Big Black Book and iconic look brought cheers from zealous eyes
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Dollatry
Eye doll a tree that seeming wise
Is good for life and pleasing eyes
I know it good inverted vile
Evil in virtue I defile
With A Little Help From Hattie
What would you think if I wrote out of rhyme?
Would you stand up and walk out on me?
Lend me your ears and I'll write you a poem
And I'll try not to verse absent-lee...
Sunday, 23 June 2024
Forgone
I dreamt of a home with a wife and a cot
I knew of no host with strife and a lot
I longed for a house with a love and a knot
I knew of no hole with a life and a clot
Saturday, 15 June 2024
Tribulation
Got to go down to turn and go up
My roller coaster no people line up
The remnant will fall about-face and refine
The test of the gold is the fire unkind
Yusuf
Something's not right, though it's more than a thing
Some things aren't right, though there are more than just some
This thing's got tight, though it's more than a sting
These things can't shiet, though there are some that just did
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Sedimentary
Envy the bodily igneous
Born of red and river rock
I'm no island black or genius
They weighty wear with hardened care
I'm no island black or genius
They weighty wear with hardened care
Saturday, 8 June 2024
Friday, 7 June 2024
Chide
I'm not the poet, I am a poem
Loan behold I'm bought and sold
It's old to me this poetry
Mystery hides what history abides
Saturday, 1 June 2024
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Alex Graham McNulty
Alex-amber Rock-stone
You stopped me with a start
I saw your name upon a bench
Without your beating heart
You-vee
Sunfalls on my balding skin
Soothing my autumn May within
Thinning idly away I be
Viz. visibly vis-Ã -vis me
Monday, 27 May 2024
Property
I feel my fingers fiercely
Folding, clenching tight
On naught besides myself
And these fists full of fright
Friday, 17 May 2024
What’s her name?
I walk beside my quiet brook
And look and see what shapes she took
Her movements shift each moment’s grace
Each nook and bend, her peace and pace
Friday, 10 May 2024
The Eel-Eagle One
It is not told that in after days
When of olde YHWH God made the heaven
And it is not written that following the beginning
And its seven
When began the rest of which all creatures sang—
Monday, 6 May 2024
Drowning Potsherds
If I pot this precious potoroo
Drenched it is with tears
Will this cursed ground release it
In the Jubilee of Years?
Thursday, 18 April 2024
One Sol
I missed my midday Summer skies
In the noon-grey of my long Julys
When days stopped short and dark dragged on
And I'd stay yet hide, though my leaves had died
Saturday, 13 April 2024
Joe-Peep
Papa Joe-peep has missed his sheep
And doesn’t know where to mind them
Make a new home and stay not alone
Awaiting their turns beside them
Friday, 12 April 2024
Wednesday, 10 April 2024
Tuesday, 9 April 2024
The Marks of Abel
An eastern barred and banned coot
Which hide in grass by day
Standing out in standing hay
Was spotted prey for sport and loot
Monday, 8 April 2024
Monday, 26 June 2023
Thursday, 22 June 2023
Awake
Amidst the dark and dead of night,
A thin red line ignites the sight.
It rises hot with hope and brings
Awakened day, and rising, sings.
Friday, 3 February 2023
Monday, 31 October 2022
Only Chloe
Oh, what’s the right gift for a Chloe?
It can’t be the same for a Joey?
It must be unique. It might need mystique.
It may even require something showy.
Thursday, 27 October 2022
Estranged
It is written
If your brother is distressed
Bout what you eat or drink
You’re not properly dressed
In the love you often think
Sudden passings
Beloved puppy beyond my reach
My beautiful companion
I laughed so where now is my speech
How did I you abandon
Sunday, 16 October 2022
Saturday, 1 October 2022
Mud
These footsteps that you left here
In my mud strewn mire
You trudged upon my year
To aid my coastline dire
Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Friday, 16 September 2022
Monday, 12 September 2022
Thursday, 3 February 2022
Jack-built
I'm not racked with guilt by the cracked tilt
My back is not wilted by the black silt
Though this is a house on a shack stilt
Monday, 31 January 2022
Friday, 28 January 2022
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