Come in disguise
As I lie
Across a moonbeam
In a crystal sky
Indigo Blue
Starlight hue
Blessings from new
Galactics
Come in disguise
As I lie
Across a moonbeam
In a crystal sky
Indigo Blue
Starlight hue
Blessings from new
Galactics
We spy your rotten centre
Poison to the core
Agony to other lives
Death, the spoils of war
A tyrant in full unglory
Hidden in his bunker
A coward scuttling away
Destruction in his fury
What, you want full glory
Lucifer laughs and spits
As you are thrown into the screaming pits.
Your Birthday came yesterday
Memories deep and clear
Shadow images drifting
Whispering down the years.
Unexpected phone call
Number unknown
Stranger on the line
Hollow voice echoes
“I need help”
Tough time
Christmas/New Year time
Stops still time
Freeze frame
Sobs fly down the line
A lifeline.
Fleeting images
Slide into view
Photographic snapshots
The old woman
Struggling to bend
Posting newspapers
Through letterboxes
Houses filled to overflowing
With presents, glitter and gold
As she shuffles along
In her pink jacket and old leather shoes
Image burned into my memory
I blew a blessing
Unnoticed unseen
Prior to Christmas Eve.
Smudged stars
Silver moon
Clouds surround sun
Neptune weeps
Gaia sighs
Heart beats strong
Humans long
To thrum with the drum
Of Mother Earth
My sister Marjorie took a long walk
around the garden of my heart
Planting seeds of love
Witnessed by a pair of white doves
Fluttering above
I mused her lost words
Sounds that echo
Down the years
A silver sixpence
you are
Beautiful shining bright
Words echo from afar.
2020
Breath of life
Mother Earth,
cannot breathe
Knee on neck
Freeze framed
Life stilled
Killed.
Mysterious mist surrounds the space
Between me and the sky
Flashing fairy lights transmit halo
Image Mary when Jesus was born
Angelic crown
I need to lie down!
The beginning of a short imaginative story!
(irony, sad humour, observation}
To be read aloud.
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Moaning Spec
Lived in a chick shed
but dreamt of becoming a Queen
She bought on the ‘peg’
Learnt how to dress
manipulate those unseen
Appeared on screen
Lapped up the cream
Only achieved second best
Hmmn what should she do?
Widen the view
Research the new
Spied a wandering Prince
Dreams could come true!
Working the fame
Using his name
Spec went out of view
Phew!
Baby arrived in a rush
everything went kaboosh
Princess Spec stamped bullied and screamed
leaned on the latest revues
But didn’t materialise her dream
centre of attention
Becoming A Queen!
Prince controlled
Spec specialised, created
celebrity escape
attempted to destroy the crown
Pushed herself very low down
Sad Prince entered the shed
and sat down
his crown fallen down
Royal seat now a low stool
Shoved in the hen shed.