Sunday, May 10, 2026

The Night

 Nothing new, just one of my oldest poems from way back when (16/05/2007):

It was so dark that the eye couldn't tell ya

So quiet, the ears couldn't describe

But the lights were on, it was bright I tell ya,

But beyond sight, beyond sound, it was night I tell ya.


Ah, yes, night, pitch-black night

Darkness in all its glorious glory

The universe revealed itself for me

As the void it was, the void so deep.


The moon shone, but the darkness out-shone it

Sprinkled with twinkles of stars so lonely

So, humbly, it made its way across it

Unnoticed and slowly, going red in the face

Seeking solace in its own dark shades

While the wolves howled, but the silence out-mourned it.


So marched the darkness

From the eclipsed out moon

From unseen corners of the cosmos

From the infiniteness of space

From the days of the universe's birth;

And so came the night,

Playing hide-and-seek with the sun,

When it saw there was none,

It spread out and bloomed

And soon, laid claim to half of the earth.


And while the spirits of the night swam the sky in glee

Came the rains, drizzling, silent as the night, onto the grounds below

Sowing the seeds of the day tomorrow

Silently reaping the dawn that would follow

That, with the chirping of a ticklish bird, would end the reign of this jovial night

And all that while I lay peacefully half-asleep.

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Move!

Muster the whys
I need them to cling to
Feeble reasons
Will do.

Gather the hows
To have a semblance of a plan
To pretend
To have a chance.

Take what I need
Leave what is mine
Wait; grab my thoughts
Shuffle.

Then - now
Chase after change
Reroll the die
Unsatisfied.

Wandering sewers
I lay my pipe dreams
Backwards, forwards,
Sideways, nowhere.

Upwards?
Not
Yet...
I should go.

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Free

Where o' when does happiness lie
There n' then do I fly
With wings that encircle, enchain -
In vain does joy fleet by.

Free of thought
Free of land
Free of people
Free of plan
Free of pain
Free of purpose
Free of care
We despair.

Saturday, April 14, 2018

Dig Deeper

Was a
Hundred feet
Not enough
That You dig
Deeper still
Sinking into your pit?

Ev'ry
Fidget and
Gasp for air
Lets you feel
Familiar
With the fine dust beneath

As it
Covers you,
Smothers you,
Holds on like
Lovers do,
Insep'rable from you.

You're a
Goner now
Got no sound;
Buried you
Won't be found;
A loner tilled in ground.
A loner till the end.

Thursday, April 12, 2018

The Land of Nothing

This poem is from 2013. It would seem I'd forgotten to publish it.

I welcome you to this land of naught
This place where I am ruler and lord
Where day goes by like it was nothing
And night stands by, will leave for nothing.

Doing nothing - is pleasure, is pain
A necessity, an obligation in vain
A torment from which there is no recourse;
Time stops, as still as can be
And yet I cannot change it.

My heart, it knows, that it must wait
No longer does it know what for
Last it heard, it must wait
There's light at the end, not far.

So here I am, doing nothing
Waiting for what, I know not
Maybe idleness is an end in itself
For it can be a means to none.

Misfit

Shards amidst pieces
That do not fit together -
Yet I pick them up.

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Repeat

Repetition
Bears fruition
So once again
Let me repeat,
Do what I did
Yesterday
And reaccomplish
That feat.
Oh such comfort
In knowing afore
What I do
And what I speak;
Why think anew
When I can agree;
Why create -
When I can seek?
Why walk a road
So bleak.
Rather, lather,
Rinse, repeat,