Dinosaur

from one dinosaur
to another
it's hard being stranded
on this planet

if you are out there
send smoke signal
or postcard
we can speak dinosaur
and
practise our handwriting
together

Imaginary Garden with Real Toads

RUFUS "Sundream" Official Video

you are here somewhere
are you hiding behind that cloud
i've been looking at all morning
it seems so close
i could touch it with my hand

Ogden Nash

nothing wrong
with a little regression
into the  past 

when girls
were soft rounded and cuddly
and boys knew to take your hand
kiss your finger tips
and say nothing

Bygone Days

doesn't look like a lot of fun
but better than having your throat cut
on your day off

Mozart - Symphony 39 - mvt 3 - Gardiner

butchering our french priests
will not defeat us
we..... have mozart

Vive la France !

 

Requiem aeternum dona eis
Domine et lux perpetua luceat eis

For Le Pere Jacques Hamel

i wonder if she had any idea
of the effect  these words
had on her lazy teenager
they did not create a saint
or sword wielding
military personnel
but they did create
a warrior  with
a determination
and a will that could
possibly equal the maid's

an acceptance
an understanding
that life is warfare
a battle fought
to be won against
tyranny and barbarism
with saving graces
such as
mozart moments
magic and wonder
gentility and love
to soften the  brutality
in a world gone mad

oh breathe on me
breath of God

Midweek Motif PU

Round Midnight

homeward bound
working late again
missed the train
makes a call
wonder what she's doing now
his sweet obsession

Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme, Cantata 140 - Bach

 in a world gone mad
sometimes a bach cantata
is the only thing
that will sustain you
sleepers awake
wachet auf

Sunday Whirligig 68

whirring softening hover garden peony patterns
weeds burdock dwindle stem loss hummingbird



Gregg Caudell


he loved weeding his garden
with its peonies burdock
and long stem roses
the patterns formed by shadows
in the dwindling afternoon light

it offered him an inner peace
like a small whirring humming bird
alighting on his heart
softening the jagged edge of  his loss

he knew she wouldn't be back

Tan Renga

the open window
screened with a web 
leaf shadows

Jane Reichhold

the insect weaver spins her
intricate magic design

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

White rose with red
Splashes - oh
Vanilla ice cream cherry

Jack Kerouac

mashed potatoes with
paprika a virulent
case of the measles

toenail clippings on
a dark blue quilt crescent moons
against the sky

Sundays Whirligig 68

buttocks lonely flick cook turn plum
parrakeet sits nags shelf thumb game

her sister nagged her
to enter the competition
flick the switch
have some fun
your shelf expiry date
will come soon enough

she won the game
hands down
thumbs up to
a beach holiday
from lonely planet

sun baking on the sand
her buttocks turned
the colour of cooked plums
bright as a parrakeet 's feathers
she will be standing
rather than sitting
for quite some time

Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

cold winters night
a little irish in the coffee
and a good book

Shadorma

change my name
change my attitude
change my life
i've done that
change my feelings about you
no not possible

B & P's Shadorma and Beyond
MLMM

Jesus Christ The Apple Tree

 no toffee apples this noel
 for the french innocents massacred
 on bastille day

may they rest in peace


Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

La Marseillaise, French National Anthem (Fr/En)

Bastille Day 2016

even the doves cry
will the terror ever end
Vive la France

Sound the trumpet - Michael Chance, Timothy Wilson

The Lady's Not For Burning

2.17---------5.25

an exercise
in contrivance
in cunning
in scandal
schadenfreude
or judges
just thick?

beauty and talent
lethal combo
attempted lopping
of a tall poppy
petals too bright
shake her
till she blows apart
in the wind

mediocrity rules
and never likes
to be exposed

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Three Word Wednesday

bruise addicted wasteful


i don't want to see you bruised my friend
i don't want to see you murdered my friend
by addicted to violence brutal  racist cops

i don't want another person
wasted on the streets or in a car
for the heinous crime of being black

i don't want the life of a black poet
and a good friend of mine to be snuffed out
because of a nations's refusal to ban guns

because of a nation's refusal to
compensate and atone for the crimes
of the kidnapping and enslavement of africans
all the while
still claiming to be of the christian faith

because of a nation's discrimination
against a race who never  wanted to be
there in the first place and kept there
by force

apologies
atonement
generous compensation
reparations
and
an immediate end
to persecution
should be forthcoming
for a start


STOP THE KILLINGS

Elie Wiesel (1928 - 2016)

with his pen
longhand in french
eli wiesel
seared
the world's conscience
with the horror of the holocaust

a good outcome

but where was auschwitz's logo
the mandatory tattoo?



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