Tepid Wind

1..
misogynist
snaps
armour full of chinks
threatened
by imagined shadows

2
grovelling
not my bag
slaves in chains
do that







3
a person
who needs idolising
insecure damaged
egotist

Secrets

          
                secrets
               in poetry
   trysts and dark suggestions
coded messages and love notes
               secrets

                desire
       etched in the words
            whispering
                 love
 

internal security's black list
cannot contain the ethos
of an entire ideology

it is rendered useless
without a smell of success
of knowing who or when they will strike

it just takes a single small inky cartoon
controversial  or lewd
to generate a back lash of hatred and violence
from these die hards of the religion of peace

people globally glued to the the tv channel
momentarily shocked out of their perpetual  sense of ennui
will condemn the terrorists, switch off after a few minutes
attend a mass demonstration then go about their daily lives

in the end one side will capitulate
until then
how many more deaths and terror strikes ?
how long will it take?

Je Suis Charlie

 erasure poem


if you can keep your head
if you can trust yourself
or being hated don't give way to hating

if you can bear to hear the truth
hold on when there is nothing in you
yours is the earth
and - which is more   -
you'll be a  man

An Almost Made Up Poem...Charles Bukowski

Erasure Poem

you used to write insane poems
about ANGELS AND GOD
all in  upper case

we never met
i loved you like a man
loves a woman he never touches
only writes to
keeps little photographs of

you had a crying bench
by a bridge
a friend wrote of your suicide

if i had met you
i would probably have been unfair to you
it was best like this

Strange New World

Artwork...Nick Gentry

this could be
my androgynous neighbour
i don't really know
none of us look at each other
we are brittle cool and self obsessed
we need to be like this if we are
to survive our close proximity
in our vibrant jungle metropolis


if we want to dabble in spirituality
we can always do therapy
have self affirmation platitudes
tattooed to the back of our necks
have our buttocks massaged with agave oil
by masseur de rigueur
(to improve our self esteem)
OR 
we can experience cyber romance
without touch or voice
BUT
if we want the ultimate climax
we get a platinum credit card

strange new world

The Sunday Whirl

believe in yourself
your turn to shine
ignore the bad reviews

forge
a personal revolution
dedicated resolved
to finding a new way
a new design for living

all that is needed
is food shelter
a soul mate who can sing

you win