When consciousness is canned
Whose do we choose ..............
Southern African poetry
2009
Lucy died
Dennis cried
We all tried
Your death has made us stronger
No longer haemorrhaging
Emotion
For that tormented spirit
Trapped on the foreign side
Of that fine line
Find peace now
Gentle soul
Made brute
By your subject
Walk softly
She is here
Under toe
The flowers grow.......
Twixt root and rubbish
My love lies
Broken
I would love for you to see
How ecstasy
Lies in my head
How lust avoids the bed
For better or for worse the hearse
Comes too quickly for the dead
I would love to feel your form
Taste your aura
Sacrifice
Myself
Again
And again
Maybe this time.....
HIV+
SEXLESS BRAIN
SUCKING THE IDEA
DEPROGRAMMED
TRYING TO BE NEAR
THE NEED FOR SEED
THE FEAR OF FAMILY AND TRUST
TO SOLACE AND PROTECT THE DEED
DOING WHAT THEY THINK THEY MUST
FROM THE RAVAGES OF COMMON FEED
TO RETAIN THE LUST THAT LEADS TO AIDS
AND FADES LIKE SLAUGHTERED WEEDS. SPREADING
BRING ON THE CURE!!!
GRAVITY
Time to take attraction
Competing with the best
Wildest sense of satisfaction
Tricked to touch the rest
With energy to transfer
And send upon its way.
Meet up with it
Someday
Stray
Love.........
REMEMBER ME?
Is life merely struggle
There are too many people
Who will stop them?
Multiplying
How can I live here as a child
When everything I touch is wild.
Bewildered by its lust for life
Turned to echo love through strife.........
Is struggle life?
Black poetry
Blank verse
Terse junk
Thick trunk
Sunk metaphor
Oozing creation
Dished up as art
For nothing other
Then wishing to be
In something different
Every time the hurt
Strikes up the past
To last as long as
It endures
The cures
Make vicious
The kind
Graveyard
Heaven has its cheap seats
One really ought to care
Where they place your body
And who you will be near
If you have no money
And they chuck you in the ground
You might find dodgy people
Are living all around
But if they do not spare the cost
And bury you in style
I am sure that special kingdom
Will be closer to your smile
Please let me take my pride with me
“O Lord” I do beseech
Don’t leave me haggling like the rest
.............but simply out of reach
Perhaps the fire I should consume
To help me on my way
So all the little worms
Will leave me just the way
I want to be remembered.
Slowly etched ground
Bitten by the acid
Drenched
Chorus line before the quiet
Scattered hounds of time
Pass the word
All is well
Everything
Is natural
Some more so
Others less
Love remains
Colourless
Metal grey cold mother
Children whisper from the distance
Blurt across the stream
Scream into obscenity
Rusty bell
Tinkle tell
Tell her .......
Window on the world
Window in the world
Lappy
Nappy
Make my life
Better without a wife
At this outrageous age
Cage and couple
Everything is supple
With your caress of purpose
Bracket
Gentle racket in the brain
Feeding me
Feeling my
Pain
Gain
Subdued domain
Mocking reign
and
Grateful closure
Whilst the living remain