On The Wings of Reality

Last March I saw a crow

On the new build apartments
That forms part of the London
Urban regeneration.

He was on the roof garden as I went up
To partake of enhanced vistas
With a cup of Blue Mountain.

As we viewed from balcony edges
Our respective perspectives
Overlooking a nation

I saw us as equals
Surveying the world below

Such was my notion

But I’d misunderstood
Equality as by nature defined
When he spread his wings;
Soared.

And left me behind.

In Writing

Don’t use caps and don’t use commas,

Only an ignoramus bum uses a semi-colon

And no one uses a colon

(In fiction),

So probably best

To rest your brain,

And refrain

From overuse.

On that note we are

Soon to vote

On the world’s words and letters

And how appropriate they are

In writing.

Shake it Off

His first kiss

Leaves her breathlesss;

Young shoots of love

Will test this

Devotion;

Her body bless his.

Heart shakes a little.

Time skips away

Promises.

His eye

Instead amasses

Fresh fruit.

Lust for her passes;

Loins shake a little.

Ring-fingered vows

Now smoke-mist.

Fists give

Black eye caresses.

Aim straight and true,

Does not miss.

Brains shake a little.

Child-swollen now

She faces

Violence daily:

The basis.

Her poison

Leaves no traces;

Hands shake a little.

Eyes open

In his stillness.

The cold floor

Last embraces;

A final kiss

She places;

Tears shake a little.

Some People Like Rap

Some people like that

So we go hard core

Like a rat that's trapped

Busting in through the door

Like Shredder.

Kicks, flicks, tail, whips

Bring the cheddar

Some people like rhyme

So iambic's how we chime

And we aim to please

Cause we want that cheese

Scansion drop off the top

Like a feather

Height, weight, wind, gait

Ronaldo header.

Some people want prose

But they don't suppose…

Yes, we got that too

And we got haiku

3:17  Keep it clean

Like a sonnet

Tarantella for your Bella?

We can drop it.

Brave New Worlds

For you

I would break tongue

And silences

Make new roads

And forge new worlds

With you

I would take your hand

Place it on my heart

Promise you all those things

I could deliver

For with your hand

On my heart

Your look in my eye

Your ear on my voice

I can speak no lie.

No lie…

So tell me your three words

And I will tell you mine

Let us break the silence

Unstop time.

Let us be together

Breathe together

Unbreak tongues and silences

And forge

Brave new worlds.

Can't Read 'Em All

How many Wars and Peaces did we have?

In the time it took me to read this trifle?

How many times was I ready to play Russian Roulette, with

Or without a rifle?

Let me tell you. 

Absolutely none;

By the time I'd reached

Page twenty-one,

I was done.