Wednesday, May 25, 2011


The madness of the colour
It sucks you right in,
The light and the darkness
The silence, the din.

The beauty of the fantastic,
It sucks you right in.
The horizon of its untruth,
Its many layered skin.

The perfection of its people,
It sucks you right in.
Their black and white souls,
The greyness on the fringe.

Their beautiful words,
They suck you right in
The poetic conversation,
Like words you can sing.

Their pain so unreal,
It sucks you right in
Because you hurt with it,
Its truth, like bitter gin.

The loves they all lose and gain and kill,
They suck you right in,
The sinning, the mocking, the humour,
The deadly lies they spin.

The lives, never lived, but temporarily played.
They suck you right in.
The sun as it rises, making an hour a day.
They always let you win.

The escapist, the philosopher,
From beneath their very skin,
The realist, the scientist,
It sucks us all right in.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

The Landscape of Two

The grey, thick and viscous
Like a knife in it wouldn't fall through
So solid that its airiness
Was lost in its dull hue
Unlike the usual sky
Unlike its semi fluid state
Instead imposing and dark
Like written on and rubbed off slate
Under that gelatinous heaven
The green stood its beautiful ground
Its freshness eternal and sombre
As it cast its airy blessings around
The gentle movements, the light bitter taste
The caressing rustles, like the dance of the earth
And the earth's grace
They stood together -
One ablaze with earthy glory
The other like the words of a weeping story.