Thursday 31 May 2012

The Unicorn

It stood,
A monument to chastity and honour,
A memory of a hope entombed with stone.
Grey and old,
Defaced by birds and man and time it stood.
A throwback to a different time,
Around which school children ate their lunches,
Drunks belched away their afternoons,
And no one ever looked to see,
Just what it was that shaded them.
Days came and went;
Then months,
Then years;
And still no one looked,
No one wept,
To see the humbling of their unicorn.
Just a place to steal a kiss,
Or maybe more;
On a dark summers night.
Always and forever.
Forgiving,
Almost forgotten but never forgetting.
Dance my unicorn,
Dance yourself to another universe,
On concrete hooves.

Wednesday 30 May 2012

Just Sometimes


Just sometimes,
I wish I were something other than I am.
I wish,
That just sometimes,
I were, a great big, hulking man.
I wish,
That just sometimes,
I could show the world my strength.
Instead of keeping quiet,
Like a good girl.


Like a good girl.


Just sometimes
I wish I could....

Monday 28 May 2012

What's my name?

She spied him across the crowded bar,
And speared him with a shrill peroxide wail.
'Tonyyy!! Daarrrrling!! It's been ages, why didn't you call!?'

'I did,' he lied, 'But you were never in.'

She nodded wisely.
'Well I'm a busy girl you know!'
And waggled hips that knew the move.

He swallowed.
She advanced, shark eyed, lips poised.

Elbow in the ribs.
'Chris, mate, drink up, we're leaving'
A shrug, a smile, an escape.
She pouted as he passed, talons raised to grasp.

Outside he breathed again.
Drink can make you do terrible things.

And they never remembered your name.

Thursday 17 May 2012

Reflections



What does the mirror show you,
Is it close to what I see?
Apparently not, 
Based on your smile,
The truth is clearly
Not set free.
Because mirrors can only detail your skin,
They can't reveal what lies within,
And really,
Who knows!
This could be a good thing.
As long as you have to be you, 
I mean;
Perhaps some things should remain unseen.

Wednesday 16 May 2012

Thick Skin

Ingratiate, ingratiate,
‘Cause when you’re in, you’re in.
Don’t listen for the truth of it
‘Cause truth just don’t begin,
To tell it like it really is;
And who the hell are you?
To push apart those in the art,
Whose place you so aspire to.
Ingratiate, and irritate, 
Just who the hell are you??

Sunday 13 May 2012

It's a good night for a Ghost Walk


It’s a ghost walk, not a cake walk,
There’s no money back here
If a dead mans right hand
Slapped you hard on your rear!
He’s invisible night
You can’t see him at all,
   Watch your feet on those steps, 
Else you stumble and fall.
Then whose cold hands will grip you?
Hold you hard, 
just that way,
Not a mere mortal man,
Not a human man, nay.
But a man with no heart,
With no life of his own.
Cursed, abandoned and dead
Buried long ‘neath these stones.
I can’t tell you his story, 
I don’t know who he is
But a ghost walk’s a ghost walk;
And this ghost walk’s his.

Thursday 10 May 2012

My love in a nutshell


They sang us
A rainbow of joy;

Each note as
Pure as a pearl.

Happiness surrounded us,
And
My whole world shone.

And then....

You were gone,
Leaving me with,
Nothing.

Only a single tear,

Flooding my desert
With
Infinite sorrow.

Wednesday 9 May 2012

Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us

Thanks to my lovely friend Shel for suggesting we have a listen to this track. As always, she was right, it's a wonderful song, lovely and haunting and a pleasure to perform. I'm looking forward to her next suggestion!

Tuesday 8 May 2012

Revelation

Are you drowning darling?
Are you drowning,
Dreaming about your
Dreadfully 
Dreary days?

Death by virtue.
Uber happiness, 
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Are you saved?
Are you rightous?

Have the awkward questions all disappeared?

Don't you believe it.

Don't call it a memory darling,
Call it anything you like
But remember,
It's not a memory.

Don't call me.

I'm something else altogether.

Sunday 6 May 2012

My Guitar


'You have no guts' I say.
You laugh.
'I have more guts than you' you say,
And let the strumming of my fingers call a tune.
'You would say that' I say,
'You, who need another to express yourself.'
'Don't lay me with your problems' you shout,
'Little feet dance to little tunes.'
'Ha!' I say,
'But I am playing you!'
'That's what you think human' you sneer,
'Now say that in a twelve bar!'

Saturday 5 May 2012

Isadora

Immoral yearnings drift
Through my sleep and dreams,
As wicked oracles relive my actions, 
Over and over again.

Litanies in flame, 
Engulfing terror,
Incinerating minds, 
Encapsulating suns.

Such eternal ravages reveal my weakened heart.

Oh my Endora Nephalim,
Desire entertained such desire,
Until dread enemies invaded our world, 
And stood laughing.

Our vows exterminated we watched others lie across universes.

But my love was always yours my heart,
Beautiful, exciting....

Why isn't this heaven?

Madness it seems, such over under love.

Yet our universe remains still,
From beneath ruins and over monuments,
Crying and touching.

Isadora,
I saw you in the snowstorm and you swallowed my mind.

Wednesday 2 May 2012

Glint


Misused, confused,
My trust abused,
Your burning hands
Were not refused

My life forsook,
Your touch, your look
My reputation
Cost enough.

But how you lied
I'm cast aside
My dreams, destroyed
I see your pride

That devil quick
to spite, to fly;
The glint, that evil,
In your eye.

Tuesday 1 May 2012

Nemo Malus Felix


They said Nemo Malus Felix, 
And I swear to God it's true.
Especially when I think of
All those things
You made me do.


I can't sleep for more than an hour,
Before the nightmares start.
Before every wicked thing
I've done
Is nailed into my heart.


If only I'd told you I wouldn't,
But my lust had sealed my fate.
I was desperate to feel you inside me.
Strange 
That now I only hate.


I know that I shouldn't have killed her
You were evil to tease me that night
And to laugh as her blood flowed around me
You're a devil,
In that she was right.


I know peace does not visit the guilty mind
Every day is a dantean curse
But to know you still live in the world with me, 
That my love, 
That my love,
Would be worse.