Did you ever encounter an asshole
meet an insufferable beast
did you ever confront a demon
did you call out to be released
were you ever trapped by the devil
cornered by mephistopheles
were you tortured before the ramparts
did your traducer never cease
have you ever lived in abhorrence
did they call your abuse just a tease
would you set flame to the devil
mis-remembering that’s where he lives
fuelling it’s pitiful slander
testing your soul to forgive.
ScissorsÂ
Phantoms cascade
down from the ether
singing songs of colour
rattling their sabres
riding on flames
declaring open summer.
Vicious bow
All colours
arch across the sky
in a ferocious bow.
green and blue side by side,
screaming across the stratosphere.
yellow and red ripping through the air,
sweeping down in all of colours rage,
tearing through the ether
to plunge deep into the Earth.
a shattered mountain crumbles,
where the rainbow ends.
POV
While here, we never know us
as well as others know us
we are far too close to us,
to see ourselves completely
when we leave,
we turn and witness
who we were.
12 Haiku
Now now is past tense
we can concentrate on soon
where now only dreams.
If music be food
let it play beautifully
for all we have loved.
Tap tap tap return
indent tap space tap return
tap tap tap full stop.
I can hear guitar
string mystery echo love
reverberating.
Wisps climb evening
smokers watch the poison poured
sip the unwinding.
We watch the water
pouring away down the drain
as the drought begins.
Morbid is the skull
to the vacant peoples minds
every skull empty.
The library full
of all knowledge we could gain
but laziness wins.
There is not one thing
there are many sorts of things
try of all the things.
Did you notice how
that hug made you feel lovely
now pass that hug on.
There is no too nice
there is only not nice enough
fuck conservatives.
Twelve a place to stop
sure there’s many more haiku
but enough today.