Lady Liberty

A poem from 2019

Lady Liberty

Why you look so sad?

There's more liberty than ever

More liberty brings more demands

More liberty brings more anger

Lady Liberty

Why you look so glum?

Take a trip to foreign shores

Less liberty brings crushed spirits

Less liberty breaks humanity

The Nest Is Empty

A poem from 2019

An enemy has done this

Probably a cat

Fancy that!

Babies torn apart in their shells

The scattered detritus of life

Gobbled up

Feathers everywhere, ruffled

She stands by in tears with a placard

Shout at her

Fat feline growing richer

Licking lips, grinning

The nest is empty

Apex Predator

A poem from 2019

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Top of the food chain

King of the hill

Ruler of demons

Hungry, hungry hippo

Slithering and roaring

Metaphor upon metafive

Beastly angry

So little time

Prince of dark lightness

Unthanked liar

Devourer of innocence

Puncturer of dreams

Master of unexistence

Laugher to scorn

Desert monster

Black heartless dawn

He kids himself the world is his

His head lies crushed under the foot of a crucified God

Over The Moon

A poem from 2019

I’m over the moon!

Well, I’m above the clouds, anyway

I can see for miles… miles and miles of clouds!

I can see 93 million miles!

I crush doubts beneath my feet

I’m soaring, lack of oxygen

And it’s pretty chilly

But I ain’t gonna get rained on no more!

In Flatworld

A poem from 2019

Side by side

Different but somehow similar

Disparate lives thrown together

Boxed in, living stones

In Flatworld we fail to appreciate

The fullness of each other

Dimensions will be added

What is missing will be made known

Star

A poem from 2019

All the stars light up at night

But not you, Sun

You are the exceptional Star

At night you hide

At night, we hide

And night and day there is beauty

And night and day there is evil

Contrasts, contrasts

In the day, give us hope

In the day, nowhere to hide

Diamond

A poem from 2019

I’m just an insignificant little thing

A tiny teeny weeny speck in time

A nanosecond, a breath, a heartbeat

And yet I’m loved and cared for

Doted over by a loving Father

Hidden away yet a light to all

A shiny diamond in a clay jar

My time will come, when I’ll shine forever

Close Encounter

A poem from 2019

Of all the moments

In all the hours

Of all the days

You had to walk into this one!

Exploding my head with questions

Superstitious meanings

Things that make you go paranoid

Things that fill your mind with wonder

My aching neurons

Chemicals agonising over purpose

A mere strange coincidence

A law of unattraction

This moment in time ain’t big enough for the both of us

Leave me be and let me just go back into my cave

Almost

A poem from 2019

So near, yet not quite

An almost-perfect reflection of your glory

In eternity, a different story

Stand strong, sons of light

Despite your troubles rise up tall

Earth has glimpses of heaven, after all

Photoshop Live!

A poem from 2019

All things bright and colour-enhanced

You never quite know these days if what you see is real

Crisp and in focus

I want to penetrate those deep, soft layers

And find out what is in your heart

You do so stand out

It’s no wonder you make many wild with desire

I can’t help wondering

At the end of the day when you take off the slap

What is the real you like?

Man in the Middle

A poem from 2019

A straight line

From beginning to end

A tree of knowledge

So begins the bend

Light me no light

Dark me no dark

Command me no command

In the middle comes a new man

He is the line drawn

In him is light and life

Before and after

An enemy stirs up wind

Swirls of confusion

Here stands the man

All around is chaos

In him is life still