The Masters

A poem from 2019

Ready, steady, go!

But we go nowhere

Empty vessels

The masters have left us

Abandoned, while they live the high life

The swelling bank balance

And the bonuses

And the bungs

We are stuck at A

While B remains a distant dream

(Image from Skitterphoto on Pixabay)

Proboscis

A poem from 2019

A father of lies

Penetrating deep within you

Sucking out the life

Feeding on fear and hate

And “snips and snails and puppy dog tails”

Removing all that is good

Devouring the “sugar and spice and all things nice”

One tiny morsel at a time

All For One

A poem from 2019

Hive mind

Faith blind

Unkind

A global elite

Giving their power to a beast

Falling humbly to their knees

Treat dissenters as diseased

Stamp the forehead with a seal

Stare straight ahead, unseeing

Chant the mantras they agreed

Artificially intelligent

Bruised reeds will be snapped

Colonies for the lepers of the mind

All hail the mighty zeitgeist!

Chant it baby chant it

Ubiquitous aural liaison

Alphabet soup keeps on winning

We threw in our gold and out came a god

We threw in our minds and out came putrid textbooks

Wolf teeth bite

Sheep bleat lies

All for one

Society con

Defeat has won

The Wall - a 2019 poem, with performance

A giant wall in front of me

Too tall to climb over

So long it would take a lifetime to circumvent it

I cannot dig my way under its foundations

I have only my bare hands

And so

I channel my inner David Copperfield

I take deep breaths

I zone out

I hit that sweet spot of concentration

I believe psychic energy will flow through me

I will walk through that wall

And materialise on the other side!

One…

Two…

Threeeeeee!!!!!

...Ouch...

Grit

A poem from 2019

A face set forward determined thrash about in the wind because he ain’t stopping for no one and least of all you you little devil who thinks he’s such a big man who pulls silly faces and la la la sings sticking fingers in front of his eyes but no that won’t stop him you can’t stop him you may as well give up but you won’t because you lack self awareness and still expect you gonna win in the end you delusional

A face set forward determined even fear rational and blood falling from the forehead tears salty flowing are overcome so much love so much cool so much passion you just can’t help wondering if it was anyone else he would be interviewed sympathetically on the news and praised by the whole world be on talk shows getting patted on the back applause wolf whistles feelin’ the love

A face set forward determined no slippin’ or slidin’ but a mouth full of grit a back whipped it’s unjust oh it’s unjust the mocking doesn’t stop even human sympathy is lacking ain’t that typical even death to the very moment of the death the taunting goes on even beyond the moment of death it continues even beyond resurrection the hate is poured out but he doesn’t stop he still doesn’t stop

The Planets 7 - Neptune, The Mystic

A poem from 2019

Sit still and relax

Listen to the god within you

Listen to the demon within you

Angel voices lead you upwards

Fairy singing draws you into the abyss

All is quiet

All is floating

A sea of lost humanity

Waters bubble up

Warm springs

Your safe place

It’s only in your imagination

Unreal

Come, says the Bride and the Spirit

Come, says Beelzebub

Beckoning

A reckoning

Forwards

Backwards

A tussle, an old law, a new law

Laziness

A humming in the ears

A trance

A dance, slow

It creeps upon you, creeping, creepy

Insects buzz inside your head

Stars light up and shine before your eyes

You feel yourself drifting away

You have some sort of choice

Choose life

Or fade away

The Planets 6 - Uranus, The Magician

A poem from 2019

Something wicked’s coming

A twisted magick

The jolly fat man with ice cold heart

Dark eyes, moustache, benign

Plays a tune with chanted words

Beats you over the head

Repeatedly, deafening you

Lightning flashes before dizzy eyes

Carnival, coming to eat you up

Chaos enclosing

Men turned into rabbits

Is all lost?

Hope is coming, silencing him

The King of a deeper magic