Friday 20 April 2012

cloud of unknowing

Surrounded by towers
Locked out
Block on block

Children wait
On the far islands
To receive their futures

They hunger and wait
As the city stays wide-eyed
Full of itself

Men talk and talk
Not knowing the knife edge
Nearly touching their rosy cheeks

And so close to the night
We are all folded in
Sin on sin

Never knowing
The children of the far isles
They were our own


[They
Were waiting
For us]

Thursday 19 April 2012

all the human circuses are pouring into town

my friend
said

all the human circuses
are pouring into town …

the bendy one
who is everyone’s best friend

the lion tamer
who creates the illusion of safety

the acrobat
who keeps us enthralled with spectacle

the ringmaster
who commands the space

the freak
who makes us feel normal


and let us not forget
the clown

as all the human circuses
are pouring into town …

it's the shiny-nosed
wide-wild eyed

ill-fitting clothed
flat -footed 

falling off  their stool
crazy dude

who convinces us
that we are not fools

[ha!]

Wednesday 11 April 2012

Trilogy


Faith
The contents of invisibility
Hope
The ancient anchor
Love
The waxing moon