Monday 29 August 2022

Natural Pretence



Amazing this intelligence thing
Dancing movements in the mind
Passing parcels at the speed of light
Mind's-eye visions when refined

Deep quests for information trails
Shadowed by our listening ears
Reported on, reported too
Or manufactured by our fears

Thoughts jumble grumble niggle nag
Needy greedy for attention
Turning up spontaneously
Submits the unexpected mention

Aptitude is careful listening in
Comprehending inferential
By gaining what we need to know
All human thoughts are artificial

 

 





Tuesday 23 August 2022

Uploaded





My stock of bits and pieces

Of which my special place exists

In a universe of quanta

Where once filed I must persist

A clump of data information

Impacting where I once

Occupied a short reality

In the tiniest of chunks

On the cusp, I must perpetually

Hold a signal back in time

Only speaking if when spoken to

On a shelf-stack hard to climb

What will I do forever there

Amid the crowds of many courses

To one day find myself again

Among the universal sources

Monday 22 August 2022

Money Put By

Photo by Stephanie Harvey on Unsplash

Saving for a rainy day
Saving for a drought
Saving for abundance
Saving hard for nought
Saving for the sake of it
Saving for the thrill
Saving for that special thing
Saving for goodwill
Saving for the emptiness
Saving for what counts
Saving for the desolation
Saving small amounts

Saturday 20 August 2022

If The Cap Fits

 

Photo by Ali Kazal on Unsplash

Time to pack away my things

Letting go of here and now

A journey taken quietly

0ne final field to plough

The iridescent evening lights

Colour shadows in my dreams

No tears to shed on fond farewells

Just idle by on quiet streams

Regrets and burdens now released

I travel easy in the night

In deep passages, I return again

Embracing calm winds out of sight

Monday 15 August 2022

Enough of Stuff

 

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Stuff is happening all the time

Living in this world that spins

Before you know it, all will change

Overall not worth two pins

 

Moving to new pastures

Straight roads becoming snakes

Rocking socks and snapping locks

Such is life and “them’s the breaks”

Tuesday 9 August 2022

Asides and Confides

 






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In dark corners where suggestions

Harbour stealthy indications

In a pot of planned malevolence

Based on mindless implications

 

They brewed a mix of venom sluice

In a vat of bitter paste

And so, reduced the Emperor

With enjoyment interlaced

 

Many rumours on the grapevine

Foretold a vintage tale

Proclaiming how the end was nigh

By vitiation of grand ale

Monday 8 August 2022

At War With Words (Buddy can you spare a rhyme)


 






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The angry poet disappointed

With the seat on which he sat

Finding glare brought on despair

He hid his eyes beneath a hat

 

He read the news and got the blues

Then tuned a radio station in

In the hope that busy airways

Might aid his quest within

 

With nothing found to write about

From conversations with his head

Too many words like flocks of birds

Seemed aimless flights instead

Friday 5 August 2022

Time Again









Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

Sitting by an hourglass

Watching grains of time

Jostling for moments

Dancing gravity in rhyme

 

Silent driving tumbling rhythm

Changing places each and all

Where high and low are meaningless

All must take their turn to fall


Like a pulse of racing tempo

Each grain will have good measure

In reverse, they settle once again

Waiting passively at leisure

 

Thursday 4 August 2022

Pebble Conjecture


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Pebble hearsay on the beach
Memories in sand
Historic milestones everyone
Far flung across the land
In secret sit these works of art
Explained when held aloft
How drifting days will reappraise
A remnant stony croft
Each one a continuance
A journey understated
Taking turns to be revealed
By a go between post-dated


"Conjecture guess, speculation, surmise, fancy, notion, belief, suspicion, presumption, assumption, theory, hypothesis, postulation, supposition;
inference, extrapolation, projection;
approximation, estimate, rough calculation, rough idea;
guesswork, guessing, surmising, imagining, theorizing - Oxford English Dictionaries"

Dean Wilson a Hull poet of renown was scouring local beaches to find unusual looking pebbles which he posted for comment on Twitter. H posted 1000 pebbles of the day an my poem as above was written to commend his efforts. Dean is a retired postman as per the final line of my poem.