Category: Poetry

Drowning, that’s what to call it Because, like the engulfing waves Miles out, sky surrounding  You have no control when it rushes And at shore, with the tiny rolls Flushing scum and garbage To security that crumbles at a tap You’ve also lost sway over that You float without thought Let it take you without [...]

I was making to catch up Had all my stories ready Was gonna pace myself Let them spill out steady Some funny things Some gossip Some banal, some messy A few bits that made me smile And others I let stress me Just as I finished training my tongue I heard the gravel turn The [...]

I fish for a compliment Instead I get honesty How many times will you misread me Honestly We do life differently I don’t think like you You don’t think like me I think you don’t like me You don’t like me Don’t matter what’s most likely You come home warm I welcome icy When I’m [...]

There’s an element of the excitement I miss Not knowing when the buss’ll come Or who’ll walk by the bushes as I squat to piss When I’ll fall back through the front door Or sleep off all this Picking grit from my fingernails As I set sail on cheap spirits To find my way to [...]

When I shut my eyes I see darkness But when I squeeze them I see glitter Like first taste of your lips, grenadine sips Then tongue started to spit bitter Do you rage the war  Finish on even score And come out fitter? Or do you plead for peace? Give what it is you seek [...]

You’ll feel it in your soul God blesses In the earth your skin caresses In the perfect lines life messes And those eyes where truth confesses You’ll hold it in your hands, undress it Use that pretty head to send the message You’ll be what saves the wretched You’ll still what rumbles hectic Give back [...]

You’re no longer eyeballing the world with wonder You’re grabbing it by the pinkened neck Lands you on your arse, sometimes, don’t it? But you’re already on the look out for what’s next There will be tears, oh of course Can’t expect anything to be cushioned But that’s another lesson you’ll learn As I kiss [...]

If you’re looking for that than fair enough But I’m not made of it, I’m made of tougher stuff Fair enough, if you’re searching for doormat But I ain’t made of that Silence has a brilliant appeal right now Because everything my tongue expunges Gets taken the wrong route If I was wanting to dish [...]

I’m exhilarated by the slow tide, the acoustic strum The sofa sit and sink and numb bum Blood rushes at the brushes of ink into letter And fucking hell, a deep conversation Nothing’s better Let’s discuss the abstract Let’s philosophise how the trees breathe How when no one’s died We still feel grief How when [...]

Want to document life So when it winds down you’re reminded Of the time’s the sunshine blinded Of that moment your union collided When you laughed off what they derided When you let that spark illuminate Instead of the usual fate where you hide it You take photos, you record And when it’s captured, you [...]