Wednesday, 15 February 2023

A thought

A portal through the Veil.
A branch to climb the Tree.
With courage to test the limbs,
You ascend to set us free.

Consciousness swirls below, 
Unaware of its nebulous form.
The Winking Eye beckons you further
Up and Up
Through the membranes you go...

As you separate from norms of perception, 
Your fingertips expand to feel all.
The Tree is no longer a ladder.
Understanding is a mind in free fall.

Fear is but a passing recognition
Of the pain which reminds us we're caught
In this ineffable shape of divinity
Where gratitude is more than a thought.


Friday, 3 February 2023

Time Eater

Captured by the Abyss,
Eyes cannot help but stare
In-to its infinite nothing;
Watering seeds of despair.

Veiled by moving colours,
Insidiously pulling us under.
Behind the multi-hued ripples
Time Eater feasts... 
With insatiable hunger.

Hypnosis into Psychosis.
Delicious poison
In small doses.

Saturday, 28 January 2023

Swing your feet

So what are your hopes and dreams?
Those things that make you float.
What are your peeves and fears?
What really gets your goat?

When you open your morning eyes, 
And decide to swing your feet, 
Do you notice the light reach in
To pull you off your seat?

Just beyond the corner, 
You never quite seem to turn, 
Hope will spring eternal.
The star with an infinite burn.

Saturday, 21 January 2023

The Eye

Around a single point
The icy wind begins to bend.
An ever-tightening spiral
Of howling power
Swift to send
Every object
In its warring path
Somewhere further
From its cutting blast.

The divisive force
(It would appear)
Is doomed to miss
What's very near.
Right within 
Its savage flow, 
The eye looks out
To watch the show.

Saturday, 14 January 2023

Her

A playful beauty resides
In the moments allowed to be,
When thought is drowned in rapids,
As river runs to sea.

Do words enrich her presence?
Or push her into shade?
Her voice at once a siren.
A toll is to be paid.

Sacrifice the present.
Let Ego fade to dust.
Melt into her river.
Feel its fecund thrust.

When it's over, you'll return, 
Floating in a sea.
'Of my creation or hers?'
Silly Ego, 
Let it be.


Wednesday, 28 December 2022

Reverie

Whispered deeds in dark corridors.
Living ears turn cold.

A portrait moves.
A piano plays.
Wicked tales hitherto untold.

Ivory clicks as digits dance
Upon the yellowed keys, 
Which find the tones of discordant hearts;
A beat under animated bones.

Sunday, 13 November 2022

Mirror

How far could the light reach down,
If each of our mirrors shone?
How much would the darkness shrink,
If each reflection were a fiery sun?

What would be uncovered,
When the rays dig through the deep?
Where no light has yet set foot.
Where all hope is fast asleep.

Some mirrors may seem too broken;
Damaged beyond repair.
But who are we to judge?
Any light can cut the air.

We ask. We plead. We ponder. 
For we'd desperately love to know.
But wisdom says, be patient.
To keep the light,
We let it go.