Dream Time Poetry

Thoughts on the disavowal of love.

The spirit spoke one day, you know,
of love that wouldn’t go away
but I have learnt these years gone by
how lies that one still now unseen.
And in that knowing I believe
not ere again will love appear
within the fold of all I am
when I too join the now unseen.
It’s like a woman has to be
a store of [...]

She has the eyes of one who’s seen
amazing love disappear
around the corner quick full pace
and corners can be death-trap bends
for he who travels far from grace.
But grace can stand and wait, you know,
many corners hence from now
but, oh, the trials, the sheer disgrace,
of turning, turning, turning,
like a madman on a spinning top.
It’s fun to spin [...]

I didn’t fall in love like a regal queen
distant and apart from what a woman needs
or like a cleaning lady, a washer woman, char,
working every day to make love go away.
I’m somewhere in between like on the half-hour
or midday in the middle of the month of May
but maybe I’m a star in the galaxy of [...]