Dream Time Poetry

In a moment of sheer and extraordinary bliss
I like to think the world doesn’t exist
but the world is a constant; it never is not
and bliss fades into obscurity.
Hunched and bunched like the defeated
it haunts on all fours the chambers of mind
and gains sustenance from imaginative feasts
placed on a platter of memories.
But the platter once gold [...]

So what is this courage that mostly lies fallow
to suddenly rise and open the door
when I heard not a knock, a tap nor a scrape
on the solidness of normality?
It let the wind in and the curtains drew back
and the force of a choice whistled in and then out
and I, the bedazzled, knew change was afoot
with [...]

Under construction and junk everywhere
this incomplete business no happiness pill
but no one can breathe let alone swallow
a seemingly pointless attempt at renew.
It’s okay and good to move the view
from here to another outlook
but there is no magic in junk everywhere
to simply implode at the touch of a thought.
Under construction and junk everywhere;
‘tis just the first [...]

The “pretty weird” sits like a bloated frog
on a rock in the centre of town
surveying the scene as if it’s a king
and ruler of lesser mortals.
It croaks from a platform above the norm
donned as it is in regal attire
and delivers its message forcefully
to those not yet in the know.
I listen like one determined to be
educated [...]

Above where the stars twinkle and shine
lies the land of the now unseen
allowed to be free and loving
according to the dictates
passed through the ages to me.
It’s a land of calm waters and torrents
that find their own place to be
and a land divided by thought and intent
that ensures no pollination
between the flowers and weeds
in the [...]

Like a golden orb of happiness
the setting sun doth shine
but the sun is moving all the time
here to there and then nowhere
and this movement like a lover
determined not to care.

The not to care an evil “thing”
that grabs me by the throat
and squeezes, squeezes, squeezes,
until I backtrack and retreat
into my withdrawal.
And withdrawal is a shady spot;
I [...]

Formerly and prior to
the eventful
clouds of forgetfulness
o’er laid the land.
Oh, happy, happy, happy days
when unto men and women came
nimbus, stratus, cumulus,
as rulers of our kingdom
and dictators of our truth.
But time in its own time
and in the manner of a despot
chases all the clouds away
and leaves the happy naked
and shivering.
Then suddenly from out the blue
the clarity [...]

‘tis not a spider web but the weave of one bemused
that twists and turns, overlaps, and tucks the corners in
to ensure a neat conformity and unruffled approach
to the nudge and prod of love
that demands acknowledgement.
No wind or rain dislodges same or hail dent the façade
for the weave of mind by one bemused
too solid and compacted
to [...]

Not a sunset but a fire
with the devil’s eyes
searing through the landscape
of inherent nature
and the turn from this to that
a complete and utter disregard
for the beautiful.
And we were beautiful
before the heat of fear
and before the breathing in
of smoke ridden atmospheres
but now to ash the glorious
and once glamorous.
And ash unharnessed moves unbound
in the wind of circumstance
like [...]

Allowance asks a heavy price
from disapproval
for the bank has been depleted
o’er the years of knowing best
and the earn of points to let it be
a most difficult endeavour
in this economic climate.
But disapproval works its way
through a forest of insight
and rests beneath an aged tree
to re-asses the feel
till finally the move begins
towards another state.
And that state is [...]