Sunday, 23 February 2025

Autumn Crocus

 


When the heart is empty, the mind might focus
To find, a fiery fate, with the Autumn Crocus 
Although the thought is toxic, like an acid kiss
Nothing else will matter, if not being, is bliss

A clock stops ticking, when there's a broken cog
And reality's a phantom, when it's milling fog
For if the eyes cannot see, a course, to guide 
There's no way ahead, that's not death defied

If there's no aroma, when the flowers bloom
The only time that is left, is a time, too soon
For to feed on a harvest, that's poison laced
Is bitter, though sweet, in it's burning haste

When those, apparitions, were never there
The soul is lost, like an unanswered prayer 
And without reason, the mind, won't focus
As the body gorges, on the Autumn Crocus 


Wednesday, 5 February 2025

Poetry From The Darkside

 


Evil monsters lurk within and they lurk to reap
They're in my mind and they're mine to keep 
They'll hide from light, but when darkness grows 
They'll whisper incantations, in lines of prose

They're always there, but not well defined
But the spells they cast, are to blow my mind 
They're cloak and dagger, unreal, but stark
And so grotesque, they'll manifest the dark 

They feed off nightmares, they feed off fear
I can hear their vile verses, for they are here
Their poetry from the darkside, is meant for me
For in my direst reveries, there's a hanging tree

Tuesday, 28 January 2025

Dunkelflaute

 


Doom laden skies held, not one breath, of wind
Under the, achromatic mantle, torpidity binged
No turbine turned, there was no sunlight power
Kismet ordained, to drain, every megawatt hour
Eerie evenings, turned countrysides, into tundra
Lights burned bright, until the blackout's umbra
From the murk, came night and the cloying cold
Listlessly lingering, from the valley, to the wold
And dawn would seep, then creep, into each day
Unfolding itself into the simplicity, of bitter grey
Though time inexorably passed, beneath the veil
Enveloped, by a nothingness, the grid would fail