WHAT CAN POETRY DO?

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existence, Humanity, identity, meaning, Metaphysical, philosophical, poem, poetry, The ocean, the sea, Water

WHAT CAN POETRY DO?

I asked the sea
to speak
(always thundering
nobody listening)

some theological type
told me need
to be more porous
let the
briny wisdom
flow through
me

take me back to
that salt time when the
ocean was our all, was
out complete being

I asked the sea to speak
speak quietly right
in my ear
or, alternatively, so
mountain loudly it
drowns out
the noise, this noise

what stops you
from hearing me

stops me
from hearing you

wave upon wave
freak giant to
the barest ripple

when we share this
special time, this
moment

what can poetry do?

AND THE LIGHTNING

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goddess, love, poem, poetry, Sensual, sensuous, sexual symbolism, Water, Water power astrological, woman

AND THE LIGHTNING

you are naked
practicing the goddess

you are not
there yet

though the rain pours down
flows over you
leaving you
pristine

and the lightning strikes
everywhere
but does not
touch you

soon you
will have learnt, incorporated
such power

that they will think,
naturally assume
all rain, all storm
all lightning

emanates
from you

PISCES GIRL

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Astrological, erotic, poem, poetry, sexual symbolism, Water, Water power astrological

PISCES GIRL

Pisces girl
your eyes are fathoms deep

your sun-baked skin
dancing before me

I think of how one
taps with a spoon to crack
that surface

dig into that soft, creamy
luscious
dessert des dieux

Pisces woman
is
succor
most incredible
sustenance most sacred

taste
mysterious, magical, mystical
beyond your
limited
capacity
for belief

EAST

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love, Ocean, poem, poetry, rain, sexual symbolism, Water, wordplay

EAST

want her to
stand with me in the rain
in the Indian Ocean rain

that warm rain, in the muggy
humid air
the cloud so thick

and
we looking, scanning for rainbows

perhaps there is one
over the sea on the
Eastern horizon

want to know
what she knows
of the world

want to
know
all her experiences

travelling South, North, West
in the East

IN C MAJOR

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Desire, Ocean, poem, poetry, sea, Sexual, the body

IN C MAJOR

she has not seen
the sea

in person
in the flesh

nor
has the sea
seen her either

the sea
drools, gets
flurried
with excitement

at the thought
of her
entering the
water

every
drop
of ocean
connected
to her body

AND FLOW

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erotic, innuendo, poem, poetry

AND FLOW

ebb and flow
ebb and flow

the sea spread out before us
in all its deep. dark, mystery
and my words
finding the page more
or less attuned
to its rhythm

imagining its creatures
its world unknown

and your arms
appearing from
nowhere
pulling me into
their strong current

down to
the most beautiful place
where to drown

DELICIOUS

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death, fish, Global warming, horoscope, Humanity, meaning, mythology, Nazi, philosophical, poem, poem poetry political moral, Poet, poetry, postmddern, poverty, power, Reader, satire, sea, simulation, South Africa, spiritual, Universe, Water, Water power astrological, wordplay, writing

DELICIOUS
(at Ocean Basket, 6/6/2019)

depression
recession
world heading back
to the 30s

I eat my designer
fish and chips whilst
the world goes crazy
channeling inner fascist
like some
scab on the planet

it’s my day for reading
birth charts and
you are all
Scorpio Capricorn Scorpio

so deep water sign and
high mountain goat we go
whilst the Universe
simulates whim, cons as
if capricious

so much to write about but
the pen seems hardly willing, battling
undertow, inertia
up in the clouds you
know it
is death zone but
the age pulls this trick
that there
is no spiritual narrative
may not be
a summit

one falls into space when
opening up to expectation

see: the pen
has written something

and the fish
is delicious

CLOSER

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erotic, female, love, poem, poetry, Reader, sexual symbolism, wordplay, writing

CLOSER

let me get
close for this

whisper in your ear
special truth
of this poem

above
analysis
beyond
deconstruction

let
my words
dribble
down
your neck

following their
natural
inclination

course of
gravity

getting
close
for this

closer closer

EXACTLY

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appocalyptic, morality, Nuclear, poem, poetry, Reader, satire, their monuclear

EXACTLY

I am at my
wits’ end
desperate to
absolve myself
of species guilt
find the very
best place to
dump my
shame
somewhere most
apt where it
will not go
bio-hazard,
poisonous rancid

and so when
buttons are pressed, warheads fall
drift down to point of detonation
gently parachuted

I shall point to the sky like
the fool and madman (last
fool and madman)
that I am

proclaim my innocence, repudiate
kinship with the blast

then turn upon you
as I do now here

calling you out for complicity and blame
not having the time to explain it to you exactly.

STREAMLINE

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love, poem, poetry, sea, Sexual, Sexual innuendo, sexual symbolism, Water

streamlined myself
for you
this morning

groomed my mind
that my words
be more shapely

hoping for them
to swim
beneath the waves
cut through the tide

not
just reach you
but find and
negotiate you
(perhaps)
penetrate you

both
hard as
rock
and
tissue-soft

spill out their lexicon
teach you Thesaurus