CLEAR AND PURE

Tags

Colonialism, diamonds, greed, Imperialism, poem, poetry, South Africa, South African, wealth

CLEAR AND PURE

these tiny little
stones glitter
are like
diamonds except
that is
what they are

pure carbon

you can dig
a hole that
if it does not
go all the way
down to
Hell
fund an
Empire

can scar the Earth so deep
she never heals

I have family named
Kimberley since
my cousin, her father,
must have thought
her his
little diamond
his
precious little
tiny star

and if you take my ash
compress it enough
you can,
believe it or not,

make a
diamond out of me

what little light I have shown
in this life
captured for
eternity

clear and pure

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QUICKLY!

Tags

Author, Ending, genre, media, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, satire, writing

QUICKLY!

quickly, press record!

the drama in this world
seems about to go
out of control

want to up
the stakes to
the farce that
(only
bodies
left, strewn
across the stage)
cannot resist the
opportunity
of striving for
high tragedy

my little world too
which seems
set-off to one side
not a part
of everything
also in its
far less portentous
state of
terminal decline

and yet
more than
vignette

more than
tiny tableau

somehow capturing it
all in terrible miniature

there
you pressed record

the sky suddenly
grown so dark

but at
least
you have
the show

you have
the whole show

LOGOS IN THANOS

Tags

Capitalism, evolution, Humanity, Nature, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, power

LOGOS IN THANOS

same old
same old

species still
got the same
logo

no
news good
news

nothing that
you cannot
re-
work

rejig
(getting jiggly
with it)

Nature not
into wholesale new
rebranding

maybe would
really love it

it the
project fail
we all
come

tumbling
down

HORS DE COMBAT

Tags

Binary opposites, combat, mythological, poem, poetry, schism, violence. war

HORS DE COMBAT

every day
fresh forces
pushing up
through the
floorboards

from the sky
their mortal
enemies
parachuting down

unseen
these invisible armies
in eternal combat

deciding our destiny
and we fail
to
hear
a sound

AT LEAST

Tags

arrogance, balance, climate change, death, denialists, earth, Ecology, Global warming, Justice, poem, poetry, power, revenge, satire

AT LEAST

let them
sleep
on their sins
children

these
denialists

these authors of vomit
bile demagogues of
spin

make sure
they are
buried

nice
and
tight

brought to
ironic final rest
in the Earth they so
painfully
despised

Mother grown
in wisdom
overcoming her initial reluctance to
hold them
love them

even such
deep denial
of her love
forgive

but
what gives?
why should
you
even the dead, dead,dead
in this case
let
live
(here no
concept
of insult
to injury)

so when
you to
re-
dress
rebalance

you piss
you
shit

turning all
that poor poor
metaphor
decidedly literal

clear the arrogance of
those epitaphed names
away
wash
the slate
clean

restore
the absolute anonymity
they once
had
now deserve again

think what they took
and what they owe

what
souls must endure

before
balance restored

the soul above them
now fertilized
at least

runners of my,
our

your
world

IS BREXIT, IS BREXIT

Tags

BREXIT, Britain, British, poem, poetry, satire

IS BREXIT, IS BREXIT

fade to
white all
our European
history,
European memory,

gloss over every
terrible sacrifice
with lap dissolve

here we are: greatest match cut
and cinematic metaphor
in reversal

from orbiting nuclear
bomb

to tribal bone of
contention
about to drop
from
backward-
evolving hand

ANGEL

Tags

Beauty, love, poem, poetry, song, spiritual, woman

ANGEL

saw you in
Church singing
like an angel

your dress
as blue
as the sky, No
as blue
as the sea

your voice, soaring
above the clouds,

so moved
the Sun, the Moon,
the stars, the planets

they would rather
look down
at you
listen enraptured

than have
anything to do with my poetry

THANKS BUT NO THANKS EMPEROR AURELIUS

Tags

poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry

THANKS BUT
NO THANKS.
EMPEROR
AURELIUS

the left
are in
disarray

the right
imagine it’s
their golden age

sinister how
the two hands have
so split apart
the spirit of
humanity
perforated

can be torn
down the middle

but wait!: an age of
(if not true prosperity)
maximum profits awaits

which, of course,
means

internal,
external

no citizen that
could not do
with a subjugate
as dished out
to chancer barbarians

which, of course,
means

war
take off the
door
of the Temple

remove
the walls

always under
perfect order, discipline
control

the law
is the legion

we got this, Mars!

BEGINNING

Tags

erotic, Healing, love, Magic, poem, poetry, Sexual

BEGINNING

wish I had
the ultimate
care-reducing
ointment
magical lotion

which I could spend
the whole night
working into
your skin
removing every care
restoring lost
hope, reviving

every tired
muscle

your beautiful body
burning
with dark light

so
gorgeous a
theme

with
which
to begin

POET

Tags

poem, Poet, poetry, writing

POET

him be
creepy
him go
beat
about
the bush

he take time
take trouble

go
ever

so
slowly

world moved on
before poem done