and finally

Trusting in the quiet

And how

Silence spoke so eloquently

Of its flow

Form a source

through to the light

that all consciousness

Carries  inside

2023

Road to Corinth

its timely Perhaps
Like with Paul

at the mirror lit dimly

at all the moments of toil

And in a hope for grace

I search for thine face

before my energy is spent and  my will fades

I see, without a doubt

For what I wait

2022

bereave

We have walked this path

Devoid of memory
Existence held  by invisible strings
Of random chance
poetry  for light
willing a faith to ensconce my  anxiety
and forget the precipice

2021

A shield for the heart

 A shield for my heart

My trepidation

Amuses you

As it opens,  as  control slowly deserts

This is me scrambling for pens

To Capture  you in words

So my senses may catch a breath

But  passions are 

Notorious in their impatience

2021

surrenderer

Rendering my terrors

I am cast adrift, head afloat

It would seem   that you, murky

Hid your depths from  me

but in my being

I knew

As  long you were

I would never drown

2021

the invisible man

 Am I that sexy or

or its what I got, a common refrain
I the man, round butts I see
And I feel my bulge, smiling
looking at my pockets always  papered
these days
the invisible man caught your eye

2021

Dreaming of

 Dreaming of
Jumping jacks
I bouncing in-doors
Tell me  Mr Walrus
Why do you glare behind your tusks
over the swimming pool

as I head for the steamed  glass door

2021

Remind me

Remind me

that these breeches don’t  fit

my  dream  has cracked the border

and reminds me in present tense

of my prison

Blaspheming my history

looking at the impossible

Relive it in visions

So that it comes to be.

2021

it did conjure

And frightening luck it did conjure
Floating, tethered by star rays
As I paddle a realm of long forbiddens
to time, down the waterfall
Flowing to the sea
of my personal impossible

2021

In the Mudra

Sitting  past  the storms

I stare once more

At  twilight's shiny floor

And  I have  no rudder

So with no gills I am under

Dark is the abyssal

Waiting for the demons as I fall

But  I have no flesh to breathe

And I am safe from their maddening teeth

2020

Sitting

Bougainvillea  silhouettes

A  long past twilight

and in a patient moonbeam

that lights up the cement  floor

I can finally hear

My heart  beat

2020

This Constant Waif

This constant waif in personal terror

Looking  for a fortune

took the cave to the left

via the whispered  path

but  for the  hum

only in the head  and with slow breaths

One word and you will leave the dark

Surrender

2020

March 2020

Our Roundabout is nigh

We sit with a sky

Of colours unknown

Tomorrows  in stark relief

Rosy days, are ashes for the cretins

What  did we sign up for

A birth contract ?

Televisions of tears ?

We are

In compassion

Forever  immortal

Steps to remember our inheritance

And proceed from there

2020

A Lagos Afternoon

roast  plantains

Smell round the bend

Red dust is an ingredient

 for mud

And me

Sweat glistened  arms

Bouncing upon a potholed road

Of screaming conductors

Voicing through the overcrowd

We hasten  always

But  to where?

2019

always enough

O old Heartbreak

Back to the crash site I visit thee

For you called out to my soul

And through the memories in a wreath

One last lesson

To access at the right time

That I was always enough

No matter how many voices cursed

I was always enough



2019

Get Thee Behind Me

I know you so, 

The darkness  in my poem So

and unwashed kitchen sinks

To torment me

Borrowed my voice like the devil

yet convince me

He wasn’t there.

But I got your label now

Your signature reeks

I got a heat seeker on your ass.

2019

Rebirth

we  of one body

 according to the summons

Reached a New Era

And in violence

 Gaia  shakes  her stagnant pools  

stirring our frequencies within

while some still asleep

and  form  at once

Two worlds on one planet

2019

To the Light

To the attachments that hide in my stomach

But we  are diving  are we not

Hurt us do we not bleed

For your fears, you fed upon my vitals

When but the light shines within you

A  piece of the creator

That’s  within us all

And for its sake that I ask

That you vacate

And go to your peace

2019

The red brick wall

Beneath the sky grey

The gently moving  shadow

over  a  red brick wall

dare we climb,  xray  or run

lest by the knee we fall

 into  that mazy dream

hidden within the hollow

2019

Hopes fountain

Heard about  cleeve

Yes I have

And the Somerset downs

heard about  but never been

like  fountains  of a hope within

Uninvited home that  one soul  remembers

Before my time here burns to embers

To have to know  where my  well  resides

Water waiting like a patient bride

2019