Saturday, 4 January 2020

Natalie Two

You ask can we cope, if you could only help, to take back our home, why make me suffer, away from the Pen, no need for your buffers, stay out of my zone, you might mean well, but I’m better alone, don't bring in your mother, measure your shell, try to be a lover, we’ll roll with the blow, on bar stools and leather, our skin needing soap, with long gait and bend, I won’t be tethered, to you or your friends, we laugh at the rope, it dangles bereft, take all your hope, I have heaven.

Friday, 3 January 2020

Natallie

What do you care, put salt on my traces, tell me what to wear, tunes you play not easy, blue webs across my face, spun by the breeze, you say need to share, but there’s no kissing place, why put me here, in chains to the sea, so like your gaze, a dull line to serendipity, hard to know what's fair, when your voice is phased, lips that snare, down swollen streams, no one escapes, oh, so sugar-sweet, you're such a liar, to sing so great, are you aware, what you throw away?

Thursday, 2 January 2020

Peter Three

You can sometimes squeeze, from each new way, a wish to live easy, God take me soon, my face washed grey, from hospital rooms, outside is a magnolia tree, love marks my day, lilac on the breeze, it's nothing new, she comes here to please, the wind goes boom, forges my frenzy, the bed's like a creel, I can smell the sea, sees sunlit avenues, Paris, Beirut, the East, this lightning news, in a place that creaks, I listen to the rain, turn to speak, what I want to say.

Wednesday, 1 January 2020

Peter Two

I can sniff trouble, but don't get frightened, no one informs on you, before you know, it’ll soon be time, let go all you loathe, silence is the rub, a source of brine, hands that you scrub, laugh at the cold, hear the clock chime, when will the cock crow, remember love, forgive this broken life, it sings in your blood, before the river flows, check to the side, and all that you sold, pull on your gloves, take some time, shoulder what's to come, drink communal wine.

Tuesday, 31 December 2019

Peter

For each little bit of you, if anyone enquires, we won’t give a clue, life isn't a trombone, don’t sound like a choir, why should they 'phone, your small cup of ruin, brighter than fire, will get you in tune, you know you know, this poisoned desire, but we leave you alone, whoever needs the truth, asks who's for hire, we’ll tell them what’s new, if someone moans, when you perspire, we'll have their bones, down on the avenue, sing on the wire, always pay your dues, you're a straight flyer.

Sunday, 29 December 2019

Bella Four

Can’t you ask why, accept what you’ve chosen, before you deny, stare at dead cases, you’re mouth frozen, with stupid phrases, sing your favourite lines, our time done with roses, accept all you decry, beyond children’s faces, neither shrunken nor spoken, their wonderful stations, at the graveside, witness love's bonus, clouds sail the sky, what settles the debate, won’t care nor follow us, you blew the traces, a flower at your side, just some little token, more than a wish to verify, what lies broken.

Bella Three

Why live in a haze, it's not this one time, battered like cellophane, best not to moan, or warm holy wine, life is only a loan, why jump the trains, scour the line, for the perfect way, in your worn-out clothes, enjoy what’s fine, even on your bones, make a step change, scrape off the grime, find love instead of trade, when someone groans, you don't understand why, move out of that zone, betrayed by your days, let your heart unwind, in greater ways, you can ever design.