Friday, September 16, 2011
In the fragile distant ( to the voice of a Dytonique accordion)
Alex
Haartenberg by the fire
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
The sky is ashing now.
The fruit is faster than the wind.
The clowns
are wandering by.
The aerial dancers are drawing out the poison.
The Ivy stopped to grow.
The litany is scared.
I don't even know what a litany is.
The sacred word is fake.
The wonderer is mysterious.
I am grounding with a cape.
I am worshipping by the salty lake.
My people are badly injured.
I incure self inflicted dangers.
I sit instead of moving
I move to know how alive I can feel,
I am entranced, enthralled and heavy.
Like a rock scratched for thousands of years.
Words are like bites from broken butterflies.
Strings are sounding heavy and roars.
The beauty is flaming and due.
I want to love whether you dress in black or blue.
I want to love you
Your sinews holding in to rooting in to another mans hands.
Flesh in to the deep roots of another mans body.
I want to love you for being you.
Leave you be whether you changed sex overnight
I want to love you
I want to love you for your soul.
If you ever showed it to me
Because I've fallen and its like a haze I can't release from. Like a momentary cry of a she wolf delicately swimming in the sea.
I am person.
I am cave.
I am drunk.
Never by reality but the thrones of the gospel stones.
I am blissful and calm.
Centered and sinister.
Sold and blistered,
Bleary and wintery on a summers day.
Not appreciating what I got not
growing for this vacant lot.
Not a sinner but saint not a saint but sinner and sinful is a word
and sinful is a word
and so is saint.
And so is saint
words are like music faces like the marks of a brush.
All our experiences carried in a wash.... Our bodies streaming distance. Our naked shoulders bursting to the sun.
Our naked knees popping to the distance.
Our eyes able to reach the horizon. How soft and tender the horizon can be even with its sharp black colours
These words are helping me fuck it all
fuck it all for its not the end by any means.
Who knows what life is ain’t thats why is so great to be it.
To be it is to arrogant to say, What can I do but live if I entered this world with life..
I scrape words deep inside from my subconscious to lay them out to you like a ship
an organ
and a harmonica
brown and yellow colours.
The cool air is due.
The flavours are burnt.
I sing in lisps and goodbyes.
Whatever that means
Vauge skin
Vauge life rythmn.
broken sinews and salt..
asleep before it boils.
Why is this time forgotten, the time when
things sleep.
If I could be awake for every sleep
what would I see
If I could be alive for every moment I'm dead
would I be happy
If aspire to know nothing
what does that make me
if I aspire to learn what does that make me.
If belong to one country who am I
Do I belong to the world.
I didn't choose to create borders, I was told thats how the world works.
Why do we have borders and not for the sake of a difficult question.
Why do we?
Is it our way of categorising the world.
I ask myself
Especially when nature is chaotic.
How can we tame nature
I don't even understand a fragment of my own.
No matter how much I've tried
and given up.
And tired
and tried.
Who cares about what I say,
Who cares what it means
do I
what am I?
Why do I question myself.
What do I question
and how do I escape ?
What is it to face things?
Or to run far away?
Am I running running away ?
Or Am I stale and stern
staying
swaying......
or am I just a lick spit of sperm that decided I exist.
What is it?
Dressed in black
dressed in black
dressed in black
dressed in black
dressed in black
dressed in black
dressed in black....
and it shows.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
For Amy….
Your hair falls
in stings
not just a body
lonely
Outside the green
hear your vocal chords tremble…
woe
My generation experiences.
Though you call us fake
this reality.
with your eyes all stretched out like green peacocks in the green flame.
Tell me
how is it that you put love in a category.
Tell me how is it that you name a death by numbers and not by personality.
Tell me
What is it that you care for.
or what
even
you believe in.
Do you remember the first time you fell?
Because i do.
I will never forget.
Through the collapses it travels on the rivers
the guitar rumbles through it
up the back of jeering notes,
how they called her.
violently
and screams.
how she called herself to execute….
numb.
money.
I am not vauge.
just responsible.
that i can feel
that i can feel
that i can feel
that i can feel
that i can feel
that i can feel
that i can feel
that i can feel
that i can feel
that i can feel
that i can feel
that i can feel
that i can feel.
Soul .
Mother fucker hates.
Whether its gentle or rough
through her passion filled hips
she fuelled…in her funny way…
It will always hit.
What...are you still trying to judge books by covers and souls by body
Then why do i exist.
Tears fill embrace
this is her final resting
in place.
I am subdued, my heart rests
An angel finally sleeps
You sang for us…
You sang for us
we
are we worthy
we?
your song for us.
finger beat of the scratchy moon.
and my tears need not fade.
though they go
My reality grows but does not shatter your spokes or
falls
dancing on
I will dance on.
to the black
I will dance until my toes know not how.
to your voice.
But my heart can fight and reckon
from their is born
too many
many
colours….
settle.
judge and perceive,
the calling of a wilting rose,who was born to see the rain shatter her
though she took it
what is it to take?
like petals calls
good night dear sweet generation.My eyes are open
My heart still roars.
To those who feel love, you are not hidden
There is no judgement spoken
today's autumn sweet wind
august
caressing…
the air
with the sun.
Monday, July 18, 2011
In Response to the Paintings of artist Duncan Iago and Marc Sinclar
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
For a Boy...(and for me).I find it really hard to tell him how I feel...
A poem I wrote for dad a few months ago...
I am a box of matches,
I am old
I am tired
I am rusty
I am solid
I am stubborn.
I am woods
and feathers on trees
I am children's fingers
I am you
I am me.
I am in pain
I am not free
I am me
I cannot Fly
I feel conquered
trapped
and raped? Is too sour for me.
I feel like an escapist.
I feel like a fighter wearing blue.
Eating ice cream
Rusting veins out of my head.
I am serene.
I am uncomfortable
I do not play, I forgot too long ago how to do that.
I am unreal searching and dismissive.
I am a clown and pauper
A stream and a singer
A vision and a spy
A wish and definitely not a miracle.
I am so bitter and old.
My splinters used to heal but they forgot to.
I used to be romantic but now my belly is cynical
it farted.
I cared about the world but now the world has lost me.
Simple in the plain
A snake in the forest
A power that burns me out
A wishful dreamer
An optimist
in aligators skin.
And the veins on my writers forehead.
I see anger in your viscous destructive anger.
The kind I saw when you turned angels in to demons
Pigs in to chickens and stuck pillars in to the earth and forgot that you could have roots, forgot that you could fly and just hated.
I burn and expire
Burn and expire.
How is it with one word you can take all your wisdom away and with two bring it back to me.
It started to rain
shliuosp
sh heleeep
shemep shemep
SHEMEen
showaN sTROCKKCOK
SHROOP DSHO SIMMA
SIMZA ZIP SLIP still slow free
whispers.
I am your hypnotised piece of recycled card board grey soaked piece of fury
and fuck your anger and fuck your pride.
Fuck you.
Fuck your anger
Fuck me
And my pride.
Fuck you fuck your anger fuck me and this time I rhymed.