Gangster and spy

A collaboration with Mike Ennenbach

hardly your everyday couple
the gangster and the spy
violent outlook hides
the teddy bear innocence
sweet aura concedes
a sinister cold heart

the rain fell dirty water from dirty clouds
landed with disinterest on his bald head
as he watched her slide into
the oversized chair with sinuous grace

the retold story of
beauty and the beast
in reverse
the modern Vito and Olga
sipping coffee latte
in the middle of a land
once flowing with milk and honey
cowboys, cattle and cotton farms

Name it and shame it

Fear, you little creep!
You are a liar
manifests in mountains
without walking tracks.
In fact,
you are pinned
underneath my thumb.
I call out your name.
You break
and run miles
with delusion
between your wobbly legs.
Fear, you little shit!

Pleasure

the scream
doesn’t justify
the pleasure
you give me
the scream
ends in
hoarse exhaustion
the pleasure
rolls towards
the shore
wave
after
wave

365 day blogging

the day we stop dreaming
is the day we lose ourselves
chasing our dreams
opens door for
what life has to offer
in fullness

I once was on the verge of dying
only by holding onto
the string of an old dream
that I survived

when a dream was chased
it opened a treasure box
life offered to me
what I would never dream of

– peace, love, joy
in honouring
a little girl who once
dreamed of farm living
and literature writing

Post shock

the truth that
you have gone
is like
the cold sweat
after a nightmare
it pierces the numbness
to thrust
the cruel reality
upon me

abstract break broken broken glass
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Frozen

she was a sunflower
turned her back to below zero
gave her all to the sun
whenever she bloomed
she radiated life and enthusiasm

today
the relentless frost
finally defeated her
a scrunched up sunflower
hung by a noose
her spirit was crushed
with no mercy

– In loving memory of A who lost her fight with PTSD on 25 October 2019

 

(Two Sunflowers – Painting by Van Gogh 1887)

Droplets of kisses

the ocean mist
descents on my skin
like
you caress me with
droplets of kisses