Sunday 23 September 2012

Cadmium Light


I fell through the escape hatch of Manchester Terminal 1

And landed on my feet

My real life, with her issues and incessant songs of demand

Her cat-calls of curation

Did whine and howl and grope and snatch yet not one thread of me could catch

My air-bound abdication

 
Without routine

Free from my name

Obliged to play a giddy game

My timeless self did bellow

Not so much that I was here

Nor that my days were mine to steer

My brushstrokes were Chrome Yellow

 

I found myself and too found you

I pulled us into Cobalt Blue

Not that my ruse was winning

Go to work

Kill yourself

Catch your train in the morning rain

Somewhere else the weekend is just beginning

Sunday 16 September 2012

Bring Me Down; or Pull Me Up To Your Love

Bring Me Down (“Pull me up to your love”)

From a collection by Gary Knapton entitled “Semantic Dissonance; or The Echelon Rink”



Cry my news from your minaret grandstands

Everything never got worse

My brain is very clever so you’re gonna have to watch me

Bring me down to earth


Shout my name from the top of your ‘thedrals

Give my ego birth

Cover my skin in humility’s ransom

Bring me down to earth


Walk my walk

See but through my eyes

Love my body for worth

Let not a waking second pass me by

Lord, bring me down to earth


Steal my gold and make me sleep outdoors

Wash my life in dearth

Talk my words and pronounce every syllable

Bring me down to earth


What was I doing before I found you ?

Songs don’t play without verse

Now I’m tone-riddled and dancing all your melodies

Bring me down to earth


I’ve never been so happy and you’re every single part of it

All that I have is from you

I’m human, I’m an idiot

Taking things for granted

Bend my knees at your pew


Slow me down and make me see daylight

Bounce me along on your dreams

Paint my life as a vellum gold tapestry

Pull me apart at the seams


I’m swollen in your love

You are living inside me

Colouring the path of my search

Six numbers in a row

And it didn’t cost me anything

Bring me down to your church


Life is rich

We are all little miracles

Moving to hysteria’s beat

Bring me down from vanity’s pedestal

Bow me down at your feet


Zen is my colour and I’m giddy like children

All of my dreams are above

Bring me down from life’s illusion

Pull me up to your love


Tuesday 4 September 2012

The Colour of Water

When you first try water you won't like it

Yet take it just as the skies take rain and reign over us

Get to know her

The crisp depths of ice around her pallor

The cool sated sheen

The rinsed quiver

The non-fragrance of life-giving valour


Run to meet her where she glistens

And dance under her bountiful cascades

Her glorious bursts

When she pours she listens

For the sunrise of your choking thirsts


Not for one moment wonder of her provenance

Her days of thunder

Your life would be non-existent

Not just duller

You are what she tastes like

You are her colour




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