Sunday, June 29, 2003


THE TRAFFIC CAME TO A SCREECHING HALT
A LAME BEGGAR RAN FOR HIS LIFE
THE INDOLENT POLICEMAN STOPPED PICKING HIS NOSE
TO PUFF FRANTICALLY AT HIS WHISTLE
AND HUMAN VOICES MINGLED TO MAKE
A CACOPHONY OUT OF HONKING HORNS

AS TWO DOGS
ONE NEEDLESSLY FOLLOWING ANOTHER
CROSSED THE BUSY ROAD
IN SEARCH OF THEIR TAILS
TO WAG FROM THE OTHER SIDE

IN MOCK AMUSEMENT
AT THE UNCIVILISED NOISE
AND FUROR OF HUMAN ENTERPRISE

Thursday, June 26, 2003

Rainbow

RAINBOW
SPLENDOROUSLY RESPLENDENT
RISING FROM THE SWIRL
OF GUSHING WATERS
ARCHING OVER THE THUNDEROUS
WATERFALL,
DISAPPEARED, HID
BEHIND ITS INVISIBLE SOURCE

FULL OF WONDER
I STRETCHED MY ARMS
AND HOLDING IT
TO GRASP ITS REASON
AND MEANING AND MEASURE
AND BLEND AND BEAUTY OF
ITS MAGNIFICENT COLOURS

FORCIBLY UNBENT IT
AND QUICKLY, LAMENTABLY
LOST ITS MAGIC

Wednesday, June 25, 2003

Behind Time

I AM
BEHIND TIME

IN EVERYTHING
I THINK I WANT
TO TRY TO WISH TO DO
AND DON'T
WONDERING IF IT MATTERS
TO TIME:
IF IT IS SEEING, HEARING,
WONDERING, JUDGING.
I LIVE
OR AM I BEING
UNKNOWN TO ME
LIVED
BY LIFE
APPARENTLY PUSHING AND
DRAGGING ME
EVENTUALLY TO LEAVE ME

UNRESOLVED,
RATHER THAN DO,
I DON'T
RATHER THAN USE TIME
I STEP OUT OF IT
AND PLAINTIVELY
LET IT OVERTAKE ME
IGNORE ME

IS TIME BAFFLED
BY MY INEPTITUDE
AND CLUMSY INVOLUNTARY MOTIONS
THROUGH IT
INTO IT, OR OUT OF IT

WHAT IS TIME ANYWAY
AND FOR THAT MATTER, I?