POETS OF THE WORLD!!! RECITE!!!  
O MY INDESCRIBABLE FRIEND
(The call)
Your glory is boundless
colourful and ceaseless
I'm gentle
so are you
we are gentle and full of meaning
and like the full moon
our glory
our latent glory
awaits the misfortune (of night)
to show its worth....
(patiently awaiting the dawning of love)
(The answer)
I was there
I have been here
standing alone
did you not notice the smile on my lips?
Its true!
I watched you falter and fall
I saw it all.
In the evening time
when the sun went down
I saw you cry
But always
in the night time
was your name called laughter.
(The testament)
Indeed
my melody changed...
with a gentle sussurus,
the shy tide entered.
Asking no questions
bringing no answers and...
...my tears
became my laughter
and my reward
was a gentle feeling.
   
 

PAINTER MAN
Painter man
painter man
run come hurry with your brush and colours
painter man
there's a story in my soul
Help me tell it to the world
My heart overflows
and I cannot gather words
I feel the feeling of all feelings

Painter man
Softly go gently on your colours
There still many more to tell.
Tell it well and tomorrow,
some may leave their shells and follow
My heart overflows
(and I ) cannot gather words
I feel the feeling of all feelings

Painter man!
Red and orange make me happy
Painter!
yellow lifts my spirit higher
Green and blue remind me
of the beauty of creation
my heart overflows
(and) I cannot gather words

I feel the feeling of all feelings
I feel the feeling of all feelings
I feel the feeling of all feelings

Painter man!
Sail on gently with your colours
- you told it well.

c.1985

 
THE MIRROR
The real me
lurks around somewhere
in craniums crevices
You see me and think its me you see
I am a phantom of .. you see....
......of me......
and I stand in front of the mirror
wondering about the anti-world..
and there you seat in your anti-world..
wondering about your anti-you
So where were you when I walked the streets
in search of gold and crawling fleas
and so you accost and puzzle me
only when before a mirror seat I
and so I seat wondering
who's real - me or anti-me!
   
  MALTHUS
We pointed at the waiting sky
across which shrieked a Viking motor
set as it were to form a hubble
far above the skies and clouds...
......His eyes were closed until he spoke
"To think all these came from here"
- tapping his foot on the tired old earth

Times are changing (and changes too!)
The earth is fighting back at us
Billions of tons of feckless waste
straining her bowels and oxygen cycles

And with aid from the impossible flu,
The earth proves Malthus again erred.


Give a prayer here a prayer there,
Point for point the earth must win
and with tears in his eyes he muttered slow:
"Come Lord come!".

 
GEM IN YOUR MIDST
Laughing all day to kill the pain
seeking the dusk to lay gently down
hoping for luck for love for peace
The gem in your midst is crying for warmth
7 years gone and still the pain of lonely striving
and soulless walking
I'm still walking walking all round town
(my soul is willing so am I)
But I am crying crying no more
(my soul is willing but my heart is dead)
The gem in your midst is crying for warmth
the spark in your midst is smouldering in dust
the dust in your midst is
swirling and tossing and
shaking the faith of the gentle ones
and the gentle ones like the spark in your midst
will smoulder too soon in the dust of your iniquities
...and with the loss of the diversity in your midst...
you'll crumble as you have in the thousand years past
Africa be gentle to your self.
17/3/94
   
   

TIME
The time by me is always right
Sake of others makes me wait
Oh darkness darkness
quickly fall
That I may unite with the one I love.

 

....................POETS 3

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