more early poems

GLITTERING LIKE STARS

I see the stars shining in the sky like so many diamonds cast upon black velvet;

they twinkle like blinking eyes catching the light on a warm spring evening.

Aren’t they a sight to behold? So close you can touch them but a hundred lifetimes away.

I sometimes wonder, are we alone or is there a God up there amongst the aliens?

Now the dawn appears, the sun chasing away the stars, bright golden colours cascading across the heavens.

Day has arrived and stars have no place now the sun banishes them to their darkness.

FACTORY LIFE

Here I am working in a factory, a humdrum place full of so many dreary people who chip away day after day to earn their keep till they’re dead.

You’re nothing but a number in the sanitised world of Park Cakes, putting cherries on cakes doing the same thing day after day doing your fuckin’ nut in.

But I ain’t complainin’ as I’m a lazy bones

paid all this money for doing sweet fuck all!

DESPAIR

The day started off just like summer with blue sky horizon to horizon and a steady sun rising – it’s almost a joy to be at work as days like this are so rare.

But it wasn’t to be, as the rain clouds come to dirty the sky with their grey ominous presence –

they fill me with despair and the day has gone to the dogs.

As the temperature drops I know it will rain, a portent of the day to come as it rapidly goes downhill in the hell that is Park cakes.

I wish the hours away and hope the day will end, quickly and without pain or anger.

AWAY

I see the long summer shadows scrawl across the ground just like you out of my life.

Can I ever forgive myself for hurting you, the one who was dearest to me?

Why did my actions deceive me in my darkest hour? I stared hell in the face and I paid the price – the price was you not now being my wife. Maybe in time the pain will go and your anger will fade but our marriage was wrecked by our arguing and my stupid actions.

CATACLYSM WORLD

Mother Nature screams in utter rage, a voice as loud as thunder and death and one Man can’t hear himself; yet he knows something is wrong – this is because he has ruined and taken and not given a damn, raping the world, His world and not caring one bit.

So She is concerned and now She acts in the only way that will get results – 

devastatingly so.

A new start is needed and the now will begin to end, soon.

A slight tug on the path of an asteroid from the path of a gas giant brings it onto the path of our world.

Mother nature is acting though man is blind to this – it will be months before His telescopes pick it up.

Upon impact five billion people will perish

in a blast of flame and debris and death and pain;

few survivors pray for their God but he doesn’t listen.

Mother Nature has taken Her revenge and now Man is gone,

only ashes remain of Him and His civilization.

In a million years a new world will have risen out of the ashes, free of Man.

After destruction comes the peace.

ANGELICA STRIKES

She smiles so seductively and cunningly, waiting to strike.

If you dare upset her you do so at your peril as she will use her

power against you without warning.

She sees everything that we all do and all we can hope to achieve.

Even your deepest thoughts and emotions are hers at one sudden glance.

If you are lucky she will take your soul while you sleep.

If you are caught awake you will end up a zombie staring at the sky

with empty, lost eyes.

TRAGIC LOSS

Heat haze shimmers over the sea which is coloured steel blue,

the beech is long and sloping with smooth sand leading to the sea.

Happily the two young children run and play in the warm sun,

everything seems so idyllic as they enjoy themselves.

Into the sea they go, running and splashing amongst the waves

which sparkle in the sun.

Suddenly the young girl is gone.

Her younger brother panics, too, before he goes beneath the waves.

Such a long way away both parents look to the sea so

calm and beautiful. Not seeing their children they both panic, knowing

already what has tragically happened.