Somewhere on the road to Compostela
(The best road to be lonely on)
Something on
Strange fellow
Nothing on
Remembering home
(The best place for shellshock)
Going on
Strange fellow
Carrying-on
poems
Afterglow
There’s this and that
And things to do
These and those
Trials and tribulations
(I live)
And looking at me
I might seem lonely
But I’m not
(I think)
But out of all those stars
None shines down on me
They just cast
A distant glow
(I fear)
Post-it breakup
Think about it
Was all she said
Before she left
Makes you think,
Doesn’t it?
Poem About April
I worry a lot
About things
I tend to worry about
About writing words
And in particular
About how to make them rhyme
With a peculiar state of mind
About winter and spring
And April somewhere in between
inspired by April And June, The Sands 1995
Spacetime
He knew
That the mere thought of looking back
Would even hurt her more
So he drove off
Increasing his speed
Becoming a star
Terribly close
Incredibly far
inspired by Suzy And Jeffrey Blondie, 1980
Knowledge
All this time probing
Turning each and every stone
Kicking up cans in parabolas
Yet
What do I know?
I love you
And I like snow
Science Refuted
He folded news and reading glasses
Tidy and neat
And pretty damn sure
That they had kissed before.
In this universe that shouldn’t exist
He had felt Helena’s lips.
Tired he leaned back
Trying to grasp the math
‘Na,’ he said:
‘Believing we did once met
Is by far the safer bet.’
He closed his eyes
And wished some more
As he had done squared times before.
Lesser Years
Children of these lesser years
Growing up with enemies
and heroes made of make-believe
Nothing really to achieve
Growing cold in hate and fear
And hardly something to hold dear.
Some of the old are still around
Longing for some long lost warmth.
Hoping to be found
Willing to change
And dying to say:
Never, never, never,
Never again!
inspired by: Rockin’ In The Free World, Neil Young, 1989
