I've been to a few strange places in my day
some hotter than the hottest spot on the sun
some colder than the coldest crater on the moon
and all the while I was looking for someone
looking here looking there I was searching everywhere
now I found you you are the one my searching days are done
for my heart made up its mind to love you
when we were oceans apart and worlds away
took a boat across the water and yet
I don't regret a single day
no more cloudy skies had more than my fair share
love will prevail now I've found a haven in a heart that cares
as you'll be my shelter from a storm warning
(calm waters, safe harbour)
you'll see me through to a new day's dawning
I'll pass on the weatherman I forecast my sun shining
don't need my fortune read I foresee a silver lining
yes I've done some crazy things in my lifetime
been to hell and all the way to the back of beyond
with not even a handbasket to carry me there
and all the time I was searching for someone
I talk to the trees
and they listen to me
I whisper sweet nothings
they renew the air I breathe
I talk to the trees
tho' they don't respond
beats speaking to myself
in the back of beyond
I talk to the trees
tho' they never reply
my words go unanswered
don't ask them why
I talk to the trees
tho' they have little to say
so the men in white coats
they put me away
‘if I could I would fetch you the moon a spoon …’
opalescent like a chakra’s rainbow
your lustrous promise kindled
a path to peace and stability
to the moon and the back of beyond
shining darkness
radiance emerging from shadows
archetypal togetherness forged from above
a pearlescent moonstone
bestowed on our marriage
guided by an expanse of time and space
crowned with infinity
and transcendental esprit
infused by mind body and soul
lunar crescents shone waned
and waxed once again
for better worse richer poorer
in insanity and restoration
to love and to cherish ...
founded on divine intervention
heavenly bliss interspersed
by carnage and despair
blessed by the gift of recovery
it took what seemed like eternity
to understand that
not moon spoon nor
what wants to be written in stone
can be taken for granted
a moonstone
represents more than
stardust to become
or a fanciful pebble
carved by the Universe
love thoroughly vanquishes obstacles
and has inscribed miracles
into our wonderful lives
Pot hole, O pot hole
I saw you too late
And fell into your clutches
Before I could brake
A teeth rattling crunch
Told me the worst
You'd won the battle
My tyre had burst
And now I am stranded
In the back of beyond
With no cell coverage
And the moon long gone
The tyre was new
And now I am stuck
How bloody typical
I'm fresh out of luck
The backlog of time charts an aspiring future on the way
Scrolls back into memories lighting the path
Backstreets of remembrance embrace tantamount change
Rewind foundations towards a sweet novel journey
Back to Earth - Back to the Future - Backstage of Time
Rewriting the story - Reliving a dream - Reclaiming the Past
Background scripts mellow the nib of pen’s darkest pain
Invite smudges and scratches to assemble the trek
Backdrops entertain recesses shelter foundations of truth
Frame the here and now whence there and then
A tear for a tear and a smile for a twinkle
In the back of beyond awaits the henceforth
14th May 2019
I thought I was beyond it
grasping I tried to hold firm
as each thread passed
through my fingers
but my art held fast
pinching my arms
numbing my fingers
itching at me
awoken from nightmares
sweat rolled from temples
a hollow reed in the dark
had begun to sing
seducing me long into night
my hands bled
and spilling my blood
I made the lines ring
in the back of beyond
I found myself bloody
weeping of the black
bleeding out poems
In my dreams I go back of beyond
Far, and far away I drift in shadows
Free from all the expectations of life
With the wind my only heart song
Far, and far away I drift in shadows
Grabbing at peace with my open hand
Free from all the expectations of life
Enraptured by just being alone
Grabbing at peace with my open hand
Free from all the expectations of life
Enraptured by just being alone
In my dreams I go back of beyond
Beyond the olden ingress,
Would a saga be lain.
Of love in purest,
Though met with disdain.
Of a mortal heart,
That was set afire,
When filled its veins,
A blood cold vampire.
Faces his castle, a bland sky,
Whilst he sits despondent.
Barged she into world unknown,
For her own was discontent.
Lies the realm of love,
In the back of beyond,
And between strangers to fashion,
It seeds an abstract bond.
Betwixt eyes, on the track,
You shoot a bullet to seduce.
Rainbow fills the grey,
My pen turns to Muse.
On a blind date with life, I'm set
To see every leaf and rose dried.
On gory scapes where never crawled love,
You be my vampire, I'd be your bride.
I wonder how many wrong turns I took
before the momentum ran quietly out;
before the stranding on the high and dry
took place.
I wonder how many signs I so mistook,
to point my trajectory to wilderness and drought
that parched my soul and torched my eye
and weathered on my face.
I wonder how many lives I misdirected
when all they wanted was to understand,
when all they wanted was to hitch along
and coexist.
I wonder how much love I rejected,
with cold and illusory sleight of hand,
how many things I got so wrong
and all that I dismissed.
And I wonder how long in the back of beyond
must I walk and sit and muse and stare
into the windows of the past
and contemplate.
And I wonder if ripples upon the pond
will ever make it from here to there
or like me their travel cease to last
acquiescing unto fate.
It’s trembling sadly in the misty air,
It fears to near you and touch your arm.
I squint at it, and I see it get scared.
I remain calm and silent not to harm
The little dream between you and me.
It doesn’t know yet it’s unwanted,
It still thinks it’s beautiful and free,
The little dream I’ve just created
About going for a walk downstream,
About dancing on a forest clearing.
What a poor, little, and unreal dream,
Such nice, such bright, such trusting...
It hides its face in the back of beyond,
It freezes as if it went into a trance.
The little dream seemed true and fond
Yet, yet... it had nothing to do with us...
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