Best Scrutinised Poems

ceased, but lingering
unsettled energy circling
still pondering my desire to be loved
hearts in pews calling in my direction
though I don't open my eyes to see

I felt I saw beyond the faces
with my complicated expectations 
all that is and isn't true
undone by dissection 
citing any discrepancy as...

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IF I RULED THE RED CROSS 

If I Ruled the Red Cross, 
many changes I would make
It would be required 
that our Movement is understood 
By everyone without excuses.

If I Ruled the Red Cross, 
Every activity is scrutinised 
Before they'll be organised 
By the principles that are...

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“The Waiting” 

eyes close
the new chapter
picks us up 

we find ourselves
lost in the poetic dream
stranded in a desert 

a lifetime away from home
we are in the waiting place
writing words in the sand

they are blown away 
like each cortex in the brain 
just eternal time remains

the...

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          Corpus

                     in words 
designs 
          ...

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Enters Shawnteysmo
Searching for the right answers using the wrong clues
Trying to cure cancer when clutching a carpenters tools
Handed death or mental disaster the latter I did choose
Like dog without a master Im breaking all the rules
I speak when I'm not chosen turn football games to...

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Continued from FREEZER MICE

The cat had travelled straight from hell, a hell beyond the stars
The cat that theories claim once levied genocide on Mars
She now seeks vengeance on descendants of the primal shrew
Whoever knew that humble shrew would lead to me and you

Her journey had...

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I've since looked at Kiss IV by Munch about his relationship with Tulla Larsen and may revisit poem this as I feel differently about this painting now...

Inspired by the oil painting, Eye in Eye by Edvard Munch, 1894. Viewing the painting will help make sense...

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The Deception of Free Verse: Dreams I, Translation of Etiemble’s L’imposture du vers libre by T. Wignesan 

(From René Etiemble’s only poetry collection: le Coeur et la cendre: soixante ans de poésie (the heart and the ash sixty years of poetry). Paris: Les deux animaux,...

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This free verse was written from an agnostic point of view 
so may appear biased, against organised religions
I assure you this is not my intention, and it is simply a poem 
For the record, I have told lies in the past, and still do occasionally...

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A prawn masquerading as a peanut can be quite disturbing. So many times a peel is a garment used to shroud. A tentacle hidden. Here and there. Then to reappear with an often violent burst of becoming. A burst of becoming is neither a beetle,...

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Beauty's Beast.

Well I'm looking but I don't see.
A little here a little there
I even looked under the stair.
In the wardrobes and chest of drawers.
I even scrutinised the floors
but look I did and could not find
am I stupid, am I blind.
You say you left it by...

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How high the moon in comparison
  To the depths in which I sink;
How black the nightfall garrison,
  How black the thoughts I think.
In every niche I see her,
  Every place I think I spy
Glimpses of something proximate
  In peripheral white of...

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I don't know where my absolutes lie
Where am I defined 
Has there been a point I was set in time
When I'm with friends on my own
The reception I get is different from home
Which version is the correct me
Why do I reside viewed as someone I...

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Sculpture - Shirt Front and Fork

so much    takes root -
 that's the game
   beneath the surface
           sits the truth:
all that lays atop
      scrubs up nicely...

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GLAMOUR
mores
shown off
ae moral
 imperatives
symbolic
 to its core s
  emblematic
&superficial

a  potential
 put together
 the spectaculare
scrutinised
embroidered
& paraded
insights
of the
 passive
barely
 visible
idealised
 faces
 brightened
loved caressed
 to an
inner
 perfection...

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