Fronted Poems

To Sergei

...To catch a wolf
become the wolf
where tracks lead distant
to trails beyond

His nose on fire
and fangs bare fronted
to follow closely
all fear withdrawn  

He marks each turning
with blood...

The Archive for Sour Sorrows

...
In the vault of sorrows, the lights are dim,
Memories dangle stiff, stark, cold and grim.
In glass-fronted vaults of remains half-dead,
Haunting to avenge losses, regrets and dread.

Bitternes...

The shirt'

...Out for the night, on the outskirts of London, we chanced
On a tavern, it was more or less random we few got our 
Drinks and listened to some songs there was a musican
And when he took a break, a ...

Time to test,

...Its time at last..The furor'e is well past.' For those who fronted
Who shamed? And claimed the high ground? and spoke of a
Deaths knells blast.' Who trotted out (so called experts?) And ranted as w...

SECRET AGENT

...Secret agent on my mission...
Objectives, derived from fission.
Some are based upon directive...
Others differ in perspective.
Their achievement brings fruition.

My job takes me many places
A...

View From The Cup

...
I drank my coffee
Then jumped in the cup
To see the cool views
From inside, looking up

I imagined rowed teeth
Flanking a tongue
Pink and juicy like
Gooey bubblegum

And fronted by lips
...

phantasmagoric twirl of monachopsis in penumbra

...the fins
of human
quake tremendously
spills grotesqueness while dumping
the ox cosmos in the middle of smoothly
mirrored
ocean Walls

where ones choice is fixed
at dawn stagnantly brimming
...

When Time Flies

...When time flies, feelings of euphoria,
spur jaw-dropping habitus within,
vision of nirvana on groundswell earth,
chirping bird amber tone on hedgerow,
cacophony that piercing aural backdrop,
rio...

America Dreaming

...It is time to get fresh America,
to be plucked wriggling out of that shining sea,
a fresh baked humanity, moon-beam buckled.
Pass no more pay-day-loans
into the purses of the pawn-shopping poor,
...

Recruits Then and Now

...We were teens just outta school
Did we really know what was the plan
Some did I suppose and weren’t  a fool
When we fronted with suitcase in hand

What is your first memory on the day
Standing ...

Growing Up

...“I would never speak to someone like that” 
But in my mind it’s definitely spat, 
“I could never be so mean, so heartless” 
As I’ve walked by those with far less. 
“I care about the broken and ne...

Long Street House

...It’s up for sale again,
the Long Street house
of our childhood.
This cream chrysalis
once housed our lives.
Fresh paint bandages 
deep cracks as old as history.
Inside its rough cast façade,
...

Anti-Poem - Snaking It To Venice

...Anti-Poem — “Snaking It To Venice”

(Poet’s Instruction: Play “The End” by the Doors loudly, while reading this anti-poem)

it’s you and me baby inside this gliding duster
this ’74 green plymout...

Eddie Mars and the Solar Winds

...EDDIE MARS AND THE SOLAR WINDS

The biggest band in Lisburn and fronted by Eddie Mars
A guy who could play anything, on his collection of guitars
On vocals, Charlie Venus, who was the joker in th...

A Diamond In the Rough

...Kobey is a Diamond, who despite his verbal trials
Got taken to a courthouse, for he baulked at dingos wiles
He lost his rag, he'd grabbed his phone; he swore he'd
Had enough, he rolloked the state...

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