Let Off Poems

LIKE CIGARETTE PAPER

...
My poor mother "La Daniela"
As they called her at the Casa de los Picos
In the capital of Segovia
Where mothers and children took refuge
In the fratricidal war in Spain
While their husbands we...

The humbling of a false saviour

...If there is a god and he does exist 
No matter what he has to say it wouldn't mean a thing 
An apology is long overdue
But now it's far too late
You abandoned black people
And for that I feel fo...

Tangled In Helium Balloons

...Birds wrapped in sung sun swallows
tangled in helium let off balloons
bursting to confetti on new year's eve
silvery sliding snakes race the rails
against roller- racing take-off gliders
Eve...

Victims

...
The dainty walk of Chinese women
beyond the Wall in olden days
was due to cruel and unusual punishment
confined and constrained by strange customary ways
victims of fashion prisoners of...

caress of an old friend

...Depression
Its darkness.
A cold embrace,
An old friend.
It welcomes me,
like a lighthouse after a tragic storm.
I feel her claws like a deceiving caress
Her words drown me in blanket of numbne...

walk the talk

...Recognising this form is dust,
an urn shaped from Mother Earth’s crust,
enlivened by the touch of God,
we feel each heartbeat as love’s thrust.

To get to the source, heart is thawed,
that thus...

Dog Park

...
Let off a lead,
freedom bounds 
as if all joy is held
within a bouncing ball
to be retrieved
and brought back to lay
at a lover's feet. Then 
sent off to do again.

Smells wafting 
from t...

A Moment of Freedom

...

The world finally
extricated itself 
from my thoughts
and became a sunlit park
being awakened by children
escaping from car seats 
to run unrestrained 
into the wide freedom
of a morning ...

Victory and Defeat

...The winner of the women’s match,*
An absolute surprise,
Delighted all the fans who know
How hard she always tries.

In forty-nine attempts, she never
Had a Grand Slam win
And posing with her t...

HIND SIGHT 20 20!

...Love disappeared and left me longing
a broken home topped off with losing it
To be wrong for trying to conclude the madness
to be able to concede but unable to retreat
Made me Frankenstein a mons...

The Daily Routine

...It all sparks off
With the mention of the park
Her white tail twirling
Relishing the renewal 
Of her communion with nature
Her contact with her ancestral past

Then off to the park in the car
...

1950 truck

...climb up high
on cold leather seat
and put the key
into the switch
set the handbrake
good and tight
step on the clutch
make sure it’s not in gear
pull out the choke
and pump the gas
switch ...

angry citizen

...Angry Citizens 

Tired of the sitting woke government, the fake
niceness and the depletion of Germanies 
heavy industry, not to forget her sycophantic
behavior towards Israel, a far-right party ...

2 Weeks of Hell

...Today's Mother's Day  Cafe closed, I scream.
Going bonkers place to place wheelchair bound.
To irked to do whatnot I let off steam ,
Saturday, same crap. I wheelchair around.
Last week Cafe close...

Ode to a dog

...Oh you lucky dog 
aren't you glad you're not a frog 
as easy as it may seem 
you just lift a leg and let off some steam 
instead of jumping on a log 
like a frog 
you just prance around the yar...

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