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Dharma

Her soul is pure solitude 
A home where trees meets 
The granite fists of mountain Gods 
Her eyes burn of near enlightenment 
Of the cyclic nature of humanity's truth 

She blesses the rain, the fog 
The. Mosquitos the jackdaws and the frogs 
Wishes for nothing only the warmth 
Of a early morning sun, 

She has no need to fill the void 
For void is what it's 
The true nature of things 
And her wisdom expands 
Watching, listening 
To the silence of the silent moon, 

A spirit of near perfection confined 
Within a decomposing cage 
She sing songs to the winds 
And lullabies to the clouds, 

Just accompanying time within the void


Country Church

Some pondered ways
to pep-up the pulpit and pew,
but disinterest and ennui won the day.
The clergy went away to get help
and never came back.

Eventually, thunder and sleet
cracked stone, spire, and gable;
neglect, and the cold winds of time
nibbled at arch and buttress.

Where once was a stained-glass light,
weeds and mildew weathered to a moldy rot.
Where once the hems of cassocks swept
now mice and spiders rest or nest,
and baby bats roost in the rectory.
There In a dusty belfry
owls hoot and solemnly perch.
Walls crumbling to niche and cranny.

Amid all this spacy ruin
jackdaws lay their speckled eggs,
while in the misty moonlight
homeless angels fan dance
upon feather-light, slinky legs.

On Top of Sliabh Bannion

I can see it now 
Through the dismal mist 
Pass the sorrowful heather. 
With it's impotent beige bloom 
Mossy fungal stone 
Strangled by ivy contagion. 

Up above, 
Jackdaws seeking justice 
Squabble and  shreik. 
Each one with a crown of thorns. 

I sit, 
Beguiled by a simplistic beauty 
Under a pitiful April sky. 
Forgetting all the constructions of man. 

Up here, 
The foundations of convictions 
Can start to shake. 

I could easily slip 
Into the rhythms of ancient silent prayers 
And sing softly those tragic hymns, 
To doleful face cattle 
Chewing obediently on everlasting cud.

A Civil War Battlefield

the field is given a name
battles are about where they disappear
the ones that walk away 
      don't know where the hell they are

                         after the mayhem
peace continues destroying barns

        birds peck at exploded eye sockets
take what they see to feather nests in hollow trees

insignia and belt buckles 
are hunted to extinction
                                     sold into usury

mists shuffle a daze of time
     the rattling roll calls of magpies and jackdaws
echo the click-clacking of jawbones 
          executing orders and counter orders

the officers that stumbled forward or away
                     go quietly mad or marry well
later
shell stumped foot foragers tell their slogging tales
then find newly cracked rockers
                           to slip away on

between the hour before dawn and midday
the violence died away in smoke
                    muddle and disorder
no land was lost or won nothing ended or begun
                    only this smoldering
cannon blasted field surrendering its nowhere acres

eventually milk cows and goats are purchased
to he hell into butter
dead horses are brought back
                           as glue and sacks of fertilizer
the stubborn ghosts of mules bray
             on the night before remembrance day

thus now in the kilter and unwinding of years
the unnamed are plowed in or out
framed in visitor centers
    the long hauled about laid to primal grist
the fallen slain recalled again 
                            to quicken vintage tractors
the bearded and beardless site-marked and told
         by the grave tongued rangers 
who speak for the listening gone
and the whole much pounded shebang 
                                    grid referenced
as the muzzled earth still heaves up 
                           its lead riddled bones

service roads are built over tufts of d-n-a
           spent shells and frayed lapels catalogued
filed away

then the blue and grey left to fight 
      their own way home
                while another day breaks its promise

Lifes Jackdaws

Life’s Jackdaws
I wish it were now! Yes now!? ?Seven tens and two years further along,
like that dead headed summer garden, you know the song, you a long time gone,
In your eyes I saw all the answers, to all those questions which I never knew then,
you never spilt any, I constantly watched for drips of clues uttered unhidden.
 
Oh, and how, now, that impossible conversation would level this rutted path of blunder, 
wonder rattles those memories, stirring thoughts echoing as loud, rumbling mind thunder, 
in a spiteful way, where washed up confusion reigns answerless, wishes would become,
a frail burnt paper kite in a storm of lightning shadows, no solace to share just numb.

Instead, we coral horses galloping in endless circles, ridden by yesterday’s spectre, 
So, we as empty wonder boxes, move on in the shadow of the hourglass’s collector,
we don’t see the time pass, we see the thoughts pass, on a destiny bound runaway train,
amid the cackling squabbles of life’s Jackdaws wielding their blunted knives life stained.
Form: Rhyme


Nobody Told Me

They came as dawn's fresh light fell upon the land.   
With their hard hats and high viz jackets.   
Busy men clamour and plot,   
Measure and scratch,   
Cigarette smoke floats up high.   
    
They never told me.   
    
Bulldozers and diggers,     
In splattered yellow overcoats,     
Sit patiently for ignition.   
Waiting to devour.   
    
They never told me.   
    
Angry Chainsaws roar,   
Felling arthritic trees   
That tumble silently.   
    
Only homeless jackdaws,   
Screech resistance.     
    
But why didn't they tell me?   
Maybe they don't know,     
That I was once emperor of these woods.   
The tycoon of rickety treehouses,   
Whose Kingdom stretched for acre and a half.   
    
Are they unaware of our imperialist acorn   
Wars,     
And slingshot invasions,     
That lasted to tea time,   
Or until a ice cream van     
Rolled down the road,   
    
Where's Clint Eastwood when you need him,   
He would ride in on his trusty mare   
With guns ablazeing,   
And rapidly put an end to this unfurling travesty.     
    
By this time next week my childhood memories,     
Will be erased, buried beneath tarmac and     
White lines   
Terminally extinct, so stressed out shoppers   
Can get their trollies     
To  the shops at least five minutes quicker.
Form: Elegy

Old Country Church

Some pondered ways
to pep-up the pulpit and pew,
but disinterest and ennui won the day.
The clergy went away to get help
and never came back.

Eventually, thunder and sleet
cracked stone, spire, and gable;
neglect, and the cold winds of time
nibbled at arch and buttress.

Where once was a stained-glass light,
weeds and mildew weathered to a moldy rot.
Where once the hems of cassocks swept
now mice and spiders rest or nest,
and baby bats roost in the rectory.
There In a dusty belfry
owls hoot and solemnly perch.
Walls crumbling to niche and cranny.

Amid all this spacy ruin
jackdaws lay their speckled eggs,
while in the misty moonlight
homeless angels dance
upon feather-light, slinky legs.

Premium Member The Gathering of the Jackdaws

Twice a day, the jackdaws gather in their thousands, in that same old tree 
It is as if they only gather for a good old group meet and a bit of repartee

Standing in the garden you see them flying in their groups from overhead
As in their thousands and all the late comers who have just got out of bed

The last ones in make me laugh, squawking as if to so say don't forget me
Then silence descends, just what is going on within there I just cannot see

It's as inside that tree the chief Jackdaws have a gathering of all the clans
Discussing all the local farmers, then talk about the rest of the day’s plans

Then no more than an hour you will get to see them all flying off in groups
Then it’s all over “till dusk when again they are all back in massive swoops

I really admire their kith and kinship; it's far greater than ours can ever be
But it never stops me wondering just what the ‘eck is going on in that tree

Indiana Shaw . . . ; )
Form: Couplet

A Civil War Battleground

the field is given a name
battles are about where they disappear
the ones that walk away 
      don't know where the hell they are

                         after the mayhem
peace continues destroying barns

        birds peck at exploded eye sockets

insignia and belt buckles 
are hunted to extinction
                                     
mists shuffle a daze of time
     the rattling roll calls of magpies and jackdaws
echo the click-clacking of jawbones 
          executing orders and counter orders

the officers that stumbled forward or away
                     go quietly mad or marry well
shell stumped foot foragers tell their slogging tales
then find newly cracked rockers
                           to slip away on

between the hour before dawn and midday
the violence died away in smoke
                    muddle and disorder
no land was lost or won nothing ended or begun
                    only this smoldering
cannon blasted field surrendering its nowhere acres

eventually milk cows and goats are purchased
to he hell into butter
dead horses are brought back
                           as glue and sacks of fertilizer
the stubborn ghosts of mules bray on

the unnamed are plowed in or out
framed in visitor centers
the bearded and beardless site-marked and told
         by the grave tongued rangers 
who speak for the listening gone
and the whole much pounded shebang 
                                    grid referenced
as the muzzled earth still heaves up 
                           its lead riddled bones

the blue and grey leave to fight 
      their own way home
                while another day breaks its promise

Odds

Against all odds
I live to breath-in the daylight
that filters through dark curtains.

The green plant (grown from seed)
is still sleeping.
I forgot what kind it is, it has no name
but against all odds
it flourishes in a dream-like way.

In a dormant room
a laptop is singing quietly to itself.
in a distant land
paws pitter patter over moonbeams.

Stretching out my crooked frame
I once again
see the odds are good enough
to join all those other nameless beings
who populate my life
with ink and echoes.

Dormice scurry around brown teapots.
Jackdaws caw and whistle
looking for something to steal
while we, the innominate,
are not looking.

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