Long Semaphore Poems

wishing he had sung his prayers last night
from both ends to the middle
fell to the ground in adoration
tore a wake through the ink stains
but not from satisfaction
plastic Jesus hold my head
a round of applause for...

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Tech-No-Logic

Of keyboard and swipe
a screens deliberation circuit electronic
in metal skin and paper thin
push button hums the chord of plastic
tech-no-logical inventum
such marvels to grind the wheel
impartial utensils the battery static
a signal from pre-molded concrete
sends the flip...

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I saw it turn from green to red
The little light inside my head
When I looked into your eyes
And mistook your heart for your lies

Deep inside, you see, I knew
What you were saying was not true
But...

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I Remember -by Trevor McLeod

The soldiers gathered at the wreath I remember.
The coffin covered just beneath I remember.

The poppies at the corner store I remember.
The amputees the coins were for I remember.

The fighters flying through...

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On a breezy afternoon I walked at Semaphore
As the gulls were wheeling and forever squawking near the beach’s shore
And I walked up to the white stone clock there to see the time
Standing tall clearly displayed...

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The soldiers gathered at the wreath I remember.
The coffin covered just beneath I remember.

The poppies at the corner store I remember.
The amputees the coins were for I remember.

The fighters flying through the sky I remember.
The...

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I’m done with co-dependence or so I say
I’ve burnt so many effigies for others
I’m the giver in my codependency
The taker burns all my oxygen 
She used to grant just a puff to breathe
Her flame used...

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Remember speaks its semaphore
in passing eyes elicit stare
coquette the lip is waiting for
some smoldering shadow shall dare

Make threat to mountain with needles point
and clasp impetuous the hawthorn bush
for care not so the virtuous caught
as petulant...

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Dull as a pool of mud
Grey and stale in their attention 
Seeking out the diamond in the rough
Shining a benevolent get well soon
Shine a blue light, shine it big and bold
Fearless, fall upon me in...

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Today I almost hitch-hiked all the way to Arizona.
I saw a truck go by, wearing, like a banner, the Arizona Freight Lines name
and I could almost see the golden grains of sand that clung,
sun-hot and...

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In layers of the unconscious mind,
Where desire and fear are hard to find.
Through symbols and there metaphors,
We seek to find those open doors.

Through corridors of thought, we roam,
Hearts beating like a metronome.
A subconscious dream within...

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Hot summer afternoons 
and the call 
of glistening water lapped
a child's mind with a want.
Just home from work
we would pester our father
until he relinquished
and took us to the beach.

At low tide,
feet had to splash through...

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Crash down softly, where the red crush deepens
Charming, snatch your cherries from the stem
Rude health walking in the greenburst showers
Weather wonders whether she's with him.

Then fly downhill for the lost sensation
Climbing with a shudder back...

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Green grass with morning dew as walking
In the roadside after my car was robbed
By a thief that put a gun behind my neck

When I stopped in a red light semaphore
Adrenaline rushed as electricity through veins

Drearing...

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Ardent galleon cutting foamy high tide
Each sliver born to venture yet farther
Captain and lady, stout crew by their side,
Still hailed by stalled gray frigate in harbor

You’re bailing water again, foundering
Says the unsubtle, frantic semaphore
Wan efforts...

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knew him as he walked in
A Port boy by the size of his grin
That went from ear to ear
And we shook hands like old friends dear

There was sea water in his veins
And a story for...

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Lost my Voice

When I woke up this morning,
I found my voice had gone.
It wasn’t where I left it,
Something, was obviously wrong.
 
I looked under my pillow
and I looked under the sheet,
No, not on my set...

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The Southern Cross possessed the sky 
  that night winds with cold dominion 
should coast the chapel roof and cry, 
  betray the heartland to oblivion. 
Relaying scents on mountain breeze 
 ...

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Recall the midwife

To the cenotaph

War is over


For now at least


Nothing but poppy petal buttercup remain 
in tact to blow away this coming eve

Or grow from flounder's red sodden field

To flutter on a chasten solar breeze

Up...

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We spoke in semaphore of smirks,
a dialect of sideways quirks—
our mouths full of mirage and pun,
unconscious artists come undone.

She, a flower in a field of noise,
parsed our pose as preening boys—
not cruel, but tuned to...

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In 1914 at Albany the first ANZAC soldier's fleet gathered
And on the transports the soldiers were by orders tethered
She was the Light-house keeper's young daughter so patriotic
Using semaphore signals she spoke to them on youth's...

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It is most important to not hurt a cats soul
for it is the perfect balance
of nobility and ridiculousness,
be gentle with its finer feelings
they are more sensitive than yours.

Do be not laugh
if it scares itself in...

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Cockroaches backstroke lazily 
in pools of condensed milk.
Stacked newspapers pile up,
yellowing ingrained tabloids.

Her bed has a curved spine,
her couch is a witchery shaped coven,
a semaphore center for twitching tails.

At her whirling core, she is mad,
the...

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Streetlight dander. Jawbone asphalt.
Blink razors carve her iris script.
Rib stars ovulate in feral grates,
mechanical tongue juts a bloodline breath.
Keystroke ruin writes in collapse,
a waveform lodged in sternum glass.
Lipsticked rodeo—a gash in faded denim
Banana-knuckled hands torch...

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Another dawn has won over a defeated night.
The wounded and dead, as always
are hidden between time zones,
a brutality too far away, and not enough
to tremble grills in backyards or rock local beer barns.

From the East...

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