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WHEN RELIGION BECOMES YOUR OPIUM

WHEN RELIGION BECOMES 
YOUR OPIUM 

When religion becomes your 
opium you slip into icy pre-dawn 
to mosque then lie in fever flu 
at dusk as bilal calls again
for you to stumble towards 
beckoning forefinger guilt
chalices cringing crying

You chant morning to night
wrapped in dirty linen blights 
mantras channelled centuries 
ago resin rosary threadbare
kitabs torn, curtains undrawn
biscuits crumbled alongside 
salted slippers prayer coats 
ghostly watch blustery blinkers

Your heart remains judgement 
tight with rusty mental railway 
lines unbuckled only to fight
canaries flown from stilted 
cages wire worn walls
cracking ceilings catalysing 

You speak in unremitting 
riddles try not to scream 
at dismal doors knitted beard 
knotted knives of seamen 
gambles enticing lovers of 
yesteryear who remain
embedded in elbow joints 
as you catch rain in 
buckets of shame

You refuse to let in visions 
of New Earth as this opium 
mix targets rude roaring fire
planets in unrelenting fear 
colour remains brown black
tinges of diseased blood 
slowly trickle teary 
tattered trousers torn

This drug is an only taste
angels fly past in haste
fezzes stuck on mothy mat  
knows no soapy skyline sighs 
underpinned by judgement 
made in desert ritual fears
God knows no such forlorn
framed jibbas or jibe jihads 

Opium can open too
tunnels into tortoiseshell 
havens of heather or healing 
hearths when heart is given
a hexagon hello helix
headwaters can heady rush
or opium can merely remain
the sniffing powder in 
your box


©GhairoDanielsPoetry&
Song2016


Premium Member Sartorial Self Portrait

bomber jacket, dark glasses 
blown out hair,
faded jeans that fit me slim,
brown leather belt and shoes,
a dangling cigarette between lips,
is how I would fancy look!

Reality is something else,
and what I look is more like this…
A T shirt straight out of wash,
never seen the underside of iron,
crumpled to show how the machine spins!
trousers broad fit that struggle to stay
at the waist, with a belt that fails to grip,
the colours of these never match,
and the shoes are ones that were 
quick to reach, and the result is a
riot of disagreeable colours!
who cares!!! That is me!
When I walk, my wife walks with me
separated by a hundred feet,
with her impeccable attire that 
compliments every fraction of her,
with lipsticks to match!!
Style of clothing do not make a man
but they seem to make a woman!
Reality of life is mismatch of things,
that we learn to love and to live with!
That is why we have been married years!!
our distances in clothes is bridged by
our deep understanding and love for
each other! And when this love really
gets to work- we often discard our clothing!!

Heartbeats and the Fear of Death

Life is so short 
But you wear trousers a blazer and a tie 
You make money and drive by 
Watch the news you are sad some random people died 
You are still too important to die 
You have a dream to keep you alive 
And god to count you more breaths than time 
Because those that died didn't have your tie 

4 billion years ago the world was made 
not even a fraction ago  and man was made 
And now the world is  a man made drain  
The beauty and the pain 
Global warming and a mattress 
But still you cannot cure death

   
Through the generations alive  
Billions have cried then died 
To the future we all are dead
To your children they mourn at your grave 
A skull on a flag  a cemetery on a map 
The beauty of death made art

I know its not normal to think about death
But death is normal even in perfect health
The truism that we all gonna die 
And every birthday a countdown to the grave 
Second by minute  by inch till it's  six feet under their feet 

It is sad to watch the world go by 
Celebrating life just to forget we are dead 
In a thousand years your life wont mean much 
But thank God you got kids and the kids got kids 
Because as long man still exists  
We achieve a species dream 
To die for man to keep living 

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Form: Verse

One Stop On the Highway --- Song Lyric --- No Music -Yet-

It was one stop on the highway
along a long desert road.
Billy said, “wake up”.
I thought it was some kind of code.

I stumbled out 
into the sun's glare;
if there was an answer
I didn't see it out there.

I shucked down my trousers
and pissed in the sink
all the while thinkin'
I could sure use a  drink.

A lizard was climbing
the wall to my right
and I almost remembered
a scene from last night...

but then Billy knocked
on that cheap paneled door
and that sweet memory
wasn't there any more.

I walked back outside...
collapsed in my seat...
Joe pushed the pedal
and I fell back to sleep.
Form: Rhyme

For Nicanor Parra : Chilean Physicist-Poet : 1914-2018

~  IN THE STYLE OF NICANOR PARRA ~
                  

         I write as my heart dances or cries
whatever I like whenever I want
          ______as crinkled leaves fall from trees
undressing twigs for winter’s battering

      only to dress up again in pink 
                                                    blossom 
sap lubricating lips 

I write anything 
             I want to breathe again
  words shower from clouds
    form as homes when I’m cold and hungry
unsheath when window panes 
             suit me not ….to fly forever and away 

it is only that my veins need to run clear
            and joints not creak when oil is sparse

may my poems strip all pretence
                all contest…all division
poetry and physics 
                              embracing where existentialism floats above our heads
         so we may root flesh in ground
                and  a l l  eat bread fresh

So let my verses trigger or 
            soothe as cream we sometimes lick

soles still touch loose sand grains 
         wrinkled skin blemished by dark of turmoil
                 or knots or waiting _______

run on lines with ancestral winks through seas
          docks, spaces, ages, blotches, steps
— —+++             to jam sandwiches
   I seek no pomposity or accolades 
                             let them fly on raven’s gloss

I greet you always    in the name of the unelite the       unpoetic who trample sidewalks
 barefoot poets
    splotches in air….. sun damaged

with alphabets singing far or near
       let each poem hasten unpretense 

         hail margins of cities, farmyards
              where aged and hungry hold back the waters of tomorrow 
       sucking seconds of time in threadbare  

                                                  trousers 
    
 take it or leave it …

so may all despair swallow this poem 

                               my care sleeps now


The promise that was never kept

Morning burns the sunlight out of the scene, and I am still struggling to recover my dreams, morning spill mud on the withered grass and you’re hopping from place to place trying to shelter the displaced human race. How nice it would be if we had a home by the sea where sea water filters in air and saturate the tormenting human desires.

The promise that was never kept was the gateway to my ultimate dream, and you destroy that promise when you came on the scene. The promise was made before I was born to build a palace for me on the foreign lawn, a palace where no king or queen lives, but where truth and love have the power to forgive. The palace is supposed to be me to live in complete harmony, sustain good health and longevity and spread love and peace throughout the four corners of the earth.

You promised to build a vineyard for me that run from the bottom to the top of the rocky mountain and build cabins where visitors can stop. You promise to ship tons of grapes every year and use the proceeds to build affordable houses everywhere, but the promise was never kept, and it strangled the universe to death and left me grasping for breath.
	
You promise to meet with me every year, but you are scared to death to fly in the air; you take long journey by sea, to move to and from your destiny, but someone is still waiting at the airport for thee. You promise this and you promise that and you even promise your trousers and your frock but never deliver what you have got.

You have never built the village on the block, and the people are still wandering around without socks. Every cycle your promises mount up to the air, and it causes the people to fear, not one of them came through and the people are still walking in threadbare shoes.

Walk with me to the village square and let me show you what is going on there; you have promised to meet the people there, but you never show up and the people are in constant fuss. Promises made promises kept will map out a stable framework and keep the vision alive and the nation will survive.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Ursula Shipton Ultimate Fortune Teller

Year 1488
Daring to hide it in verses and score,
Ursula Shipton predicted her scrolls would not be understood until years after her body’s release.
Read aloud by an educated nephew, almost five decades after they were protected by a family of peace.
She may have been burned at the stake for her predictions of America’s Civil War, simply for being a she. 
Her prophesies included horseless carriages, and men’s future unfathomable plans to conquer both the sky and the sea.
Understanding that a metallic monster, would change education, and the menfolk from farms would flee.
Pictures that feel alive – computers, U-tube, I-pads, video and their predecessor – TV?
Mother predicted all this and more. Daring to hide it in verses and score,
Nostradamus had protection of patrons, medical background, sublime.
Ursula Shipton knew her predictions she had best write down in decipherable rhyme.
England’s most famous prophetess, born in Norfolk, England in 1488, she dared not share her fire. Prophesized that women would cut their hair short, and wear trousers, practically three hundred years prior.
When I think of her brilliance at hiding her mystical savvy, hiding psychic self in her moods,
Her declaration that “men will live as hogs” makes me smile, predicting processed foods?
London fire seeing before the fact, she knew of the Catholic Church’s fall, the rise of Elizabeth,
Me thinks a comet is coming that will circle the earth for six days, six nights, causing us instant death.
A homely woman, she may have been, but her ideas were sound, as they came right in.
Daring to hide it in verses and score, Prophetess Ursula Shipton, forevermore!
Form: Rhyme

That Dream

I met a young woman from the middle east
She asked me to walk her to town,
and took my arm.
She felt good, smelt nice
auburn hair, white jacket and trousers,
crisp cotton, studded with gemstones.
We walked through an indoor market.
It sold Moroccan lamps, gifts, cushions
there was a dining area in the centre, with pale blue
table cloths and dark blue candle holders, flickering.
I bought her a tiny white wooden cage with little pigs in,
all different colours. She said it reminded her of college.
The saleswoman frowned at my five pound note, since
the gift cost only 97p, but handed me the bag.
The young woman opened it,
 and found inside a black silk lizard, 
and she could feel the little pigs inside.
 So I took it back and changed it.
We walked with my arm around her 
 her jacket was short, and  my fingertips
rested on her bare waist.
I left her at the pub.
She never turned to me, just continued walking,
now dressed in black
but she left me a gift
she made me young.
I walked out with all of the other women's eyes following me
and then I awoke.
And I felt so sad.
I must drink whisky more often
© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member More On a Theme

If a dog is stopped from pooping, is he DEtured?
Has your hair all of a sudden been DEparted?
Donald Duck's pay cheque was once DEducted
To get a seat at a concert, do you ever use DEceit?
Have you ever seen a tree DEbark?
If you spit out an apple pie, do you DEssert?
Do your trousers ever get DEpressed?
Do skirts sometimes get DEpleted?
If a cop tears up your ticket, does he actually DEfine
Can locomotive engineer's mind get DErailed?
Do first nation peoples live by DEcree?
When a painter farts, do they imitate DEgas?
If you try and fail, do you DEcant?
The lowest card in a deck is a two, I DEduce
If a dog gives you a tiny bite, is that called a DEbit?
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Skywriting

By a clear mountain stream an enchantress sat skywriting,
her bracelets seemed to jangle a melody as her arms moved.
The wind stopped blowing lest the clouds corrupt her work.

The knight, dressed in black, wore a mask and intended damage.
His knife was clenched between his teeth, as he moved noiselessly closer 
- breathing shallowly for stealth.

The birds suddenly stopped chirping. “Go home boy,” the enchantress whispered.
The knight blinked and froze but the enchantress did not look around.
She pulled a half-penny from a pouch, kissed it, and lobbed it into the stream.

The knight went from certain to vague - he sheathed his knife and wiped his lips. 
“Come, drink.” the minx motioned to the stream.
As he sipped water from his cupped hands the beautiful woman
said, “Your love will bear you two sons if you’re home before dark.”
The knight wiped his hands on his trousers - nodded - and ran for his horse.
The enchantress smiled to herself as she finished her unearthly poem.

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