Short Hinterland Poems

Unbearable heat
    hinterland  the midday sun,
    seems war forced training  ......

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the sun cut it's way
right across the empty sky
some huge, cosmic love...

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Girl born hinterland

                          Distraught father relatives

                          Fed a potion turns blue...

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Winged shadow over yellow moon
cold stars glow against deepening blue
Icy breath hovers like drifting steam
Silent talons end winters dream...

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We don't just wish
         the drought of the wilderness...
         Always always....
       We also wish snow
        snow... light
        even briefly......

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meandering
along the hinterland
relentlessly I search 
for innocent love
in the remoteness
of unspoilt territory…
a hopeless romantic
making inroads into
inaccessibility

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In-flight
In pheromone
Honeysuckle perfume
Insect antennae knot freshly
bouquet.

In breeze
I feel your breath
rustle shiny reeds
of my stints' hapless hinterland
you learn.

A vest
of velveteen
gleaming wings that trembled
Turn to a whirring glint beneath
full moon....

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doing nothing as awareness self-aware
becoming the vastness by melding therein
navigating the hinterland without a compass
losing the thread of logic by joining not the dots
relying upon intuition to guide how we glide
memory imagery too released in the void
all that then is is effervescence of bliss

which we become

02-March-2023...

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The earths end, sky, sea;
pumice stone, windward lea
life grasped, grey alpine scree
Christian hinterland barren be.

Pillars, lentils, altar stones;
ground from Lug’s ancient bones.
Life minute, crevice formed foam
Erin’s core, St. Patrick’s home.

Where sweetness blooms, oh so rare;
petals leach such perfumed air
From seeming nothing fairest fair,
Ah, the Burren’s take me…there....

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Fascinated only by pathological manifestations
Of the subconscious mind
A peculiar mark of unfounded substance 
A glaring light upon the hinterland
Perceived as negation 
In which perception takes place
The implications of shallow existence
A recourse of ragged indecencies 
That intricates the fallacy of life 
With so much refuse and slag
In its labyrinth of cohesion
Beneath it all lies constant turmoil
That stands against all vicissitudes...

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Zoo Animals 

 Jubilant Tripoli 
Guns in every unsure hand 
They call it freedom. 
While zoo animals go unfed
 A Kaddafi son cared for them.  
It doesn’t matter now
Do not prioritize beasts 
They are dumb beings
And have nothing to offer
In our blind struggle for freedom 
And global capitalism. 
So set the camels free to find 
Their own oasis; let the lion 
Roam the vast hinterland 
 And the eagle, soar high above
Human’s murderous pursuit....

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Naked pure newborn Eden, unashamed
                Soles step intrepid on spongy moss 
                Quadrant of tropical dapple claimed 
                Fruits in Winterless heart's emboss 


    Limbs mingle, indulged by marquee manuevres 
           Ponder labyrinth piths without hindrance
    Sultry poetry compiled among canopy soothing 
            Canoe traverses untold as fingerprints




                22nd April

               To Kingsley...

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WHERE ELSE WILL WE GO

When the influx of love drizzles
But vapourize in blazing sun
Fleeing from hinterland
An errant boy brings irrversible
Crystalline flesh of life
Latecomers by plight
Where shall we hide the flame,
Kept in heart, our children
Peep out breaking the shell
Haphazard step to culpable air
Freeze, no more foolhardy steps
Rush to preserve the flame 
Before it get strangled in cool shores
Laced with foamy salt of life.

What else shall we do ?
Where else will we go ?...

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