Short Romanticised Poems

SPECULATION
preferences
in
lumiscent nuances
with
tender clarity with
of a visionary
sense of the surreal

immobile
contrasting
 dimensional
apathy
an
effect well versed
&surrounded
by
elements of vitality
empirical
 interpretations
with
findings  silhouetted
in the
 spontaneous
&emphatic
so mysterious
 romanticised
&fictitious...

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Changing World  
The island it too low and the ocean is 
a stalking monster,
washes the village road at high tide.
Coffins come up from damp ground 
set sail at sunrise, only stone crosses 
remain like ship-less anchors and
 names are slowly washed away.
It is hard to leave your ancestral home
romanticised and dead.
A summer full of sadness, a longing 
for other summers drowned by the sea....

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In my memory,
The smell of books and chalk and chewy
Are the history lessons I loved,
With their tales of guns and kings and kismet,
And the life and times of the planet
Stretched out in a line just below the ceiling,

I fell in love with that portrait
Of Charles the something or other,
With his silly wig and sad eyes,

And hated World War One,
With its mud and blood
And guts and gas;

No, I prefer my genocides romanticised,
And always like the “kiss me” version better anyway....

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