Poems 2013 to present By Grant Lindsay Retreating doors Caricatures of acidic paranoia swallow me whole the room lives, retreating as I sink inward. Waves stir spirits wrongfully, hands trailing still & fast - flooded as walls and corners drag me furthest from the truth. ________________________________________ Awash with all that pilfered I do reap thy heap claws deep in vein. A tale of crimson alibis, ink splattered paper stains disdain! Please lend thine votes, I do befriend, as minions serve ye final meal. To savour most ones leash extends; three kings of Judas beg to steal. Assassin ops on ballot day, of covert coup, vile pile and pen. As Scotland sleeps thou dreams decay; a bulldogs bitter fight doth end. Anointed rich in waters gold, I snatch thy soul to grease ones hold. ________________________________________ Repeating charms in truth Conflicting desires in arms Complementing blushes in jest Substituting glances in ease Accenting hands in time Regulating hearts in beat ________________________________________ Unbeknownst to us Consumed wisdom lies Cagey to commute Airtightly tongue-tied Earphones in Eye contact out Hermetically entertained Enlightened as we drown Disengaged by insecurity Our compulsive instability Habitually undoes Unbeknownst to us ________________________________________ Desiderium of the bluest echoes Where nirvana sails on white crests Amidst the solace of siren song Til the breakers shun the ill-fated And cast longing dreams ashore ________________________________________ Strolling, a sandy tide Connecting, infinitely incomplete Failing, recalling the lost Forgetting, intrinsically familiar Stammering, prayers of rest ________________________________________ Cicada dreams Cicada dreams from treetop high Whirring songful burrs blow by Humming heartbeats slowly down For sleepful peace in dreamful sound Cicada songs from treetop high Sleepful burring lullaby Slowly humming heartbeats down In dreamful sleepy summer sound ________________________________________ Woken by Taoist flutes and frantic chants I leave the lions den on a black beast Downward to lanterns, vines, songs then money Greed glistening as an industrious peril Swiftly or slowly the stakes are always high Sleepwalking into debauchery; honoring thyself Credit for moral righteousness Dissonance and trivialisation for wrongdoings Earning to keep but worn by this Then to fall deeply by an angel is to transcend such distraction; my honour ________________________________________ A black day as the skin peels 10 wounds for troubles A contusion of minds and machine Convenient medicine And an allegro to appease A light day as the skin heels 10 wounds soothed in time Consoling minds and machine Saline for the soul And a stinging beat to allay ________________________________________ A journeys cold An unwelcome handshake Familiarly uncomfortable And numbly fleeting A fevery dejavu Of new, of old To reminisce And to remind the soul ________________________________________ Glowing hints fall on concrete grey Lightly unlit, Shallowly submerged Deceived eyes entreating hue in the darkest shade ________________________________________ Seeking worn out edges to exploit Inexact and inadvertently juxtaposed Forging relics with postmodern kitsch Potraying martyrish leaders as enemies Marking their killers as legends Always seen, heard, felt; ritually embedded Selling a persuasive masterpiece of prudent force Appearing to be mending shattered porcelain Setting a mosaic precedent of pretention ________________________________________ Ticking all the boxes The highs and the lows Trading places and benefits, Breath, status, and vigor Then homeward bound The epitome of materialism Attached to the veracity of worth And permeating dissonance ________________________________________ Grandfather’s farm Through the gate to grandfather’s farm Lay crops renowned, reaped near and far Our place of refuge, our needed stay Our fruitful land our place to play Where warm winds rise where sparrows fly To seek to reap for seed nearby Our farm of life where sweetness grows Contained within an earthy stove Consumed with fondness our fruitful fare Returned with kindness, year on year Our flooded land our place of play Where wading into waters way Our childhood memories run so deep In refuge of the summer’s heat Where brother chases crickets flee Where sparrows trapped but then set free Where through the gates we harvest high But sadly now our memories lie For grandfather left our land lays bare His barren land, our memories there Yet, forever still I reminisce Of the farm I love and the child I miss ________________________________________ Past dreams Distant, desired Choosing, building, living Fearful of my reality Foresight ________________________________________ Glory Admired, unknown Waging, hurdling, pleasing Being recognised from below Ego ________________________________________ Nightfall Misty, unknown Freeing, blaring, soaring Veiling reality from light Glimmer ________________________________________ Journey Desired, fulfilled Freeing, moving, seeing Familiar desire met by truth Passage ________________________________________ Journal Cosy, covered Ebbing, flowing, feeling Hide tumultuous affection Memoir ________________________________________ Suburbs Absorbed, austere Holding, ebbing, ceasing Filling loss with trepidation Downtown ________________________________________ Journey Unbound, lonely Loving, seeking, feeling Detachment to feel attachment Solace ________________________________________ Patience Endless, peaceful Pushing, trying, heeding Priorities sought and misspent Humility ________________________________________ Lover Playful, luscious Toying, tending, teasing Encapsulating my heart beat Amour ________________________________________ Taipei Tireless, tranquil Giving, taking, tempting Siren to gods and goddesses Temptress ________________________________________ Chu Yan Memorable Heeding, Blessing, Watching Rowing to recall poetry Honour Harvest Immortal goddess in the moon Thanking, Meeting, Eating Joyful, Fabled Chang e Ten Ten Festive, Stately Praising, Marching, Watching To celebrate the R.O.C Taiwan ________________________________________ Silence or time will stand you still As you’re … Moaning with haste to waste Making the most of loathed Blinking of eyes in brisk Fearing the worst for most Missing the joke month on Cheering time on in slow Lying silent just once As time will stand still for no soul ________________________________________ Golden beats Raver Rhythmic, vulgar Pulsing, downing, upping Consumed by golden beats in strife Seeker Rhythmic raver Vaguely pulsing, downing, upping Aspiringly consuming beats in life Saver Stable, humble Grazing, lazing, working Consumed by golden beats in strife Machine Stable saver Vaguely grazing, lazing, working Methodically consuming beats in life ________________________________________ Lucid beats Spellbound gaze Floor stuck firm Pounding ripples From within Wave upon me Down and down Your crafty ways Held spellbound Now see here Lucid beats Your divine words In wakened sleep Your spellwork ministry Within my head Set trails sailing On pulsing edge Up and up Your waves of sound Your crafty ways Keep me bound So see here Lucid sounds Divinely pulsing Beats spellbound ________________________________________ Sleepful peace The light on the dark and in-between Consonance for dissonance and sleepful peace Conscious inside my subconscious dreams Thirty seconds before I sleep ________________________________________ Reminiscing Along the banks of a dried out burn I burrow for rhubarb as rabbits run I laze in hazy skies on hay bale trails I hunt in trees with my brother on tail I breathe frosty air on a moon lit night To bring bonfire memories aflame so bright To dream these dreams to reminisce I remember the land and the child I miss ________________________________________ Swindling lesson Place your bets swindled teachers Grind your teeth in bed as you sleep As youre taxed in the head from behind Paid in kind so to speak No regrets, but instead Plain deceit and disdain from a cheat ________________________________________ Muggy air You are one in a million Revving at the light as we stop to breathe the muggy air You realise then switch off Only to rev harder to get going again We cast the cars aside with powerful torque Braking with equal intensity Then, you open your visor and spark up Blowing more muggy air in my direction ________________________________________ Truthful words We listen to distracting words We dare to speak them too And err on cautions side each day By failure to say whats true Bare truth of the life intended To be heard without disdain To be said with due intention Our words of truthful bearing ________________________________________ Kamicochi Fragility and passion Snowflakes and sparks Flow from my lips Far from your grasp Gains that are had Are now lost in pain But souls that detach Do once meet again All therefore begone All therefore be had All for to be felt Along ones path Fragility and passion Snowflakes and sparks Flow from your lips But far from my grasp Loss again felt Gains again had Souls have allured Yet have also detached All have once gone All have been had All has been done Along ones path ________________________________________ Tai-play Jumped-up hopscotch Downbeat kids 12 hour slogs Fodder for kicks 3C, MRT, coffee slot posery Starbucked-up! ________________________________________ Alluring loss Gains are had Loss is felt Souls allure To detach All be had All be gone All is felt Along ones path ________________________________________ Govan A kilo and a cleaver A doorstep for a battleground A car borrowed in the night to extend his trip An armed response to bring him down Chasing his past with a gun ________________________________________ Upsurge Stillness massing in the rain Precipitates a placid deliverance Inciting an upsurge Against the thunderous ambience of white noise To censor and to allay our consumed thoughts ________________________________________ Taipei Bellows Revving hard Homebound Through Daan Gongguan Beating steadily In spiteful pace Riding twilight Masked face Striding over Fuhe Yonghe to Zhonghe Mountain lanterns aglow Engine drones slow Halting high above the bassline From the bellows of below ________________________________________ Where we left off last time The years end Another resolution absconded Accomplishment relished No time to savour or set it right Inevitable loss Tallied-up to abstain the souls pleasure And seemingly no time will set it right Yet, the gain and loss of one year Carries forward to the next To sow and reap So someday or life We can finally get it right ________________________________________ Success is merely a measure Of the happiness felt Through gain and loss ________________________________________ Revering an allegro The spring green growth Kowtowing to the sky With reverence for The sun, the rain A deluge to survive An allegro of light on leaves Raindrops feed and nourish Sowing seeds of filiality To blossom and for flourish ________________________________________ For Miya Meaningful action besets me Involuntary and compassionate Yearnful and bold An archaic piety bound by blood ________________________________________ Woken by purity The lucidity of falling to no avail Held in a comforting memory Or an endless platform of familiar faces While, watching Whispering instructions But remaining far from reach Then A jolt from within To awaken And to reason With who we were And, what will be ________________________________________ Chaos Scorched black dragon boats Upturned on temple tops The summer sun Creates calm amidst the chaos With copper bells jaded blue Burning calmly in the courtyard While devotees and deities Lie within the blackened building And so The summer sun In permanence Bursts brightly and unbiased ________________________________________ Arid earth A weeping tree leans towards its creator and destroyer Subtly present and unaware of its own magnificence Yet, firmly rooted in vain of the arid earth in which it lies ________________________________________ Familiar ties Questioning the connection She stares unwittingly Wondering why she chose A deja vu of shared promises A, what if? And, where will it lead? Similar cause seeking similar effect But, compromised By, disclarity of truth and rationale Yet, knowingly The attachment remains Unabridged, unanswered But certainly not forgotten ________________________________________ Loyal cat Admiring a bird that flies by freely Domiciled, discontent, conditioned His necessity restrained prowling and prancing Contained through loyalty for his companion Thus, that bird flies freely to remind him so That desire may cast his freedom afloat ________________________________________ Curious cat With a disquisitive crown and whiskers of perquisition She gave chase to her long-awaited solace Reminiscence of a life barely breathed Her curiosity unveiled a cry for reciprocation An unadorned desire – to please and be pleased ________________________________________ 2013 - 2014 © By Grant Lindsay
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