Sunday, May 03, 2020

Love

I wouldn’t have known
And nothing could’ve taught
Me what to call love
And what to not

I would’ve gone on
Miserable or mindless
Hysterical or hapless
Forever if you hadn’t, I guess,

Barged into my court
With a smile and a question
And made me and my poems
Your own without correction 

I like to think I was broken
Just as I know you were
But that’s just me
Romanticizing my hurt

I was blank, unwritten
Barely literate, barely smitten
I hadn’t experienced love
I hadn’t been bitten

Like I am now
Like an uncultured ape
Who found a princess
And his mouth agape

When you gave me your all,
Entrusted me with yourself
That’s when I grew
Up and I could tell

The difference between
My infatuations and love
That’s when I knew
I was a frog in a well

I had only ever fallen
 in love with myself
Only ever smelt
What I wanted to smell

And then be surprised
Hysterical, miserable
When it wouldn’t turn out
The way I foretell

And you, you put your everything
In a box and shipped it to me
You told me you were mine
Forever in heaven or hell

And I knew, 
I knew what I’d never
I knew love,
I knew being together

“You are mine as I am yours”
To feel it alone is nothing at all
But in the sharing of that belief
is what I know as love, that’s all

Saturday, March 14, 2020

O’ my fair bespoke one

Little woke one
Bespoke one
O’ my fair
Dear dope one
There’s a truth in your loving glance

Never going slow
Ever glowing so
My fierce lady
Love your MO
There’s a light in your fighting stance

Dig your gig
Supersonic Mig
No small talk
Let’s talk big
There’s a sword fight in your romance

Saturday, February 16, 2019

Lights about me

Is it something to do with silence?
Or is it the dark outside?
Why do I often find myself
In these nights about me

Maybe if you were awake
I'd tell you an old story
Watching clothes dry in the wind
Swaying tights about me

Instead your empty coffee cup
And a straw that touched your lips
Are my silent company tonight
With distant lights about me


Thursday, October 25, 2018

What is Love?

Nobody can be perfect
But some bonds
Between atoms 
with complementary
Valence electrons

What counts is not
How much you have
But who has 
What you don't and
What you have to have

You are useless alone
You dunno how to do shit
But the two of you
Will figure it out
If your valency fit

Friday, September 07, 2018

Some days,

I am a brute
Grunting through my brutish day
Breaking them stones with my might,
That I pick up and carry through the night

And some days,

I am poetry in motion
Spinning on their heels, my burdens, they
Jump at me and I lift them high
To glory that carries me through the night

Friday, August 31, 2018

Aida

Moana of Motunui
Got a gooey
Sticky icky
Chocolate on her
Mouth and hands

Kung fu panda
Really planned a
Whack attack
On broccoli and
All the plants

Peppa pig
Got so sick
Of defeats in car seats
She made herself
A house in sands

Miguel rivera
Bashed forever
The piano, this li’l soprano
She screams and kicks
If you try to change her pants