Words Wanting Music

Watch

2011-11-24T00:57:00.001-08:00

Little bits of you
Left behind
Wrapped around a wrist
Or twisting on a finger
Little bits
That linger

War zone

2011-10-07T02:09:00.000-07:00

It’s when the hardness disappears
Stuff is solid when you touch it, but that just feels like a trick
You know you can walk right, fall right, disappear right through it
Schloop – the hole will vanish in an instant

See through

2011-09-24T13:42:00.001-07:00

pellicle mirror
connection piece
one to another
life time space

Ten nine eleven

2011-09-11T01:50:00.001-07:00

ocean of greys
scarlets
and blues
walking your shores
accepting the hues

Anniversary

2011-05-16T04:14:00.001-07:00

Time out
To mark time gone
Gentle rhythm
Over three hundred beats to the bar

Sometimes Sound Stops

2011-04-20T14:17:00.000-07:00

Memorise

2011-02-27T05:30:00.000-08:00

I miss the moment

unseen traction

seen by all

all seeing unseen

Weekend

2011-02-13T11:39:00.000-08:00

Sunday dawning
Conversations
Inside my head

Sunshine yawning
Observations
Push me out of bed

Ignition

2011-01-28T04:27:00.000-08:00

Splutter
Stall
Procrastinate

Each today
It's not too late

Your January Burial

2011-01-08T02:29:00.000-08:00

Momentum's urgency
brings you and your kin
down the snow road
so slowly.

Sun shines
on black limo and yellow diggers alike
struggling
going nowhere in soft white
so quickly.

Camaraderie falls
from pine trees
as workies, minister, mourners and drivers
pull together flasks of tea and chatter
pushing the muckle black beasts
and tiny tinny two-doors
back up the hill
leaving you behind
so finally.

Edge

2010-08-27T05:16:00.000-07:00

falling through time

towards you

probability clue

likely and quickly

fragility

balanced

and true

rice brittle

membrane

stretched

looking firm

each step

current danger

break into

a run

Bodrum

2010-08-22T06:10:00.000-07:00

rythm
style
let be
for a while

expunge
explore
express
explode
in time
to the beat
momentum
in mode

rythm
style
let be
for a while

The Big Picture

2010-08-09T15:20:00.001-07:00

Heritage

2010-08-09T15:03:00.000-07:00

feel my feeling
be my muse
recognise
the dark inside
when boundaries
confuse

Dandelions

2010-02-03T14:19:00.000-08:00

found through the webwind

Dance, dither

Turn, tumble

Break, bob

Melt and merge

Something precious

In the mix

How we revolve

Return, converge

Hard Edges

2010-01-17T09:07:00.000-08:00

splintered bits and pieces

scattered through the sky

reflecting misconceptions

when they glint and catch your eye

conscious coloured fragments

torn personality

relative perceptions

shared in cold reality

Black Stars

2010-01-03T09:33:00.000-08:00

swing from your star

and I'll dangle from mine

eyes open and close

through tunnels in time

tango

clinch

Grief

2010-01-02T10:09:00.000-08:00

half your heart
loved half of mine
with all your strength
from time to time

Thin Skin

2009-12-20T10:23:00.000-08:00

rice paper concrete

walk away crossing

watching my feet

falling falling

Heading for the Membrane

2009-12-12T14:27:00.000-08:00

Golden moments slipping by

Unconsciously intensify

Direction

2009-12-12T05:55:00.000-08:00

Magic story mission
Turn it all to gold
Do what you're supposed to do
Before your fire turns cold

Eruption

2009-11-16T14:41:00.000-08:00

volcanic eruption

seascape dissolved

emergent mountain

response unresolved

Celebration

2009-11-08T08:57:00.000-08:00

see through me to this

with the eyes of your child

wonder and gaze

on the sight

bridge the dotted line

through our space and our time

while flames leap high

in the night

Rock

2009-11-04T06:33:00.000-08:00

Under the water line

Close to the shore

Breakers and currents

Pass around and over

You're there to cling to

Cast a rope around

Solitary Sentinel

Under water, solid ground

Hold my ankles

While I play and pirouette

Sunbathing on your shoulders

It's too easy to forget

The darkness in the water

The power in the wind

Life without your touch and strength

Lapping up around

Holding on to you

Under water

Solid ground

Misplaced Lullaby

2009-10-04T14:15:00.000-07:00

parked in a misplaced lullaby

in another time and place

when the memories come crashing by

I can see and smell your face

there's a hole in the wall

and a gap in your soul

and elastic mysteries

there's a space and a side

and a crack open wide

interrupting the peace

3rd October 2009

Flickering Affair

2009-02-23T14:11:00.000-08:00

Are you going to write a song for me?

Is this how it's going to be?
A flickering affair
A flickering affair

I can see your energy
Firelight shining through at me
A flickering affair
A flickering affair

Virtual reality
Techno personality
A flickering affair
A flickering affair

Feel you reaching out to me
Don't want the unimaginary
A flickering affair
A flickering affair

What provides the rush?
Why do we care?
Where do we meet and touch
In this flickering affair?

Freedom

2009-02-10T16:27:00.000-08:00

all of a sudden
a man-made construction
to stifle and enrage
like putting a cat
in a cage

feline affection
or nature's selection
runs deep and strong and true
I'll always come home
straight to you

don't build an artificial skin
don't promise me the stars or moon
just express the truth we're living in
share my space my time my tune

The Safest Place

2009-02-01T12:17:00.000-08:00

We will lie down tonight
And everything will be alright
In the safest place on earth
The safest place

This is where I want to be
Wrapped up in you and you in me
In the safest place on earth
The safest place

Every boundary is a dotted line
Security is a paradigm
In the safest place on earth
The safest place

All the time in the world and none to spare
Appreciate and take more care
Of the safest place on earth
The safest place

Bad things happen and so do good
We'd stay right here if we only could
In the safest place on earth
The safest place

Hunting

2009-01-06T14:39:00.000-08:00

ginger spirit stalks lothian fields

instinctive frequency banding

weary guilt weighed hunted standstill

fitful reluctant understanding

Old Friends

2009-01-04T15:06:00.000-08:00

Silver circle on the wall

I want the secrets of your soul
Dare to hope that you still share
Those memories, more memories

Silver circle on the wall
A chance to touch but not to hold
See and show that you're still there
Those memories, more memories

Much outside and more within
The foolish path, the decent thing
Too much to lose, or so we thought
Could we have known they'd still be hurt?

Window View

2008-12-26T15:33:00.000-08:00

this is the place

with views across

elastic space

moments to spare

with room to breathe

and be in

this is the time

of consciousness

chasing to cut

with confidence

and hope enough

to live in

cloudy clarity

one move at a time

stretching to find

horizon lines