Monday, December 28, 2009

My Silence

I need my silence
to chase after words
in their mind
like a greasy shadow in a doorway
half glimpsed
half grappled
half grabbed
light disrupts
the shadow obscured
in that moment of loss,

no relief..
only a death...

Sunday, December 27, 2009

The Days Run Away... after Bukowski


"the days run away like wild horses over the hill" Bukowski

you look up and you're 30 and married
40 and you're divorced
50 and alone
this is good, you start to count lines
hoard the days
focus on the art, the wind,
the way a bird turns its head to look
you find yourself doing that
looking at it
with the one good poet's eye
part of it makes sense
the madness of the world
as you pass observing, recording, distilling
an objective subjective perspective

Monday, May 18, 2009

Poem - An Empty Puppet

I hold the supple skin of your middle, firm..
as you dance your firedance,
I lose myself in your circle
and we become as one.
The weaving of my bones to the night,
I wait on the whim of your star
standing in my lone heart shoes.
The colours of your aura
imprinted on my mind.
I dance the steps of the possessed
and I fall down, down.
An empty puppet
loves lost strings tangled and torn

once upon a time there was this girl and she learned to firedance in Cambodia... and well that's that...

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Poem - The Moan of the Pine

the almost silent moan of the pine
passed to the excited sycamore
it’s leaves flapping
with news of the wind
and so to the garrulous ash
half dead leaves reanimated
rushing off cackling and cracking
dancing in swirls and twirls
like old ghosts no one fears


at my old place I had these pines and late on a moonlit night the ghosts gather...

By Drax Ireland

Monday, February 09, 2009

Poem - If..


Valentines Day focuses on the boy or girl that has a boy or girl... the lonely hearts are in the wings, wilting, waiting, wishing....

if I was a bird
you are the colour on my wings
if I was a fish
you are the rainbow on my back
if I was the land
you are the flower growing in me
if I was a star
you are the light shining from me
if I was a song
you are my music
if I was that boy
you are my girl
if only
if only