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100 poems
Another 100 poems
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Dark Gales
Slipping softly into bed with me
That Sweet Dark Scent
He was pulled from his thoughts by a hand on his arm, a warm breath across is check, and the familiar touch of lips, on his. His own lips y…
The Betrayal
But there was a soft howl in the wind now, as it sped through the upper branches. A thickening, lyrical howl which teased a tear from her e…
Stripped Naked
I strip off / Shed shirt, jeans, jocks / And run butt naked in the street
Those Pesky Moments
The passing moments / Have an oddness to them
Weapon of Choice
Ghosts unhinge my level head / And drag it / Screeching / Through barren places
There’s This Place…
There a place in her heart / That sticks out its neck
A Special Kind of Love
Why is it you that you want / Him / To sharpen his blades on / To whetten his lips for
Impaled
Impaling myself
The Dream
“Where is your story?” she asked, searching his face with piercing eyes. / “I don’t know. I stopped dreaming, I lost my way”
This box is life
Our unit moved / Shifted an inch / Shuddering / Compelled out of shape / Encouraging coffee and tobacco stains
Soul Gardening
If I were a soul lost, a soul bound, a partial soul / I may lay my head in it’s lap
I am my truth
I am diluted
The Promises of the Moon
Light, lands feather like / On the secret hairs of my skin / Promising
Last night I stood
…silent under the moon….
Blowing Bubbles
His precious breathing spaces / Expell bubbles / Seeking surfaces
Dead End
Down a dead end alley
Car Crash
He had even tried to catch the damn thing / As if his hand was quick enough / As if he had the power and strength to catch a dropping penny
If Love Pounced
If love landed / If it / Hinted / Would you / Let it?
Watching
In the rich dark light / Your hand / Muted in the pre-dawn / And fit from the labour / Draped cheekily across sheets
Swallowed
His words / Stung sweetly / Waiting to kill / Needy and dry reaching / For yet another pill
Trip Wire
I’m really not one for talk
Smoke Screen
And like a smoke screen / Morning waves back / Clocking the moment / Pocketing it
Your Face
Like breadcrumbs / Before the rain
The Xpulsion
The bloodshot bloke on the bus / Eyeballed me / Finding something bad
Her Hat
She wore a pink sun hat / To shade her soft white face
Ode to lovers and the loved
Love glides in….
Purge
There’s a plug where the hole used to be / It stops regurgitation
The Girl on the Train
Her heat drew me / Dept of field adjustment and there she was again / Reflected / And my courage kept me watching
Underground Passages
Tomorrow / Simply / Makes me smile
Chalk Love
If we had never said hello / Wet sunday street coffee your place my lips
That small dark hole in the fence
We will easily slip through that small dark hole in the fence
The Mystic Sneak
I first saw you window dressed / In tinsel / Blinging like a cataloged obsession / Waiting / For an early fix
An Extraordinary Life
Flying home / Your life tricked open / My waiting wound / To let the salty ocean in…
The Way
But the surf is pounding / Showering you with the sweet languages of something else / Tending your finger tips with coveted dreams of reali…
His Precious Moment
It’s crazy fucked up / And he loves it / Like the warm beating rush / Of amphetamine on raw membrane / And its sweet howl for more
If I had one day to live
If I was given one year to live / I would breathe with the earth
Karma’s Curse
remain my violated / my aid benefit / my play toy / for those like us / who refuse to deny their / own inevitable / irrelevance
A Definition of Hope
Hope were the pieces that survived / Flourishing
Magenta
See that bead which pearls and glistens? / That’s the guy with good-time lessons
The Lover and the Loved
There’s something fleshy / Scented / Like smoked stawberries or over ripe mango / Hovering in the shadows / Under a red bulb haze
Rescue Ladders and Purpose Built Stairwells
You are soft Carrara marble, a ship’s star, Damascus, Robin Hood / An angel’s closed eye air brushed kiss
Nothing is Suspected
The screen door bangs / Shutting in flies / Out the front the sugar ants scurry / And nothing…is suspected
The Utter Simplicity of Dawn
Walking home / Jeans dance scuffed / Fluid / A magpie warble reminds the hinting sunrise to sneak / Like a child, quietly avoiding bed-time…
Traded
I have my tools of trade / Divining rod, bread crumbs, shield, / Angel / My bed heated heart
Winking
To hold your hand / Is like sliding sunlight into my pocket
2 Sensitive and Three in a Row Your Sparkling Eyes
1 Mysteriously divine and 1 sensually beautiful / Divinely beautiful seven
Pulse
I wandered myself / Thick into that never too deep night / Cloaking myself in the rhythm of an invisible lie
Falling.Over.The.Edge
My bones dry reach
I Winked and the Trees they Winked Back
The day the earth stood still / Was drizzled in fine summer sun / The kind that illustrates the sky
Red Sky in the Evening
I clock / Your soft petals / Peeking at the creeping day / Which nuzzles along my pillared verandah
Deliverance
Art comes / In spits and spurts you know / No not the kind your thinking / (gutter tramp!)
Sence-Awed
Mmmm…perhaps / Our madness strikes like a terrorised cobra / At your propoganda / Unsettling / Like twin tower dust
The Deal
I met a withered desert man / Who asked me for my hardened soul
In the Halls of Princes
Today’s battle / Brave soul / Was torn / curved and viciously clawed / Like a collision course of hate / Across my scarred and defian…
What Makes You Happy
My heart has bloomed a thousand hearts / And those thousand hearts / A thousand hearts / And they all / Make / Me Happy
I Had a Wet Dream
NSFW
Lover Moon
The knock was quick / But I knew there was more / That was his style / That was his game / And I needed that
Touch Me
Souls in their warrior’s sleep / Find places where men wash wounded men / And welcome hands / Of filtered light / Settle warm on da…
Her Hands
She slips her little finger / Delicately / Around the colours / That swing on the strings of my soul
Love
Spring breezes by as if on a hot date
Promise
Sliding over edges always makes me feel sick…now
Outer outer Space
I saw an old women yesterday / She shivered / With recognition / When a rat the size of a dog / Stole a rattle from her pram
Play Me, I Squeak
If you gave a little / And played a little / And offered your mind a little / And fuck it, thought to use your goddamn brain a little / Th…
Nothing
Your distance is an alcholic / Wet beggar dead end street / Brown paper bag / Teasing amber liquid
The Hand That Bit the Foot
I scratch and fuss / Around bags made of teacup storms / Like a sniffer dog / On inner city heat
Today
Like my last wet dream / Like the final / Sweet / Release
Tattooed
And further / That love / Has me marked / Has me tattooed / And naked / For life
Beat
Storms and cliffs bite the rabid lips of bleeding oceans at war
boys who’d be girls, who’d be boys, w…
For every girl who throws out her e-z bake oven, there is a boy who wishes to find one.
Your Lips
Being an angel’s breath from your cold blue lips / Makes me crave my pound of flesh, / His decapitated, pungent / Sawn off sex
How you too can be Gay
NSFW
I am not an Animal
I just love the way she stares me down / Like she wants / My blood / Thick / On toast
Coming in to Land
Taffeta nights / Testosterone electric / Waiting / With his dance card / For the rights to the soul of a man
In Transit
The absence of love / Is like a dam / Drained dry / Of car wrecks
Gay Bar 1
Terror shuts men down / Deaf mute
Consumption
None
Humility
None
I take You
I honour the taking of salty grains of you / Its dry lake outback crunch, drought barren coastal grit, Sodomite sting
When Love Comes
In the back of his head / A thought wants out / Escape artist crazy / desperate
Gold Leafed Feet
…his thoughts brushed an unexpected idea which seemed at odds, unfathomable…the notion of possibility…
I am a Popularity Contestant
The popularity contestants, bloat, on mined heavy metals, and hot air balloons
Shhh
Laden as it were with words and worlds and wild wizened wisdom his eyes shot asteroids
Dark Eyed Questions
The Gift / He offered me touch / I took his hands and lips / He desired tenderness / I gave my eyes and mouth / His black pools / Careened…
The Other Day I Fell in Love
The other day I fell in love / Suddenly, surprisingly, spontaneously / The kind of love that gathers critical mass / Seductively becoming f…
War
Dreaming of you I release an earthquake / Reaching for you I flood the town / Brushing you by I fuel a tornado / And touching your face / …
Hooked
Don’t I know you? / You brushed me by / Then glanced away / Muted / Don’t you know me? / I feigned a grin / And tripped myself / Laughing…
The Decision
I went down to the corner pokie pub / And drank a beer / In my spot / It reminded me of irreverence / And that time / Before I knew of Alfr…
A poem by Naomi Shihab-Nye
So Much Happiness / It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness / With sadness there is something to rub against, a wound to …
P A S S I O N
BREATH / A word / Naked and strong / Brushed in his ear / Like a hold up / Skin on skin / He shook / And held suddenly to his sanity / Wh…
Goodbye
Morning day / Soft light / Earth, water, sky / Pirate ship / Soft sail / In the corner / of his eye / If you blink / You might miss it /…
Straight to the Heart
When men live lives that posture and puff / When men live lives that plunder / When men shoot arrows / To bolster their brawn / Two worlds …
Take me
Take me / For instance / All brawn / No brain / I live / like a child / Blow horn / Unrestrained / If suns / Bleed my temple / Hair shaun…
Tim’s Dreamer
It was the last sticky and compressed / Moisture soaking / Blessed day / Of the journey’s / Final leg / And Tim was horny for home …
The Note
He came from a place I’d never heard of / Summoning / Through a window held ajar with string / Bird song / To land on his strong olive hand…
Dissappearing Childhood – say goodbye
A big boy / and a small boy / sprawling / play knuckle bones / on the lounge room floor / at tea time / they put the game away / in a soft …
Deliverance
I came to Africa / Pluged into violent crimson fire / Gold dripping amber / Riden upon slashed tears of blood / white amethyst sky / Forged…
Wizened
Tell me sages old and wrinkly / when the starlight filters silver / and the breeze is soft and light / when the crickets chime with futures…
painting with poetry
Poetry 1. / rabid pointed plan / fingered wild inbreed / cross eyed and blood shot / it twitches and flails / like an allergic child / in a…
