Wednesday, February 20, 2008

And When I Was Juliet

And the end only
marked the beginning of something new
And the end only
made me realise I was a figment
And in the end
you had your head shaved
you just said

"I had to get the Romeo out of me."

Only
At that time
I clung to the star 
I'd hung around my neck
And wished it was as easy as
shaving your head.

My lips had turned into my eyes
it sounded to me as if I were water.

The past
drifted along like a bag without its contents
blowing in the wind.

And in the end
I only really told you anything
Through the window
so you couldn't hear

It's easy to scrape
finger marks down the arms of your chair,
but it's harder to admit 
you miss being everyone's idol...

Even if you weren't.

And in the end
who was I?

And the end only 
showed me I didn't know myself.

And most of all, most of all.
The sun went to sleep
And when I woke,
I was not the star I'd planned

And in the end
I was the moon,
reflecting someone else's light.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Do What You Do

WIth my arms flung about myself, and all the wish to leave alone.
Today I sat in abandon. 
Making hearts in the sand with my hot finger tips
How I sat, in my September dress,
Just left of the summer, when the days grow longer and broader.

How he strummed his finely tuned guitar,

Hidden in two.
All the light in his eyes and his soft warm touch
And the pads on the floorboards.
The lifelessness of your sleeping corpse

Friday, February 1, 2008

A toast my 
love
To something we share.
Stamping in glass slippers.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Something


I am a 

leaf, opening up.

Like something

I am

almost saying to you.

I am the

heart murmur

like someone

who is 

too afraid to shout.

I am the

candle twinkle

because someone

blew me out.

I am that

broken window crack

I am the 

wind that whistles through.

I am a

sorry girl

with my hands behind my back.




Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Sincerely, Your Friend and Lover

This is just something little...

I wait for him, my stone
he makes me.

Tremble the fire against my skin
I will wait for him.

Rain drops and you are my eyes and my limbs
You draw me.
listen pathways done
he will see.

Locking your door and your heart and your fingers
resting them on your chin.

Cracking that smile but then
takes a while

Sometimes I can't see the wood for the trees
sometimes I can't hear the birds for the bees.
the birds and the bees
and the bees

Write me a letter for once, 
sign it

say something, whatever
anything you like.

Answer me.

Your friend and lover.

I can't stop the leaves falling from those trees but 

sometimes I can't see the love for the greed.
I can't show you how.
I can't see for looking
I can't see the wood for the trees.
I can't always say what I mean.

Your Friend and Lover.

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Sonnet From The Nineteenth of Christmas

A Free Verse Sonnet

You're Crooked
You are
- - 1, 2, 3
your crooked smile makes me
melt like an ice pole in mid July
Sunshine. Or a 
Twister
2, 3,
omniscient?
You know,
all knowing.
You know what I
want and
You're beautiful, too.
3, 4, 5, 6 [fine]
7, 8, 9 [ok, 'nine']


Friday, December 7, 2007

Double Dactyl

Otherwise known as Higgledy Piggledy...
Here's my attempt...

Terrible Journalist

 

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake,

Jennifer Anniston,

Suddenly visited

Horrible Farringdon

Socially studying

Microbiology

Turning the tables on

Canons of medicine,

Truly increasing her

Marketablility. 


It's all good fun!