It Slithered

It slithered from the toilet and across the bathroom floor It slithered down the hallway and then underneath my door It slithered into my bedroom and right past my teddy bear It slithered onto the blanket and it caught me unaware It slithered and it woke me as I laid there in my bed  It …

Spellbound

So very many years had passed Since the time our love was blind And though our roads had parted You’d been forever in my mind Came the day that I was walking Through a lonely and torpid town I saw that you were approaching And I was spellbound My head filled up with memories Of …

The Dream Machine

In my dream I walk along a thin spaghetti bridge High up in clouds of candy floss, it leads me to a fridge Inside the fridge I walk along a path of velvet eels One gets between my toes, I don’t like the way it feels   I see there is a doorway in a …

Dark Star

One winter’s night it did appear A dark and brooding cosmic sphere A black death hanging in the sky A monstrous and all seeing eye And the world was struck with fear The prophet said we’d sowed the seeds Four horsemen saddled up their steeds The malignant quasar in the night Was proving Nostradamus right …

Lost in the Post

I was reading one of those magazines With pictures of girls from thePhilippines It said they delivered ‘brides by post’  So I picked out the girl I liked the most Now she was a girl named Angelina Dressed in a bikini down at the marina She looked real good laid on the deck So I …

The Gibbet’s Curse

A wooden scaffold is being built Consequence of my proven guilt The convicts from a prison gang Build a frame from which I’ll hang The pastor visits as he planned He puts a Bible in my hand He tells me I must not lose hope Of escaping the gibbet’s rope I pray to God for …

The Nuclear Rain

I am lying on this hillside underneath the nuclear rain The radioactive fallout is feeding on my brain I’m now the sole survivor of a world that went insane I am sighing on this hillside underneath the nuclear rain The birds of midnight droned their grim requiem of death Their bellies held destruction and the …

Purple Dayz

Yes we listened to the sabbath We went tripping with the dead Whilst the politics of ecstasy Were whirling in our heads We were dust upon the wind We were drops of acid rain That dropped in strawberry fields And flowed down penny lane Diamonds glittered in the sky And major tom was lost in …

The Fat Boy

  Jan was the fat boy of Monteney Junior School. Jan was fat and he cared not a shit what people thought or said. It is difficult to understand how Jan and I ended up being the best of friends for we were as different as chalk and cheese. Jan, John M and I were …

The Wooded Place

Picture courtesy of Mantic Ritual The wooded place The sky of slate The gleaming sacred blade The hooded face The cry of hate The screaming naked maid The heathen spell The kiss of death The weathered graven stone The scene from hell The hiss of breath The tethered maiden’s groan The ranted curse The proffered …

4012

Natural History Museum: An exhibition Androids are programmed for admission Impervious to effects of nuclear emission Attention please: Exhibit Number Four This was Tyrannosaurus Rex Dinosaur Extinct for sixty five million years or more Attention please: Exhibit Number Three This was once called a Weeping Willow Tree The last piece of greenery that would ever …

The Tears of Marie Anne

Death kissed a gypsy caravan to claim one of the Romni clan and as her life ebbed with the day her last act was to wipe away the tears of Marie Anne The father grieved so for his wife in deep despair he took his life no goodbye note for his son Thad nor daughter …

River of Dreams

Dreams are born in misty mountains of somnolence Trickling streams of spindled fingered silver fluid light Crystalline clear from rain and dew untainted by reality Tributaries of hope the vapoured trails flow relentlessly on Ever downwards through the haunting valleys of midnight Growing, leaping rippling, stumbling over rocks of destiny Through lush gardens of rich …

Field of War

I’m stood here in a field of mud Covered in a comrade’s blood I wear the soldier’s uniform But I was not a soldier born We fight our chosen foe all day We leave our dead to rot away We launch attack and then retreat Blood oozes out beneath our feet Our backs are up …

Kamal

Kamal, soon will come your soul’s creation From darkness that has ever been your home Today will mark the end of your frustration The mortal world will then be yours to roam Kamal, now is the time for your salvation Cocooned within your embryonic tomb The seismic echoes of your incarnation Are rebounding to guide …

The West Wind Whispered

I dreamed I was fighting for my country I dreamed of the cannon’s mighty roar A soldier boy in blue, a dream come true Defending my sweet homeland in a war I dreamed of a compound on the hillside And of a flag that fluttered in the breeze I heard myself cry as the bullets …

Midnight Moonlight

Midnight, moonlight, lost in the black night The headless horseman is coming up the road You’re shaking, shivering, quivering in fright He might take you off to Satan’s dark abode Crouching, creeping, oppression is sweeping A grey mist encompassing everything around The sorrowful sound of a young girl weeping The manic laughter around you does …

Sacred Flowers

SACRED FLOWERS I walked through the misty forest Where many sycamore trees grow I saw the rare shrouded beauty Of sacred flowers in the snow She was waiting by the lakeside There were dewdrops in her hair Then she told me with a whisper That we must end our love affair On a cold november …

When We First Met

Me and the Missus almost twenty years ago in Hong Kong

Young Keith

  This is me as a kid Yeah I know, cute.

Jaded Angels

I am knelt in supplication in a vast cathedral hall I feel the shards of angst firing deep into my soul I raise my eyes to search for a god of purest love I see only jaded angels in the tapestry above Communion candles burn and emit a spectral light casting dancing shadows in this …

Death’s Sweet Voice

I had spluttered into life Onto a path of bitter strife From the darkness of a womb Into brightness from the gloom But life’s journey always ends Within the blackness of a tomb A lost love once made me cry I had seen my chance pass by Death’s sweet voice entrances She smiles and she …

Midnight Blue

The winter sky is crystal clear In the hours before the dawn I walk into the cold night air Feeling lonely and forlorn I look up to the heavens I see a sky of special hue And I can’t help but shiver When I think of midnight blue Among the stars I see a face …

Where is Justice?

I am going to be naughty here and I shall entreat the Maestro SelangorNight to translate this into a poem!?

Bolibar

When the mutant child was born The Piper at the Gates of Dawn Played a dirge into the night The Devil laughed with such delight And cried ‘He is my spawn’ His hands were claws, his face a scar They kept him in a brown glass jar In a cold damp cellar all alone A …

Paper Memories

On a pillow of paper memories He rests his head in slumber As he hears the wind whisper ‘An old man weeps, an old man bleeds To harvest love he’d sowed the seeds Blood and tears for the nothing years When nothing grew but thorns and weeds’ He awakens at the table And he sees …

Crying in the Moonlight

It was a moment of enlightenment A moment to astonish and appall A horrifying glimpse into the future Where I had seen the writing on the wall And my eyes were weeping in the darkness And my heart was bleeding for mankind I saw the grim spectres of our karma I saw harbingers of doom …

Child of God’s Creation

A billion stars a cosmic birth the dawn of time beginning The sun and moon the mother earth were orbiting and spinning The universe became aligned with stellocentric motion The ancestors of humankind came crawling from the ocean The neutron stars the orbs of space were throbbing in pulsation The realms of time the human …

Rebirth

REBIRTH (For Stef) It was long ago, another world On that strange surreal night When dreams clashed with reality When my soul gave up the fight I laid upon the marbled floor Whilst staring into space Large silver drops of mercury Were dripping upon my face Vapour trails across the moons As a meteor storm …