Toads a’ croaking
The sugarcane high
Fools rushing in
Where angels fear to fly
Doors broken
Blown open
Eucalyptus trees
Thrown asunder
In the white hot thunder
Of a cyclonic breeze
Category: Poetry
Contra Versia
The contradiction
within creation
a perpetual balancing act
with the disharmony
of destruction
That spark of oblivion
as sharp as a knife
From every dimension
in every direction
a never ending question
Salvador Dali whispering
. . . “Everything
that is contradictory
creates life.”
Conformity is death
Imperfection breeding strife
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The Used Lover Blues (2)
A Mediterranean Odysseum
I once had an epic lover
of Olympian splendour
Nightly she would come to me
as the lustful goddess, Aphrodite
Lost in her insatiable pleasure
I was driven completely crazy
Yet by the break of dawn
she would miraculously transform
into Athena, the born again virgin
… Zeus’s warlike daughter
with her divinity fully intact
in a vesuvian rage, and ready to attack
Her Bronze Age Wisdom
wielded as a deadly weapon
Was I just her Troy Boy to be used
and then abandoned come the morning?
The Broken Hallelujah
For the children
of a grand delusion
who never stopped dreaming
For those hurting
through all the loving
and the loathing
who fell
chasing their own tail
like a sacrificial offering
to a reflection glistening
four sheets to the wind
and under the full sail
of a fevered imagination
Welcome To The Placebo Dome
Welcome to the Placebo Dome
built upon the bones
of man’s addiction to petroleum
being a carbon based lifeform
So please be seated
in the climate controlled comfort
of air-conditioned judgement
as a privileged guest
of the Meta-World Government
The Diamond Creek Dogs
Shades of Junk
Junk in school
Junk on the street
Junk is lurking
every place
that people meet
There’s nowhere safe
Can you stand the heat?
Best be cool
and fast on your feet
Junk that cheats
and is hard to beat
The Used Lover Blues (1)
An Epicurean Aegean Odyssey
In a time of epic turmoil
and unsurpassable bliss
I had this diaphanous lover
a fair goddess
from far off Mount Olympus
Was it all that wrong?
Upon her golden lyre
she knew just how to play
my favourite song
setting my heart on fire
with unquenchable desire
for her heavenly body
all night long
Heterodyne
Social engineering
dressed up
in the drag
of state religion
A trick of the tail
that sting of tradition
Taboos and hoodoos
male and female
two sides of the one
multifaceted coin
Far too many
a lost penny
spent in a storm
Spurned and torn
for just being born
The Placebo Diaries (4)
D.R.;
After a fatal incision
of self infliction
I attended the autopsy
of humanity high on LSD
It was a questionable decision
. . . but that’s just me
The event was well advertised;
“Come witness the Mystery and
Rebellion at the World Famous
⭐ CARNIVAL of CARNALITY ⭐
~ Where The Flesh Is Weak
And The Clowns Are Hungry!”
David Redpath 