Ivy and the White Tree. Ivy, ambitious strangler in order to climb, to evolution’s ignorant, ultimate, patient kill, from infantile pinch matures, a furious fibrous vice. Spiral claws grab the white tree, attitude hardening all the time, grizzled arms embrace like antibodies after foreign parts, frenzied, sustained year by year. Isostatic grip, iron squeeze, slowlyContinue reading “Ivy and the White Tree”
Category Archives: Poetry
Cold, Dark, Silent, Empty
Cold, dark, silent, empty Owl tealight and blue Delft pot radiate frost to make room air shiver. Shag pile icicles bit feet and above, entombed in bitterness an anaglypta wall, witnesses wedding bed sweats congeal. Place is how winter fields feel and where fire smiled, ash and ashen faces refrigerate. Welcome mat invisible and BlessContinue reading “Cold, Dark, Silent, Empty”
A Bride’s Walk
A Bride’s Walk, by Obadiah Wallace-Lloyd. Nickname “Barney” Brief is a bride’s walk, A dragonfly flash, Love’s iridescent blink, Transient petal born of dreamy growth. Yet time hovers on our retinas, Flirts with the optic nerve, Investigates cells to Save images of silk and grace, Recall again her love lodged. She is a gliding sunContinue reading “A Bride’s Walk”
Noctuary
Noctuary Mottled because of mountains, a completed disc high over and above us, spheroidal satellite, dishy, awesome and radiant, stretches necks to wonder if she might fall, might fly away at warp 9, wander into our waiting room to be a guest of zoom. She suspends darkness, is Ariel, aerialist without a wire, kind ofContinue reading “Noctuary”
Sun Setting
Sun Setting Late May dries out an apron wedge a lawn white wash, grass raked stage cloth with bright rhododendra brushed into the backdrop a wife who thinks in a chair of moulded impasto encompassing comfort and stomach full of chicken slice, garden pots, veg and earthly beer. She beams, worships, kissed by beams growsContinue reading “Sun Setting”
Test entry
Not at my best doing any kind of test I look forward to the end of quest when I can have a good long rest. Hope I have not messed up this one chance achieved with zest if not accuracy. Blessed with a good wife I’ve been. Soon I shall divest myself of breath, quitContinue reading “Test entry”
On Hold
Someone flicked the switch and off it went Abnormal life has gone viral, and I should maybe also mention That the effect of this unexpected societal suspension Has been to examine the way in which some people feel as if They can flout rules in their community to try and justify impunity The kids’ educationContinue reading “On Hold”
Rocket Money
Little Johnny wants a rocket Got some money in his pocket Not enough to ensure purchase So he walks the neighbour’s lurchers As his neighbour’s rather lazy And the dogs are going crazy Which is not all that surprising Dogs like that need exercising “I’ll do that!” is John’s demand “If you give me cashContinue reading “Rocket Money”
Step Right This Way
The bearded lady Has scars on her wrists She cries as they tell her the news And the clown with his gout And his oversized feet Can’t fit in his oversized shoes. The dwarf stands tall Takes a drink from his flask Then coughs up the phlegm in his chest And the dog-faced boy RipsContinue reading “Step Right This Way”
Dunblane
The shroud of death upon their faces their complexion a grey hue, and yet that smile of innocence bright light that pulls me through. But no, that was a memory flickering in the dark my mind protecting me from all I see life snuffed out my little spark. Incomprehensible loss, such fear It can’t beContinue reading “Dunblane”