Aeolian song

Breezy, hair mess, blow away day
The wind flips tumbled paper out to play
Buffeting, billowing, pirouetting zephyr
A flurrying breath of fresh air

Dust rattles, leaves rustle, flags tussle
Gusts trip, whoosh, pull, push and hustle
Turbulent game of rough and tumble
Invisible bully playing whirlwind jumble

Ventilating, displacing, uplifting updraft
Swirling, aerate eddies shift
Slamming doors and rattled windows
Tempest rages: blusters and blows

The wail rises up and around the eaves
As the gale yowls, whistles and weaves
Buffets bin lids, cracks twigs from bowers
With racing clouds, and driving showers

Then.. dipping.. dropping… falling… hesitant
Fluctuating short breaths now… intermittent
And the slow hush shimmer of breeze through trees
As Aeolis sighs, lulls, and quietly recedes.

‘Hi’

How many furtive, mailed missives start
And end, with ‘Hi’?

I mean how hard can it be
To let loose and free
With a little commentary
And discussion on how it could be
If we
Could get past…
‘Hi’

I could go on
About the need for depth
And where a person accepts
That maybe you’re a little shy
But you know why
We are tired
Of the words unfired
Of the laissez faire attitude that comes…
With just… ‘Hi’?

Open up a bit
Be a little more explicit
If perhaps maybe, we knew
More than that monosyllabic, implicit, wanna do?

Psychic readings aren’t an option
Retiring violets quiet inaction
But you want to make connection
The sum total of your petition

A single mot: a greeting, fleeting
Almost knock a door run fleeing
Retreating
Before even explaining

Who are you
What do you do
What excites you through and through
Why did you want to…
Say Hi?

So come on, open up
Unclasp that closed up book
Share some thoughts
Cast some words
Hazard a comment
What you heard
On the wire
Put some fire
Into that opening gambit
A conversational tidbit

Explain, discuss, elaborate
No need to have to dictate
But interaction’s a wonderful thing
A lexiconal diasporal string
A mental, thinking, sharing
But please don’t cling

To such a non-committal
Single
Little
Word.

In the quiet of the storm

Sometimes…

Sometimes I don’t know why things happen
They just do: unexpected; sudden
They hit you sideways, flailing
Uncomprehending
Disorientated, falling, spilling…
Not knowing quite why you’re failing

Things once solid; understood
Disappear like dry clay dust underfoot
The lag of understanding of how solid
Tried and trusted turned to liquid
And quicksilver
Mercury
Broke free…

Trickling away like
Birds in sunshine’s play

And blinking in day’s bright aqua light
Stunned by sudden change
Whilst pink and green dots blur your sight
Tripping footfall on paths all rearranged

Why are we all so sure things will always stay the same
And that things we’re settled with will always remain?
As this flux of come and go, who you know… or knew: gone
Transfigured like morning mist, evaporating in the sun

Now you stand, silent, rain pelting hard against your skin
It feels good, atoning for your original sin
In the sharp ozone of the wet earth, your own feelings and decision reform
Here: in the brilliant break… in the quiet of the storm.

Clandestine Kiss

A secret wrapped up in an enigma
Hidden tightly within a mystery
Uttered in a whisper
Cloaked, invisible… can’t you see?
So many layers
So many fears
So many tears
So many years
Can I hear…
You?

Whisper to me
Face to face
In this quiet place
Curl up close
Arms enclose
And take this:
A comfort kiss

hypnagogue

Eyelids

H
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g
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……….e
…………..a
………………v
………………….y
……………….S
……………..w
……………u
………….n
……….g

……….like
……….lead
……..weights…

levered, against the bright, invasive light
blurring vision in a half woken fight

lacklustre, lethargic, laconic, entropic:
a shut down of energy; a state of apathy
just… leave me… be…
to sleep.

deep sleep, soporific shift…
if . I . could . only . keep…
my eyes open… lift
my head from this narcotic drift

opiate haze of tired half thoughts
that fog and blur and pause
dissolving into fractured images
as your body twitches
and now shut lids, cover frantic irides
REM movement flits

fatigue sinks its teeth
into your flailing mind
your shallow breath
as your body unwinds
hands fall
fingers curl
letting it all
unfurl

morpheus caresses you
androgyne lips kiss
warm embrace in a slow
somniferous abyss