‘When you master something,
you have to run away and do
something else.’ Unknown
‘If an ideas new to you, then it’s
new. As artists we are creating our world,
our way.’ David Lynch
‘It’s an important experience to look back before moving on to something else’. Harry Nuriev.
In the end, we are not our layers. Our leaves shed.
Cracked and worn out, our souls Try to move on.
Stanley
Peter Merer,
Architect, sailor, spitfire
Survivor.
Zoom up –
SWERVE, the tropics
And dales, war to peace:
Air to sea.
He ruled
New colours and
Shapes that could tame breezing light
Like the best
Sails and wings.
Wherever you are
There is love,
Wherever I am
There is love,
If we meet,
There is love,
If we don’t,
There is love,
If you meet another,
There is love,
If we meet again,
There is love,
All loves lead home.
He used to hoard his poems in a plastic bag –
They were heavy but the burglars threw them on their
Backs with the rest of his life – fill the cracks in theirs
With more crack.
Later, he came home and found it
Gone and worse, his poems taken, and he knew that
Somewhere, soon, they would decompose in the stink
Of rotting food.
Nothing was left, he had no insurance, he had
No chip that housed anything good he’d ever said
With dread the sink dripped and he thought how stupid
He had been to put his poems in a plastic bag that felt like money.
[To be continued]
The heaviness has
Gone
Whatever made the beach sand pound has
Gone
And is now ebb and flow
In softer
Dapples to the livelier light.
Then the grey torpor
Heaps
Sifted through Day’s warm mesh,it
Sits
On the bottom of the sea waiting
To be ground
Again by Winter’s deepest tide.
I am done with this day
Put it back on the shelf
Or in my bag, that way
I can read it on the
Bus, if I change my mind
For one that wants to be
Reading something new.
Now is old, blank and clean,
That extra page preserved
For silent doodling, no-
One watching or listening
Now that ‘The End’ has passed.
This is the time of year when
Music needs to dig deep
To find us, rap a rope
Around our waists and wind
Us up to the light.
This is the time of year
When summer sounds are
Hollow and clatter round
Like flies scanning for jam
Round an empty jar.
This is the time of year
When Love’s warmth is
Set in relief against the
Grey, when any ray is welcomed
Like a hero from the war.
This is the time of year
When something as tiny as a
Crocus bud is all the hope
We need to prove again that
Life springs from mud.
The culture floats
In and out of
Any tiny
Fibre we call ‘I’
As it repeats,
Relish spills us-
Darkly we tap
The floor for new sights
Other people’s
Trash comes at us
With scraps of Right,
Written in Life
Tramp steels herself
To approach us
For a tenner
To loose the cold.
We give over,
Forget the gap,
‘I love you miss!’
Not a bad lie.
We looked at the world.
We took it all in
In colours and smells and
Thorns in our toes.
We smoothed down
The bark, carpeted
The mud, wove over
The stark panic
Or stole skin
From creatures better
Equipped for a trip
To this planet.
We woke up
Morn after morn and
Wondered what had swung
The orb lights round,
Seeming kinned
To the glints in the
Rock; mine it, let it
Wink at its clan.
Danger prints
On the track brim with
Odour, boding blood-
For it or us,
Suddenly
We revved our heads and
Span a thought sharper
Than a sabre’s tooth.
Being Every Day 