tick tock
with cogs and clock
with arms a'
spinning and whirling
don't lose your head
or you'll wind up dead
with fingers gone
stiff and curling
oh dear, i’m late
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oh dear, i’m late
ask
Photo by Kaique Rocha on Pexels.com asking the wrong questions
if only we could
take them back
and ask the answers
instead
blind to deaf
my mute mouth moves
in time to raindrops
on summer's hot
metal roof
waiting to forget
all that i sought
to knowTo like, click comments or:
ask
nightmare fuel
Photo by Dariusz Sankowski on Unsplash grundylocks and grimley
gone running through the green
chasing after unicorns in
the backyard of childhood dreams
waving with their hacksaws
and their axes and their gonnes
grind a horn to tincture, say they
to drink to gruesome songsTo like, click comments or:
nightmare fuel
half-penny thoughts | 03jul25
Photo by Anita Jankovic on Unsplash I seem to have puppets on the brain these past few days. In part, it has something (in part) to do with purchasing and playing a game that I wasn’t sure I would like. But that’s not the only thing prompting the ponders on puppets.
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pop
Photo by Ville Palmu on Unsplash gather bones
gather leaves
gather poppets
gather strings
pop cracks stone
dancing fire
dancing sparks
dancing poppets
dancing leavesTo like, click comments or:
pop
puppets all
Photo by Tengis Galamez on Unsplash puppets all, we dance to
another jag-time waltz
thinking we set the rhythm
by the fumble of feet
we ain’t no hep cats
jazzing our bluejeans
the strings tangle to bind
as we stumble that last
drunken mile homeTo like, click comments or:
puppets all
rattle the bones
Photo by pedram ahmadi on Unsplash everything too suchness
fan rattle to flame seething
and shudder limbs shake
ragged wrap in arms
of rags and wraith
chasing all elder ways
knock the stone fell
rattle the bones
shake in clenched silence
rattle all those bonesTo like, click comments or:
rattle the bones
Dark Angel
Fair use image of DVD covers for “Dark Angel” The James Cameron produced television scifi/drama that aired for two seasons between 2000-2002 was one of those shows that missed when it was “a thing”. I was still fully into my turn-the-television-around-to-face-the-wall-except-when-I-really-wanted-to-watch-television phase. By the time I finally got in the mood to watch it, there was almost no way to do so easily (YouTube bootlegs were so awful that I didn’t make it fifteen minutes).
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thistle & woad
Photo by Mandy Bourke on Unsplash with a head full of thistle &
hands stained of woad
skating away over water to
while away a spell
with the acorn man
you probably
would not understand
that has become a given
over these near
twin scored years
and so it comes to
wander this wodewood alone
chatting with oaks
in the blackthorn
with a head full of thistle &
hands stained of woadTo like, click comments or:
thistle & woad
in the weald
Photo by Wes Hicks on Unsplash gone to wode
in the weald
gone to fever
in the head
would he to wild
oh darkling, at
spanning rivers
in his bedTo like, click comments or:
in the weald
