........................................................................................ - a weBlog by Snowy and me.

Tuesday 31 May 2011

Procrastination

is how we fool ourselves
that we have more time
than we actually have.

Monday 30 May 2011

Civilisation

is the thin veneer of hope
rendered ever thinner
by the unawareness
of life-style choice.

Sunday 29 May 2011

Relative Values In Space

Children are small satellites
who encircle dizzy parents
until they outgrow their space,
and spin out of their old orbit.
In adulthood they gain
the gravity of planets,
adrift in the vacuum of space
where when their turn is done
they turn to dust.

Saturday 28 May 2011

Putting The 'War' Into 'Awareness'

In Pakistan Afghanistan and Iraq
do they wonder
where their country went,
in the target-rich environment?
When before the faith and the land
was simply what they had?
Where once their silence
for their being the sites of proxy wars worked for them
now there are only wails of grief
as what was once sent as relief
 
turns to acts of torture. 

Thursday 26 May 2011

Walt Disney,

that pornographer of innocence,
said of  his cartoon 'Fantasia' (USA 1939),
'This film will make Beethoven's reputation'.

For all the corporate myth making
who is the better known artist now?

Wednesday 25 May 2011

'The Invisible Hand of the Market'

flatters us to deceive -
tells us to labour and conceive-
and not be delivered-
so whatever we do
we are trim in the weave
of the Emperor's New Clothes.

Tuesday 24 May 2011

Beyond Want

Sexiness is powerful
in the lust of the mind's eye.
But there is a greater strength
to be found-beyond wanting.

Monday 23 May 2011

The Strength

and quiet pride of domestic slaves
in Greek and Roman times came from
how they knew their masters 
better then their master knew themselves;
the servants had to, to survive the system
from which they mostly had no release.
 
Just as they had to hide what they knew
to have the self and life they had, 
outside the beliefs of their masters.

Saturday 21 May 2011

I Used To be Passionate

to the point of being undiscerning about music.
That what I heard was always recorded didn't matter.
Being part of a paying audience for a band
that performed live simply never happened.

Now I am in retreat from music,
both recorded and live, and I often prefer quiet.
I don't even want to be an audience for a busker.
 
In the evening of my life 
I find that the gloaming chorus
of frogs and ducks and other wildlife
share the most transporting tunes.

Friday 20 May 2011

The Good Will Of Others

well earned, will always be worth
much more than the status games
that we get offered to isolate us
from a proper sense of self worth.

Thursday 19 May 2011

When We Are In A Tunnel We Must Keep On Digging

The Internet is an underworld
for the living, who to live there
sacrifice their sense of smell,
touch and taste, in their haste
to tell the world all the things
that those close to them don't want to hear.

Wednesday 18 May 2011

The 1948 Blues

Illustration used here without the kind permission
of Ray Lowry.

                                                                   





















Here you can read the introduction 
to the 60th anniversary edition of '1984', 
as written by modern thriller writer Robert Harris.

Tuesday 17 May 2011

The Therapy Culture

is nature's way
of proving how wealth
impoverishes instinct.

Monday 16 May 2011

Public Scapegoating

is a sure sign of a hierarchy
that is rotting from within
where all that is left to be asked
is 'How cheap is your sin
when it is not being counted?'.

Sunday 15 May 2011

The Pen

is more mighty than the sword;
the lies conveyed with words,
the propaganda, cuts more slowly,
but deeper, and more permanently
into history than any modern blade could get.
  

Saturday 14 May 2011

Whether Canine

or human, life peaks off the lead,
beyond the law; adrift our senses.

Small Ad

Romantic misanthrope
seeks similar
for mutually distant
relationship;
internet ideal,
discretion assured.

Thursday 12 May 2011

Games Incorporated

Games always have sides
and are always won
by the men who turn
themselves into sides,
inside themselves.

Like corporations
they over-rule the rules
to take the game away
from the good-willed but unwary.

Wednesday 11 May 2011

Who Knew Male Pleasures Were So Fleeting?


That the actual pleasure was so brief
surely made Victorian men
fantasise about the relief
until the fantasy took over. 


Monday 9 May 2011

The Hard Life

From Cain to Kierkegaard,
for the singular male
life has to be hard.

If life were easy
men would not know
how to drop the weight,
the baggage of being single,
that they like to carry around.  

Sunday 8 May 2011

Saturday 7 May 2011

The Hardest Lesson To Remember

Wars exist to teach empires
two subjects; geography and humility,
When they are understood
then whatever it is
that now understands them
they will not want to be the empire
they used to be, casually subjugates others.
   


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Friday 6 May 2011

Wing And Spirit

Swallows swoop for joy
around the church;
they nest in its eaves for shelter.
The transient are fed
the homeless are housed,
the spirit takes form on the wing.
 
Well beyond the beliefs
of those who built the building
a lighter world is paying its own way.

Thursday 5 May 2011

Who Do You Love ? (2)

'The love of money
is the root of all evil'
wrote St Paul*.
I can just about define
money and evil. But
who understands love?
For all his writing
about suffering
I doubt St Paul did.

*From 1Timothy Ch6 V10

Wednesday 4 May 2011

Who Do You Love?

























The Gods a city worships
are imprinted on it's skyline;
the higher the building,
the more triumphant the god
the more intensely the deity
is worshiped, particularly Mammon.

Tuesday 3 May 2011

The Tide Of Faith

has dried up, where it once flowed
has become a beach for pleasure.

The invisible things
we once believed
are now hidden,
like buried treasure.

Monday 2 May 2011

Democracy vs Dictatorship

Both require votes.
Both create passivity
through order.

Only one appears
to be half transparent
and then the citizens
of any given state
have to work out
which half is which.

Sunday 1 May 2011

All Governments Need Loyal Servants

If 'Faust' were adapted for today
the good Doctor would serve
in Guantanamo Bay.