The Sound of Time

  Inspired by WH Auden

The sound of time

Is the tick! Tick!

Of the hall clock as

You wait for supper.

Everybody knows it

But they think nothing

It’s just a tick, akin to a church mouse waking.


The feel of time is

Scattered pages, holding secrets

The edges rough

The face smooth

Everybody feels it

But they think nothing

It’s only paper

Akin to the pages in Bibles and sermons


The taste of time is

Salty and red

Blood spills, yes

But it heals, it just takes time.

Everybody tastes it

But they think nothing

It’s only drops

Akin to the grazed knees of childhood.


The look of time

Is long reaching bands

Of silver and gold

That shows the passing of hours and minutes and days

Everybody knows it

But they think nothing

It’s just a tool

Akin to a bell or pair of scissors.


We hear.

We feel.

We taste.

We see.

We do not realise the

Traps that have sprung

Tricking us to think

That we are the masters of time

Time is the unforgiving master

That controls and meddles

Not enough time, we say

Time is running out

Everybody knows it

But we pretend

That time is contained in clocks and pages

Time is akin to grains of sand sliding

Far too soon down the slide of life.

There is not enough time.

　

　

　

　

　

　

viscous

Random. I got the idea from a prompt.



If only I’d known

That love is like Honey

Gliding on trust me

The juiciest flies caught

If only I’d known

That you’re not so faultless

Syrup, not Honey

To runny

Nothing to hold me

And to make me stay.

Paint Job

　

Paint Job

The fence was far too high

To begin with

And it was no mean feat

To pull it down

But we did

The scarred wood cracking

Warped by the sun

That had split many a rock

Then you said

Next is my house

And a roof tile fell off

Shattering a faded gnome

And you sweared at the kitsch of it all

Then melted into the old kitchen

Still with its ’85 rubber oven

The cordial was old

Like you

And warm like you

Bottled with experience

We drank slowly, out on the falling porch

The blistering haze cracking cicada shells

The paints in the shed, you said

The grass snapped like Oyster shells

Under my thonged feet

And the bucket of colour was heavy

You held the stripped brushes

Gentlemen’s moustaches

Able, brown fingers open my heavy tin

And we started to apply it, slick as grease

But three times more pretty

With your straw hat you looked like a paragon of the sunburned country.

That was Australia, in ’99

And that was the day we painted Grandad’s fence.




Please comment! This is only the first draft :)

Hey Jealousy

Hey jealousy

You can be my best friend

Whisper in my ear

Or you could be my lover

And a sweet nothingness, to

Hide behind the smoke screen

Glory in my lack of inhibition

Nibble at my soul.

Hey jealousy

You can knock at my door

Give me flowers and

Seduce me

Blind me and take me

Tell me I can have it all

Hey jealousy

You’re the beat in my ears

The taste in my mouth

You’re my director

Who hides behind the curtain

Hey jealousy

Why do you fill me up?

When I see her

The poison in my brain

The cogs in my heart that

Roll and fight-that’s you

Hey jealousy

Can you see what you’re doing?

You’re breaking me apart.

You’re holding my heart away from me

Hey jealousy

Maybe I don’t care anymore

Maybe I haven’t for a while.

Second Stimulus poem

This poem was inspired by the image that Liza over at Vintage Lace ( A seriously cool blog) sent to me. Its short but i hope you like it.

Thank you Liza! Sorry for the wait!

Farm

The rooster crows

The chicken lays

The farm is still

Till milking time.


I have no idea why its doing this weird underlining thing :/  But i hope you liked it!