A REMINDER OF YOU

A funny thing happened

to me today

I saw someone exactly

like you driving a car

the same colour model

and everything.

Except it wasn't you

was it? 

How could it have been

you're not hear 

are you?

Avie.

Penyffridd

PENYFFRIDD

There was always 

a mouse trap 

in the pantry 

O dan y grisiau (under the stairs).

A golden mechanism 

turned the hands for

the sun and moon to 

rise and fall

across the face 

of Bethesda and Jerusalem.

The morbid chimes

kept precise time

on the hour

in parlour rooms 

of silent bibles.

Avie.

 

CLEMENT WEATHER LOVE

I used to live in 

dark rooms

where the light

never used to get in

then you opened 

the curtains to

let the sun in

without your clothes on

as if I needed 

to see the weather

you brought

a new meaning 

to blue skies.

Avie.

LITTLE PRINCESS

      LITTLE PRINCESS

Your Father is an alcoholic 

he tried to kill 

himself in rehab today

the house you love

is on the market 

so is your Mother

but you don't need 

to know that now.

Avie.

QUAKE

        QUAKE

When the earth moved

after midnight with

a tumultuous force

a shift in conversation occurred from the core

a light relief for some of us

from the drudgery

of politics and rugby.

Avie.

ATHEIST

     ATHEIST 

Please don't get all sanctimonious 

telling me that

you've found God 

because you know

I have great faith 

but I don't believe

in that kind of thing.

If you should ever

preach to me 

about your new

found truth

I hope you will understand 

like warring countries

it won't be long  

before we end up 

killing one another

I never said 

I was a pacifist.

Avie.

NEW ZEALAND/NATURES OMELETTE.

This recipe is an absolute cinch to make 

first add a squeeze 

of lemon 

a smidgen of

Pohutakawa needles

saffron on the fried earth 

use the sun as the egg 

a yellow red circumference 

a pinch of black seed and a

tablespoon of light rain.

Sprinkle with parsley

allow natures blossom to weave a fabric 

like whitebait patties

let it cook slowly

the warm wind 

will assist the whisk

flip over onto the 

pan dry earth.

For a strong fragrance 

wait 30 seconds 

for the crimson blossom

to fall out of the sky

then add a light drizzle

of summer seasoning.

Avie.

BELL TOWER (CONVERSATION WITH A SEVEN YEAR OLD)

Why are we not 

allowed to climb

the bell tower 

are there graves

underneath us

how did they die

and where did 

they fall down 

and why didn't they 

come home

who was it that

hurt the dead soldiers.

Avie.

 SINCERELY L COHEN

I listened to you

in rooms

of darkness 

and light.

You had a way

with words and

I believed in

every word 

you said.

Avie.

Lost Umbrella

LOST UMBRELLA 

Do you remember

you had it with you 

at the time 

it started to spit

I told you that

I preferred the rain

to the sun 

and out

of the blue

we kissed 

in the rain

and then the

sun came out.

Avie.

Trump

         TRUMP

There is a whisper 

going round

that the world is

going to end

now do us a favour 

before we panic

put the kettle on love

let's have a cup of tea.

Avie.

TO MEG

TO MEG

The inscription on 

the inside cover said

To Meg happy 26th

have an awesome 1996.

This should look quite good on a New Zealand bookshelf love Sam.

The yellow marks and

faded coffee stains 

on the pages you 

received with love

and gave away 

I picked out of a box

at the fair.

Thanks for sharing 

the poems

Meg 

back from

1996 

when you

were only 26.

Avie.