Transitives

 

We're always in transition
moving over, under, sideways , down
never gaining any traction
From one idea to the next
seemingly trapped in an infinitive state
 between concepts of our present-
  whilst flailing to disambiguate our past
We're always in ambiguous lives 
grabble-ing for a balance of time
that is always in the red














Random Acts of Management

 

 

 

Random Acts of management
Do as I say not as I do
I'm in Management
and only I am equipped to make decisions
That go against the rules
There are factors you
don't comprehend
I am in Management
An omnipotent potentate
Newtonian physics
And Aristotelian logic 
need not apply
In my universe of 
non linear lies
Random acts of management 
the prime directive states:
In order to survive-
Always blame the other guy


( From the further adventures of Philip Benjamin Pierce , March 2017-February 2019)

Soul Survivor

 

 

 

Who ever thought
Nietzsche
would save my soul
Ironic at its best
Oxymoron at the least
But it's true
Eternal recurrence
Affirmation of a life
Over and over and over another time
Full circle yet again
The ultimate survivor
I continue to exist

( From the Second half Century,  February 2019)

Hereafter

Once
In my arms
I held you there
by the river
and encouraged you
to tell me your dreams
It was inevitable-
 like a river
that flows out to sea
you were gone
A shadow of a memory
However-I find solace in the fact
that once I knew you
and felt your warmth
Whilst I held you
in my arms

( Taken from "the Past Perfect Tense-2018)

Desiderate

Reclining in the arms of a former flame
Letting her message away my cares
Listening to the beat-ing of time as it slows
Oh sweet music-opiate to my soul
Have I forsaken you of late?
Never mind my love
Welcome home...

(Taken from Desiderations, passions and other lovers-2017)

Lost In a B&N ( reprise)

I'm all lost in a Barnes and Noble
I can no longer live happily
I came in looking for biography
Now I'm lost in literary theory
I arrived to search the stacks
Searching for an Identity
A Joycean adventure of Freudian Crises
Satan in disguise
Oh Poe is me
Wilde and Lovecraft, mice or men
Down the rabbit hole I descend,
A hatter am I in Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's dreams


Lost in a Barnes and Noble

I'm all lost in a Barnes and Noble
I can no longer read Literature
I came in looking for science fiction
Now I'm living biography

I didn't arrive,as much as I stumbled over Joycean innuendo
Dr Freud came running to treat my sense of injured self

I'm all lost in the Monkey House
I can no longer think rationally
Trying to escape...
Waiting for Godot is my new manifesto

I'm trapped in a Barnes and Noble-genres baffle me
Trying to Find my way among pages of Philosophy

I'm all lost in a sea of mazes 
Word games follow me
Running like Alice Through a wonderland
Of words and slippery definitions

Hiding out in adventure, seeking an opportunity
No time for romances when you're reading Jules Verne

I'm being chased by a The-a-saurus
I think it wants to devour me
Oh messieurs Webster and Johnson
Can you help me explain
In Swiftonian prose
The Problems vexing me

I've lost my soul to a vast array of books I never see
sentenced forever to re-read
Pliny the Elder's Histories

( Taken From "Hello Old Friend, 2008)


The Party’s Over

Going thru the motions
Burning out inside
Questioning if I want 
to live or die
Seems to me
Life's become
Just a  shell of its former self

Walking round in a daze
That envelopes all that once lived
Oh I want to cry
Not sure if its passion or pain

Help me god
Don't let me down
Struggling to break free
Of this insipid insanity
Trying to escape this prison
I've fallen into

How to escape
old feelings coming back
Memories of a dark past
Can't go down that path again
Can't betray myself once more

Reach for the truth
Hold onto my soul
Do what I know is best for me
Its not failure 
If I can learn something about myself
and finally break the chain 

I did it once before
A leap of faith and I was
Mightily rewarded
Time to summon the courage once more
time to be myself I'm sure

(October 2016)