Paid For A Glimpse Of Eternity:

Lithe empty words gauging rhythmic
Twists, spell poets’ lame resistance
Spilling wild, intuitive sound
Harping loud noise – for attention
Attempting remedial spates
Rivalling long-winded sickness
Routines, forcibly holding sway
Turning cartwheels in mental squares

Subjugates rue allotted time
Spent coaxing another’s pattern
Past points goading wilful return
Timeless dreams puncture life’s humdrum
Existence; fielding ambitious
Designs spreading infectious pulp
Saying, “watchful vigilance will
Suffice, for guarded protection.”

Opportunity’s knocking hand
Broaches fortitude’s guessing game
Faced with layers of misfortune
Curled around blank, itinerant minds
“Shouldn’t have been so confident
Calling time on adventurous souls
Toe-poking wispy attitudes
All too soon, before journey’s end.”

Fighting against a relentless tide
Once reserved for starving artists
Aimless quarantine, for writers
Alike; beached entire losing
Spatial prominence – giving chase
Along eternity’s thin ledge
Grasping Will O’ the wisp’s hopeful
Cloud-haze of deceitful nothings

“Oh, they wont give in, not never
Scheme after blue-printed pressing
Scheme, pushed from destitute studios
Hocked-out increasing rental debt
Diminishing provisional
Food reserves, gnawed down to bare bones
Driving on, ceaselessly, towards
Coveted meetings with the stars.

Ruthless Hegemony: media stage-management

Caledonia welcomed Lizzie’s
commonwealth, on spotlighted
Bonnie Clydeside; pulling her wide-
Sprung empire’s remains around
Fate’s ethereal semblances
Cold antiquity smears Britain’s
Ancient throne; rooted, squarely perched
Atop rivers of people, bearing
Tumultuous coloured flagstaff
Biding time before bowing down

Feeding far-flung lands, opening
Gates; pitched darkness prevalent, still
Measuring yesterday’s aged
Confines – with many supplicants
Tied to that blood-spattered seat; raised
High, above man’s lowly station
Astonished stoics, standing strong guard
Screeching scrawled allegiance, written
Fully cryptic – in Freudian speak – tongue
Basing Christ’s adage, commonly

Psychics feud, vying position
Proffering bended knee alike
Hoping royalty’s chosen seal
Bestowing benign approval
would, perhaps, rest on their shoulders
Offering surprised rungs up faith’s
Promiscuous ladder, putting
Promises’ – laden abroad – rich
Future nepotistic convoys
Placed feathering personal nests

Genial warfare raises cheers
Cultured under veiled pseudonyms
Flower of Heather confirming
Boastful feet – New Jerusalem
Replacing those dark satanic mills
Bracing Blake’s wordsmith wizardry
Satellites beam global insight
Bathing intuition; spinning
Celebrity skulduggery
Poisoning tomorrow’s bleak worlds

Righteous opinion seeks relief
Defining global life-chances
Arbitrarily invoking
Long-since, attempts over-coming
Time-shared linguistic changes
Culling neutral borders, broken
Without hope; whilst heretics plant
Devious manifestations
Unleashing prophets’ messages
Underneath torrential abuse