Sunday 18 August 2019

On other animals



Dogs are given outfits, blankets
A bed next to the fire.
Cats have diamond collars, velvet cushions, are admired.
Yet cows are lined up terrified,
Stunned and hung upside down
And pigs are crammed into crates
Scared by the gas and screaming sounds
Each cow has the heart of a dog
And a pig can make its own bed
But for some reason the love for cats and dogs
Does not extend to them.



C. LJ 2019

On Nature



The world is concrete and metal
I need the smell of green leaves 
Or the touch of fur of a kindred spirit
To remind me of early earth
When God walked with man,
Man with animal,
And among all -
Streams laced with sun.
I hold on to glimpses of forest
To mist above water
When walls and roads
Block the sky
And confuse where I came from.



C. LJ 2019


OCD (6)


It's exhausting
Reading script after script after script
And then casting
Myself as the villain each time
But each time forgetting 
It's not even real as I'm tricked by
My own brain
With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 
Directing again.




C. LJ 2019

Rose Haiku



Petals make the mane
Of the rose that sways softly
Above steady claws 




C. LJ 2019

To The Sky

As blossom makes beautiful the falling, So does a poem belong to the sky - To tell of it, to tell how You kissed my words with lemon pink ro...

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