Cashed my cheque at the sweet shop sales, can call you up if all else fails. My sugary lips tasting sweet under the smooth, counting the blips in the telephone booth. Smiling finger tips guilty of being rude, completing the eating of this hungry food. Luckily the smudges and fudges will wash out of my head, just need time to lie down on my bed. Under the duvet fragrant and flowery, flashing my sunlight hourly. Pictures now merging from head to tail, eyelids sliding as slow as a snail. |
Dressed
but not fully I lay beneath you.
I'm in a cleverly lined coat and swimming with a note. My telling of sadness for surroundings and places, I'm a captain in my tearful sea. Pulsing veins raise the pressure, with sizeable fee. I'm happiest when I'm writing my nakedness for you, here's hoping you're brighter than my blue. Chalked out and mapped out and bowed out too soon. Picked me up on that high-flying balloon. Crazed when clothed in flesh eating spiders that crawl slowly down the neck, sometimes they make me feel sick. Happiness is sadness too, happiness is you feeling brighter than my blue. |
Just an
old man with his coat and shoes,
arrived home wailing the blues. He had nothing but everything to loose. Ten years gone by still calling this place home, watching out all alone. Every day remained the same, the life he once had stole the picture from the frame. Hear his faint heart for love it once did cry, but the years got up and passed him by. If he were immortal he would live many lives, but one was given and one treads a path that denies. His heart may be lonely but his soul is complete, I hear it say, life is rich but never quite sweet. |
It flew to
the heavens on an open window,
and sailed on the winds beneath the trees. All was quiet then. All that had been had past. For we wept until winter, and lay our heads down in ice filled beds. The cold never entered our souls, for the wings of one brushed us, warming our hearts and thawing our souls. |
He smiled
and all the world turned from red to green.
On the edge of the river from behind the trees, she sat by her lover, painting the perfect scene. The world was the right way up and the right way round but upside down. Eyes spoke in flutters the words that were not uttered. Minds were on there way out. Silence was prevailing, but hungry heads wanted to shout. Their feet on a valley of lilies blessed in fragrant bloom, lay silently in their hearts across their landing and sitting room. Tangled and tied, twisted in fate, but are they too late. |
Ignorance
was bliss,
until the bliss began to blister, but hidden on the soul of a foot, the weeping remained unseen. Nestling foot in head, the eyes were crushed and teeth were biting. Screwing down the lid, but the nails were still scratching. Life was the egg with no warmth for its hatching. A mind in destitution, not deprived of conscious or subconscious thought. Just missed it mark and lost its footing. |
Sow the
seeds on the grounds of time,
will they flourish sweetly divine. Harvest their heads, hearts, souls and minds. Close the windows and shut the blinds. For all that was now hidden and gone. The new world grows nearer, the waiting not so long. |
Love was
the tears that dampened my lap.
the water that trickled out from the tap. The heart and soul overfilled in their sleep, the heart had no more tears to weep. The toils of the day build up on my window ledge, between two halves of a whole lies a sturdy wedge. The grass seems taller and so do the trees. A mind of forests blow restless in the breeze. My love and I will find each other again, when upon a seasons arrival comes the rain. Love will be sheltered in my lap, and solidly filled in the distant gap. |
Well if
this world is heaven and this world is hell,
where do the small people and pixies dwell. At the bottom of the garden of tall bladed grass, the weeds and daises and a bubble of fibreglass. Their little greenhouses at the bottom of heaven and hell, this is where they dwell. The cries in the night and the whistling through the trees. Not wolves riding on the winds, no the pixies. They'll be wearing squeaky boots and hair down to their feet, and every step they take in search of food to eat. That smell in the air of sweet morning dew, a thousand pixies washing you. Sprinkling water on those toes, those terrible odours, harmful to their nose. They work all day and all night long, washing and spluttering until all odours are gone. Natures smells now fill the air, the pixies now have some time to spare. |
1Butterflies,
butterflies,
soft wings that touch our eyes, were opening and closing, say now were supposing, they haven't got their colours on, they haven't finished what they had begun, They float on by an evening sun. In lazy hazy fields they played and you could see, they heavily, heavenly circled every tree. I caught those butterflies, the soft wings that touched ours eyes, no use in telling us now their screaming, they hit the walls as you touched the ceiling. They no longer made that fluttering sound, their bodies lay silent to the ground. No use in flying or crying. No use in leaving now their bleeding. Their silence can be very deceiving. |
11Time swam like
oceans sailing on the hands of a clock. Fingers that
were once fearlessly spread, now with knuckles drawn and with tightened skin to the bone. Yet her eyes in anguish, shone like silk under those heavy coats of cotton. She was washed out in winter, and dried out in summer. The plug pulled, only to find the water had already gone. The oceans of time had stopped ticking. The water had bleed into her soul. Her life now lay closer to death. |
12They looked over
my shoulder, and stumbled upon my feet.
They had customed a place here over, that had become my seat. Sat I could hear them cry, Sat I could hear them weep, I was sitting, but angles were flying, I had stirred them from peaceful sleep. Had I ruffled their blessed feathers, had I risen them from their feet, I had made their bodies restless, they could not rest on my seat. Heavens sounds rode on the wings of my storm and laid their plucked feathers down, still fresh and warm. The angles now looked tattered and torn, but they would not rest until dawn. |
13He had found her
in a place where she should not have been. Where she
had wished reverently to remain unseen. Yet she had found in the quietness of the resting hills in their shades of green and in the gleaming eyes of a watery stream. A passion that had fallen ahead of her path. A passion that made her smile and laugh. He had found her soul deep rooted in this woodland of trees. He had found her place of solitude with ease. Yet she found his desires but a gentle breeze, that brought colour to her cheeks and a heart to it's knees. For she had sought and found the anchoring of her dream, in the place where she should not have been. |
14They had walked
what had seemed like an eternity, but walking in the
shoes of the wicked did not produce lashings of water. For what fed the feet, would not fed the mouth. Yet they had gathered many heads in transit, but so many brought a crowding of thoughts. Such a gathering left little room to move in. This may have been the plan all along. Little spaces leaving little room for change. |
The above poems are © copyright Louise McCoy 1999. They may not be copied or reproduced in part or in total without prior permission of the author. Louise McCoy was born in 1974 and brought up to be full thinking and open-minded. After leaving home she trained as a learning disabilities nurse. She has had a variety of jobs - nurse, sales assistant & care assistant, and has recently had a baby girl named Lori Ellen McCoy. She is a full time mum and works as an assistant on Saturdays at a local library. She has always written poetry and short stories, some have been published on the Internet and others have been entered in competitions, 'Propelled population by disconcerted angles' is her latest compilation of poetry and short stories. Her passions are the piano and musical composition. She lives in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England is a vegetarian and prays nightly before sleep. E-mail Louise McCoy at: louise@mccoy.co.ukPlease leave your name and any comments in our Guestbook: |