some older varied poems

from my free poem book download on lulu.com THE COMPLETE NICK ARMBRISTER POETRY COLLECTION... 1996-2011. many hard hitting poems, other lighter 1s...

BE AN EARL

 

I swirl through the sea this way and that,

I twirl around the sky in all ways at once,

I whirl through time watching the years spin

on by, I curl down the rippling flow of fiery lava,

I hurl myself out of the window violently

to the ground, I knurl the woodwork into neat round ridges.

I’m now finished so I’ll be noble and be an earl.

 

RUSSIAN EAGLES

 

Come here and I’ll tell you a tale about two Russian kids high

on acid who did themselves in.

They took some acid tabs and fucked themselves daft,

downing a bottle of cheap vodka.

Their heads started to swirl all ways at once just like a bird flies.

Up to the roof they went and like birds they flew

smashing to the ground like the broken eagles

they were, still holding hands.

 

 

 

 

CHEATED

 

Go to a field to see the circle with its spiralling arc

and graceful shapes all cast upon the corn.

Aren’t they mystical, such an unexplained phenomena?

Do you think it’s a mystery or an elaborate hoax?

See for yourself, flattened corn in a perfect circle

twenty yards across.

Can you feel the energy coming from the earth?

They’re like UFOs, ghosts and aliens.

We need something to believe in, in our material world,

something mystical and magical, so we aren’t cheated

by life.

 

 

 

STUCK

 

Here I am stuck in limbo that leads to nothing.

When I ask the question how I got here

there is no answer, just the same old feeling

of cold desolation.

There is no future, it’s as dead as the past

so there is only now with its time-stopping paralysis.

 

BLUE

 

The blue of the sky gives away

its intent among its contrasting colours.

From deep turquoise of the ocean to crystalline

twilight of the dawn it casts its hue upon us all.

From upon the high hills

to deep amongst the city

we feel its colours of the atmosphere atop

our shoulders giving us precious life.

 

Reviews

[Trigorin]

Fairly good, although the formatting leaves something to be desired. I really wish you'd taken the time to set up rhyme schemes for some of these and not leave them all as prose poems, but I do recognize that some people like that sort of thing. To me it seems like a bit of a cop-out - why call it poetry at that point? But still, if you've gotten it published it can't be that bad, and the range of topics as well as the language you use in the poems reflects on your power as a writer. I especially liked 'Blue' for the beautiful imagery you used. Well done.

[NICK ARMBRISTER]

thanx Trigorin, the work here is from 1996 and amongst my 1st work. i like simple style, call it prose, poetry or free verse. we all have our views and tastes which are unique to us all. most of my work is varied topics, this is a quick copy/paste of a few 'in order' from 1 of my books. i like the same randomness of life, 1 day to the next.