Recent Comments
Tag Archives: America
Back in Nevada –
I drove down to see the view, to fill-up on micro-dust A dyed-blonde haired woman watched me leave, she had that unknown time-lapse look Nevada Desert stones and half-mountain hills with copper veined lines and a heating beating-down of a … Continue reading
Posted in poem, poetry, prose, poet, creative writing, writing
Tagged America, beat, free verse, freestyle, Nevada, poem, poetry, prose, USA, verse
2 Comments
Annie and her songs –
Annie and her songs Annie sung ‘The Old Rugged Cross’, Annie sung ‘Amazing Grace’, and maybe, I think, if alive still, looking at me from Tennessee with ‘Down to the River to Pray’ Annie, March 1901, born among others 1910, … Continue reading
Posted in poem, poetry, prose, poet, creative writing, writing
Tagged African-American, America, American, beat, black, British Afro-Carrribean, Buffalo New York, Canada, civil rights, equal rights for women, feminism, free verse, freestyle, lost love, memories, poetry, prose, spousal abuse, Toronto, USA, verse, white, women, WW1
Leave a comment
All good –
We met fifteen years ago Deep inside, she was hammer and sickle Deep inside, I was Scot’s grandmother’s ‘eazy-oazy’ She said, read something else, something other than the New York Post Said I would, and I nearly did ‘War and Peace’ … Continue reading
Posted in poem, poetry, prose, poet, creative writing, writing
Tagged America, beat, free verse, freestyle, love, Lovers, New York, New York Mets, New York Post, poetry, prose, USA
Leave a comment
Bless them All –
Bless the man who lit my cigarette Bless my pals for wiping the bottle clean of phlegm Bless the passing cars that dip their headlamps Bless the aeroplane pilots who switch their engines to silent Bless the priest who blessed … Continue reading
Posted in poem, poetry, prose, poet, creative writing, writing
Tagged America, beat, crazy, crazy men, free verse, freestyle, Life, madness, memories, poetry, poverty, prose, psychiatry, psychology, USA, Vietnam, war veterans
Leave a comment
Bird Brain –
McBride Street, Magpie, or is it Jackdaw, de-cants left onto kerb-stones, A quiet to the human ear disembarkation formatted in reluctant jig-dance from take-out food road, Immersion in triumphant retrieval from that point of combustion pass-over, Common bird brain now … Continue reading
Posted in poem, poetry, prose, poet, creative writing, writing
Tagged America, birds, free verse, freestyle, poetry, prose, USA
Leave a comment
Las Vegas lawyer –
Big fender car chasing small man lawyer, legal Joe drops and dips all over, done this before, no scent, no trail courthouse warrior wrong turns Las Vegas brawn, blacked-out windows, big leather steering wheel knocks down mall stalls, bargain hunters … Continue reading
Posted in poem, poetry, prose, poet, creative writing, writing
Tagged America, free verse, freestyle, Las Vegas, Nevada, poetry, prose, USA
Leave a comment
9/11 Poem –
The Beautiful saw a ninth month morning New York, geometric brick-lay and field The Beautiful moved, foot, rail, wing and wheel New Amsterdam, geometric brick-lay and field The Beautiful heard, locked-on thunder New York, geometric brick-lay and field The Beautiful … Continue reading
Posted in poem, poetry, prose, poet, creative writing, writing
Tagged 11/09/2001, 14 years ago, 9/11, America, American, anger, cornfield, Crime, dead, death, fourteen years ago, free verse, freestyle, Hieronymus Bosch, madness, memories, New York, NYC, Pennsylvania, poetry, President of USA, prose, psychology, religion, Shanksville, The Pentagon, Twin Towers, USA, Washington, World Trade Centre, WTC
Leave a comment
The Cult –
Cycling prophet of doom – ‘onwards dear pedals!’ Leaflet throwing in the wind, hitting faces with graphic love, need 10% return on printing investment, will have own cult Munitions build-up, more professional than ‘Preppers’, those backwoodsmen, quacks with inexactitude and … Continue reading
Posted in poem, poetry, prose, poet, creative writing, writing
Tagged America, American, Armageddon, crazy, crazy men, cults, madness, poetry, preppers, prose, USA
Leave a comment
Shock-Jock Hero –
Playlists and prizes, loving his country. Sunglasses hanging with his Stetson, moonlighting Shock-Jock comes up Air Marshal number one. Intelligence-led silent mime across carpet tiled airport lounge, and new juggling disc of a trigger finger carries on and through to … Continue reading
Posted in poem, poetry, prose, poet, creative writing, writing
Tagged America, free verse, freedom, freestyle, patriotism, poetry, prose, shock-jock, USA
Leave a comment
Mr President –
Running for President tricky marble interiors alpha and omega benefactors get the right and left words out shine under spotlight private trip-up three prostitutes, 40% proof, rolled-up powder-coated tubes see me now and forever advocacy for vagabondage and lighting candles … Continue reading
Paul Welsh - Poetry 