Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Other poetic ideas of the late evening.

Who are the characters in the city?
What are the streets like?
What buildings are there?
What noise?
What sights?
What sounds? Smells?
A whole city!
Me.

Why silence?

Silence


I get very lonely.
The silence surrounds me.

My gatekeeper…a huge monster…a jelly-like Michelin Man… huge, heavy…stops me.
“Stay where you are!” he commands. “Be quiet!”
He’s got me trapped. 
I get very lonely. 
Quiet.
“ You've always tried to run away!” he says
“to a girlfriend, teachers college, a School, a hot air balloon, inside the earth, on a canoe in the middle of nowhere, Europe on a train, Bhutan in a dungeon, somewhere else.”

I always come back to the gatekeeper. 
I get very lonely.
It is quiet at the gate.
I wonder what is inside the city
The city that belongs to me, my city.
The gatekeeper always stops me from seeing it.
 I get very lonely.
 He laughs as I go hunting for something, somewhere else… quietly. 
I get very lonely.
Wondering, I look back at the wall with the city behind.
What if there is chaos? A bit like my own life.
I might have no control. A bit like my own life.
I get very lonely.
A jelly of silence.
My own.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Todays collection of words

These words will turn into a poem soon.

Gate keeper. Sad. Heavy. Gut, full. Heart empty. Head overloaded, overworked , overwhelmed, over used.

The city behind the wall.

Chaos. Control. No control. dark and light.

constant sadness.

Lonely.