Dilemma

Will the sky open

will the sky open
when the angels
come for me
to take me back
home
to where all is lit
by love
and laughter
for ever after
till i’m ready to go back
and live
another life
for another task
in peace
wearing a mask?

You rock

you rock
my boat
but your storm
keeps me
from staying
afloat

Mine owneth trail

eventho
thou art mine compass
and guiding lighteth
ste’ring me
in the right direction
I needeth to findeth
mine self reflection

I can’t beest sidetrack’d
and loseth mine bearings
whilst I walketh
mine owneth trail
yet I shall ch’rish
thy guidance
as I am only frail

Road to heaven

Drama of the Derbyshire hills

thick
low
mist
hovering
over the
low hills
and moors
expresses
depresses
the morning
like a covering blanket
of drama
smothering
early morning’s horizon
of the mystic peak

Asphalt veins

cracked
torn
burst
by traffic
and weather
pavements exposing
asphalt veins
linking together
the crevices of today
spreading
beautiful
and unpredictable
random meanderings
of perpetual decay

Time is carried

time is carried
by wind
that blows clouds
around the clock
of the tower
ticking seconds
and minutes,
endlessly,
counted
by the hour

Spread the word

Spread the word!
said the king
to his bird…

Fly forth!
and treat the enemy
to a sloppy turd

The rain

it’s here
it’s back
the endless
pissing rain

relentlessly
beating down
on me
here we go again

Our forsaken lands

forgone beauty
I must weep
for certain
observations
still to keep
we have not it’s future
in our mortal hands
what are left
are the memories
of our forsaken lands

Groovy tracks

grooves
grooved
by turning wheels
sculpted carvings
amongst engraved heels

tracks
tracked
in sand ‘n blubber
left stamps of memories
by treads of rubber

Fence post

BIG
FAT
UGLY
SUV
do not
park
in front
of me

Featuring: Jim White

I first learned about Jim White when I saw his movie Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus. Searching for The Wrong-Eyed Jesus is a captivating and compelling road trip and follows “Alt Country” singer Jim White through a gritty terrain of churches, prisons, truck stops, biker bars and coal mines. This is a journey through a very real contemporary Southern U.S., a world of marginalised white people and their unique and home-made society. Along the way are road-side encounters with modern musical mavericks including The Handsome Family, Johnny Dowd, Dave Eugene Edwards, old time banjo player Lee sexton; rockabilly and mountain Gospel churches and novelist Harry Crews telling grisly stories down a dirt track.

This movie had a certain impact on me and left me wondering if there was more to this Jim White. After I checked him out on YouTube I realized he is a very sensitive, smart and sincere person.

Jim White (born Michael Davis Pratt) was influenced in his childhood by gospel. He has been a comedian, a fashion model, a boxer, a preacher, a professional surfer, and a New York City cab driver before embarking on a music career. White attended film school at New York University. Soon after finishing his lengthy thesis at the university, White entered a self-described “deep hole of sickness and depression and poverty.” However, during a party organized by film school friends, White began to perform, and began writing material for an album soon afterward.

White’s live shows, particularly when touring solo, can be characterized as off-beat, blending his playlist with open discussion with the audience, anecdotal storytelling derived from his own life experiences, all of which is typically humorous and insightful, with a deep sense of his feeling for the broken beauty of humanity.

Check him out (I would):

Sources: IMDb, Wikipedia, YouTube, interweb, poetpas
Photo: By Tecumseh1973 Wikipedia

The bird

you blow me away
said the bird
to the wind
and move me
to places
where I need not be
quarantined

Rest assured

rest assured
said the sloth
to his friend

just hang tight
and one day
you’ll understand

Out of this world

You’re out
of this world
said the earthling
to the alien.

Now give me a lift
if you catch my drift…

Go forth!

Go forth!
from north
to south

cough all you want
but cover
thy mouth

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche on COVID-19

Out of fashion

with wars
out of fashion
eMission
became our passion

but we may
need a disease
to put our planet
at ease