Tiananmen Tiananmen
Tiananmen Tiananmen
Tanks and bullets rained on them.
Students,
citizens, average man
Silent protest makes a stand
Peaceful ‘tank man’
blocks the path
Carrier bag his autograph
Our hero with his peace
defies
The tanks from idle crucify
Anonymously disappeared
Though in
our hope for 20 years
Students voice forever sung
The deathly toll.
Tiananmen.
The square with blood forever red
Upon the pavements of the
dead.
Annihilating Beijing’s race
A Fallen army fell from
grace.
Tiananmen Tiananmen
Where cruel Repression Raines on
them.
Tiananmen
Tiananmen.
Tiananmen.
Remember them.
June 09
IONA
IONA blessed land of Gods
And Kings and merry gentlemen
Our legends
and our leaders sleep
And all their peace is held within
Remembering
IONA
In memory of John Smith
Sweet God bless Viking man
We were not ere acquaintances
Nor neither pals over a drink
But of
the same street neighbors
You watched me paint my van pale pink.
And
when your crystal eyes met mine
Or we exchanged a smile
A wave upon the
rope walk
A glance once in a while.
And when you looked upon me
With
that twinkle in your eye
I felt so elevated
My pedestal the sky.
I’m
sad we never chatted more
But then that sadness past
For the ultimate
connection that we made
It will forever last
And now in dreams I see
that beard
All orange eyes sharp blue
And when I need to feel that
high
Ill link up thoughts of you
And in the meantime
That balcony,
the one I dreamt I saw you on
If Romeo won Juliet’s heart
And “If music
be the food of love”
My muse I pray sail on.
The Shrine
Blackened city
Hope..Little girl in red coat
I drink my wine, it
turns to blood
I can not swallow but I do
I understand the shrine at
last.
Are we all a little guilty
When we wished we never
knew?
Because there’s nothing we could do.
See Schindler in a candle
flicker
Hope..Alive in red flame
Until the candle melts away and leaves
a shrine again
Diana
The world is in mourning,
The weather is in mourning,
I am in
mourning.
The streets are seasoned with a river of people
Like spilled spices,
washed together with tears
From a million countries.
The array of sweet smelling flowers lay everywhere,
Lighting the
pavements like colourful diamonds
Dripping from the ends of a rainbow.
The heaviness in our hearts
Which was put there by your loss,
Will
soon turn into a golden nougat
Put there by your life.
As an innocent, I carry my first child
I only hope that the mother in
you lives on in me
And that the world now in all its peaceful unity does
you proud.
Sept 1997
In Memory of Des
The other day I was passing my time watching the sky
When out of the
clouds a cyclist flew by
He turned and waved as if he could see me
And
he smiled, oh he smiled, oh he smiled so freely.
He got off his bike and
out of his bag
Came a pencil, a chair and a big artist pad.
He observed
all the land and the fields from the sky
And I watched him draw horses as
time passed me by.
Then he played tennis on the green in the sky
Where
he practised his serves, and still time passed by.
He served to me but I
had to pass
There was only one racket and the balls turned to
stars.
Then he put on his hat, turned heaven-ward bound
A carrousel of
corks all whistling around
As he peddled the never ending ocean of
sky
He whistled my name in a song,
Smiled,
And waved me goodbye…
1992
Rex (our childhood dog)
You’re the ghost that haunts my life
You float around my mind
You
make me feel so guilty for leaving you behind
Maybe one day, my mind will drift
And stay that way forever
And
perhaps that sparkling tear of love
Will bring us back together
When I cry the tear of love
It breaks my heart in two
When I lay in
bed at night
I always dream of you
When the tear rolls down my cheek
It sparkles like your eyes
So
please my friend, come back to me
And brighten up our lives
about
age 10
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