Sunday 22 June 2014

World's End

How To Train Your Dragon 2 comes out in about a month. This poem is based vaguely on that I suppose, as much as you can base anything on something you haven't seen.

I hope you all enjoy it, and I hope I can post things a little more frequently.

World’s End

In a harsh and snowy wilderness
At the end of a polar sea
Where the hand of justice pauses
When its fingers make out me

Where dragons ruled the thundery skies
And caused the waves to flee
Sent trembling back to safer shores
With a warmer history

And the dragons flew and tumbled
In a playful joyous spree
So raw and wild that not a thing
Could ever seem more free

But the hand of justice pauses
And the dragons couldn’t see
That the trap would be so friendly
That the friend they had was me


And now I roam the snowy wastes
And the cage of silence has no key
There is no justice
Just ice
And loneliness

And me

Thursday 13 February 2014

A Puff Of Memory Gives You Cancer

It has been around about seven months since I've posted anything here and I'm sorry about that. I haven't written anything in a while and that's partly because I've had some big changes in my life, namely starting university and partly because of writers block. But inspiration struck and I wrote this. I hope you enjoy.

A Puff of Memory Gives You Cancer

Memory is smoke.
Intangible, lingering, drifting.
And then it dissipates into the night air.

Memory is inhaled in puffs.
Soothing, satisfying, calming.
Saturating the brain.
Exhale.
Watch the years billow out before your eyes.

A little cloud.
An essence of bluish grey.
The monotonous methodical moments.
And then a glowing ember,
Love, or fervency, or rage
A reverie that smoulders.

Yet even as the memories fade away,
Consumed by the chill evening,
In the light of the setting sun.
The desire to be remembered,
The longing for fame,
Progresses and grows.
Metastasizes.
Spreading through the nooks and hidden corners of the mind.
The dark passages and secrets alleys of consciousness.
Until it culminates as an action.
As a song or a scientific theory or a murder.
A feat to shelter your identity from the eroding patience of time.

An identity is a vibration.
A sequence of sounds that is labelled a name.
Specifically a vibration is how we share our identities with others.
And like smoke,
It lingers for a while
And eventually we dissipate.
But it’s still worthwhile to watch the patterns in the smoke
And see the shapes in the clouds.