February 2012
9 posts
Water In My Time
The Bank can be seen
The Clyde has made it wide
Below is the sea with colour of the moon
The hat and scarf is the colour of warmth
That’s there floating on the sea
The boat will flow to the end
It will carry the picture of dreams
The spaced out time will take you there
Under the bridge your thoughts will change
The Colour of the water will make you float
S West
Unfurled
By JV
The main artery
Whooshing all over the world
Life giving
Saltire unfurled
Ships for all
Coming out from the docks
Thousands of workers
Timed by clocks
Red and white cells
Fast and deep
Blue blood
History for all to keep
Lifeblood
For an empire
Dragon and cross
Now joined with saltire
Humble beginnings
From full time employment
Hard, hard graft
Hard, hard...
Psychedelic Clyde Bank
The prow of the ferry
Slices deep into the water
A paper thin edge
Cutting through liquid flesh
Sparks of light shatter
Around the edges
Like darting red minnows
Faint orange octopus tails
Moray eels donning
Navy blue tops
Scales dizzy with glamour
Flash yellow amber warning
Your, out, of, your, depth
At shoals of herring
Who took a wrong turn
Out in the Atlantic
And egging each...
MUD SKIN
By JV
Ridges
Humps and Hollows
Rough and Sharp
Textured
Skeletal Remains
The Sight, Smell and Touch of the Seaside
See and Feel the Past
Backbones, Spine and Ribs
Shaped Greys
Fossilised Bones on Rocks and Sand
Winged Creature
Dried Up River Bed
Mud Skin
Picture see
The picture you see has your through
Yes fell what you fell
And see what you see
Light and dark makes the shades
The face you see can have
Is where your past will rest
S West
Air........
The view below is our time
Leave the ground and flow through the air
Now we go slow the sound is heard
Below is the moon the place outside
The land with the black ‘n’ white
S West
Fossils
A sycamore leaf
Preserved in stone
Petrified
A tortoise hides
Inside the shell
Embossed
A negative indent
On the surface
Stumbling
Over lunar landscape
Breathless wordless
Bright barren
A trench sinking
Beneath gangrenous feet
Craters
Where night retreats
With wounded men
SC
January 2012
5 posts
Sinner's Holiday
The Day is here and my name is Jim
I can talk tougher than James Cagney
Do things and act smarter than Charile Chan
Have my love and can love longer than Valention
Makes me never be the outside man
Silver Cloud and have a silver tongue on a live screen
With my sweetest of the sweet
Meanest of the mean
S WEST
“WHAR DAE YI STAE NOO?”
– By JV
Look this is very important
And as I’ve said many times
Economical with the truth?
I’ve got driving fines?
Ah ken, that’s whaye am askin yi
Yir lies stick tae yi lik glue
The patsies hiv aa bin cote
So whar dae yi stae noo?
Wiz it you that claimed tae get yir moat cleaned?
And yir...
The Song To Hear
Woke Up This Morning
Theme From The Wish
Just My Imagination (running away with me)
Feelin’ Alright
Times Was
True Faith
Dust You & Me
Don’t Leave
Red Rose Of Love For The Girl
One seed grows it larger the other one makes it small, the one the devils gardener has don’t do anything at all — “Go ask your heart it’s on the way”
And if you go chasing wasps and you know you will fall, tell’em the devils message is crawling up for getting the stings, say to the heart “It’s getting warmer”
When the wicked spirits get up...
INTERNET OF MOTORWAYS
By JV
When you buy a car, for example,
You don’t have to say
Does the steering wheel
Come with this version?
How about the side mirrors?
These brakes don’t work
Only for the guy to say
“You never asked me about brakes”
So when I tried to buy a laptop
How come when I said
My scanner doesn’t work
The guy said
“You didn’t ask me about...
November 2011
2 posts
1 tag
Balanced Pools
By JV
Life on the earth
Can be heaven or hell
By birth
Or feeling unwell
Carrying loads
Covered in muck
Slimy hilly roads
Run out of luck
Busy in groups
All alone
Out with the troops
Too broken to moan
Posture perfect
Built up with hay
Keep your own respect
Relief at the end of the day
Fishermen
Bobbing the seas
Children
With families to please
Bundle of bricks
On the...
