Showing posts with label November. Show all posts
Showing posts with label November. Show all posts

Monday, 8 December 2025

 


[November]

 homage to thomas hood

“no haiku november”

 

no amount of ornate word

description

gets the beauty of this world

 

no avail sandals straw hat

thirty-six

asks for air conditioning

 

no cigar for bright sparks who

net-zero

reject - future all fire

 

no experience needed

reflection

the whole being listening

 

no fun my babe hang around

spotify

feeling the same old way freaked

 

no hard feelings with flowers

freesias

roses grevilleas bloom

 

no idea what’s next but can guess

predictions

less substantive than feelings

 

no joke how so many old

skyscrapers

and new hold up together

 

no junk mail blocks the airy

letterbox

curio of email time

 

no name brand ignores human

ambition

curving leafing through landscapes

 

no qualms no frills now quaffing

burgundy

no regrets no faults no fear

 

no respite from no limits

news-cycles

decamerons in real time

 

no smoking vaping or e

cigarettes

where the public goes slow burn

 

no standing anytime down

boulevards

of ceaseless late afternoon

 

no theatre no time zones

no u turn

no vacancies no vacuum

 

no worries see you in yes

november

as they say in the classics

 

no yes no yes no yes how

synapses

pass the seconds of yes day

Friday, 30 November 2018

Aubade (November)

As we read these words, they come more to light.
Words bound and found for consideration.
These words unfolded in day’s early light.
Come to sight, mind their business, close at hand.
Like a city we grew up in, shades and shifts.
A city in here of countless suburbs.
Like the writers we always were inside.
Their reviews come speechless, ineffable.
Such words seen by you, your eye enlightened.
Words for your personal insight alone.
Like sentences only you understand.
Frame by frame and dated one November.
Tucked in a book that comes to light later
In its special envelope.

Eclogue (November)

“As we speak these words, that which goes unsaid
Will spread considerably come midday.”
“Perhaps, and unfold their meaning further
Into tales untold, and carry the burden.”
“Like cities that must remember to build
Suburbs tenfold as they enter new day.”
“Like writers whose mornings scribble out stars
To erase and review them, after noon.”
“Words, words! Mornings return with more to spare:
Inventions and insights and hopes and words.”
“That afternoon sorts and censors and slams
Like the frames of a film called November.”
“I saw that one get the nomination
For ‘Best Script All Told’. The envelope please.”


Thursday, 29 November 2018

Nocturne (November)

As we speak, these words go unsaid, unread.
Words considered good remain in darkness.
All words folded way stay out of sight.
Out of sight, out of mind in the closed night.
Like a suburb whose name is forgotten.
A suburb out there in another city.
Like a star named after a dead writer.
A writer who knew all the moods of night.
These words and words like them exist unseen.
Words invented for the personal voice.
Like syllables might explain creation.
Like chronos frames the frame of November.
These words, made in hope to share the darkness,
Night envelopes.

Wednesday, 28 November 2018

Threnody (November)


Our work screens are the stream of rust-free waterproof poppies, minuted by the news feed, flowing direct to the catafalque. Our early walk meets the ageing digger’s price-tag poppy tray. Bright November light turns us each into familiar human shape. Item: thousands of miles of ocean whitened under iron sterns. Item: old photograph of lonely landscape fought over below ground. Lost voices we guess at, returning in sounds and laughter, we make our own, talking in past tense of grandparents. We cry out ‘No more!’ as brainless technology synchs up, inventing more modern ways of getting us in its sights.

Threnody (November)

Our work screens are the stream of rust-free waterproof poppies,
Minuted by the news feed, flowing direct to the catafalque.

Our early walk meets the ageing digger’s price-tag poppy tray.
Bright November light turns us each into familiar human shape.

Item: thousands of miles of ocean whitened under iron sterns.
Item: old photograph of lonely landscape fought over below ground.

Lost voices we guess at, returning in sounds and laughter
We make our own, talking in past tense of grandparents.

We cry out ‘No more!’ as brainless technology synchs up,
Inventing more modern ways of getting us in its sights.

Sunday, 25 November 2018

Barzelletta (November)

Moustache month brings out the best in all of us, the hairy and hairless. Death is its own particular bless: far be it from us to make a jest. Election nights are ones to remember, rampantly yes or the sum of glum. Ballot papers return to sender ticking who’s best and pointing out scum, surely you don’t think we’re really that dumb: the hand gets something off its chest. Downtown the swaggies couldn’t care less, their names don’t make the list of guests. Mainly it’s warm now in November. They sit near the heater called the sun, answering to no-one.
 
Barzelletta (November)
 
Moustache month brings out the best
In all of us, the hairy and hairless.
Death is its own particular bless:
Far be it from us to make a jest.
 
Election nights are ones to remember,
Rampantly yes or the sum of glum.
Ballot papers return to sender
Ticking who’s best and pointing out scum,
Surely you don’t think we’re really that dumb:
The hand gets something off its chest.
 
Downtown the swaggies couldn’t care less,
Their names don’t make the list of guests.
 
Mainly it’s warm now in November.
They sit near the heater called the sun,
Answering to no-one.