Author Archives: grahamswords1962

Once, before our births, Potatoes, beans and sprouts would have grown beneath our feet, in that earth. In soil that now tended wild yellow grasses which swayed in time to the beating wings of orange tip butterflies. Remnants of privet borders stood, angled and isolated. Deep green dividing lines, dividing nothing, protecting nothing. Long silentContinue reading “ment a lot”

Emerald and sage, Lincoln green,Verdant spears, pristine, clean. Row upon row of rank and file,Private Promise and Sergeant Smile. All on parade, all standing proud,Battalions of blossoms,To blast winter’s clouds.

She’ll never know,Why would she, how could she?The blasé innocence of soft collision,No hesitance, no indecision,Two worlds collide and meld as one,Unrequested glow of a burning sun.That bathed, and blushed my burnished skin,And drained the dark from deep within. Her presence the first morsel,When the hunger strike did end,The thirst crushing sensation,That cold summer ciderContinue reading “Tsunami Touch”

Unkempt borders and dishevelled hedges, Discarded presents and forgotten pledges. Against slate grey skies and muffled clouds, Green spikes promise to sing out loud. Twinkling ice and pitch black nights, Twitchers scour for foreign flights. From nostrils flared come steaming plumes, Curtains draw on snug living rooms. Fox bark breaks the midnight air, We mayContinue reading “January”

In crowded sidings, off branch lines narrow and dark,The wagon beds are parked,Shunted, pushed, and pulled by engines of tired blue and green,And every shade of livery in between,Huffing and puffing their every last drop of steam.The cargos they ferry, sit patiently by, awaiting departure, perhaps a final goodbye.While up at the station, stunning spaceshipsContinue reading “24 Souls”

He knew from the day he entered the gates that he was different. No one else had his name. Juan. Why Juan? It made him stand out. The way the other kids said it, the way they said he said it – the way he said it. It singled him out – but why? WhatContinue reading “The schooling of Juan Abbeste”

The Anti Nazis gathered at Alexandra Palace,Where the Midlands’ Sid Vicious encountered AliceShe had a boyfriend that wouldn’t go,He was the punk who didn’t know. While the out of place bonehead looked for a rumble,They slipped into the courtyard for a quick fumbleShe had a boyfriend that wouldn’t go,He was the punk who didn’t know.Continue reading “He didn’t know”

I see you now, disrobed, a tryant emperor shorn of clothes,Childhood born fears that transformed to adult screams – you came so far.Played on the screens of my mind’s TV dreams, you filled my years, fate defining hate drilled tears.Fear of failure tears.Fear filled yearsFear of failing to match peers. Faces I knew, places untrue,Continue reading “The Emperor’s New Clothes”

Happy birthday star man. See the boy with the twinkling eyes, Which hide the soul that won’t hide the lies? He came to earth in a rainbow glow, His presence here, for all to know. He surfs the clouds, he sails the land, In search of pixies to join his band. Such a beauty withContinue reading “Spaceman Seb”

For what may have been and for John. On the isle of giants beneath the wings of eagles, a flycatcher sings in the bough of an apple tree. It sears the damp air with high-pitched bullets that ricochet off the nunnery rocks and out toward the Ross. Standing midway between its beak and the pebbledContinue reading “Lionheart”