a time to step back
withold, conceal
review, let go
rethink
steal

a moment
or day
check the mouth
before I say

too much

don't trust
this tongue
or darkenned heart

smarting
starting
badly

torn apart

cut
it out

let the quiet
speak
let the waves
subside
feelings
retreat

what can we do
we're in the poo

carbon is burning
switching our world
turning

life's cycle into
a spiral
of death

this time it's our
extinction
that will be embedded in the rocks
along with our clocks

the day our time ran out

a bit tired
up late last night
preparing a presentation
for year 9/10 students of a
local College
...on ICT and careers

had to stack it with pics and make it
personal

think it went ok
but now
I'm tired
think I'll go to bed

goodnight

oh yes
entered a poem on poetry.com
got a letter back saying I was a
semi-finalist
wanting me to buy the book they were publishing
with my poem in it
no doubt about the yanks!
take your poem
and sell it back to you
lol

fumes from cooking
linger in rooms
and in the morning
last night's fish
hang's in the air
like wrotting balloons

so candles are lit and I
switch on a fan
open the door and
let in the wind

get lost you ghosts of past meals
reminders of culinary failures and fears of
relived moments consumed
just go away

just want to start over
freshly today