Gypsy Hymns
junk heart stakes out
gentle malnutrition
seedlings posing perpendicular prosody
across choppy sea disasters
as gesticulating bureaucrats
wander deserts & gypsy
hymns decline
racial origin
forceful adjectives
hasten to kaleidoscopic horizons
traces on the shoreline
passing scoundrels declare
gaping wounds of love
then whisked off by
amateur chauffeurs
each with splendid haircuts
from 1958 movies
& delicate bone structures
carve intimate knowledge
across these cracks of desire
Locks
locks of industrialized
hair
handfuls torn from cancer cells
deep in the heart of sleeping
beauty fades around corners
time for chatter at hairdressers’ bidding
staying awake the byword
seeing fleeing snakes
& charmers
trampling society’s murk
& desperate dust
waterholes receding
reflecting camel tempers
claws
darkness captures
the misinformation highway
straight from the ministers’ mouths
dissolve.
Clive is a 65-year-old innovative writer and poet connected to the London-based poetry group Writer's Forum. He has been published in many magazines and released five poetry books. His 16,000 word prose poem Shadow Reel is published early July and obtainable through Amazon or the publisher.
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