Poem 154 - Keeno

Keeno

In the last phase of our relationship

We played a game of chicken

To see who

Would say it first, who would ask

A question, profess their inner most

Romance.

Only for the other to slam them for their

Positive forward thinking, to laugh at the prospect

Of a life together, to gurn at the greatness and power of love

And what it can translate to.

We worked to disarm each other until our arms

Longed for no one else and the story we wrote flowed

Through our broken letterbox into a place where you and I

Are friends and companions swinging on a chair we build with our hand and smiles.

I’ll admit it … I’m a keeno.

But even now, I’ll only say it if I’m

Sure you will too.

Poem 153- Plugged into the Mains

Plugged into the Mains

I’ve been electrocuted. The electrical

Spark bounces around my body

Firing my heart and artillery to secure

The perimeter.

The shock permeates all layers, curls my

Toes, jump starts my brain and prepares me

For battle. This year has been a preparation.

A boot camp for the next stage of my life and

I grasp for it, tased so hard I

Can’t stop my eyes from flashing and impairing

The vision I am to create.

This is your life.

This is your shock.

Only you spin it and turn it

Until it becomes the renewable

Energy source that powers everything.

Poem 152- The Third Best Poet in the World

The Third Best Poet in the World

I recently met the tertiary prizewinner of the World Poetry Grand Slam. She

Is the third best poet in the world. I am not. She

Stands and recites her amazing version of

Her life story as if regaling a friend over

Coffee when in fact she is in a room full of strangers. Strange how

One person can make you feel so much. Her

Expression expresses the feelings I had suppressed

Of confusion and love

Of connections to far off names and places I am now so pleased

Never to have to return to. She

Is calm, confident and she uses her pain to fuel her power. I am not

The third best anything in the world but

I too have pain to harness and the opportunity to express...

Thank you for reminding me.