Tenacious

Tenacious, asked one of my friends for a random word, they said tenacious (just to be awkward im sure) et voila.

Bond, a glue, an adhesive, binding glue,

Joins you and I,

Me and you,

Together something there,

Which coincides with air,

Forces us together,

Tenacious, firm a hold

Forever living, forever told.

 

Ex 13/9

The Folley

Standing, desolate
the building lies,
sleeping, undisturbed
under the everchanging skies.
The people who have been past,
their life, their being dies,
but the chapel, remembers them,
quiet, listening,
still it stands.

Visitors gaze, question
it's existance
each of its days, and
how it achieved
this state, disrepair,
silence,
but beautiful and ever listening,
keeping and making,
steeping and shrouding,
secrets, the secrets
of their past,
its present,
the future.
It will nurture
and keep alive.

Ex 10/8th

The folk song

Just come back from stewarding a couple of days at a folk week, I love the music so much, and the atmosphere is so strange and lively.

The folk song

I can not sing like you.
Can not play like you,
but let me listen,
because when I do,
I can hear a thousand voices,
singing to me alone,
I hear emotion,
I hear of ancient love,
I hear of ancient sadness,
It teaches me something about everything,
and everyone.

Ex 24/8

Listen to 'lemon tree' by peter, paul and mary

Pensive

 I haven't posted in this blog for a very long time, so i'm coming back !

Pensive

Why don't you follow us? Keep the right side of that door?
Because, law, i still abide by it.
Why can't you move on? Forget that which happened before?
Because, knowledge, I still know it.
Why can't you be happy? Why don't you smile more?
Because, happiness, i overthought it.

Pegs, each one a smile,
hang me out to dry,
permenant, unmoveable.
The line of thought.
I hang.

17/6

'Come down'

Step down
from your high horse,
change that frown
set your features to a new course.
It wouldn't hurt to smile
at me
it wouldn't be hard to look
at me.
But you just like everyone to think
you are the one who came out worse.
16/6

whispered words

They hang between us in the air
but neither of us gave them life.
Theres a red viel for us to share
but in the way is a wall, of fear, of strife.

We have to trust we feel the same,
that when the words come alive,
we'll both breathe into them, in no feign.
and to keep them living, we must promise to strive.

You could always turn and walk away,
theres always a risk, our love will turn grey,
if i say the words, neither of us can say,
Then, i'll be too afraid to beg you to stay.

Ex

-EJ

The Story of the Blind Man

At birth, his eyes weren't open
but his mind was introduced to a whole new world,
he lived as if he hadn't been robbed of a important token,
he lived, and to him new things unfurled.

He stood for hours and listened
to things we never hear,
he couldn't see your faces but he knew you through and through,
he didnt need to stand near.

he never saw the colour,
of natures million hues
but the way in which he could discover,
noone ever knew.

He understood everything,
took his loss in his stride,
of the senses he had, he was the king.
Everyone, of him should hold a high pride.

Ex

-EJ

The Personification of The Lost Love

Theres a woman in the corner,
A pink eerie mist creeps around her feet.
Theres a atmosphere of knowledge.
As if to this she is no foreigner.
Her eyes observe.

Her Skin is pale, white and young,
her lips are swollen, red, stark against her icy skin.
Her broken harp, now half strung.
Noone is watching.

She holds the instrument carefully.
She cradles it with her arm,
she shakes slightly, fearfully,
Her eyes remembering.

The garment she wears is perfect,
the dress and viel, simple, white and pure,
The gash across her chest its only defect.
She stares you down.

Her hair is long and greasy,
her posture, cowering and defeated,
her eyes lowered, her gait uneasy.
The others are watching.

The corner is empty,
of happiness and hope,
the image of opposites,
it holds plenty,
but I'm not there to help you cope.

Restring my harp's grace,
lift up my viel,
and look upon an empty space.

Ex

-EJ