VivieBC

VivieBC
I wonder

Thursday, 16 March 2023

HISTORY (12/1994)

 In the course of History

There is very little change,

Over what seems normal 

And what seems strange


To the stranger with the woman

She's a pot of contradiction

She's fickle , she's feckless

Like a heroine out of fiction

Not to be trusted

But the truth of the attraction is, 

She is as hot as mustard



To the woman with the stranger

He's a welcome relief

From the vision of decay

of her original belief

He's tall , he's trim, and handsome

Like the man she's left at home

But she's tired of all the picking 

And's gone after another bone. 

Wednesday, 15 March 2023

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT (3/5/2012)

 

Sit quietly now and ponder

On what happens next.

These moments so delicately

Poised amid the whispering

Miasma of all things mundane.

And soon the door to bang , 

The phone to ring

The cat to miaow

The kettle to boil,

The bones to ache,

The eyes to droop

The soul to evaporate

frightened, petrified

In the corner of your internetting

intercepting interconnecting plans and 

interruptions of the days, months,

Years and into beyond.

Stay silent for a brevity moment

A focus, a purpose, a meaning

A question " What happens next?"

MOTHERS ANGELS (3/1/2016)

 

What matters what Papers

What Pens do fly or flow

When the Southerly wind 

which blew you back 

is trapped 

and nowhere to go?

The babes escape through the meanest of cracks

They don't look back to their roots or packs

Hightailing to the coast

The coast matters most

The air, the see, the soil

Mothers angels

Monday, 13 March 2023

AM I HAPPY AGAIN? (1996 january)

 Am I happy again?

Have I fell on my feet?

Is the light in the tunnel at the end of my street?

Can I now wear posh clothes and drive in a car?

And have no more fear of whoever you are?

Its time well awaited

Its time to come clean

Its time to join up 

With the living machine

Me? I headed out across the country

To the moon, to the stars to the sky

Do don't try to hold me down,

Im on my way to claim my crown

And Fade away 

COMING BACK COLD (circa 1981)

 Its no good coming back cold

To frosted windows 

And open doors.

Its no good stretching the night out 

So you won't sleep alone

Take it up once more, 

Hold your hand out and say 

Come back warm me and guarantee

That a heart beat

Keeps all the fears away 

Come on home slowly , come on.

Its no good coming back cold,

To Draining silence

And empty chairs.

Its no good closing your eyes up tight 

In the hope that it'll only be one night more 

Take it up once more, Strip the make-up away

Turn round lady and just agree

That your blood runs warm with the thought of going home slowly, 

Go  on home slowly, go on .