images of pain |
911 Dragging me through the Ultimate obscenity, Ashes of voices Ruin and Death are Grey - bright life's shocked orange choir Fled, all colour bled (after the WTC twin towers massacre of 11/9/01) ............................................................................ Swastika dances - Little girls carefully taught To die as they're told (watching 'Louis & the Nazis' at breakfast 23/12/03, after the conviction of Holly & Jessica's murderer) Crush bar, powder room, Flop house, crash pad, broken home, The earth moved for us (50,000 die in earthquake as Bam collapses, 26/12/03 05h26) A head rolls In Iraq - at the Mirror A head rolls (Nick Berg, Piers Morgan, end of the line 14/05/04) Baghdad Fleet Street Heads sacked (15/05/04) Unprotected txt Junk males capital litter Vowel cancer (20/05/04) This was your Rapture; I hope you were satisfied - Thousands in Heaven. (7/01/05-after the Boxing Day Tsunami) Noon, Saddleworth Moor - Vistas to die for. Somewhere, The bones of children (20/02/05) Blackcurrant time, dusk - Sky on fire, mountains on fire, Leaves scream in the wind (July 7th 2004-fierce & strange storm sweeps UK from SW to NE) Gales and May blossom I was killed again today They bring cut flowers (19/05/06-another school stabbing.) Today is crying Even the seabirds muted Your face was yellow (13/4/08 - close friend unwell) ........................................................................... Szechuan There is too much pain To put into words. I weep For broken China. (17/5/08-5 days after the Szechuan earthquake) Broken promises - The pied piper of Szechuan Came for your children (18/5/08-6 days after the Szechuan earthquake) Sweet girl, sleep softly - Rock pillows, concrete coverlet Be my lost embrace (18/5/08-6 days after the Szechuan earthquake) At 14h28 Break time, the end of lessons, No more school. Screaming. (18/5/08-6 days after the Szechuan earthquake) May '08 - crunch time. Walls fall, roofs and men cave in, Little lives aborted. (1000s of children lost in Szechuan, the Commons pass the Embryology Bill. 19/05/08) ............................................................................ The eye of Heaven Sees you, mean strawberry thief, And the drowned thousands (18/5/08-a fortnight after the Burma cyclone) Threatening thunder Red mist blood on the carpet The clash of antlers (Men at war - Oct 2nd 2008) Thursday - Betws train. Snow printed, child pacified. Haiti in ruins. (14/01/10 - solo excursion to get snow out of my system; Quake mag 7 Jan 12th wrecks Port au Prince killing tens of thousands) The 42nd Mother's Day without a card Or a daffodil (14/03/10. As usual.) coma - I'm inside my locked home, not answering, waiting for daylight (6/06/10 - after Richard Hammond & Stirling Moss compare race-car crashes) too hot and too high only time runs out - what’s left burning and crying (Fire at Pudding Lane 1666 - 2/07/2010) interviewing pain in 17 syllables safer in prison |