Thursday 26 January 2012

Down

Here lies a dragon
cold like milk fish underground,
lifeless for fables.

@ Steven Francis poems 2010

Wednesday 18 January 2012

Paper .dot

Achieve naught but stalks of withering columns
grating on an eye less bed as they sway in harmony
to music of the empty tribes.
The Great S.... ! Alive on parchment but doomed
to meet his End like flies and rats,
to writhe in earnest in his earthly pit.
Or the Clever E..... the wire man,
his icy wit now charred from eternal nights,
a tongue as dry as a leather belt and mute as sand.
All fall down,
all fall down,
both pretty and the wise
all fall down...

@ Steven Francis poems 2012