Que no me olvide de ti
Y, al contemplar tu sen~al,
Aulle como animal
Bajo el cielo carmesi!
Incidental, short poems in English and Spanish
(lo lamento: mi teclado no tiene acentos!)
"Oh idle reader who with your time regales me
These humble pages will, I hope, amuse -
But should they not, then may at least my Muse
Bestow her grace upon her one-man army"
09 May 2011
05 May 2011
Amour Parisien
Como me gusta
Que seas robusta
Tus largas pestanas
Como negras persianas
Ocultan tu alma
Me roban la calma
Me llevan al cielo
Me tiran al suelo
Que seas robusta
Tus largas pestanas
Como negras persianas
Ocultan tu alma
Me roban la calma
Me llevan al cielo
Me tiran al suelo
Divertimento Primaveral
Naci con la primavera
Una manana de mayo
Mi madre sufrio un desmayo
Cuando me vio salir fuera
Una manana de mayo
Mi madre sufrio un desmayo
Cuando me vio salir fuera
Divertimento floral
Angelica, tus amores
Son menuda pesadilla
Son un sembrar en buhardillas
Pensando cosechar flores
Son menuda pesadilla
Son un sembrar en buhardillas
Pensando cosechar flores
03 May 2011
Ebbs out life's little day
You are a remnant of a distant past
The shining sign of a forgotten time
The light you give is all the more sublime
Since we both know it isn't meant to last
The shining sign of a forgotten time
The light you give is all the more sublime
Since we both know it isn't meant to last
20 April 2011
Hunter Gatherer
I am quite happy and content
To eat what I want to eat
But my joy is not complete
When you are not in my tent
So, listen to this lament
I pen while I grill my meat:
My heart struggles to beat
Too far away from your scent
To eat what I want to eat
But my joy is not complete
When you are not in my tent
So, listen to this lament
I pen while I grill my meat:
My heart struggles to beat
Too far away from your scent
01 April 2011
Blossom shower
Is there a sight in Spring more awesome
Than a tall tree covered in blossom?
Is there a sweeter sound in Spring
Than that of birds that cheerily sing?
But then the thick fat drops of rain
Tap loud against my weary brain
And blackened clouds cover the sky -
To another job I must apply...
Than a tall tree covered in blossom?
Is there a sweeter sound in Spring
Than that of birds that cheerily sing?
But then the thick fat drops of rain
Tap loud against my weary brain
And blackened clouds cover the sky -
To another job I must apply...
31 March 2011
The Holy Island
How the wind blows, the clouds
How they all sail away, the world
How it carries on spinning, the oceans
How they return my driftwood to the shore.
How they all sail away, the world
How it carries on spinning, the oceans
How they return my driftwood to the shore.
30 March 2011
El regreso de la Montaña
Oh Montaña Espaciana
Hacia el cielo me llevas
Y me das en tus pruebas
Las verdades Cristianas
Hacia el cielo me llevas
Y me das en tus pruebas
Las verdades Cristianas
15 February 2011
26 January 2011
Big Society
Ya no espero, con angustia, tu rechazo
Ya no temo como un niño tu condena:
Ahora soy un eslabon de esa cadena
que te mantiene erguido, huevonazo!
Ya no temo como un niño tu condena:
Ahora soy un eslabon de esa cadena
que te mantiene erguido, huevonazo!
13 January 2011
Gift
Give me the gift of alcohol
and thus obscure my senses
That gift's worth more than the hollow gong
of a thousand present tenses.
and thus obscure my senses
That gift's worth more than the hollow gong
of a thousand present tenses.
11 January 2011
Lullabye Da Da
My darling went over the ocean
My darling went over the sea
My darling caused such a commotion
When she fell down from the tree
My darling went over the sea
My darling caused such a commotion
When she fell down from the tree
08 January 2011
New year
Picture 035
Originally uploaded by cocosolis
The tram that gently sways from side to side
The street, still and quiet in the snow
In this stranger's heart a city grows
and so I dream of Manchester with pride.
09 December 2010
Divertimento, seasonal if a bit naff
I think of you when the snow covers
The windmill farms to the North of here
I think of you and with horror discover
My heart drew warmth just from having you near.
(Photo: Wind Farm Horizon, H. Lynes)
The windmill farms to the North of here
I think of you and with horror discover
My heart drew warmth just from having you near.
(Photo: Wind Farm Horizon, H. Lynes)
20 October 2010
Landscape
Before this was a road, there was a creek -
A channel water carved into the rock.
Now in its stead stands an office block:
A vale of glass, and wood, and yellow brick.
A channel water carved into the rock.
Now in its stead stands an office block:
A vale of glass, and wood, and yellow brick.
09 October 2010
A house not built
This was never a house, though I had all the stones
and beams of oak were ready for the task.
All I was missing was a piece of land
Which was there to be mine if I'd bothered to ask
But sooner I would have broken a bone
or severed with an axe this, my right hand.
The beams I burnt - this didn't keep me warm;
The stones I left, piled up on golden sand.
Landing
The vessel's keel made contact with the sand:
We disembarked, with weapons at the ready.
Our first steps were short, and not steady:
taking the measure of undiscovered land.
07 September 2010
I'll go and freeze...
I'll go and freeze my bollocks off
to watch my son play on the pitch
and hope a ball will help me teach
the value of our bonds of love
I'll go get drenched in icy rain
to watch his team concede defeat
and hope he learns there's one heartbeat
- and only one - between joy and pain
I will endure the seasons' worst
to stand a-tiptoe on the white line
shouting embarrasing encouragement
and hope that when my day is over
and I'm in terminal decline
some of this care and love I can recover
to watch my son play on the pitch
and hope a ball will help me teach
the value of our bonds of love
I'll go get drenched in icy rain
to watch his team concede defeat
and hope he learns there's one heartbeat
- and only one - between joy and pain
I will endure the seasons' worst
to stand a-tiptoe on the white line
shouting embarrasing encouragement
and hope that when my day is over
and I'm in terminal decline
some of this care and love I can recover
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