09 May 2011

Divertimento & prayer

Red Sunset by hyperboreal
Red Sunset, a photo by hyperboreal on Flickr.
Que no me olvide de ti
Y, al contemplar tu sen~al,
Aulle como animal
Bajo el cielo carmesi!

05 May 2011

Amour Parisien

paris 007 by cocosolis
paris 007, a photo by cocosolis on Flickr.
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

The Letter

027 by cocosolis
027, a photo by cocosolis on Flickr.
How angry I felt
When I received the letter
Rejected by machine
Does not feel better

Divertimento Primaveral

monica fairy 13 apr 11 001 by cocosolis
monica fairy 13 apr 11 001, a photo by cocosolis on Flickr.
Naci con la primavera
Una manana de mayo
Mi madre sufrio un desmayo
Cuando me vio salir fuera

Divertimento floral

008 by cocosolis
008, a photo by cocosolis on Flickr.
Angelica, tus amores
Son menuda pesadilla
Son un sembrar en buhardillas
Pensando cosechar flores

03 May 2011

Ebbs out life's little day

l 005 by cocosolis
l 005, a photo by cocosolis on Flickr.
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

20 April 2011

Hunter Gatherer

011 by cocosolis
011, a photo by cocosolis on Flickr.
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

01 April 2011

Blossom shower

Blossom shower by BinaryApe
Blossom shower, a photo by BinaryApe on Flickr.
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...

31 March 2011

The Holy Island

076 by cocosolis
076, a photo by cocosolis on Flickr.
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.

30 March 2011

El regreso de la Montaña

paris 088 by cocosolis
paris 088, a photo by cocosolis on Flickr.
Oh Montaña Espaciana
Hacia el cielo me llevas
Y me das en tus pruebas
Las verdades Cristianas

15 February 2011

Haiku


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Originally uploaded by cocosolis
The municipal park
A dusting of snow
is winter's parting shot

26 January 2011

Big Society


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Originally uploaded by cocosolis
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!

13 January 2011

Gift


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Originally uploaded by cocosolis
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.

11 January 2011

Lullabye Da Da


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Originally uploaded by cocosolis
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

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


Wind Farm Horizon
Originally uploaded by Huw Lynes
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)

20 October 2010

Landscape


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Originally uploaded by cocosolis
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.

09 October 2010

A house not built


Picture 033
Originally uploaded by
cocosolis














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


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Originally uploaded by cocosolis














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...


DSCF3316 small
Originally uploaded by cocosolis
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