#haiku by @banjolawson [Home]
Fremantle is a / cleansing breeze scouring the rust / of Perth from my soul.
A troll has your soul / nestled in his broken hands / weakly fluttering
Soft the palate grazed / To caress the heart anon / Ease the ending day
Random follows cast / A smile withdrawn unreturned / Never was a smile
Heat oppressing breath / Parched tongue coated red with dust / A forgotten song
Ahhhh the swift release / of flatulent retention / shifts the belt a notch
Do you know someone / by the wear upon their sole / or upon their soul
Wield your clarion / call to all your noble deeds / altruism dies
In my armoured suit / rusted joints fresh abraded / stepping to the sun
Interaction lost / Twitter dear you break my heart / are you dying young?
Severance of stream / a broken web catches naught / choirs are more than one
Foot in mouth disease / bruising others as I gag / on these pungent toes
Cold day long awake / shrugging off a heavy shroud / fear will swift abate
Cower in my cave / thunder rolling far above / far from roiling rage
Fear drives addiction / to sweet seducing rancour / the embrace of hate
Hammer at my hand / every problem soon becomes / a nail to be struck
If I hurl my shoe / for your many quiet crimes / little good I do
Observe the observed / observing the observer / whilst you wait and watch
Shoulder at the till / turn the soil alluvial / bring the dead to life
Though at times you yearn / to linger at this chapter / every page shall turn
Stop to take a breath / feel the wind rampaging by / when no longer still
Sometimes the damage / done to something gleaming once / lends it purpose new
Diablo dancing / upon the length glistening / of Machete's steel
Crowds are wise in ways / those who hold the microphones / less and less contain
Dance upon a pin / humming tunes that many sing / cradled deep within
Placed within a queue / agitating what to do / hands all a flutter
Time a currency / that we all do value great / yet we steal it so
That looked far better / in the process of egress / than mastication
Trembling wings flutter / churn this fear into butter / tastes ambrosial
Everyone it seems / draws today upon my ire / common thread is me
Even this white lie / has barbs beyond intention / I can hear you bleed
Conventions of art / fulfil a descriptive role / never cast in stone
Ask me no questions / no lies will I give to you / at least not today
You are what you eat / as I nibble on these nuts / this I can embrace
What foul conception / some roiling broth deep within / birthed this from my bum
Is it rude to point / someone's gaze towards the sky / with hooks in their flesh
I am a random / person with a hidden face / peeking through the hedge
When the gas is on / release not the rectal cough / lest thy sphincter singe
Seasons come and go / we are all but visitors / wherever we are
Vociferously / braying random thoughts about / inflict your high on all
Ploughing stroke by stroke / fallow fields beneath a yoke / of your own design
The dog snaps at a fly / knows that it will never catch / frustration within
Forward but with faith / to break my fall or my skull / come what will today
I am what I eat / sloughing cheese that runs with red / lumpy greasy fare
Purpose sought and found / cast a lure into my path / draw upon my dreams
Grips tight the temple / with each myocardial / contraction a squeeze
Sad and lonely gaze / transfixed by this static screen / drawn into this gyre
Hear that gentle tap / reverberate far and wide / echoes without end
How many pizzas / must a hungry man consume / and how much cola
Footy larrikins / staggering across the news / someone sinks a yard
Every day once passed / leaves me a little older / and slightly fatter
Such diversity / gives us equanimity / if we choose to see
Steady tread persists / through a quagmire drawing down / every single step
water does not hold / anger beyond momentum / or your wrath within
If it's yellow leave / it to mellow but if it's / brown then flush it down
Hubris weighs the heart / interfering with the soul / drawing anger in
Heaving up this husk / along paths ammoniac / still a blissful toil
when all whom you see / fucking arseholes seem to be / maybe it is thee
settle down the storm / of a boiling roiling mind / time to make a choice
When the wait is long / and the chilli rather strong / everybody farts
Justify the means / by your claim of noble ends / that shit will not fly
Take all that you can / rip your gold from hungry hands / one day they shall stand
But a quiet cry / amplified a thousandfold / resonates afar
Is there anything / more repulsive than a sense / of entitlement
eight days and counting / television silent sits / mourn it I do not
Recidivists caught / those white-collar parasites / greed their undoing
Clocks are ticking down / the metronome of many / Gaddafi deposed
Summer soft exhales / a fogging expiration / drawing out the dark
If you were starving / to what depths would you descend / so stoops the addict
Build your house of cards / marvel at this edifice / careful not to breathe
With the dawn chorus / some complain at the tumult / some complain no more
I am a nightmare / machine walking in your shade / a dream factory
Mathilde awaits / I can hear her whispering / snug within my dreams
Tear your gaze away / bring your focus to the day / moments never stay
Flowers in your hair / rosed miasma everywhere / shit still taints the air
Your eyes a window / I can see your soul slither / shying from the light
Quietly you shout / cast your epithets about / no one sees your pout
Toddlers do not care / to frequent a chic cafe / sip babyccino
When did love begin / dormant seed germinating / lets the rain drop in
Every step a fart / waddle forward anus clenched / puddle out a shart
The resurrection / on this day all sing in praise / of zombie Jesus
Chocolate bunny / nestled on the barren floor / when the stone rolled back
War an evil beast / clutching many fallen souls / to a rancid breast
Perch precarious / high upon your paper throne / laurels at your brow
Perch precarious / high upon your paper throne / laurel on your brow
When you close your door / the sun no longer loiters / her embrace you miss
When the sunshine wanes / weather patterns matter not / if it shines in you
Storm migrating in / calling to a lesser self / snug behind my eyes
The clock is ticking / a metronome marking each / step towards the grave
Irony perches / upon your doughy shoulder / crapping down your back