Peter Lilly: Poems

Sullen pestilence gnaws tunnels through  my foundations like expanding cracks in pressurised glass. I lose my symmetry. Hot disappointment dances these wrinkles between my eyebrows. And I'll never  again  complain  of boredom. In this cell,  I am the nucleus. Echoes of my past  bite my skin in all directions to manipulate an exclusive existence and  tear me asunder. Hot disappointment patronises and accuses, my effort is insufficient; I cannot duplicate myself and this cell. I must be one. Existential sedatives delicately massage my unrelenting questions into uneasy slumber, and the stimulants release exhaust in genius foghorn complaints. Hot disappointment singes my jealousy in the latest realisation that the cure is better than any symptom anaesthetic and the cure wants to talk, always. Beloved sorrow sharpens teeth and nails at the parting of every friend, pupils still sparking questions and ...

There's a dissonance in the rain, tiny moments of silence interrupted by repeating aqueous impact, then running into streams; the capillary veins to the sea-sky heart, and out to the artery clouds. The earth respires in water and everything can breathe. Written May 2011.

I have missed the sun: softening the pavements with blissful warmth; enticing petals to open and expose their reproduction in splayed peacock beauty; immediately splicing reels of nostalgic summers, ice cold beers and fascinating fires, projecting them red  through closed eyelids; pulsing a single tear, the best kind of tear, from the well of appreciation to tenderly evaporate from skin cheeks; Causing what was dull to glisten and deepening every colour with respiration and the smell of photosynthesis; re-igniting the love of water that shocks the throat with cold, suspending the need to breathe so one may fully appreciate all that is reflected and absorbed; somehow diminishing stresses and concerns in the truth of essential relaxation. Yes, I have missed the sun. (inspired by Vitamin D) Written on that first really sunny day in April 2011.