Wednesday, October 23, 2013

A Poem by John Pursch


Pistachio Operands
 
Punch cards saunter to the neutered tune 
of tenacious anthill soap dish trauma, 
streaming scorned pejoratives 
beneath feisty cube steak siege. 
 
Darkrooms reload, threatening 
entombed Choctaw cruft with traitor fluid, 
itching seepage for artless biplane scuffles. 
 
Swing shift depilatories staple hammocks 
to masticating shanty dwellers before 
chiral onset instigates crepuscular lung landfill. 

Heat almost shames a nearby connubial silo 
to sled down awning feathers, putting up with 
bogus stint mutation chews in steady offal’s 
scintilla of asymptotic nods.
 
Boarding the sweaty seminarians, 
a distant birch tree barks at striplings, 
trending to bubbling serrations 
of equestrian cork. 
 
Bumblebees beget ethereal favoritism, 
deputizing the Queeg of Phalanx in situ, 
flooding keyed thespians 
with cue ball cuneiform.

 
 
John Pursch lives in Tucson, Arizona. His work has appeared in many literary journals and was recently nominated for the Sundress Best of the Net 2012 Anthology. His first book, Intunesia, is available in paperback from White Sky Books at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/whiteskybooks . He’s @johnpursch on Twitter and john.pursch on Facebook.

Monday, October 21, 2013

A Poem by Les Merton


convergence
 
headstones
crosses                    epitaphs
dates                          names
broken urns
praying hands
abandonment
rushes - ferns - brambles – gorse – leaves – nettles
lichen - butterflies – winged angels - snails - weeds
passed over
 generations
 
rest in peace
 
in-a-grave-above-a
soak-away-of-bones
 
 
 
Inspired by Jackson Pollock’s Convergence
 
 
 
Being creative: writing, publishing, editing, performing is a way of life for Cornishman Les Merton who lives in Redruth, Cornwall. He's just edited compiled and published Dialect Poetry an anthology of British regional dialect. He believes use it or lose it applies to all forms of dialect.

Sunday, October 6, 2013

A Poem by Les Merton


O.K.
if you can accept   the treble space
as
            a line break
and the lowercase i 
                        as someone emphasising
                                                this is me
[u cud b red ee 4 unconventional txt]
                                                and understand
UPPERCASE LETTERS in a sentence that
            SCREAM TO THE POINT OF DISTRACTION
And be quoted as thinking ART is a ----
---- diverse range of human activities
            !!!! stop right now !!!!
concentrate I’ll be asking
            ????????????
for $$$$$ * ££££ prizes
O.K.
 
 
Being creative: writing, publishing, editing, performing is a way of life for Cornishman Les Merton who lives in Redruth, Cornwall. He's just edited compiled and published Dialect Poetry an anthology of British regional dialect. He believes use it or lose it applies to all forms of dialect.