Exceptional
The change of name, That belief of being best, Of being superior and above, Of owing nothing and being owed Everything, the carefully Cultivated appearance, The practiced charm, The sweaty… Continue Reading
Richard Pierce – author, poet, painter
The change of name, That belief of being best, Of being superior and above, Of owing nothing and being owed Everything, the carefully Cultivated appearance, The practiced charm, The sweaty… Continue Reading
the horizon is a screen life a drive-in cinema where nothing is real until it’s real the canvas of our pictures a window for others the frame a border the… Continue Reading
It’s not just the voices, Nor the dust and the heat, The flies, and the ceaseless Eruptions from what should Be heaven but is just the sky Heavy with bombs… Continue Reading
I give the finger to the fighter jet And the dark cloud it’s flying through. I’m lucky. I’m not either side of The Gaza border filled with dread At bombs… Continue Reading
progress has made fools of us when we have shaped software into the hardness of learning by rote and carved our own demise into the code of the machines with… Continue Reading
Time bends around this silence, Heavy with the absence of light. The stillness is absolute, halted history, Lasting paralysis, stasis. We had hoped for better. We hope every time. What… Continue Reading
Fragile, meaning. It shatters the morning after, When passion dissipates, when The daylight adds the sharp edges To everything, the sharp edges All things already have, The knowledge that nothing… Continue Reading
I was too busy catching leaves To reverse the seasons, and the Shedding trees matched my Mood on the path along the Stilling river. The sun pools like time now,… Continue Reading
There is a ripeness about the scent of sweat Which suggests a physical task well done, A night of loving, a day of sporting chances, The completion of a longed-for… Continue Reading
To misplace is an accident. To displace an intention. They know no better than To fight, and to kill, to Torture and blame others For what they do. What once… Continue Reading