Month: May 2015
Holmfirth Stone
The Employer and the Boggarts
Employer bought a new mine,
according to employer,
worked by squat, hairy boggarts
Boggarts told their children: “We’ll
fight.’
boggarts told employer “You cannot
mine here. It is ours
and you have no right to it”
Employer said ‘Ive paid good money
for the mine and by right
I ought to be able to use it.’
Pair argued for a whole day,
before agreeing employer
mine pit on condition
they share the coal. Employer,
being a sly old fox wanted
coal for himself. “Which part
of the coal will you take for your share? Below ground or above it?”
Boggarts agreed to below. When time came boggarts went below, and shocked
to see rich coal moving on belts upwards where they could not profit of it.
Angrily, boggarts said “Next
time, we’ll have above.
Employer closed mine
landscaped the land. When time
came, employer stood over his creation
while boggarts were angry
as no coal came from below.
Boggarts told their children
“We do not have wage,
cannot afford mortgage”
Boggart wives and husbands,
told their spouses ‘It’s not your
fault, it’s mine.’ and divorced.
When time came Boggarts left.
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from ‘hawsongs’
I am May
home to fey
orchard ermine,
pear leaf blister,
rhomboid tortrix,
light emerald,
lackey, vapourer,
fruitlet mining tortrix,
small eggar and lappet
folded wings are
doors attracted to light
collect my fragrant
white flowers,
red fruits
and bathe
in fleshdecay
to fold into sex,
give birth
avoid my blades
I always ask blood
of the careless
I will always ask
of you
what you do not wish to give
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dream o t’ tree cross
Al tell thee best dream av ad
in any midneet while folk were fast on
a sees a reet cross tree,
a ghoast in plated gold
ringed by shiny moon fascinator,
jewels like worth summat glow worms
rahnd base, five more ont cross beam.
Throngs o’ God’s angels tacked on it. This were no scam artists cross but every heaven spirit and earth folk had peepers on it: a see universe agog
And me, aware of wrong doing,
that native wood-beetle, eyed it too
felt a shiver of glory
from that cross barkskin beaten gold
wi jewels suited a cross a Jesus
and tha knows through all that gold barkskin
rattled folks bloodless yammering
how bleeding as stained crosses rightside.
Harrard an horrored
a that sullied wi leaked blood.
a lay there yonks
in agog sorrow fort Saviourcross
till me lug oyles heard glimmering cross pipe up:
“Ages since, I fetch back I were hacked
dahn at holt-edge, lugged off, hauled
shoulder heaved, squared top on a hill
adsed to a cross to carry wrong doers.
Then I see Christ, his brazen ready fort hoisting. For us there’s no flitting, no shirking on God’s mind to: I might a fell on these folks. Then
God himsen, med himsen naked, to naked brazen,
laid on us afore throngs of eyes
when saving on folks flitted in his bonce.
A shuddered at his touch, afeard splintering,
A had hold, I were raised as a cross,
hold heaven king high, afeard cracking. They tapped dark iron in us: scars tha still can see,
a cannot bear ’em stroked. They jeered at both on us. A felt his blood seep from his side
as he sighed himsen upards.
Av seen pain on this hill
saw Christ as on vicious rack
then roilin’ storm clouds, death to sunblaze,
covered o’er that blaze on God: a glowering gloom creation’s sorta: Christ on cross tree.
A see folk come forard, a felt splintered
as if adsed, but gev ne sen.
I were in their dannies, gore-wet, nail gashed.
They laid him art, a dead-weight atter ordeal,
final knackeredness. Then afore
murderers peepers, those folk med
a stone oyle and set Christ inside it.
Then late int day flitted knackered : left
Christ by himsen.
Long atter soldier’s lottery natter and cold rigor on Christ’s limbs,
us kept our places, drahned wi blood.
Then they sets to
felling us,
bury us in delved grahned, but disciples, friends fahned us…
put on us barkskin o’ gold an silver.
so nar tha knows, how sorra warped
me flesh, how malice worked with splintering iron. Now it’s time for earth foak and whole marvel on creation to cow eye this sign.
God-son were racked on us, so now ma glimmerin’ haunts heavens, can heal
all who afeard for us. Am honoured
by Christ above all forest trees as God favoured Mary above all women folk.’
Then by mesen, thrilled, overface mesen wi spirit high, let mesen rave that I can seek what a av seen,
saviour-cross: a peace with mesen that yearns a help on earth. Few mates still livin’ nar : most are int manor on heaven, av fetched upards. Now, daily, I listen art
fort cross-tree in my earthly nappin’,
to lead us from this flitting life
into great manor of heaven
where God has set a right feast.
May God-Son and Ghoast be mates, who were nailed to death for folk ages since : a saviour as gin us life, that we may put wood int oyle in heaven.
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allow
allow me to see
the skull in your passion
the teeth in your desire
allow me to caress
the bones of your delight
the sinews of your breath
allow me to delve
the niches of longing
the cleft of floods
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