Krishna accepted “Age Is Youth (From “A World Where” chapbook into “Thoughts And Ideas”. Thankyou, Krishna.
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Screens
it is said make us more aware than ever
of happenings in the world. News
is ongoing, a stream we choose to stand
in, our senses edit the edited flow, step
out when we choose. Heraclitus
is ascribed, “You cannot look twice
at the same river; for fresh waters are
ever flowing in.” and “We look and do
not look at the same rivers; we are,
and we are not.” Awareness, it seems.
Many thanks to the superb “The Bees Are Dead” for publishing my “We Wait For Sick Sunblaze To”
Paul Brookes’ ‘We Wait for Sick Sunblaze to’ is an ode to darkness – and a critique of light in comparison – which manages to transcend the usual tawdry and overtly-gothic glorifications that poets often sink into. Brookes speaks of darkness in a way that makes the reader feel as though it were usurped; deposed and bereft of the credit it deserves – for life and love’s intensity are born from dark rooms; where light brings pain, age and death.
The last third of this poem is particularly poignant, I feel; when Brookes’ Copernican revolution of the light/dark dichotomy takes a turn for the theological that could be taken as either highly blasphemous, or a profoundly pious and honest form of doxology…
Let us know what you think below!
– The Bees Are Dead Triumvirate
Many thanks to the superb “The Bees Are Dead” for publishing my “We Wait For Sick Sunblaze To”
The Lush Time
we snorted white from thenar space,
popped uppers as our hearts matched
the rave of The Farm out of the door
float on to the second floor of a bus
into a luminesent city dancefloor
bright eyes alive to likely lasses.
I Borrow by Paul Brookes
Thankyou to Tasha of Inbetween Hangovers for publishing this poem of mine
distortions. I want to look
like her or him, so I can be
her or him. I buy their perfume,
their makeup to look a million dollars.
I want to be distorted into them.
Only by doing this can I be true
to myself, and who I am. Plastic
surgery would make me feel better.
I could be younger, fresher more vibrant.
Adverts tell me this, because I’m not.
Adverts tell you how to distort yourself
into who you are. Are you with me?
Paul Brookes was poetry performer with “Rats for Love” and his work included in “Rats for Love: The Book”, Bristol Broadsides, 1990. His first chapbook was “The Fabulous Invention Of Barnsley”, Dearne Community Arts, 1993. He has read his work on BBC Radio Bristol and had a creative writing workshop for sixth formers broadcast on BBC Radio Five Live.
Thankyou to Duane for publishing my “A Competence” in his stunning “Poetree”
Thankyou to Duane for publishing my “A Competence” in his stunning “Poetree”
http://duanespoetree.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/paul-brookes-writes.html?m=1
“in AUGUR ation Always A World’s End” Published In “Literally Literary”
Jessica of engrossing Literally Literary has published “in AUGUR ation Always A World’s End”
Jake From “The Creative Café” Kindly Published My “Discoveries”
Jake from The Creative Cafe published My “Discoveries (From ‘A World Where’ chapbook)”
https://thecreative.cafe/discoveries-from-a-world-where-chapbook-677b74c73b9b#.prr30n1i0
“Vacuums” Appears In “Poetry In Form”
“Vacuums” appears in Poetry In Form. Thankyou Rachel.
“The Need” Featured In “The Poet By Day.
My “The Need” kindly featured by Jamie Dedes in The Poet By Day
Under the Mango Sky, a poem … and your Wednesday Writing Prompt
