9/24/2016 1 Comment Two Poems by Jonathan BealeSurviving After El Anatsui Akua’s Surviving Children 1996 Made of shards Whips and guns, they attempted To be The Blind Puppeteer On cutting the brine And on another briny day Passing by, and leaving This blistered driftwood Gatherings. A crowd? A forgotten decaying key In some defunct dock. The elements, here, are universal From every Empire since Rome to the here – and - now. There is an irreconcilable flaw Afterwards – The Fredensborg Blindly tripped on its way home From St Croix to Tromøy The sea adopted more children As its own: and slowly offered Pieces of their past Back up as their rebirth. In the now: gone forever Stepping along pressure of life – pressure of speech SP---------EE-------CHA! Can you hear me: He taunts me He taunts me I can beat him the walls before me A dark dank shadowy place I can beat him, I can – (like in some fourth dimension) Crossword – constantly Changing - meaning Slippery as eels Sharp as razors Stinging vinegar mirror reflection There is no flat earth Here in now time deteriorates in my flat Walk walk walking away I read - the answer eludes me. Aloud me the game changes tap tap tread tap tap ping boom boom boom Paganini endlessly plays in my head Ever increasing tempo faster faster The devil is never far away Around the corner teasing me Taunting me I see the ashes after the fire. Bio: Jonathan Beale has 500 plus poems published in such journals as: Danse Macabre, Poetic Diversity, Down in the Dirt, Deadsnakes Review, The Bitchin Kitsch, Ygdrasil, The Beatnik Cowboy, The Jawline Review, Bluepepper, Jellyfish Whispers, The Outsider, Yellow Mama, In Between Hangovers, and Your One Phone Call. His work has appeared in such books as ‘Drowning’ (Scar publications) and ‘The Poet as Sociopath’ (Scar publications). He is currently working on his second volume. His first collection of poetry ‘The Destinations of Raxiera’ is published by Hammer & Anvil. www.amazon.co.uk/Destinations-Raxiera-Jonathan-Beale-ebook/dp/B018F6GWQ6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1452199641&sr=1-1&keywords=jonathan+beale He studied philosophy at Birkbeck College London and lives in Surrey England.
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Nicole Surginer
9/25/2016 11:08:35 am
I tremendously enjoyed these poems. Jonathan Beale is a poet with a beautifully creative mind who writes with polish and depth.
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