skin
skin of mine
skin of mine, and his
skin of mine and his, and so now, yours
skin of mine
skin of yours
skin tight
hold tight
to what is, yours
(for mara’s poetry 101 rehab – skin)
poetry 101 rehab: skin
Poetry 101 Rehab
poetry 101 rehab: dark
dark
long night
night crawling dark thoughts
thoughts spawned dark endless night
night terror cracked dark gnarled fingers
fingers slithering scraping grasping fingers
fingers gnarled dark cracked terror night
night endless dark spawned thoughts
thoughts dark crawling night
night long
dark
(for mara’s poetry 101 rehab – dark)
*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-200mm f/4 lens at 70mm, ISO200, 1/250s and f/8.0, edited in lightroom cc and analog efex pro 2, wet plate filter applied, fingers over eyes*
poetry 101 rehab: recycle
real world in trouble everyone lives in a bubble does any one care about the trouble under so much rubble can it really be so much trouble eventually -
real world in trouble everyone lives in a bubble under so much rubble so, are we really in trouble eventually -
real world in trouble everyone lives in a bubble can it really be so much trouble yes, they will burst our bubble can it really be so much trouble look out, I told you, they’re really gonna burst our bubble eventually -
(for mara’s poetry 101 rehab – recycle)
*shot with iphone 5, edited in snapseed mobile, adverbs reduced, reused and recycled*
poetry 101 rehab: couple
(nijverheidskaai, molenbeek)
(for mara eastern’s poetry 101 rehab – couple)
*shot with nikon d700, nikkor 70-300 mm f/4.0-5.6 lens at 300mm, 1/320s and f/9, edited in lightroom cc, aperture efex pro 2 with multi lens filter applied, poem added in photoshop cc, no couples were harmed in the making of this post*
poetry 101 rehab: sugar
sprinkled
stirred
added
to mask
to obscure
reality harsh bitter life
a cube
a grain
a sprinkle
is that all it takes
to taste
better?
(for mara eastern’s poetry 101 rehab – sugar)
poetry 101 rehab: day
in the space, of a day
what would you say
all the things, you wanted to say
those things about love and longing, fancies and fears
things about war and want, famines and floods
or, maybe just a few words about the space
the space where she lay
in just the space
of a day
(for mara eastern’s poetry 101 rehab – day)
poetry 101 rehab: no
no
nothing
nothing is
nothing is worth
nothing is worth this pain
nothing is worth this pain this
nothing is worth this pain this time
nothing is worth this pain this
nothing is worth this pain
nothing is worth
nothing is
nothing
no
(running man, mariemontkaai, molenbeek)
(for mara eastern’s poetry 101 rehab – no)
*shot with olympus om10, zuiko 50mm f/1.8 lens and ilford delta 3200 black and white film, feel his pain in the grain*
poetry 101 rehab: home
the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned”
― maya angelou
ever hear about the one who was always alone?
how he tried as much as he could to atone
how he woke in fright
looked round for the light
and realised at last that being alone was being at home
(for mara’s poetry 101 rehab – home)
poetry 101 rehab: end
once warm flesh, now cold, stone
remembering, now she was alone
fingers on her skin, tracing, heart racing
opening up, exposed, aching to sing
frozen now, those moments lost
oh how, she had never
wanted it, ever, to
end
(for mara’s poetry101rehab – end)
andy townend 