Dance, Curious Joy (Keatles Poem)

Dog’s freckled kiss 

on salted skin, 
tasting only winter 
and drinking sin

silver kings that bound to heaven 
with woven wings of Autumn’s child 
a tired prophet sang of shadows
a tired prophet sang
bleat, honey, mild

wild bees shall murmurs blindly
mother flowers a golden burden
lay down your sapphire soul of dreaming 
lay down your soul of sorrows
lay down
lay down in Sunday’s sun
long visions, love

Blushing lily of winter’s smile 
under Monday’s moon
her harvest’s ghosts
bleat
memories of spring 

breathe, pale child 
breathe in

long love in fading sunshine
where fools lips ring
singing curious joy
and sweetest spirits whisper kindly 
and sparkling faces dance to drum



The lyrics are by myself using a combination of words compiled together from the Beatles and John Keats, using the Botnik predictive keyboard www.botnik.org. 

drafting

drafting 

and re- 

drafting 

until time 

is wasted 

i am lying 

in

lavish 

comfort

unsatisfied

Words for Christian

1.

Crawling hands with gasoline 
grey machine

cloud in her satin heart - 
resting beast.

hard faith, beating prayers 
hopeless revolution

2.
tongue red shoes,
shakey soul - -
a bullet tangled
in sugar smoking spiders - 
fingers pick toffee
from the horseman's cheek

angels knees slightly cracked 
mice trip tears and cry

3.
wisest book of fog 
diamond and dogs
lion blood
pocket sleep star 
moonlight lemon hearts 
porcupine clowns on their 
flying talking clock

to future's hangman
adopt a magic laugh
and keep the whale babies safely 





botnik poems, words by David Bowie - www.botnik.org.

bucket by my leaking loo

i miss

my bucket by my leaking loo

the steady drop 

crossing paths with the beat of the hot tap,  tap  tap 

every four hours

i’d start again

and throw the water in the bath

like clockwork 

but before the clocks

had mastered stealing time

my unborn years:

forecast them — already lost

horses toes continue to drum,     drum       drum 

the earthy clay 

but even they have tumbled blindly into 

piles of ticking watch stops 

and can no longer run free

i am still waiting for the rebound

and

i want my time back