NaPoWriMo 2015 - Day 30

AT LAST

Domineering demagogues

Take what remains of my Self

Until I become at last

Their obedient servant

NaPoWriMo 2015 - Day 29

GONE

Before and after

Contrasts and comparisons

What happened during

NaPoWriMo 2015 - Day 28

NaPoWriMo  BOUND

For the remainder of this journey

I shall assume complete control

Bring you on-board entertainment

Serve you drinks and home cooked food

For economy class passengers

Remember to bring a packed lunch

You may have to sit two to a seat

As the tickets were over-subscribed

For anyone caught in possession

Of NaPoWriMo souvenirs

Emergency exits are open

And your trip has come to an end

I have my own vocabulary

That I think I know how to use

NaPoWriMo 2015 - Day 27

TRENDING

Living by numbers

Statistical progression

Justifies their worth

NaPoWriMo 2015 - Day 26

ANONYMOUS

Caught in the act of living

No data will protect us

From theft of identity

How will we know who we are?

NaPoWriMo 2015 - Day 25

HABIT

Recreational

From peaks of untold pleasure

To tortuous troughs

NaPoWriMo 2015 - Day 24

HEAD… (((ACHE)))

Wondering which one came first

Was it the head or the ache

Did the head produce the ache

Or the ache produce the head

Or did they come together

A special offer package

Doesn’t it do your shed in

Wondering which will go first

These days I’ve no further use

For a headache such as this

So ferociously intense

It feels like it might explode

Sounds like a good solution

Lose my head to lose the ache

NaPoWriMo 2015 - Day 23

LONG LOST

Relative strangers

Casual acquaintances

Faces without names

NaPoWriMo 2015 - Day 22

THINGS

Once confident young naïve

Playing the game by the book

Standing up to be counted

(After all we’re just numbers)

Now those things we couldn’t have

Become the things we don’t need

Soon we’ll all run out of things

And have to begin again

NaPoWriMo 2015 - Day 21

BONFIRE NIGHT

Organised display

Above a tower of flames

Re-igniting the past

NaPoWriMo 2015 - Day 20

ATTRITION

How many lives can we live?

How many deaths must we die?

How many resurrections

Even re-incarnations

(Each one a dilute version

A weak interpretation

Diminished resolution

Increasingly insipid)

Of a former consciousness

Before we are us no more?

NaPoWriMo 2015 - Day 19

WINE GLASS

Shattered underfoot

A memory to savour

Till death us do part

NaPoWriMo 2015 - Day 18

ERGO SUM

Is it my imagination

Or did the Thought Police

In response to a mere whim

Think they’d arrested me

For no obvious reason

And with no apparent notion

They accused me of thinking too much

And charged me with introspection

After much deliberation

And perhaps some cogitation

The jury considered its verdict

Found me guilty of analysis

I was sentenced to contemplation

In a concentration camp

Which is an unusual concept

When you stop and think about it

NaPoWriMo 2015 - Day 17

SNOWFLAKES

Whiter than whiteness

Individuality

Spot the difference

NaPoWriMo 2015 - Day 16

TIME WARP

As April approaches

On the dark horizon

A gift is presented

To see us through summer

The gift of Time Travel

Is ours for the taking

A concept we all grasp

In both hands each year

In the space of an hour

In a time without space

While we’re in our beds sleeping

It creeps up behind us

We all become caught up

In this phenomenon’s spell

That lights up the darkness

And warms our cold hearts

Till the curse of October

That’s uttered in Greenwich

Returns us to mean time

Which means long dark cold nights