When the MAC is under attack
From the past
From the past
The echos of silent chambers resound around the battleless brain
Causing strains
Causing strains
Mental strains and regaining Paradise with Allegro and the motionless audience
Absorbing the Concerto in the final standing
When the Chinese are pounding the phones for an encore.
Always leave us wanting more, Shantideva
And the emptiness of following Krishnamurti’s chair
When the dies at the end of the Godfather
Leaving our souls aware of the Trilogy.
Uncategorized
Repairing the Great Divide
Script
School lewdness
Left me reeling
Graduate considerations
Consciously deceiving
Unable to talk about me
Not happy
Playing the field
Stocks without yield
The litigation of the Order
The injunctions of the disruption
Collateral disorder
Buying and selling
Waiting in the wings
Banks with things
News from Doha that slings
Mud and hyper-mania addresses
Women won’t be wearing their dresses
Waiting in silence
The waves are so deep
The weeks and months journeys are steep
There was nothing left to do
But to wait for you
My truly accompanied guide
There were so many things I tried.
Music
Bryan Adams is at number one in the U.K. for 16 weeks with Everything I Do in 1991
Eric Clapton releases Layla in 1970
Billy Joel releases Uptown Girl in 1983
Queen release Bohemian Rhapsody in 1975
George Michael releases Carless Whisper in 1984
Destiny’s Child release first album in 1998
En Vogue release Hold On in 1990
Salt-N-Pepa release Let’s Talk About Sex in 1991
Montell Jordan releases This is How We Do It in 1995
Michael Jackson releases Thriller in 1984
Black and White airs on Top of the Pops in 1991
U2 release The Joshua Tree in 1987
Pulp release Common People in 1995
Oasis release Definitely Maybe in 1994
Garth Brooks releases Standing Outside the Fire in the U.K. in 1993
Billy Ray Cyrus releases Achy Breaky Heart in 1992
Nirvana release Smells Like Teen Spirit in 1991
Billy Ocean releases Caribbean Queen in 1984
Dr Dre releases The Chronic in 1992
Snoop Dogg releases Gin and Juice in 1994
2pac killed in drive by shooting in 1996
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince number one in the U.K. with Boom Shake the Room in 1993
N.W.A. release Niggaz for Life in 1991
Nigel Kennedy performs The Four Seasons in 1989
Nitin Sawhney releases Beyond Skin in 1997
Talvin Singh releases Anokha in 1997
Peter Gabriel and Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan perform at VH1 Music Awards show in 1996
Depeche Mode perform 101 concert at Pasadena Rosebowl in 1988
Erasure release A Little Respect
Sting leaves The Police to go solo 1983
I see Sting three times on Brand New Day tour 2000-2002
Genesis play Knebworth in 1990
Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016
Jimi Hendrix performs at Woodstock in 1969
Miles Davis releases So What in 1959
Whitney Houston releases I Will Always Love You in 1992
Craig David releases Rewind in 1999
Bon Jovi release Slippery When Wet in 1986
Guns n Roses release Sweet Child o’ Mine in 1987
The Rolling Stones release Satisfaction in 1965
The Beatles release Revolver in 1966
ABBA release Dancing Queen in 1976
Bee Gees release Stayin’ Alive in 1977
John Lennon releases Imagine in 1971
Madonna releases Material Girl in 1984
Midge Ure joins Ultravox in 1979
Harry Connick Jr releases We Are In Love in 1990
Simply Red release Stars in 1992
Tracy Chapman releases Tracy Chapman in 1988
Marvin Gaye releases I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Bob Marley releases One Love in 1977
Concerts I have been to
Sting, Simply Red, Harry Connick Jr, Howard Jones, Midge Ure, Depeche Mode, Nitin Sawhney, Ravi Shanker, Tracy Chapman, Anuradha Padhwal, A R Rahman, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams
Polarity
The poet’s boss
The landmine’s cost
Septuagenarian can see through
Walkabout Bar is new growth
Walk through sheet is coming up tops
Telling all with kisses who will sell up shop:
The Shoop Shoop Song
Snoop won’t be long.
:: Lunchtime laptop laughter
>> Writer’s block at 60 with daughter
How much can I write?
Don’t give up without a fight
Each verse is new to me
Yesteryears patterns were there for them to see
Over the hill of history
Noble Truths and Estate and Properties
The lines just got fiercer and fiercer
Free and fine
Rhyming and timing
Representing rhetoric
The current climate is changing
(Change without a face)
Words that spread around the room
I When will the last page come?
II Is all destroyed by four fingers typing and an adjacent thumb?
New(s) Traffic
Stalemate
There’s water on the Thames
The same misunderstanding again
The unwritten Latin is lain on the fences
Where the Oxen cross the ford
And lay the leg-up to The Legitimate.
There are ways forward that nobody discusses
As the reliant on the News are forbidden access
To forthcoming influences
And nudges from the evil empire.
Pyre
& Omens.
The confusion that will reign when the Spanish King resigns
Is not the forbidden knowledge for the Sixth Form College
As the print media churches out matters for them
And leaves the 60-year-old behind to “WAKE UP!”
: Shut the Fuck Up, Fat Cat
: {There are ways of speaking politely}
Execute this on a Boardroom floor,
With Michael Jackson {*Moonwalking*} on top of it.
Duh
Disdh
Duvh
Discdh
… is not my luRrRrv-AH!
That was about it
The long, the thick and the thin of it.
And nothing was left to do but embellish it
For the devil in the Literati
Who wanted a new Review (?)
And some sandals underfoot, so they too could be called loathed.
Greek Boats
Ships parading the innocence of havens
Slaves to yoga trekkers in the Pune and Punjab
Between the loins of the ladies of the lavishly outlaid in the London lewd lardy dah.
That will go far,
When the censors kick in and block the blockages even further: –
Charring Cross and the man stranded with Naipaul
(…“is that all???!”)
It’s all I know this afternoon: It was studying for the L.P.C.
Jury’s are in and out of the place
Like magical Nike on Mace
And the emanating nuisance of intention
Is the virginal maiden’s purity invention.
My mother did Yoga too.
Does that mean she’s on the Freshie’s Boat with the (Jew) in you?
Who’s balancing those oars;
When the ores in South Africa have not made it through?
Note:
“… she’s just a girl who said that I am not the one”
Magic
Stumbled upon
Feet on the paving stones
Nothing remarkable
Settled upon the mundane
Throwing pebbles at the windowpane
Sudden rush of blood
A gust of wind
Broken chances
Shards of glass on the floor.
I am a Cinderella nurse at the door
Sweeping up the remains of the day
Sometimes serious sometimes gay
I see the city the way it its not meant to be
Angels and demons playing with things that are very pretty
Green fields burdening roads and their drivers –
When will I sing like a lone wolf survivor?
Insanity Plea
Yin Yang merrily on high
The lightest bough is showing
Control and contact between Rama and Sita
For the insanity plea for Christian jaunting
Merged with Taoist flaws
Let me wander like a vagabond on downward fairy dog poses
To guess again (after the fact) when I am not twenty.
Saturday Afternoon at a Friend’s House
I walk the familiar road,
a soft December sun leaning over Weoley Castle,
light pooling on the pavement
like a blessing I did not ask for
but accept anyway.
The afternoon is ordinary –
a friend’s house,
a knock on the door,
the warmth of a kettle coming to life –
yet something in me moves
as if this small journey
were another chapter
in the long autobiography
I’ve been writing with breath and memory.
I carry no incense,
no mantra,
no visions of Maya or Albion today –
only the quiet knowledge
that every threshold
is a kind of pilgrimage
when the self is listening.
Inside, laugher rises,
cups clink,
the world shrinks to a living room
where stories drift like steam
from the mugs in our hands.
And I sit there,
not a a fragmented hybrid anything,
not as a mythic figure,
not as a seeker breathing in the world’s sorrow –
but simply as Rohan,
arriving,
present,
held in the gentle ordinariness
of a Saturday afternoon
at a friend’s house.
A small moment,
yet it settles in me
like a stone in a riverbed –
quiet, grounding,
part of a long story
I continue to walk
one step,
one breath,
one visit at a time.
Identity Parade
Identity parade
Words that fade
Living in the shade
Timeless ageing
Traders paging
Hollowing out
So much to shout about
Getting on by
Easy for me to try
Life is motivated
Actions are gyrating
There is more to things than that
My dreams went “Splat!”
The spare time is always flat
I’m going nowhere fast
Hurt and betrayed
Cosmic displays
Turning up empty
Oh! Play with the Void.
Healing
Tired of healing
The spinning wheel is
The dealing of the cards
The headspun wheel and cart
Meandering and whining
Climbing the stairs and seeing the clear light
Coming for the second place winning line
Leaving first place, finally and at last.
Wild Stage 