Venice Beach Mentation

Something Mickey Reynolds said to me in Copenhagen suddenly springs to mind –
“Robin you better believe it, there is a war going on now, all over the world.
Everyone has their part to play.”
Sat, here, now, by the Pacific Ocean, wind whipping white walls of silver sun streaked waves.
Life’s rhythm – I remember Mickey Reynolds –‘The [...]

Within Moments

Within moments perceived only by signs
There are no symbols or enchantments
To match harmonic prisms brilliance
In times woven breath, that breathes a dawn,
We may merge to be at one, with oneness,
To be a piece of all that’s whole
And so become a part of all this,
That we who trespass, cannot scorn.

© Maidstone Prison 1976.

Mentation

What to write and how to write it?
Am I too old or shall I fight it?
The seditious pull of buff and buffer,
The two-wheel trick on how to suffer
Shifting a balance this way and that
Looking for glamour in a beat up cap.
A short story or three, a multitude of songs
Poems that pour, just an idea for [...]