Winston Plowes… Oath & Quaver

Posted on February 11, 2018 by randomlyaccessedpoetics

Oath

There is no mathematical proof for love

no OS map to recovery.

Too many footprints in the snow treading water

too many blank faces that follow

without pausing to gauge the wind

or crush a leaf in their fingers.

But every person has a name,

every tree, every flake of snow…

Quaver

Your hands search for my keys

through smoke

and jazz grows through their fingers.

I want to feel the weight

of you, on me.

to mark my heart this night.

Instead

I hold your purple coat –

up.

As it grows heavy

with copper coins.

Winston Plowes lives aboard his floating home in Calderdale with his lucky black cat, Fatty. He teaches creative writing and his collection of surrealist poetry Telephones, Love Hearts & Jellyfish, Electric Press was published in 2016.

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Copyright © 2017 by Winston Plowes

Ivan Jenson… Frank’s Advice – Pin Drop Moment

Posted on April 2, 2017 by randomlyaccessedpoetics

Frank’s Advice

Let me look into

your atonal situation

and see

what musical strings

I can pull

like an angelic harpist

winging it

from the laughter

in the rafters

and while I am

investigating the misery

of the company

you have been keeping

try to keep your mind

off your brain

for awhile

you might even

consider taking a course

in miracles

at the community

center

of your

confidence

in order to find

the peace of mind

of all that doesn’t

really matter

Pin-Drop Moment

What you see before you

is a human being a pain

in the neck

of the woods

known as the forest

fire

started by throwing

the burning

butt of a joke

into the dry brush

of another person’s ego

and igniting the flash

and burn of

insult

to injury

often called

a roast

which was

just supposed

to be

the best man’s

sparkling champagne

wedding toast

Ivan Jenson is a fine artist, novelist and contemporary poet who lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His artwork was featured in Art in America, Art News, and Interview Magazine and has sold at auction at Christie’s. Ivan was commissioned by Absolut Vodka to make a painting titled “Absolut Jenson” for the brand’s national ad campaign. His Absolut paintings are in the collection of the Spiritmusuem, the museum of spirits in Stockholm, Sweden. Jenson’s painting of the “Marlboro Man” was collected by the Philip Morris corporation. Ivan was commissioned to paint the final portrait of the late Malcolm Forbes. Ivan has written two novels, Dead Artist and Seeing Soriah, both of which illustrate the creative and often dramatic lives of artists. Jenson’s poetry is widely published (with over 500 poems published in the US, UK and Europe) in a variety of literary media. A book of Ivan Jenson’s poetry was recently published by Hen House Press titled Media Child and Other Poems, which can be acquired on Amazon. Two novels by Ivan Jenson entitled, Marketing Mia and Erotic Rights have been published hardcover. Ivan Jenson’s next novel, “Gypsies of New Rochelle” will soon be released by Michelkin Publishing. Ivan Jenson’s website is: http://www.IvanJenson.com

Copyright © 2017 by Ivan Jenson

Darren C. Demaree… Nude Male With #201 & #200

Posted on October 30, 2016 by randomlyaccessedpoetics

NUDE MALE WITH ECHO #201

Without immensity, with

the size of a forenoon day

I can be the white edges,

but then I can only grow

to interfere with the scene

of art. I want to be the art.

That’s why I’ve covered

my body with pictures,

because before all of those

little, driving ink pens found

me supple enough to be

taken, nobody looked at me.

NUDE MALE WITH ECHO #200

I want to lake

the tree, swim

the trunk

after suspending

myself briefly

above the foliage.

I want to be taken

in. I want the sun

to nourish me.

Darren is a dangerous dreamer, concocting love poems to his home state, and pastorals to his true love.

Darren C. Demaree is the author of five poetry collections, most recently “The Nineteen Steps Between Us” (2016, After the Pause). He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. He lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children

Bradford Middleton… When the Job’s Done

Posted on May 29, 2016 by randomlyaccessedpoetics

When the Job’s Done

The girls move in quick as a new, flash car slows down

It’s midnight, Friday in the kinkiest lane

In the dingiest city in the unfair land

The girls are like vultures

Desperate for their next feast

The one to pay the rent and feed her habit

She grabs the car handle as he lowers the window

He smiles broadly as his eyes devour her figure

And she climbs in

Things get serious fast

Money is discussed and a place to crash

It’s going to be a long job

He sounds like a kinky bastard

But after a few hours she leaves, paid, happy

Knowing for a few days her habit will be feed

And the rent will be paid up

The threat of eviction banished for another month.

Bradford Middleton lives on England’s south-coast in Brighton. He was born in London in 1971 but didn’t start writing poetry until he was in his mid-30s and slowly, over time, began to uncover a flourishing underground scene. Three months before his fortieth birthday he had his first poem accepted at THE MAD SWIRL. Since then he has become a Contributing Poet there and also had notable work published at EMPTY MIRROR, ZYGOTE IN MY COFFEE, PPIGPENN, ROLLING THUNDER QUARTERLY, FUCK ART LETS DANCE, WORD RIOT, ELECTRIC WINDMILL, DEAD SNAKES, THE CAMEL SALOON and THE WEEKENDERS. Follow him @beatnikbraduk on Twitter.

David E. Howerton… –You’re what I scream about–

Posted on February 28, 2016 by randomlyaccessedpoetics

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