Giselle Marks
Unicorns, Mermaids and Moving House
A brief moment of perfect clarity
Reverts to a confused varity
White stallion with a single horn
Virginal image of utter corn
Sexual innocence proclaimed
Fleshy sweaty equine shamed
A beast with a spiral spike
What is there not to like?
It represents purity, come again?
He’s horny, can I make it plain?
A unicorn might seem all chummy
But I’m telling you don’t be a dummy
That horn’s a weapon of some size
Impaling virtue is his intended prize.
Now Mermaids with their clarion call
Beckon us to our watery fall
But these sexy maidens are half fish
They could never consummate your wish
Which story-teller with his brains awash
Enthralled our forebears with such tosh?
My logic wants their existence to debunk
Yet I avidly read and write this junk.
So why do we sensual humans fantasize
And creatures impossible romanticise?
I dream of traumatically moving from my house
Taken back to where I lived with my ex-spouse
Even while I dream I insist that it is wrong
That building is no more, not where I belong
So what is my id telling me with this mess?
Why is it putting me through such stress?
I know the message is somewhere there
Searching for meaning I send up a prayer
To a return to the peaceful simplicity
I ask for that all powerful deity’s complicity.
But the dream continues leaving me perplexed
With my imagination I am sorely vexed.
The Zeninan shield by Sarah J Waldock
Anticipation
Emotion building deep
Within. Letting seep
Into your being
Knowing, without touching.
Awareness of him
Thought and whim
Breathed in, exhaling
Combining without taking.
Distance means nothing
Trusting not bluffing
All feelings grow
Does love show
What truly matters?
Logic dissected scatters
Watching from eyes
Forget being wise.
Tingling with confusion
Dreaming of union
More than one
Will we become?
Is this fated?
Why we waited?
Just a dream
Future still unseen.
Never say never
Not being clever
Letting him in
Wanting to begin.
Staking my bet
Not a threat
Indecision looms again
Absence brings pain
Such a strain
Indifference must feign
Pretend no feelings
In your dealings
Upwards we together
Brave the weather
Pleasure or pain
Which will remain?
Fifty ways to wreck your life?
He loves me, he loves me not!
I was a fool, I didn’t realise what I’d got.
I can’t live without her and now she’s gone
Learn the lesson from what you’ve done
Move on and try to be happy
You’d rather cry and wear a nappy?
Your boyfriend’s fallen for another man
Order a van, make another plan.
There is enough sadness in the world why add more strife?
There must be more than fifty ways to wreck your life.
You’ve left your job because your boss was mean,
You’ve no prospect of a job and haven’t got a bean!
Your book stinks but you don’t believe it,
Maybe writing is not for you and quit!
Your beloved Dad is going to die
You’re convinced the doctors all lie
You feel so guilty for your past wrongs
So you sulk and sing mournful songs?
You want to die but are too scared to use a knife?
There must be more than fifty ways to wreck your life.
I sound unsympathetic but I’ve heard it all before
You ask for my advice and then kick it out the door.
So your life is a mess and it is your fault
You should stop drinking all that malt.
Take control and fix what’s broke
Have some fun and tell a joke.
Accept what cannot be changed
Other people won’t be rearranged.
I’m flabbergasted by how much misery is rife
There must be more than fifty ways to wreck your life.
What makes you think I know how to fix your lives?
Go home, be nice and don’t cheat on your wives.
Be grateful for whatever you’ve got
Have you truly lost the plot?
So you are unhappy, then deal with it
Make the changes, hope that it will fit!
Remember many have more to complain about
They struggle on, don’t scream and shout
Learn to play the drums, select a loving wife
There are more than fifty ways to wreck your life.