PLANET ZUGON
Subterranean beasts
punch liquor ash tribes
to flash droplet in
thunder bone caper and groove,
to skinny bloom jewel
flaked rhythms of the bubble glide,
the toe drumming
one-eyed, the pedalling fizz,
the monotony freak
fish, the spinning blitz in
glitter ball
gibberish,
as stirring sword
tongues brew,
the sun snakes gorge
on shrieked
spleen to its riotous
belly,
clamour to such book
flesh,
as rackety seeds leap
from
dead chapters on paper
horses, splashed
in drunken daisies and
carnival wine,
a lava latent sunset
spews its molten
creatures sprawling
beyond the shifting
precipice in its
tender atrocity,
the delicate hands of
the planet's gods,
cast their poker-faced
monsters
in shuffling cars that
plot,
as misshapen grins in
arching fountains,
pulse the hounds in
shadowed gunshot,
Slowly unclenching the
pollen stained
fists of the gods,
unleash their disobedient
rivers of wine, to
chase skimming birds
in spiked plummet,
through desert diamonds
in ocean sky ants
ablaze,
flying serpents dash
with fire dragons,
in bullet wagons that
race the clock,
voltage jets of flaming
demons
beam devil spaceships
in aftershock,
pixie arrows chase
cannoned goblins,
skiing fairies cling
to the mermaid train,
and lightning rockets
zoom neck and neck
in a sky of bloody
rain.
PLANET UGOLAZ
Where giants juggle
cotton churches
in a blazing jewel
dirt of spiked
coyote swooning pause,
a clattered shred of
streaking claws,
as lustrous tricks
bloom seeded rainbow
orchards of thorn dust
litter, ice flake
trample crimson in a
raging splendour,
gripping riddles feast
on stilled vapor
carcasses in
cornfields of screaming inertia,
bathed in a canvas of
brazen clutches,
shimmering cracked
walls
and manacled cat
calls,
the eagle plot crept
in a sail scratch
prowl of abandoned
scarred circus skies
in chorus salute,
the cherry-winged
clock tower,
the fleeing fingertips
cower,
the shivered songbird
serenade strum,
the coiling crackle
beating drum,
a spiteful dusk of
angels fold,
in a rich disarray of
writhing cold,
the forked cocoon of
steely wind,
the fleet of sprinkled
foxes pinned,
the shudder perch -
split and stacked,
the crystal river
ripples cracked,
and lightning tigers
in cloud ships roar
their sweetest melody.
PLANET VORLUDIAN
Eagle petals swoon
with clutched raindrops,
bestowed from ballet
clouds, in laced velvet,
bee-stitched lemon
rays to quicken jet peach,
soft thunder shuffle
lilac, as liquor pouring
stick figures trample
on the weak like spider bones,
to bask in a triumphant
posture of river smiles,
behind the shuttered
rapture the raconteur pours
a diamond sun in
splintered spear, across
the strewn summit and
the jagged frontier,
the sweeping singed
residue of feathered orchestras
perish in the heedless
wilderness, but majestic
in slumber, beckon my
sweet guitar to swallow,
my pulse a trusted
back beat for the skeletons to follow,
flesh lanterns
apprehend hollow mutterings
in sea bed fleets,
shipwrecked skulls nod to the beats,
in lost ships I saw
the lancing angels
in coats of forgotten
stitch,
under the strips of
desert skin
I saw the old bones
twitch,
I saw the broken spine
of a stopped clock
as the scattered stars
wept,
without the midnight
chimes
the great conductor in
the sky slept,
I saw misbehaving
chariots clad
in gazelle breeze run,
I heard the slurping
palm tree leaves
devour a dripping sun,
I saw horses gallop
under back street tunnels
that curved in
graffiti art, a rainbow arc
illuminating in the
dark and our names
penned in a love
heart.
Stephen Philip Druce - Is a fifty eight year old poet from Shrewsbury in the UK. His poems are planet based. They describe the events that take place on the planets that exist in his imagination.
Stephen's work has been published in the UK, India, Canada and the USA. He has written
for London theatre plays and Radio 4 Extra.
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