Two Poems by Stephen Philip Druce

 

Planet Orpzier

 

Swivelling glove voyages

dagger desolate

in a pearly moss ravine,

 

scampering patchwork blizzards

dwindle in a phantom furnace

of prowling Venus leaves,

 

festered in starfish delirium,

oddity cinders clamber

neon tombs adrift,

 

as raincoat sparrows slope

in smouldering tantrum,

the ancient wolves in woodpile satin,

rage in the sunken ghettos

of blinking candle passages,

 

muzzled in needle avalanche,

the sneering pyramids

of wizard fossils blur

in a twisted porcelain twilight.

 

 

Planet Quivoria

 

The electric stone preacher

scribbles a jettisoned rascal

in a frosted moon utterance,

 

marooned in a glacier spasm,

the lashing wombs of roulette thistles

cradle meddling lambs in a web

of teaming sword oblivion,

 

steeped in a weaving naked dawn,

the crimson piper pirouettes in

a quicksilver cabaret of blueberry doves,

 

as shackled sculptures frenzy

in foxglove slumber, the drizzling

sunflower tremors straddle

anchored pilgrims in fevered mockery.

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. His work has been published in the UK, India, Canada and the USA. He has written for London theatre plays and BBC Radio 4 Extra.