Three Poems by Andy N

 

Dust 

 

One by one 

everything we write 

will fade from the page 

 

music lost to the world 

in a stuttering breeze 

 

Galaxies into dust 

following you open-mouthed 

on the beach 

and into the ocean, 

 

hand in hand  

through an emotional glass ceiling 

splintering into dust. 

 

Life following death. 

 

 

  

Alienation 

 

Over-lapping Society 

the countryside covers our cities 

like numbed fingers 

overlocked doors, 

 

freewheeling over beaches 

cutting a swathe 

over chipped caves 

holding our darkness in its bones, 

 

stood on the spur 

behind stone buildings 

subsumed in guilt 

wishing not to be held accountable 

for man’s mistakes.  

 

 

  

Nostalgia 

 

Nostalgia played a part 

before and after 

from where you used to walk 

and then returned to 

hunched in an emotional mirror 

 

over the footpath 

intermittent whiffs of burnt smoke 

over the burnt-down remains 

of an old residential house 

still lingering generations later 

 

echoed in the past 

our relationship with nature 

abandoned everything something goes wrong 

decoupled into 

two different warring sides.

  

Andy N is the author of ten poetry collections, the last one being ‘Changing Carriages at Birmingham New Street’ and is the co-host of Chorlton’s Spoken Word night ‘Speak Easy’.

He also does ambient music under the name of Ocean in a Bottle and does the music for the band‘ Polly Ocean’ and runs / co-runs Podcasts such as Spoken Label and Not the TV Guide.

His debut novel is ‘Birth’. (Described as a charming coming of age Novel about the birth of a Writer – available on Amazon). He is currently working on the sequel to this ‘Death’ and ‘Ghosts’, his next poetry book and the second album for Polly Ocean.

His links can be found at: https://linktr.ee/andynartist