adam 8

Human beings
have freedom of thought
yet demand
freedom of speech —
how absurd are men —
do they not know
that the doors of fortune
open outwards
and therefore
cannot be stormed?

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 9th October 1996

Publication

2000 EOTU (Internet)

adam 7

his charming surface judgements
did not look beyond
the tissue of truth —
he'd been floundering for some time
— overwhelmed like fish
washed out to sea with the tide —
the gulf stream of life

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 9th October 1996

Publication

2000 EOTU (Internet)

adam 6

this guileless bubble
came to exist
within the womb
as fruit implanted
in a rich pasture,
suckling on its mother,
absorbed in a world
of tissue, cartilage and blood

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 9th October 1996

Publication

2000 EOTU (Internet)

adam 5

said the mountaineer,
condescending,
— It's easy —
provided you remember —
don't look down
— said I —
that's all very well
while ascending
but what about
when you are coming down?

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 9th October 1996

Publications

1999 Psychopoetica (UK)
2000 EOTU (Internet)

adam 4

Have a nice day —
Sheila stared dumbfounded
at the daisy wheels
in hellish torment —
she had created
a direct course to his throne —
it lies between walls
yellowed by committees.

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 9th October 1996

Publication

2000 EOTU (Internet)

adam 3

He is awakened by them
as the door creaks open;
blood flows thickly to his brain;
he can produce flowcharts
of God's blackjack games
typing messages
that glow with each issue.

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 9th October 1996

Publication

2000 EOTU (Internet)

adam 2

Reproduction strictly prohibited —
this weird form of light
pouring through the phone —
you're travelling through
the pit of your darkness —
don't let your shadow
fall on the United States.

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 9th October 1996

Publication

2000 EOTU (Internet)

adam 1

Hilary felt his consciousness
ebb away unseen;
every curve of her body
exuded sharp perfumes
of human genius
and several
anxious-looking children.

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 9th October 1996

Publication

2000 EOTU (Internet)

Spring

SPRING

Spring is a young girl who having helped
her mother with chores goes, still
with her pinny on, barefoot to where
the sheep graze on a hillside by a pond
There, throwing her straw bonnet aside,
she throws her body down beside her young sister
and picking a buttercup, examines it,
marvelling at the detail of nature,
seeing the sun's colour in its petals
Her sister stares into the water
and wonders what it is her elder knows

© Gerald England

Composed: Edinburgh, 1st July 1979

1980 THE RAINBOW AND OTHER POEMS (Heckmondwyke, Fighting Cock Press)
1981 Britannic Magazine (UK)
1990 Maple Valley Vine (USA)
1992 Poesie India (India)
2002 EOTU (Internet)
2004 Iodine (USA)

794 AD

794 A.D.

Adian Offasen starn betyne
Bykay fit si foreen hand
Praen hopped it a la Kent
Terram rapinis et homiciis hent -
derk la mooin - fit ney funderband
sud iver Adian's bear ket styne

Famine ravished, raged et raped
cant lay reenish pheaton cum
et in Lindisfarne dun dey dangeru
Hipwreck in Jarrow set mooir peru
Linnet saved a buking bum
fro erl ley devestatled scaped

Bud roon at roon et forsooth
Praen fuck is hip fer Adian's bear
la blud fit copped it tame
et York neer slain la blame
E harn it roon, fair bad dey hear,
so Bykay clatted in - u huncouth!

© GERALD ENGLAND

Composed: Ackworth, 10th June 1971

Publications

1972 Platform (UK)
1990 Eotu (USA)