Friday, 30 October 2015

Glove Story



Gloves mate for life but,

the solo-glove is a mutant udder, an other of deformed teats, seeking another. Another in search of its misplaced (s) wanting to pluralise into a conjoined-twining.

It is also a stranded deep-sea creature washed too far ashore, unable to return to its aquatic habits.

Within the solo-glove’s jewelled imagination, it senses the five thefts of the finite.

This uninvited criminal act is deliberately performed by a tricky sand-villainess. Often regarded as that in which judgements flourish alongside one another, this femme fatale steals the solo-glove’s liberties.

This uninvited criminal act is deliberately termed, ‘Sightseer’ and purposely labelled, womanly.

Undeterred by her sticky mittens, the solo-glove suffers incessant dizzy spells but, as our unlawful lady’s name suggests, she is not only the solo-glove’s nemesis, she is also the solo-glove’s honoured guest.

The scheming of those refracting, factual moons, whose relatives are not adverse to any occurrence that has too many broken others, is represented by those devious brothers; Previously, Currently and Up-and-coming. They are the solo-glove’s fractalised selves.

When it is past the tense stage and no waking-words can alter this because its
nocturnal-flagships have emerged and merged, the solo-glove’s emasculated cries will take first prize, morning, noon and night AND IT WILL CALLOUT FOR JUSTICE!

And see, here are the solo-glove’s gory hands, and its embarrassed eyes, and swinging sex organs that spit and crackle and flash –

All are so quick to vanish it’s as if a star has come to personally deliver the collapsed pain of its spectacular implosion.

To ensure the solo-glove does not forget it is inseparable from its other-handed pair, thumbprints are taken.

Despite this, the solo-glove continues diving though ultramarine hoops, searching for forlorn treasure-maps, grabbing at sheets and stabbing at meat.

And slowly but surely, the next phase appears to go on and on and on, eating the solo-glove’s heart out.



Thursday, 11 December 2014

The Quiet Room






This poem was recently published by 'The Stare's Nest' - poems for a hopeful world

http://thestaresnest.com/2015/04/04/richard-biddle-the-quiet-room/ 

The Quiet Room
 
Open the door as you would take a breath before
whispering seductively in a lover's ear. Let it shush

shut, calmly as an eye closing into sleep, and step
in onto a carpet of thistledown, fleece and feathers;

let it absorb the echo of your footfall . Quicker than
thinking, light and temperature switch to match your

mood. Nestle into its telepathic bosom and let this
chamber furnish you with a seat. As you sit, notice

your tongue numbing, surrender to this paralysis;
speech is unnecessary. Study silence. Memories

may come, ignore them, they are falsehoods.
They will fade. If you are captivated by the imagined,

concentrate on what is real. Let your body breathe the
atmosphere of now. Be stilled. Look up, see the roof

melt into limitless sky. Watch as walls dissolve,
maybe they were never there. Finally, as the floor

disappears, leaving you floating in wordless space, you
are here, aware, experiencing emptiness, freedom.














Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Transparency



This poem 'Transparency' was written whilst on a writing retreat June 2013 and has just won 1st prize in the Willam Blake Poetry Competition http://thebigblakeproject.org.uk/?p=131

Transparency
 
Rain that wept from the gutter last night
has slowed to a glycerin drip.
 
Now it comes, one clear tear at a time.
 
A perfect lens capturing a whole world
inside its micro-mirror, split second drop.
 
And just for a moment, I too am within its
pear-shaped prism.
 
And just for a moment, I too am clearly
seeing what isn't there. 

Sunday, 30 June 2013

If I were the Sun...



If I were the Sun...
I'd be a confused recluse
living in open solitude
93 million miles away from everyone.
 
If I were the Sun...
I'd combust all poetries but one, mine
and create a shrine to the divine
temperature, Fahrenheit 451.
 
If I were the Sun...
I'd shrink to the size of a coin and
lie on the pavement, shimmering and
golden, scolding swindled fingers.
 
If I were the Sun...
I'd be a 24-7 voyeur, simmering on the brink.
Pent-up with white-hot rage and unspent
spermatozoa.
 
If I were the Sun...
I'd be a flamboyant superstar. A bleached
smile, radiating mythical status, addicted
to crack cocaine.

If I were the Sun...
 
As it is, I lurk in libraries, browsing
dictionaries & thesauruses, looking up
alternative words for 'light' & 'heat'.

Monday, 22 April 2013

Bad Trip

My 3rd poem written for the 'Transformations' project, coordinated by @ArtiPeeps http://artipeeps.wordpress.com/category/our-transformations-poems/

Inspired by 'The Fall Of Phaethon'


https://soundcloud.com/bid3/bad-trip


‘The boy stood trembling and marvelling at the strangeness of it all…’

i)
Now I know there was no palace, where your hair glittered
like sea spray and you offered me a message written
on blotting paper, said I’d find sunshine in an ink stain;

an orb, a strobing disco-light-mirror-ball, a revolution.

You removed the oh and you removed the you, replaced
it with A & E.    Taken in by its golden means, I thought
the haloed footlights were dust flowers and that the lit

air was swimming, with tropical fish, I tried to catch.

A revelation.
                       They fell through my hands like quicksilver. 

ii)
While pointing at the moon with a crooked finger, you
showed me a fire escape, said it was a ladder to the stars,
a resolution. Was I the solar-powered progeny climbing,
rising, coming up? A solution.

Raised bright with polished waters and  shifting signs, I
could not digest what I felt. Those pounding speakers
boomed their melodious beats as the drug took possession
of me. An empty-mouthed soothsayer spoke my lips,

avoid the bull’s horns, the Archer’s arrows, the Lion’s
jaw, the scorpion’s cruel pincers and the crab’s claws

One by one these vicious zodiacs dissolved and a punishing
bpm pounded through my blood. I was a gleaming, shining,
ball of confused atoms, an immortal mortal, radiated.

Rushing out, they tore through my mind-mist. I was lifted by
this buzzing but terrified, unable to handle not knowing
where the track was or how to control the mercurial dragon
that now glowed and seethed with a renewed internal fury.

iii)
My immeasurableness drenched black with venom,
I saw monsters everywhere that threatened to wound me.
My teeth, chilled stars, grew hot. My unlucky eyes, robbed
of their shadow, throbbed, tried in vain to douse themselves.

My wits dropped into horror. I ran unchecked through
unknown regions of air. Momentum took me. Striking against
the fixed, hurrying heights, headlong, down.

Drawn to the surface, I became a desert; my visions,
scorched swans. Light broke apart. I could not bear the sparks.

Lifeless bodies floated face upwards on the deep ravage of this
long trail. And somewhere, on the periphery, something appeared
to fall.