Welcome...

Aloha,

I have created this blog to keep an online record of my writing. I've heard the music soothes the soul, or music makes you lose control. Well for me, poetry is like sounding a trumpet. It can be as poignant and mournful as a dirge or it can swell your heart like a powerful symphony, it can flit like a flute or it can hammer like a drum.

I would expect anyone coming to read my blog would respect an artist's right to their own work, and should you want to share it for yourself, you'd check with me and then credit it accordingly.

So without further ado, here is one of my creations, enjoy...


Nobody's Fool

I can handle any tool, I can climb a ladder
I'm nobody's fool, I'll grapple with you
On any matter
Got a problem? Bring it on!
Wanna step outside? I'll dress you down
What do you want from me?
Bravado I can give
A good time, gentle sparring
I'll give you a laugh, and send you on your way
My heart, my soul, my core however
Are locked away
I'm nobody's fool boy
You don't know me, you can't have me
I'm not something with which you
Can fondle and toy
I'm not letting you in
Not even for all of your cheeky grins!
No. I shall stay distant and aloof
Controlled, coy, contained; caged
You can try and get in, but it's blocked
You'll never get through the locks
So here I am, safe inside
Voluntary solitary confinement
What was protecting has now imprisoned
The guard has locked herself in
To avoid heartache and chagrin
Only to discover loneliness
Abandonment and disappointment
Hearts, caged, ache too
Like parched plains crack
So too a parched heart breaks
She who stays aloof is a fool
Nobody's fool.