Dream catchers blow in the wind
Rainbow ribbons trailing like tentacles
Wrapping around our thoughts
Cracks appear
In the colourful mosaic of the sky
Sucking me up
As the carpet of earth
Is pulled from under my feet
Locusts swarm in the heat
Against a blood red sun
Memories melting like ice
On a Cuban beach.
Shadow across the sky
Illuminates the third eye
Snakes, mechanical crawl
Across the volcanic planet
Mercury droplets of rain
Fall from the heavens
As the skulls of humanity
Regrow with flowers
Regenerating the scars of time.
Summer breeze melts away
To reveal the autumn freeze
Faces anticipate
Down the glass corridor
Sliding away
Towards the light
Breaking the bulbs
Their butterfly brains
Flutter away
Into a sea of leaves
Colourful and stained
Worries buried underneath
Their glacial gaze.
Spinster sparrow
Swings around the tree
Tall and spindly
Swaying on a spring breeze
Eyes flicker like rivers
Sparkling in the sun
Patients shiver
As nature’s work
Comes undone
Blue glow engulfs the room
As spirits leave their shells far too soon
Police patrol with a glare
As the invisible enemy dances around us
Freely in the air.
Poem by Jeremy Warder 2020
Under the mirrored hall
Champagne sparkles like rain
Wolves eyes entice
Melting the sheep’s hearts like ice
Staring out to the city
Smoke escapes the painter’s mouth
Snow falls like confetti
From the skyscrapers above
Colourful darts explode onto his canvas
Slashing away memories
With the knife of his paint brush
Tearing out of his painting
The bird breaks away
Flying above monochrome skies and icy lakes
To shine in it’s truth
For the rest of it’s days.
Painting by Robert Ioan. Poem by Jeremy Warder 2019.
Blue blistered moon
Dissolves upon the fall
Of car crashed souls
Smoke rises from out of the woods
Headlights blinding like the sun
Angels fly down the freeway
At a hundred miles per hour
Darting through the night
Infiltrating the minds of sleepers
Behind the wheel
Steering drivers to the nearest exit
From deaths claws.
Octopus scrambles on top of the rocks
Under the icicles of the moon
Ink clouds the sky
As oceans run dry
Volcanic eyes
Lurking in the dark
Piercing it’s tentacles
Like a harpoon through the heart
Illustration by Issy Veysey
Poem by Jeremy Warder 2019
Mountain tops rain down with butterflies
Sparkling like scattered memories
Falling out of the clouds
Blood orange skies
Dissolve like teardrops upon the eyelids
Of the old and frail
The snow coated and pale
Angels stare down from the bridge
Upon the moonlit port side
Dancing upon the cities rustic spine
Fluttering around the trams like fireflies
All through the night
Ivory bone
Cast into instrument
Staring alone at the stars
Upon a scrapheap of cars
Carnations stuffed in rifles
Rise out from the soils of blue
Soldiers eyes glimmering
With a reflective violet hue
Cabinets of curiosities
Leak with rust
Books nailed with skeleton shells
Explode into memories of dust
Paradise lost
A Serpent slivering around a cross
A bonfire of trees
An arrow of fire blazing my dreams
A crack in a blackened mirror
A distorted reflection that makes me shiver
Caving in to the heat
As the earth falls away beneath my feet
