Poems - JP Melville

Fi - In Search of A Missing Note Something happening Fi I couldn’t take you any where But where you’re gonna go Déja vu Some where when rising sun comes And sweat our skin shows Colour of love I move with you again dawn yellow sun Don’t let the night forget that I was there Cause I came when the horses called And riding through I’ll be there when again Again our sweat says here That God calls its really all okay Cause all you take you took from me and more… I’m okay let’s move rock on Women work and men fall back Let’s dance around a pole of history Cause baby Fi you’re the ride And ride I will Carry me through mountains thorns drop me leave me I’m ok bled… Love’s a ride and maybe Weyburn Reference to the world crowd That damn I’m from the bush and I’ve the guts to ride your plain… Babe she says I’m a ride your gonna ‘fraid to take Girls gals ain’t nothing near what that pop girl says Says hey… donwannabrakson...

Sept 15, 2018 JP   End Another Day   Now it is almost time to start another day Which means it must be getting                 Close to when I’ll fall asleep Some sleeps and mornings arrive in a blink                 Other sleeps are fitful                                 And it takes forever to get to the new day Sometimes it’s because I am worried about something And I have to tell myself what a waste of time that is Worrying about something in the darkness                 When even the light won’t come if you beg it to Sometimes it takes forever because   ...

Funny Thing About Independence 17 feb 1988 jp melville

Constellation 5 June 2020 jp Focus is an art…   (says he who is notoriously not…)   How not to be distracted by constellations so everywhere above and at our feet…. Wherein we are ourselves a constellation.

After Long Days of Travel 5 June 2020 jp After long days of travel A night passes And I open my eyes in this strange abode Rain… Distant thunder… Dog sighs… Drops pattering on roof… Glass distorted wetness… Wind rustles leaves… Contented aloneness In my mind’s emptiness Awaking with dawn From sleeping on the floor Of a wooden shed Dog sighs again Rain patters some more… My skin cool with solitude Caressing my weariness away.

  I Whisper in Your Ear 5 June 2020 jp I whisper in your ear… “Away with confusion, haunting, loss…” For I am here with you, Listening to the rain… the wind… The silence   between their voices…   Knowing they will tell you so.