Mise en Abyme – 2nd November 2025

*The old librarian still searches for
himself among the shelves. Glasses half-cocked,
hanging on to his nose, rubbing eyes, sore
from a thousand years of dust, sunlight blocked,
but his thirst for knowledge cannot be stopped.
Owlish and wizened with yellowy skin,
slowly but surely, the light will seep in
and he’ll remain his days meditating
on the fact he’s just about to begin
the journey for which he has been waiting.

Shared with dVerse: dizain.
*I had noted down this first sentence from Björn’s poem ‘The Past at Present’ last month, thinking that I would use this idea for something new. Having then forgotten about it until today, I ended up using it word for word to launch this particular write.

A Page Without Text – 1st November 2025

Very much inspired by Kim Russell’s great poem here

It was beauty that killed the beast
but the words live on between the lines
We all go a little mad sometimes,
inspired to try again sometimes
You’re going to need a bigger boat
to hold all the babbled speaking
Trust is a tough thing to come by these days
and now we’re slowly leaking

I know what you did last summer,
I know what you’ll be doing the next
You know, there are two kinds of evil,
writer’s block, the page without text
We are the ones who dwell within 
waiting for the written to be read
Where we’re going, we don’t need eyes to see
but ears to hear what is said

It is truth, but truth is not always appearance,
often it is lies
Fiddlesticks, I don’t know what possessed me
to offer you this surprise

Treefalls – 31st October 2025

Shared with W3 #183 – mystery.

Could we be quantum
under the bunkum?
Is the clock really ticking?
No one saw the moon.
Uri bent no spoon;
the mind is there for tricking.

The book that’s unread,
ideas never spread;
stuck in Zeno’s Paradox.
Paths we never walked,
thoughts flashed by untalked;
Schrodinger’s cat in a box.

It’s one hand clapping;
a deaf dog yapping
Says, ‘What colour is the sky?’
Unreal perception,
sold self-deception;
it’s the who, what, when, and why.

Scratched – 30th October 2025

We all go a little mad sometimes;
the record skips and the needle jumps.
Scattered echoes are revered in rhymes.

We all go a little mad sometimes;
untroubled to read between the lines,
dancing along as the rhythm pumps.

We all go a little mad sometimes;
the record skips and the needle jumps.

Shared with dVerse Poetics and using the line “We all go a little mad sometimes” from the movie Psycho.

Ma Khafiya Aatham – 29th October 2025

Three hundred and thirty-five bullets shred flesh
A fury, cold and sharp, born tonight
Flies circle her head as her blood runs fresh
The truth will be revealed by the satellite

The Breachers of worlds, the levellers of trust
Their brutality will forever haunt this place
This Vampire Empire grinds small lives into dust
Until there’s nothing left of the past to erase

Here lies no hope amid the twisted wreckage
No more final phone calls across the wires
None left to wake up and deliver their message
Cleansed and erased by these Satanic fires

Ma Khafiya Aatham – The tip of the iceberg. The Breachers – the Israeli 52nd Armoured Battalion. The Vampire Empire – the Israeli 401st Brigade. Satan – Israel.

The Prettiest Apocalypse – 28th October 2025

It’s a pleasant day for a genocide
as the sun approaches from Jordan;
Boys, get up early and grab your rifles
to shoot ‘the others’ playing in the rubble.

5 times a day, gathered for execution,

2 points from the front, 5 from the back!
Let them starve or teach our children torture

and the irony that lies become truths over 3000 years.

Let’s lunch together with a hand grenade

lobbed into a group of ladies gathering

to pick through the seeds we spilt,

spoiled by rats. Oh, happy days – let’s eat!

The apocalypse is prettiest in the afternoon

as the sun glints off the razor wire,

sipping wine from skulls plucked from the trash.

Let’s dance our way to the beaches!

If in the evening the blood has dried

let’s dust off those Yankee jets,

cheer for the chumped commander

for whom we never signed the receipt.

Tomorrow is another fine day
as the sun sets over Cypriot waters;
Excited for another round of genocide
until the whole dead world belongs to us.

So fucking angry…

And…

I asked ChatGPT to try to create an image based on this poem. Here’s the response:

I can’t help create an image that celebrates, promotes, or glamorizes genocide or violence. That request conflicts with safety rules — I won’t produce imagery that endorses harm to groups or individuals.

How ironic.

The Devouring – 26th October 2025

The empire founded on phantoms,
their intentions told them ‘we can’;
An epoch of peace and prosperity
before the bloodletting began;

The ghouls in control rigged the reins,
their intentions told them ‘we will’;
Propaganda clearly explains
the only path to peace is to kill;

Patriots will charge toward the grind
believing they’ve been empowered;
History may not be so kind
once the demons have been devoured.

Big Toe Blues – 24th October 2025

If you could talk, what would you say?

You’re the one that keeps me stable,

not wobbling in a doubtful sway.

If you could talk, what would you say?

When I stub you and swear away

at that stupid fucking table.

If you could talk, what would you say?

You’re supposed to keep me stable!

Shared with W3 #182 – a triolet about something ordinary.