K. Morris's Blog, page 63

Free

You are in touch again.

It is always the same

Time worn dance

Of pseudo romance

Over and over again.

 

We meet and greet.

I have fun.

In the morning you run.

We both know

It will be so.

 

Love is free.

I give you no rings.

But other things

Are not free.

 

Scaffold

I see scaffold on the old church .

Perhaps it is required

To hold bricks which may otherwise slip.

 

 

I have passed by graves

In the cold rain

As the great heavens  above

Stood empty of love.

 

 

This scaffold may momentarily  save

The church. But all

Are in thrall to dust.

Nightmares

At times I dread

My dreaming head.

In the sunlit day

Nightmares hide away.

But, come the night

My terrors delight

In their twisted play.

 

All my lusts

Stay hidden by day.

But, in dreams

I play with prey.

Yet all lust

And fear of dust

Ends in dream.

The Dangers of Technology

When a young man, just for a laugh

Went and used his laptop in the bath,

There came a bang.

All the angels sang,

And he flew all the way to Bath!

Miss Lock’s Fetish

When a young lady named Miss Lock

Tied me to a very old clock,

And I said, “is this your fetish?”,

She whacked me with a large lettuce,

As for me, I said, “tick tock!”.

If All Man’s Fantasies Came True

If all man’s fantasies came true

More than a few

Would hear doors clang and bang,

And seeing the stars

Through iron bars

Soon would find

That some fantasies are best confined

Within the confines of their mind.

Artifice

At 6 am

I awake to rain.

Today I may smile

And perchance recall

There is no artifice

In the rain.

Bust

I may compose a rhyme

To your perfect bust.

But, in course of time

We lovers will find

Our bed midst graveyard dust.

There Once Was a Nymph Named Echo

There once was a nymph named Echo

Who spent all her days drinking Prosecco.

When they said, “is that nice?”,

She would repeat their words twice,

And then she would drink more Prosecco!

Poet Kevin Morris Interviewed on the World Poetry Reading Series

On Monday 12 February, I was interviewed by Ariadne Sawyer of the World Poetry Reading Series. During my interview, I read and discussed my poetry.

 

You can find a link to the podcast here, https://www.mixcloud.com/VictorSchwartzman/world-poetry-cafe-for-feb-15-2024-kevin-morris-and-tanis-parenteau/

. My segment appears approximately 31 minutes into the podcast and runs for about 11 minutes. In addition, I read a final poem at the end of the show.

 

My thanks to Ariadne Sawyer of the World Poet...