Poems

Creative commons poetry (except where otherwise indicated): poems written by Jackson

  • Sexy Hair

    See the wind in your sexy hair. Imagine the feel of your sexy hair. 25 is the sexiest age. You write about politics. I write about you and your beautiful face and your sexy hair. You write about love. I write about you and your beautiful wife with her sexy hair. Read more

  • The neon name

    In the years I wasn’t looking you grew into something something really BIG with layers of … material. You’d put on airs and graces been to many places tried on masks and faces till your own face changed. You looked so unlike you, you wore a neon name around your hat. I didn’t recognise you.… Read more

  • Lost

    Sweetness through the air         but I’m not with you Guitars, a mandolin         but I’m not with you Harmonica!         I’m not with you! Soft skin on my lips soft lips on my skin a boy on my lap a fire in a box a girl with a lovely voice sings about lovely trees… Read more

  • A little trip

    ah coffee & chocolate! perfect bittersweet like … like love, children, songs        like the earth, like battle,        like weariness, fullness, completion like: Is that it? Is that all? Is that my name? Is that the end of it & the strength of it, is that the church, the oneness? the chocolate is all… Read more

  • The fisherwoman in her boat under the sky, deep blue above, deep blue below, hat salty, skin rippled, waiting, the fisherwoman sings. A soft song o my love, o my lord, carry me, float me, rock me, rescue me a soft song for the fish and the sky and the broad ocean and all the… Read more

  • He takes off the glasses, the mask that fails him. His two blue eyes mock hers. He is a smiling imp in black. He moves closer. The fiddler plays a reel. His lips are like smoked sugar, his tongue an instrument, his stubble a burnt field. She is dying. She opens her eyes. His are… Read more