Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - Poetry http://dantindall.com/poetry.html Dan Tindall: Poetry Jannis' PHPRss class - http://www.jannis.to/ Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:30:13 -0800 Cargo Cult Town http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#178 Low slung sun hangs between


The empty new office buildings


Shit Sim City


Cargo Cult Town


 


Mac Jobs for the Ulster Scots


Empty out the city centre


Make it desolate and dirty


That's the way we like it


In this Shit Sim City


Cargo Cult DeVille


 


Tourists looking for the bank


Shouted down at the taxi rank


Hard cold rain


Misery


Cargo Cult Deluxe

]]> http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#178 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800 Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - Poetry The Olympic Race http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#149 High on Olympus


Though long-forgotten


The brooding gods


Do not forget


 


And


Looking down


They see your face


Familiar from a recent trip


And wonder what


Your filthy heart


Is pumping through your veins.


Such treachery


And careful lies


Hypocrisy


Self-righteous pride


 


- A monster! cry these sleeping giants


(and they should know, they've seen a few)


- A human, comes the slow reply


from deep below the clouded peak


where only devils and their consorts speak


- A human?


- A bad one, but a human, yes!


(And we enjoy such mortal flesh)


- What horror!


- Nonsense! The humans made us all - they made this life!


(And so silence, for a while)


(...)


A thought


Fast as light


Travels like a speeding bullet


And penetrates your brain


With a pain


Unknown outside


This wretched place


And your face


Contorts


And twists


And the more you resist


The more it hurts


The gods are not cruel


Nor are they kind


They will not leave you blind


Just lost and unloved


They know tragedy


But they do not


Know


A


Good


Ending.

]]> http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#149 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - Poetry What now? http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#148 What now?


This unseen hand


Pushes you


Into black broken earth


You cannot see


You are blind


 


Where now?


The all-seeing eye


Has got you taped


And will not let go


Of the master copy


Each falling star


Is less bizarre


With each hour


And only when


The last ounce


Of burnt rock


Has struck the ground


Shall you find rest


 


This is hell


Or so you say.

]]> http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#148 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800 Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - Poetry Sanctuary http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#138 Through lightening strike


And freezing hail, we emerge


To find sanctuary


Below broken teeth


And joyful scree.


 


We shelter


Together and serene


In this place we cannot fail


Within this life we are one

]]> http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#138 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - Poetry Sweetheart http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#134 Remember high ground rising
From delicate low hills]]> http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#134 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - Poetry Lark http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#133 And sing out with all your heart
Sweet meadow lark]]> http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#133 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - Poetry July http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#132 Hangs below the cool high cloud -
Too warm for mere sleep]]> http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#132 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - Poetry The Attack http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#127 the sky
swirling black and
tortured grey -

teeth bared with icy menace
sudden rushing blast
Hail and Snow at deadly speed

Behind the only shelter
We hold together
Awaiting the coloured light
Bright with new life
And sweet respite.]]> http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#127 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - Poetry You and I... http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#125 As one until darkness falls -
Our journey never ends

Over mountain head
And through deep forgotten valleys
Cool air descends

Only to rise with the sun
Heavenward and without pain.]]> http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#125 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - Poetry The High King http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#123
The first summer light
Has melted down the cold shroud
And brings us home

To the green paths
And the scented yellow whins
Harsh but beautiful

Overlooked by God's castles
From where we see ourselves alone

2

The blue metal sky
Hangs below the clean white sun
And bleaches the earth

Up and over rock
And earthen mountain floor -
Behold the high king!

Climb now, as to the world's end
Climb now, this is your true home.]]> http://dantindall.com/poetry.html#123 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700 Acoustic Musician - Dan Tindall - Poetry