Humorous 

Ocular jewellery.

This poem is written at Gaia Holmes’s workshop at Kings Cross Library, Halifax.

 Published on Igniting the Spark Facebook page 25/05/24

When I go to Beihai, I am assumed to be an alien by the locals,

A bilinear man in Gunaxi province who can afford to hold

A wooden bar with two black cormorants across my shoulders. It

Costs just 10 Yeon for locals, but

If there is a man whose eyes appear like ocular jewellery

As cormorants do the price goes up to just 40 Yeon a time,

And if you won’t shout at the creepy street sellers - mù guā!*

That wooden bar will be on your shoulders with a wide-brimmed hat

On your head before you even blink your ocular jewellery eye.

They are flexible on payments. WeChat payments are

Accepted if you do not have cash.

Overall you rather sit in your five star hotel room

Instead of shopping

At local SUPER, SUPER cheap underground supermarkets

OR walk out with your eyes shut

If you don't want to be charged three times more than your dream-come-true item costs.

Local women will melt staring with their earthy brown eyes

At European, American or English men

and

Will try to drag them into their roughly prepared nests to breed another

Ocular jewellery-looking human being.

Anyone who has ocular jewellery-looking eyes in China

Will see it as a burden instead of God’s gift because locals will see them as

A child of James Goodfellow

One big bloody automatic teller machine.

*mù guā! translated from Chinese language means behaviour well, keep away

25/05/24

Butterfly

This poem is written at Gaia Holmes’s workshop at Kings Cross Library, Halifax.

We might think that there is no chance to

Infuse two words together that have no connection at all

If we think about them initially.

They have different meanings and different functions

Apart they can function as food or food ingredients.

 

Butter tends to be cooked or eaten with sandwiches,

I enjoy eating it with cheese

It can be dangerous if it has been smeared on the floor with a purpose 

To make it shine.

On the other hand – flies have the function of annoying people

At least the most of them

And can end their lives fast with almost no pain under daily newspapers like The Sun,

Daily Mirror

Or

The Guardian that does not guard them at all

Though, they can be great snacks for birds like pigeons,

If they are not prioritising painting randomly things in their

Glorious masterminded snow white purge

And repaint the same place if they are accurate enough.

 

It is amazing if we think about what happens

If we link the word butter and fly together.

Initially, we might think it is cheese,

But

It’s not.

The outcome is – a butterfly, one of the most amazing wonders

Nature as an artist has created in different sizes and

Painted them in endless colours.

01/06/24