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