SKIN ON SKIN

I know the precise moment

When you and I became us.

There was a picture of you

With your lips puckered

As if for a kiss.

It followed the photograph

Of you on the beach

Smiling a smile

From the land of smiles

And your body postured

Like a woman with knowledge

Of how you might affect me.

Now outlines of you

Dance in my imaginings

And frolic in my fantasies.

Unheard music in your voice

Is the soundtrack of my dreams.

Now we have only to reach

Across the real world

To feel the shock

Of skin on skin

And heart on heart.

I long for that tremor

When two become one.

THE POET

The world scares me.

It takes too much.

It loves deceit.

It discards and culls.

The times grind me.

They swiftly change.

They stay the same.

They never improve.

People taunt me.

They look for faults.

They never think.

They rebuke and mock.

Rulers rob me.

They twist the law.

They lie and dupe.

They misuse the poor.

God watches me.

He sees and hears.

He counts the words.

He knows how it ends.

THE SPOOKY DOOKY MAN

When a strange creature arrives from outer space and helps the police fight crime, what do you give him as a birthday present? You give him a time-machine. Can you guess where he goes with it? Back to the wild west of course!

David Morisset wrote and illustrated the story of 'The Spooky Dooky Man' in an exercise book when he was about eight years old.  At the time the so-called space race was just beginning and westerns were the most popular programs on black and white television.

'The Spooky Dooky Man' has now been published by CreateSpace.  The original text has only been edited to correct a few minor spelling/grammatical errors and the internal illustrations are photographs taken of the original exercise book pages.  It is suitable for pre-school and kindergarten children.

The CreateSpace sales listing can be found here.

The Amazon sales listing can be found here.

UNFORGIVEN

The tears that you take to bed

Never dry

They flood your dreams and wakeful hours

Drown your heart

As the hard world whirrs and purrs out there

Crowded drone

Sweeping you up in rip-ridden streams

Far from home.

Under clearer skies you loved and searched

Now blank black

Where once were stars and twinkling

No more lights

Barren backdrop for your broken vows

Spoken dazed

Guilt penned opaquely on an empty place

Far from cheap.

And morning comes up fresh and sprinkling

Lying light

Upon a lifetime’s stains that only flicker

In the dark

Take a few more unsteady steps ahead

Never back

While the sunshine shrouds the shame

Far from sight.

ALSO OUT NOW

The latest collection of new poems by David Morisset is now available through Amazon and CreateSpace.

Most of the poems included were written in 2013, a year of huge changes in David's life.

Many of them deal with his favourite themes of love and memories, as well as the trials of depression.

The Amazon sales listing can be found here.

The CreateSpace sales listing can be found here.

ONE DAY AT THE BEACH

At first sight the ocean has become a lake

With a newly washed sun to smooth it.

There’s no windy gusts nor breeze to mar

The emerald mirror of a cloudless sky.

Old men mount malibus to make love

To the rippled roll of a winsome wave;

While young ones torture each sweet swell

Until it surrenders, ebbs and dies.

***

Beyond each foam crest’s crash is a shimmer

Far away from the shorebreak swimmer.

Crawling in the curl - what a great pretender!

Whirling in the swirl when he falls into a blender.

Lunch brings pies and chips and a coke

Some sneak away to light a cheeky smoke

Time to slap on slops of cream and zinc

Starting to sting as white becomes pink.

On the wet sand’s edge along comes the glamour,

Drawing lusty awe and an undertow of clamour.

Last year’s bikini hasn’t kept up the pace

With winter’s lavish gift of bare open space.

***

Later the wind wanders wildly

Then roars riled and rasping

As the duck egg blue sky

Grows mauve and then misty rose.

Daylight droops like a flower in a shower

And the blank blackness of night arrives

As we depart and search out overhead

Heaven's starry army and its blinking eyes.