Paul Tristram’s three poems


Bewitched (Gunning For Ya!) 

 

(Absolutely) ‘Be-sott-ed’

… stuttering slightly

and walking weirdly.

OMG! My stomach

just rose to my throat

… adrenaline,

butterflies, tingles…

“Get out of my way!”

‘Deep breath’,

one more table to go

… and pursed smile.

I should get an award

for keeping

the ‘Snakes of Desire’

so CONTAINED

… it’s killing me…

but here you are, perfect!

Equipoise Whilst Transitioning 

 

… ‘Non-Argumentative’

Assertiveness

from a Calm,

Unmovable Standpoint.

Slings from the

right,

Arrows from the

left,

and Knives from the

Rear…

reach no Target

… they Energy-Bounce

back

to whence they came.

Do not just

‘Go With The Flow’…

Become ‘The Flow’

… zero room for

(Negative) Stowaways

aboard this… Ascension.

Watching You Fall… To See You Rise 

 

If (Karmic) ‘Clap Back’

only came

in small amounts

… we’d never Learn

anything except

how to pencil-mark

days of inconvenient

short-term ‘Adversity’

onto the wall calendar.

There is no Phoenix

without the Flames

… you cannot

‘Come Back Stronger’

from Contentment

… we need Pressure,

Strain, and Grief…

to find our inner Mettle.


Paul Tristram is a widely published Welsh writer. He yearns to tattoo porcelain bridesmaids instead of digging empty graves for innocence at midnight; this too may pass, yet. His novel “Crazy Like Emotion” is published by Close To The Bone. Short story collection “Kicking Back Drunk ‘Round The Candletree Graves”, and full-length poetry collections “It Is Big And It Is Clever”, “South Wales Outlaw”, “The Gutter Symposium”, “The Dark Side Of British Poetry”, “Uncivil Disobedience Is My Forte” and “Half A Long Century Of Anarchy, Bedlam, Chaos And Deplorably-Depraved Decadence” are all published by Hunsbury Press.

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