Edited by Aideen Devine, Sunday, 14 Dec 2014, 18:34
A while back I put up a poem written by a young man named John Jones who died at the tender age of 22. His nephew found the poem on the blog and contacted me and then put me in touch with his mother who is John's twin sister. We've been keeping in touch and she has given me permission to put up the rest of the poems so I said I would do that over the month of December. The poems were all written back in the 1970's and this is the first of them.
John Jones
A while back I put up a poem written by a young man named John Jones who died at the tender age of 22. His nephew found the poem on the blog and contacted me and then put me in touch with his mother who is John's twin sister. We've been keeping in touch and she has given me permission to put up the rest of the poems so I said I would do that over the month of December. The poems were all written back in the 1970's and this is the first of them.
Conditional Surrender
Some want
A curfew on laughter
Graffitti void of frolic
Oil slicks for seafaring dodo's
Crimes for every handicap
Multiple pile-ups on easy terms
Mutual interest in select perversion
An empty ledge for every desperate man
Others
An audience for the crocus
An encore for the rain
A meal for every stomach
An end to human pain,
A mother for each baby
A truth for every dream
Lovers for the lonely
Peaches with ice-cream
Stalemate again:
In trenches near and far
January, October 1976