Tuesday, 12 February 2013

She Rocks One Lock


The noise of artificial winter was white
Masking slight airy tendrils
Stealing frosty kisses, seemingly
Inviting featherless geese to rise upon limbs

She sat still, silent, stoic.
Staring surreptitiously at the speaker
Smiling softly at speech spoken sonorously
With a smooth succinct style

Tilted head exuding poise
Atop elegant pillar of demure strength

She rocked one lock

Draped over ebon shoulder
Caressing nape
As if
Daring one to issue challenge
‘gainst her right to her own



Shifting in her seat
She looked at home in that plastic throne
Genteel hands flitted to lips
Failing to halt the bubble of laughter
Indicative of mirth unearthed,
Divined midst Spoken Word.

Surely she possessed a fine ear
And mind intimate with wit

To woo I was at once bit
By muse of thought
To pen nameless empress
Who rocked one lock

Glen  ‘Charlie Roots’ Toussaint 2013©


Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Because I Love Words – Chapter Six – The Wooing

Lay mine head upon thy bosom
Permit me to tarry a while
My burden doth rest weighty
Stealing strength and breath from
Mortal frame

Beauty resides within thy realm,
Yea, even as thou dost reside within it
For thine is that of mind and soul
Moving tongue to exaltation
And thoughts to purification

My sins I lay bare
Like sandals a fore ones doorpost
That I may enter thy presence
For thou art as unto a holy thing
Rare and precious

Speak, perchance angels weep
And fall from heaven to lie at thy feet
Whilst devils, mischief they do forget
To crown thy brow with wreaths

Perfect within every imperfection
Affecting grace with ease of naturality
Personification of every goddess
Thou art fair and bless’d

Nature exalts thee
Oh Maddona
Thy hair doth capture the spirits of the breeze
As surely thine eyes capture the stars

Lay my lips upon thine
That I might tumble into thy soul
Shedding mortal for immortal
Within thy eternal embrace
I am reborn.
 Anon

Glen Toussaint 2012©



Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Romance de Mots


Allow me to paint you under passion
With words and syllables coloured
By the searing heat of
Soft fingertips
Resting on lips
Splashing Sounds of you
On the canvas of ears                
Deaf to all but your breathing
Ssshhhhhh…..

Pleasssssse
Don't leave me
Quivering wanton...
Seething.
Wet your digits with the medium that
My passion so copiously provides
And paint my world red!
Set me on fire
Assault me with deviously devised colloquy
Demanding the culmination of my desire.
Crawl, climb, thrust your monumentally resplendent
Presence into my eager psyche
I will only beg if you don't stop giving
Until all my thoughts are gravid of us and you
And the colours we paint with our words becomes more than a thought
It becomes truth

Call to me with your Earthsong, Gaia
Cause you’re the mother of my thoughts
The muse to my words
I speak
Compromising myself to your whim
A slave to your mindscape
Whip me, lick me with every device of your literary worth
Till every crevice and curve of your landscape i learn
Intimately
Your symmetry provides the basis of your beauty
Stirring the lust nurtured by this provocative sensuality
Driving me to bend you over to my will and fill you over and over
With liquid concepts of unadulterated enlightenment
Vibe with me
Let us resonate like we’re one being
Tempt me with unspoken promises
Calculated gestures and voluminous silence
Grant me seamless entry into your personal spaces
That we may reach that peak
Where we might speak through emotions, light and life

(together)
I want you...
To...
chorus....
with me...

Keying notes till our swirling symphony reaches a crescendo
Of planets, moons and suns colliding
Grasp me tightly
For I feel myself slipping.....

Never fear to release, my sweet!
Never fear slipping.
I was made for this.
To your essence I’m fiercely gripping.
I Relish the strong strokes of your brush dipping
Into my passion,

Sucking that cosmic ink for the stylus of my consciousness
Every sweeping movement
A kanji in the haiku
Stained across the virgin sheet of your being
I submerge into your existence with no regard to breathing
For I am listening....I am listening
To the coming of your tide,
The coming of your stream
Condensing into a singularity
With such clarity
Challenging

Daring to reach past places where suns and moons reside....
To where we paint galaxies of our ecstasy weaving in and out … in and out … 
In and out of time!
And I will
Vibrate..
On the
Frequency
That is
You.
Every Cosine and sine in sync - Juste nous deux
I Promise you I will pirouette on every note and treble clef.
I will join you on every journey you wish to take my mind’s eye.
I will plead for you to spread your wings and teach me to fly.
I will never beg you to stop, I will not harbour fear.
Reaching so high until I wear the stars in my hair.
And they will leave streaks of silvery wisdom there.
My love...
If these word are yours and you are mine there is no limit predicting where the seeds of our fearlessness will preside.

Shhh
Not another word
Not another whispered sigh
Every sound spent
Save the pursing of lips
And the placing of kiss upon Fate’s fair cheeks...

Charissa Lewis & Glen Toussaint 2012 ©

Tuesday, 27 November 2012

A Mutual Respect


Gender equality

A mutual respect

Its not something that needs to be spoken of between us
Not after all this time
Even when it was no time at all
It was there
Always there
No fancy words or gifts necessary
But they are welcomed
Just the same as the shy smile, the gentle touch, the knowing look
It sings within the tone of your voice when you call my name
When I lean on you and your big little shoulders bear the strain
You’re just my height even though you’re 18 inches shorter
And my jaw can testify
You’re one hell of a fighter

You give as much as you get
Setting the example for me and ours
Your back set straight
But let me help you with that
You can rest besides me I’ll stave off the attacks
Of a relentless condescending facetious world
Come on babes, rest, put your feet up today
You’ve been carrying us all the while
Allow me to bear you the rest of the way

Between you and me resides reciprocity
Truth, understanding, love and respect
Truth understanding, love and respect

Its not something that needs to be spoken between us
But its something that needs to be spoken to them
Within you and me we’ve achieved our zen
Reciprocity, love and respect
Let’s bring the truth to them

Glen Toussaint 2012©

Tuesday, 6 November 2012

Haiku - Ichi


Waves on beach crashing
Prayers and song clashing into
Airy still spaces


Kurasshubīchi no nami
Ni gekitotsu inori to uta
Earī mada supēsu

Thursday, 18 October 2012

JAH! Tek ah Pikchure of I


JAH!!!!!
Tek a pikchure of I…

And then laugh
Face upturned towards the leaden sky
Angry or happy who can say
When nature breaks loose and starts to play

W’ appen yout’, yuh ‘fraid? He asked
Face grinning like a mask
Set against the flood beating out of the heavens
Back arched to extremes
Bare legs splayed and planted
Arms flung wide as if to embrace the world

I saw him in the gloom
An unmovable thing amidst the howling wind
Glistening skin stretched over corded muscle and bone
Grown from hard work and harder life

He seemed an ancient god
Commanding the thunder of the skies with the thunder of his voice
The lightning in his eyes mimicked the light within the clouds

JAH!!!! He boomed
Flash!
Crack!
BOOM!
The rumble rolled like a mountain threatening to break the Creator’s flooring
And squash us to bits
He laughed again
And again he called
With a voice pregnant with the elements

Yout’! Come bwoy an watch yuh modda dance. Shout an mek Jah see yuh bwoy!

I cowered beneath that old tamarind tree
Watching the laughing mad man slowly becoming one with the elements
He shook his head
The thick ropes of his waist length lox moved as if alive
Generating wind of their own
Tossing water from their ends

It was true
I was afraid
I was always afraid
I was afraid now of him
And I was afraid of nature’s carnival
He turned his head to me, flashed me a smile filled with missing teeth
And said

Yuh musn’t ‘fraid bwoy cause dominion was given unto man

It was then that the lightning struck and time stopped
I cried out, but he was gone
All that was left was the echo of his laughter
Rolling with the thunder
And a whisper

Yuh musn’t ‘fraid bwoy

Standing in his footprints
Amidst the raging wind and rain
I released my fear
I released the hold of the world
And I who used to watch lightning behind closed lids
Who listened to thunder behind firmly pressed palms
Who felt the wind through concrete walls
And touched the rain beneath galvanized roofs
Planted my feet
Spread my arms
Turned my face upwards
And shouted

JAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Tek a pikchure of I!

Glen Toussaint 2012©



Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Sky In Motion


Sky In Motion



My blues are in motion
Not a one is frozen
My blues aren’t silent
They shout in elation

Every single lasting hue
Sweeping in broad, grand strokes
Swiftly, my blue
Moves from dew to dew

Upon the dawn, hark! Eos’ pink brow
Bow to your coming
Helios and Apollo’s gold and reds signal your parting
A sky in motion
Whites shifting grey gives way
As day flows into day

My blues are singing
To the tune of the wind dancing
Whispering of infinity
Calling out to eternity

My blues are changing
Mirrored quietly
Reflecting, fusing, penetrating
Sky, eye, and sea
Evolving from shade to shade
Parading incessantly

My blues are in motion
Not a one is frozen
My blues aren’t silent
They shout in elation.



Glen Toussaint © 2011