Morning Rain

Falling awake

to the sound of dappling on the window.

Tired eyes peeling open,

expecting the sun’s warm glow,

only to a glimmer of surface light.

 

Confusion develops

as you begin to stretch.

Certainty sinks in

as you gasp for a breath.

You have to swim with all of your might.

 

Plunging toward the surface,

you imagine dying here.

The cold water piercing

your skin and your fear.

The surface closer gleaming.

 

A sudden burst of air,

you inhale to sheer surprise.

Wiping your face,

you cannot believe your eyes.

Had you been dreaming?

 

Falling awake

to the sound of dappling on the window.

Its Near..

Oh! the joys

Some of our little toys,

We closed our eyes,

Dreams came insight,

They were big but clear,

We were small but near.

 

The time passed

We grew old

They got lost here,

Or we came far somewhere,

 

Now we keep searching

the lost or the door

May we once again close our eyes

We will find it for sure..

Plant

Did you ever notice

How a plant grows

The symmetry

The pattern

The lines, where leaves, drops of water and sunlight meet..

Like a friend..

Like a lover

Like a dream

 

 

 

The 1st hour

There in the distance, is it friend or foe?

Only time will tell and truth be known

My awkward stature and breathing apparatus

Hardly camouflage my foreign status

Small finned families continue on their merry ways

The subject draws near

Heart and mind gripped with fear

Peril and death are upon me

Yet eyes still saturated with the glory of the sea

Coral reefs, yellow, red, and orange imagery

Sunken treasures, curious creatures, and mysteries of the indigo dark

Magnificent, breathtaking, indescribable

Shark!

Awake (1)

Your alarm goes off

too early.

One last cuddle followed by

brushing, dressing,

bed heaving as you lace your boots.

 

My alarm goes off

too early.

No work today so what the hell …

return late night texts, check emails

light dimming as I fall back asleep

 

Thunderclaps peeling

just right.

Hazily muse if I should rouse

storms passing, sleep being caught up

Stretching as I stand for another day.

“Our Atlantis” (Hour 1)

Bubbles rise to the surface,

as my lungs deplete of oxygen,

not knowing exactly where to begin,

I start my task,

with one swig of my flask,

as it starts like a flash,

not caring about the lash that may be,

but simply waiting to see,

just what may be.

Flailing my arms,

trying to swim in a world,

a world unlike another,

a world I have seen destroy many other,

drowning them in this sea I despise,

this sea flowing only of lies,

our world needs to relies where we float.

These crashing currents,

are sinking this boat.

In a hopeless attempt,

I grasp for air,

ignoring my despair.

At the top we thought we stood,

but we were all so misunderstood,

preparing our Atlantis for evacuation,

this world is no vacation,

but a coffin we have built,

with our own filth in a putrid instance,

this place we loved so dearly,

a world you no longer can see clearly,

but unknowingly,

I continue to stay afloat,

watching this world

burn in front of me,

while I see it continue to drown.

But this is our Atlantis,

that we continue to sink,

not caring to think what will happen,

when will the chaos begin.

Now it’s time

to top up my flask of gin,

but remember children,

you will never know,

when this show will begin.

Violent Submersion

violent submersion

eyes wide and arms outstretched

in the midst of thrashing and trying to catch your breath

a clear vision

an agonizing realization

you played a part

and refused to see this is how it would end

it happened slowly and played itself out

as you looked away

and here you are

taking your last breath

do you choose to fade away

or to fight for a life half lived

By: KMH 2015

Bath-tub Baptist -Poem for Hour 1

Baptised into a new religion;
You’re the minister – I’m under supervision,
Soaked in holy oblivion,

You balance the weight of my thoughts

And the burden of all the ‘oughts-ta’

As you pour on more water,

And try to imagine some names

To whom we could dedicate the ceremony –

Some that would stick in our memory

When we remember you rescuing me

From tedium

Through the medium

Of laughter
And this ritual at the bath tub

And everything that came after.

Oh yes!
I believe!

And you never deceive.

(c) Gemma Hinton 13/06/15

Needless to say I am drowning.

The bed I made, already grave, I try to grasp at hope to save, to see myself sink further still, the surface mocks, exhausted will, and quest of something true, with ease, slips out into uncertainty.

But I remember myself.

I look inward.

My insides churn with the realisation that I will not make it through.

I thought that I could dive so deep but did not see the weight with me.

Here, in these bags, the sand I gathered from the ocean floor.

When all this land was desert still the sun beat its heart onto these rocks and taught the rocks to breathe.
Open porous rocks teeming with tiny hope of life snaking its way through passages borne from the inside out.

Great waves now wash those nodes of time.

The memory of sunlight in tidal changes and eastern currents.

And coldness is an ocean floor.

I shake myself again.

But isn’t water life?
Desert and scorched and burnt and drought and death but water, water is life.

And I could drown myself in life.

Overwhelmed lungs could suck in liquid air and water the branches of my bones.

I resolve and shun the surface; the greater journey is deeper still.

 

poem #1: Grad.

The music thumps,

And the dusty edges of my soul come raging against their noise.

I’m the prince of sentimental disturbance and the heat is begging me to give it a rest.

Next year is the test.

And I am the holy one among all the holier beings of the golden light in their golden robes.

Seeing the Sun too.