Poems by Samh

Thursday, 29 March 2012

Gammy Jamming

29/03/2012

Come and see the folk band leg

With bodhran’s baton
Bellowing beats
Indenting a stretching skin
And the tight tuning tortures
Of a tendon violin
Collecting chords
Clamp residing pressure
Of the oboe deep within

Accordion aches
Pumping and swelling
Menacing mechanics make
The collecting clattering
Clashing keys
And singers
Creating harmonies

And all this with stage side seats
Lodged inside a bulging knee

Samh

Saturday, 17 March 2012

Homing

17/03/2012
Empty, unconscious
Thoughts aside
Staring through the condensate
Two young girls
Wave across
But I can only smile
The calming, constant bumping
Cradles gentle sway
Hypnotising, locked in heat
Lingers, lethargically, through the day
Don't know how i got there
Or the time it took
But it was the correct destination
When my feet stepped off the bus

Samh

Friday, 16 March 2012

Absorbed

16/03/12
Stagnant air of adult
Boring shades of serious
Sinking draws, filled up clutter
Binding to the memories
Change that's wrapped in writing
Ladled logic soup
Scores of diced up, unread, classics
Consistent stirs and rippling loops
Eighty hidden sweet boiled gems
Tip to final hopeful step
One by one the polka dots
Hit the rusty deck

Samh

Saturday, 10 March 2012

West Yorkshire


10/03/2012
Every inch void concrete, brick or stone
Blossoms beautiful bursts of nature
Crippled sticks creep through cracks
Of towns so full of nurture

Every margin man has missed
On every impossible angle
Land is steeped with climbing moss,
Shrubbery that does stand and tangle

Valleys denting rolling hills
Village dense survival
Where people, plants and precipitation
Are all equal friend to rival

Streams a winding mimic gliding
Landscapes cut from rock
Slants and slopes slither southward
With farmland sitting top

The sandstone, slate and dust collate
With rabbits, twigs and harvest
Creating colour scheming drawings
A crayon canvas with no artist

The weaving roads need willing walls
To warn off all the wild
Of dandelions and shrubbery
Encroaching from both sides

Houses, with the woodland
All hunching in a row
With embroidered finite fences
Failing to stop flora grow

Standing solid, spire churches
Are like pins stuck in a map
But at the very bottom
The graves lay under grass

Samh

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Hoot

             06/03/2012

 Tight
 Endless
 Nervousness
 Yearning to be
 Emerging from this
 Arctic helplessness but
 Reaching calmly saying
 Open up is a family
 Let the body lead and the air
 Drop in so the rolling beat can move you.


I currently work for a company called Hoot, they have just turned ten years old.
www.hootmusic.co.uk

Samh