Leaf

Single

Leaf

On

A tree
-
Gold

As

November
-
Clings

Tenaciously

To

Life
-
So

Stubborn

In

The wind
-
Defiant

Of

Its time
-
Survivor
-
Affinity
-
Mankind

-

Egal Bohen

Pebbles Tidal

Tumbled
Churned
Arrayed
Displayed
Laid out
To glisten
On parade
To rest
A quest
That is denied
Sucked back
To grind
Each other
Down
Grated
Dragged
Then rolled
Around
Twice daily
They broadcast
Their sound
By movements
Of
Earth’s Oceans
Round
Hollowed
Contoured
Cream and brown
Pebbles tidal
Duly sorted
Mottled
Coloured
Wet then salted
On the shore
Laid out
-
Exhausted

-

Egal Bohen

Nowthen

That
Which in temporary state
Prevails
But for a second
Or
Its fraction
Midst this sea of mulitudous forms
Endures forever
-
Our minute lives
So small
Extended
Locked into Time
Preserved
Appended
Unseen
But there as in a dream
-
Times speed
Dictates
Our life
Our state
That frontier
That does not wait
We cannot go back
Through the gate
For all that is
Is on the Line
Unstoppable
Essential
Motion
Known
As
Time

-

Egal Bohen

Surreal

A leather dog
A clock of steel
It’s face turns round
Its hands can feel
-
A
Silver Knight
Without his legs
Driven about
By
Mechanical pegs
-
Stairs that turn
To take you
On
To the level where
You started from
-
Animals
That have strange heads
Flying tigers
Over the beds
Light
With no shadow
With no shade
Horizons
Here do not invade
-
People
Who can change their form
This place where there exists no norm
Places
Where the spoken word
Has meaning
Before it is heard
-
Where images
Communicate
And hold a message
We translate
-
If we will take the time
I think
-
It is surreal
Don’t scream
For though I feel
It is a dream
It is more real
I feel than real
-
This
Supraconscious
Catherine wheel
-
This dream
Surreal

-

Egal Bohen

Land of Midnight Sun

In
The land
Of
Midnight
Sun
-
Where from
Volcanoes
Ice
Doth run
-
Where time is not

-

And legs won’t run
-
There is
A silence

-
You have heard

-
More silent than the glide
Of ghostly bird

-
Before it
Stryke
Deep
In
The moonlit
Wood

-
At night

-
To carry far away
You
To your dreams
-
To places
You have never been
-
Where may be seen

-
Beneath
That incandescent
Light
of
Midnight Sun
-
In silence too
-
The colours of your life
-
All run together
-
Into
-
One

_



Egal Bohen

Ginger - or - In a medium outside our Time

I have seen
In quiet corners

-
Of long forgotten
Empty rooms

-
Faded memories
Of childhood
Warmth and laughter
In a winters afternoon
-
I have seen on evening walks
In summers honeysuckled lanes
Those who walked before
Beside us

-
Gone
Yet leaving
Images
Remembered

-
Loved ones
Names
-
I have seen pass
Right beside me
Through
The iron painted gates
That guard the park
The trees and branches
Where I once played

-
My old school mates
-
Within my mind
Their distant voices
Through mists
Of time
Call out again

-
Who was it
Shouted: 'See you later'?
Was it “Ginger”
In the rain

-
Running swiftly
Home

-
Late

-
To explain
-
His voice
Still lingers
Ever timeless
Echoing
Around my brain
-
Strange not
The leaves
Fall
From the branches
Of the trees
Within the park
-
Strange not
My hair
From Time
It's marches
Is now rendered
White
As snow
-
Stranger though
Those memories
Within us
Grow not old
As old
We grow
-
For they are data
Now recorded

-
In a medium
Outside
Our Time

-
By age
Completely
Disregarded

-
Trapped
Preserved
To wait
Untarnished

-
To be played
When they are needed

-
Memories

-
Of yours and mine
-
Egal Bohen

I know it's going to be hard for me to get wings........

If you believe in God
Surely you would want to know
How it began
Gods mighty plan
That we speak of but don’t understand
I mean faith
Does it have to be blind?
Do you think God
Really would mind?
If we asked a question or two
About how he made me and you?
-
Did God know everything then?
Before he invented men
Was the story of Man
Predicted too
Our heaven
Our hell
And all we would do
-
If so
Then what was the point
Why open a book
To read or begin
A story thats written
If it's already “Fin”
-
What did God really want
To do then
With Man?
Did he have
Or have not
A predicted plan
(Interested greatly in which I am)
-
And thinking of questions as I go along
If - God - made- life - all- in -one - go
Where did the information on life come from?
Perhaps we were something
He thought of
Me and you
On a day out to his local zoo
Or when singing a song
Walking home through the park
One evening in space
Long after dark
-
Thinking One (Adam)
And then Eve (Two)
A duet perhaps
Lifes song to improve
-
Did he prophesy then
As homeward he went
Back to his god-like grand tenement
Of Mans hates
His desires
All those things we do wrong
That long list of naughty things
(Sins like this song!)
To which man persistently
Addictively clings
-
(I know, .........its going to be hard for me to get wings)
-
It would seem then if man (the idea) was quite new
He was a concept of God
Perhaps well thought through
But Man........................m'mm
He could be an accident though
A product of life
A bit like a crow
-
If that were the case
Could God ever have known
What Man was
When life started
What evolution would clone?
-
Or perhaps when God
Began his great plan
(You know what I mean the story of Man)
God used an idea from his memory store
Possibly
From a play
He'd seen somewhere before
-
But then if he knew
How man would behave
How all planet earth
Man would come to invade
Before it all started
(I mean before mans life had begun)
If god knew what Man was like
He
Must have had one HELL of a dislike
For everything else under the sun!
-
If you think
About then
In what we believe
It doesn't add up
To what we perceive
-
Was Man planned?
Was he not?
Did God write the whole plot?
Or did he just boil up the stew?
-
Those questions now spoken
My mind I’ll keep open
(For its hard to work out what is true!)
-
But then
Having carried out
A Very
Very quick review
I don’t think myself
That he actually knew
-
I mean I don't think that man
Was the whole of Gods plan
From creation
I think Man just grew
-
I think it could be
God is life
As it began
Or
God is a beginning
From which Life sprang
-
Life that is conscious
And was born to expand
Energy
Universe
Together
A Clan
-
I think God is a part of ourselves
We don't know
That is growing
Wherever
His Universe flows
Whatever the case
The answers we’ll find
By questioning
Everything
Line after line
-
The one thing
I am sure of
To know God
In our minds
If faith is required
It need not
Be blind

-

Egal Bohen