Paul Tristram- Two Poems

Rules

Exercise rules the body;

love rules the heart.

Sex rules the senses;

imagination is ruled by art.

Intelligence rules the mind;

experience rules the soul.

While excess and addiction

they rule over the whole.

 

Published in Inclement (Poetry For The Modern Soul) Volume 5, Issue 4, Winter 2005

In A Sack

It’s strange beyond belief

kicking upside down in a sack,

it’s like being trapped in curtains

or falling through the roof of a marquee

and missing the floor.

You can feel the strength, the power

just up past your feet,

you can do nothing

but struggle helplessly and hope

for no water.

Published in Visionary Tongue, Issue Twenty, May 2006

Paul Tristram is a Welsh writer who has poems, short stories and sketches published in many publications around the world, he yearns to tattoo porcelain bridesmaids instead of digging empty graves for innocence at midnight, this too may pass, yet.