Paul Tristram- Two Poems

We Can Do Anything

Grab a bottle and follow me,

we’ll tear open the fiery skies

and blow on the coals of the

                        afternoon sun.

Plant some new stone circles,

dance naked between each

                           cold surface,

in a bestial trance of defiance.

Find a midnight angry beach,

take a blowback from the

                     North Westerly winds

and pull the waves to us like

                                    magnets.

We can do anything tonight,

amphetamine’s too slow, compared

to the adrenalin in my veins,

take my hand, I’ll show you

                                      oh yes!

© Paul Tristram 2004

Published in Moodswing, Issue Twelve, Summer 2004

Simply Applauding This

I stood in the doorway of HMV

watching the homeless man

shout at the passers by.

It was absolutely pissing down.

“It’s only rain!” he yelled confused.

“It never changes, its water,

you can only get wet once,

you’re all a bunch of lunatics.

Money well spent indeed, nutter’s,

those clothes should be protecting you

not you protecting them.

Hide in those doorways,

leave the soaking streets to me,

my clothes are full and heavy,

you have made me king

the rain is simply applauding this!”

© Paul Tristram 2006

Published in Sarasvati, Issue 22, May/June, 2012



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.