Monday, January 18, 2016

Jonathan Beale- Three Poems



Pearblossom Highway David Hockney 11 -18th April 2nd version 1986

‘Dream of Californication’ The Red Hot Chilli Peppers

How cinematic
The collage sky
Defines - deprives
This must be
California California
The scene.  Set.

The character palms
Incidental Joshua trees
Daily detritus
Of the truckers and bikers

Few pass this way
For today at least
The place, kicking back
Seen in its parts
California California
The component parts.  Atoms

The character palms
Incidental Joshua trees
Daily detritus
Of the truckers and bikers

Castrol, bud lights, Pepsi,
Here, sand, and sky’s marriage
Accept no strangers
This room is brash
California California
The scene.  Set.

The character palms
Incidental Joshua trees
Daily detritus
Of the truckers and bikers

Ahead stop – ahead stop
There is a vanishing point
Ahead stop - ahead somewhere
Else, that will appear
California California
The component parts.  Atoms.

 

Cuadro Grande

The new democracy David Alfaro Siqueiros 1944 – 45, Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City 

Democracy is the monumental Blossom,
That touches every soul in this
Existential statement.  Being and conception
Grows into Its own portrait - into its own reflection:
The weight of the chains.  Smashed!
The moment.  Gone!  Leaving “FREEDOM
“FREEDOM” That taste of freedom so sweet,
So short.  In its wake, she can never be forgotten.
The fire from down below will
Lay silent until another epoch.
The revolution with come again another
Day, as she’s carved in history.
Her memory will come to the fore
Life the Cuadro Grande freedom too Cuadro Grande



Metropolis a triptych 1928

Jazz and masks
In the ball of the night, the dancing
Never stops.  The brassy air
The brassy women and the brassy men
Have built the metropolis
From the senses and wit and
Their predecessors the energy
Thrusts through the moment’s cel. 

Look to your left the old man
Hobbles along with his crutch
The eagle of his youth has flown
The light he sees opals in the eye
They dance along throbbing
Still with the passion and
Adrenalin of the still living night
The saga of the metropolis

Those strange collections
Of characters and columns
Long and morphing into
One and another
Their uniqueness as
A collection of birds of
Paradise.  In some ancient
Lost play caught in colour 



Jonathan Beale has 400 plus poems published in such journals as: Decanto,  Penwood Review,  The Screech Owl, Danse Macabre, Danse Macabre du Jour, Poetic Diversity, Voices of Israel in English, Miracle-E-zine,  Voices of Hellenism Literary Journal, The Journal, Ink Sweat & Tears, Down in the Dirt, The English Chicago Review, Mad Swirl, Poetry Cornwall, Leaves of Ink, Ariadne’s Thread, Bijou Poetry Review, Calvary Cross, Deadsnakes Review, The Bitchin Kitsch, Poetry by Birkbeck alumnus, The Dawntreader, I am not a Silent Poet, Pyrokinection, Festival of Language, ‘Don’t Be Afraid: An Anthology to Seamus Heaney’, Ygdrasil, the Four Seasons Anthology, The Seventh Quarry and Van Gogh’s Ear Anthology.

He was commended in Decanto’s and Café writers Poetry Competitions 2012. His work has appeared in such books as Drowning (Scar publications), The Poet as Sociopath (Scar publications). His first collection of poetry ‘The Destinations of Raxiera’ is published by Hammer & Anvil.  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Destinations-Raxiera-Jonathan-Beale-ebook/dp/B018F6GWQ6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1452199641&sr=1-1&keywords=jonathan+beale

He studied philosophy at Birkbeck College London and lives in Surrey England. 

2 comments:

  1. Great to get to know another writing style and poetry flow...

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  2. Great to get to know another writing style and poetry flow...

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