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    Shining Lights Dark Matters
    Shining Lights Dark Matters
    Shining Lights Dark Matters
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    Shining Lights Dark Matters

    By Ian Meacheam

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    Darkness will often cover the light but sometimes the light shows up the dark.
    The words in this book have been kept in darkness. I hope you will open the pages and give the poems and prose some light to shine and perhaps cast the odd shadow 
    (Ian Meacheam).

    The follow-up to 'Stone People Glass Houses'.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAPS Publications
    Release dateFeb 11, 2018
    ISBN9781912309214
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      Shining Lights Dark Matters - Ian Meacheam

      Unmadeup Poem No 1 – Ian Meacheam (2018)

      This piece of poetic art depicts the poet in the first stages of creating a poem. In another rare interview the poet explained that early in the morning the muse often takes me. I get out of bed quickly and make up poems. This is the first poem in a series of master bed pieces. 

      Homeless Poem

      Please can you spare me some time?

      I’ve been sitting here

      On this bleak, blank paper

      Waiting for acknowledgement.

      Over time

      The ink occasionally moved

      From one unsafe place

      To another.

      Never settling, never certain.

      No prospects of ending.

      I try to shelter in a space

      That gives me warmth,

      But the drafts keep coming,

      And I am left in the cold

      At the feet of towering figures.

      Over time

      The blood freezes the heart.

      My health and happiness

      No longer part of my vocabulary.

      These poor words are consigned

      To the cold slabs

      Of empty pages.

      Problem Poem

      I don’t have a problem with drinking.

      I don’t have a problem with drugs.

      I don’t have a problem with eating.

      I don’t have a problem with smoking.

      I don’t have a problem with gambling.

      I don’t have a problem with dying.

      I don’t have a problem with lying.

      I just have a problem with denying.

      Nameless Poem

      These words have names.

      We hang a name on everything

      We give common names to....

      Objects, actions, emotions.

      Our dictionaries are full of these names.

      Words span and spread

      Across homelands and beyond borders.

      Words may drop in and out of fashion

      But our language is shared

      Conveying the same meaning and sense,

      More or less.

      But certain words are left

      Unsaid and unnamed,

      They are beyond definition,

      Beyond belief and description.

      These names are left without

      Identity and legacy.

      These names are people

      And they fall by the way side.

      Through nameless acts of

      Inequality, exploitation, inhumanity.

      And some of the rest of us,

      Who will remain nameless,

      Are left speechless,

      Feeling powerless

      To name names.

      So, we close the book

      Or turn a page

      And refuse to name the word.

      Leaving the world failing us

      As all our words fail us

      All.

      Advice Poem

      We point the way

      With our wrinkled green fingers,

      Sprinkling suggestions

      Here and there,

      And occasionally the seeds of advice

      Sink into the fresh virgin ground.

      But the soil dries in time,

      The garden groans,

      Plants wither to weeds

      And return to the land.

      My futile autumn world

      Looks different

      In your fertile green mind.

      So, I have stopped planting seeds,

      Because I am not you

      And you are not me.

      But if I were you......

      Fading Poem

      Many happy birthdays ago

      I was bold and bright,

      My confident words and thoughts

      Jet black and snow white.

      I dominated my space and your time.

      In the crowd I stood out

      Head and shoulders

      Above the clouds.

      I was sure and certain of myself

      Self-assured and growing

      Selfish.

      Sometime later,

      Somewhere, somehow,

      My words and thoughts

      Lost their certainty and clarity.

      They merged and blurred

      Into grey ghosts of birthdays past.

      I shrank into the crowd

      A grim man walking,

      As younger types became bold.

      And I was left to shed tears from a cloud,

      Self-critical and doubting

      Self.

      School Poem

      Mark my words,

      This was once

      A blank page.

      Then my teacher talked to me

      And magically it was filled with ideas,

      Imagery and beauty.

      Mark my words.

      And then my teacher marked it.

      It was filled with words,

      Numbers and

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