The heist of time that gathered random thoughts.

Domination spills over tepid thoughts

the tread of commonsense

leave marks on the ground

where time has been.

In a circus of madness

clowns in drag smiling...

are laughing in an upside down world.

Their dead are mourning, clapping hands

to a ghost performing.

The Scarecrow runs

in a cornfield hiding,

the black shadows

of a twisted mind rising

on a seance board

that's just begun.

In an upside down world

where the living are dead

and the dead are living,

autumn leaves run away screaming.

Evergreens fall with the ship sinking

where understanding has no meaning,

ghouls play the strings 

of those now hanging.

Psychedelic  colours are rainbows dripping

the  circus of thoughts no longer thinking

the carousel  mind stops not working.

The desert song of past 

continues singing,

the wind blows the images,

all chords now crying.

In an upside down world

where the living are dying,

the dying are living

their sands of time

have turned to glass.

Reviews

[Einstein Noodle]

have never read you so on the dark side my friend ..i think this would be an incredible song mixed with the right tune and arrangement ... speaks to our days so easily it frightening ... your jpoem is made more vivid with glorious Spring all around me ... i like the intelligent use of the language ..it fits ...reading is smooth and for me without hitch ...dramatic powerful imaging and emotive in dread ...nice departure from your familiar quip and sarcasm sir! i like it!
E.

[andrew mitchell]

Thank you my friend. Yes aussie humour often has a sarcastic edge because it is so dry. lol. A loss in the family of late in horrible circumstances has brought about a sad dark side. Thanks for stopping by.

[Einstein Noodle]

i'm so sorry for your loss Andrew :(( love on ya .. and your family :((((((((

[Stella Armour]

I see this is from your archives Andrew, and 4 years on i think the world is evem more topsy turvy with many more clowns in the political circus ring.
"autumn leaves run away screaming." that is an amazing line with terrific imagery .
Sometimes i think "Stop the world , i want to go backwards to where sanity prevailed "

Stella

[andrew mitchell]

Belated Thank you Stella

[John Alexander McFadyen]

This has to be the most profound piece I have ever read of yours. It is steeped in bitterness and anger and is set in a flowing poignant freeverse with teeth.