powerful built on dark a saga by Dave Wood somewhere within the arteries - the utterances run deep the gas has blown away and left its mark whatever rage or calm or semblances of sleep the cage is locked- the bars are built on dark the gas has blown away and left its mark what food is fed - the teeth are craving could creative lives that need are drowning starved what grows inside the seed is in the would whatever rage or calm or semblances of sleep dreams fester - ham-fisted in the bred cage shudders as imagination weeps power sits within our nest - the speaker said the cage is locked- the bars are built on dark but dark exists for light - light crow-bars in dark bird (the crow) its wings and feathers spark the paper with a fluttering of wings the gas has blown away and left its mark remember this - that stories always shift we fear the unknown more than fear the shark creative wields the pen and cleaves its gift what food is fed - the teeth are craving could the pen and brush considering the ways one wears the dark wings of the crow’s unstopping blood the other follows on with colour-play creative lives that need are drowning starved but now the picture scores the notes of time time’s short - creative flexes muscles hard and powers to reach outside and break the lines what’s grown inside the seed was in the would what’s running rampant now is beating art the wings of speed are pushing at the bud
power once stuck within bursts husk apart whatever rage or calm or semblances of sleep were here - all traces have been used experience of life is strength so steep we have to climb its tower to match the fuse dreams fester - ham-fisted in the bred let all the symbols of your falling sleep creep out mythology is shared when power’s fled power returns - and chomps into the doubt the wings of speed still pushing at the bud we wear the dark wings of the crow’s unstopping blood.
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Dave Wood is a gardener, poet, writer, visual artist, actor and facilitator. He works in all kinds of venues: galleries community centers, schools and, obviously, gardens.