Same objective different outcome.

Same choir... different song

Same truth... different lie

Same employer... different position

Same day... different lover

Same artist... different media

Same promise... different infatuation

Same excuse... different reason

Same code... different secret

Same context... different connotation

Same smoke... different fire

Same menu... different restaurant

Same jibe... different insinuation

Same genre... different era

Same pond... different life

Same discovery... different mission

Same objective... different outcome

Same church... different steeple

Same person... different religion

Same colour... different hue

Same exhibition... different canvas

Same fact... different interpretation

Same meat... different gravy

Same outfit... different venue

Same motorway... different service station

Same friend... different drama

Same motive... different weapon

Same happenstance... different situation

Same festival... different tent

Same joke... different punchline

Same postcard... different vacation

Same season... different harvest

Same train... different ghost

Same journey... different destination

© MARCO MOONE 2009

Now plus more time equals later on.

Later that day the red light came
The crimson sunset glow
In the music
A quartet competing
A crescendo of light refracting
An influx of shadows lingering

As the Sun slipped over the periphery
A crown pointed the way home
In illuminated trails
The sundial enveloped by dusk
Told the time
On the figures dancing inside The Lantern

Later that night the Moon came
From around the corner
In an explosion of slow motion
A voluminous sail navigating
Full on spin into the red light
And off again into the ocean

A bat flapped across the night show
And Orion unbuckled
Now plus more time equals later on
In Harmony Tingling
Lots of different nations
Tell a collective anecdotal blessing

© MARCO MOONE 2009

How to make it up as you are going along.

How to measure in millimetres.

One centimeter equals ten mm.

What this means.

It's a meridian monument.

How mode you?

Modular.

How to memorise a menu.

One feast equals ten take-a-ways.

What this feeds.

It's a big deal.

Where are you living right now?

Lately.

How to remember a dream.

One sequence equals ten juxtapositions.

What this feels.

It's a performance.

Which theatrical stage?

On.

How to keep a secret.

One lie equals ten beatific folklore's.

What this entertains.

It's an urban myth.

What period?

Realistically.

How to make it up as you are going along.

One hero equals ten thousand enemies.

When this happens.

It's common knowledge.

How do you do?

Mysteriously.

© MARCO MOONE 2009

Telescopically noislessly marvelously.

Vast
once blue (in a)
the deep
untouchable................................................


This way
telescopically
noiselessly
marvelously
O
Sea
of
Tranquility.

© MARCO MOONE 2009

XIII of experience.

My name is of old,
my life is foretold.
Who am I?
One One Five,
Cross Park Drive.
Out of the top hat came a sight for sore eyes,
a surprise.
A tragic demise.
An honorary member of the Magic Eclipse.
A region of inverted zones, a landscape.
Very near is far away, up is down, fast is stationary.
Vanished.

© MARCO MOONE 2008

613JOSEPH1987

Lend me a memory,
Send me a message,
Tell me about the times we were apart,
Come to me secretly,
Talk to me remotely,
Remind me of the times we haven't lived.
Look me in the eye,
Just try,
Don't take the mick out of me,
Or try to write your own history,
Laugh with me,
Confess your love to me eternally.

© MARCO MOONE 2008

Your wonderful letter.

19-11-96 Dearest N Flat3-SE27

Thank you so much for your wonderful letter,
which has cheered me up enormously.
It came as quite a surprise actually,
but I knew it wouldn't be long before we wrote to each other.
Although you were right,
I did need some time to get my verbs (act) together.
It seems like so long ago since we sat on my airbed,
in my empty flat upon the eve of my departure.

© MARCO MOONE 2008

Long gone is the throng.

The noon service to the Moon.

A unique opportunity.

T'journey t'Sea=Tranquility.

Just a day away, they say.

The station clock hands darted,

as the Full Moon Express departed.

Was that the Full Moon Express?

The train -that was standing on Platform 8-?

Missed it!

MIND THE GAP / the platform edge!

Closing now is the gate.

But for seconds late.

The portal passed.

The whistle blew.

I know it's crazy, but it's true.

Emerging from a foggy wake.

Giant steps cannot foresake.

Long gone is the throng.....of lunar tourists,

selenologists, artists and mystics.

Next service, next MOON'th

Or 27 days, come what may.

© MARCO MOONE 2008

Gothic Keywords.

Vesica piscis.
Unicursal triquetra.
Pentacle, triangle, circle, cross.

Geometry.

Inverted pentagram.
Five pointed.
Medallion, chalice, crown.

Finger, palm, symbolism.
Font, altar, temple, tomb.

Window, matrix, motif, axe.
Dagger.
Lamb, skull, heart, bat.
Eye.

Revival, oak leaf emblem.

© MARCO MOONE 2008

The bongo beating heart of love.

Here's to the gardeners who grow it.
At the flower festival they show it.
Nature enthralled.
In full bloom for all.


Here's to the tailors who sew it.
Upon the city gent they throw it.
Fitted smooth and proud.
As seen in the crowd.


Here's to the pilots who fly it.
Goggles magnificent in pursuit of it.
Dive bomb 1-2-3 hundred and sixty degree.
A life flash by in front of thee.


Here's to the poets who know it.
Inscribe in rhyme for the flow of it.
The time and the mood.
Waltzing words interlude.


Here's to the musicians who play it.
Orbital orchestra, tea dance and trumpet.
The bongo beating heart of love.
The vaulted voice of an angel above.

1994
© MARCO MOONE 2008

Bend over the sink.

Let me wash your hair.
Hair that falls in curls.
Let my hand wander through the strands.
Let me drench you.
Anointing your head.
With aqua from holy vase.
Holding you in my grasp.
Fingers lingering.
Watching the water flowing away.
1990

© MARCO MOONE 2008

Mundane.

A

scene

day landscape

invitation minute play

diamond culled second view

occasion steel copy white palace

exact event lead plagiarism year stage

tomb correct happen gold counterfeit hour act

applause shroud precise occurrence iron mimic decade portrait

tower cheer wake construct programme jet model century curtain

jade wound dumb birth vague mundane mercury genuine infinity void

blood pinnacle shout ash definitive consequence glass sham millennium

cherry spire whisper loss absolute moment quartz substitute

poppy ariel hum extinct positive result silver

ruby antennae laugh vigil right possession

danger column sing epitaph law

amber stake whistle murder

claret mast jeer

revolving statue

Mars

1998

© MARCO MOONE 2008

The post apocalyptic vacation to the forgotten quarry.

The post apocalyptic vacation to the forgotten quarry.
Collage
culled from skecthbook #92
page of book
leaf of sketch
turn of phrase
slight of hand
screwed up
start over
temperature of line
architectural conversion
like a prayer


(on your marks...)
© MARCO MOONE 2008