Mel From Melbourne - Music & Words

Less/Lest... Booze fills me with full sail to bravely tackle difficult truths Dear water softs my edge allows for observing simple joys There are 2 sides to every Malachi & change is crucial for a poet As Tennyson, Rilke; & Ecclesiastes quoth "For everything there is a season..." Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2023.

  When one is experienced  (homage) When one is experienced One is often at the point of quitting These days           it seems   I had the privilege of incredible speakers & readers & writers around me I breezed through University Never giving thought a second wind   Faster than a tea drinking Professor I sped like a bullet out the gate Now it’s late   Just one more line It’s obviously Cummings’ inspired Now I’m self conscious   once someone spots a similarity to a relative   Time is Of the essence & hope                  in the heart   The thing that breaks Less often than a line                     of poetry More often than the once line lie of people’s doings         and Importance.     Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2023

  Thank you responsive readers who help me keep going xx   2.   Thanks (former English) Teacher,   I'll have to further investigate Cummings. It's been a while. I do believe in Poetic Truth. Post Modernism & its death of the Author has reeked a lot of damage to such a noble thing. Trained as a Sociologist I became interested in many cultures/sub cultures and the question of the social construction of the self and the Presentation of the self in everyday life. The flipside is innate poetry which I think I learned orally/aurally from my exposure to incredible parents and my experiences of the sacred, which proceeded spontaneously.   In many ways I am at odds with my time, but I think most good writers are. Your words deeply encourage me that I'm making sense. I guess writers are only as good as their readers. You're obviously a very generous and patient one.   I thank you for that, Malachi xx   1.   Up and down my friend

 Yo bumboclippin ritein  Back 2 audio Can’t do this fuckin writing Coz the angles are too many This book is dead Back 2 life Back to reality Sound waves Travelling through space & time xx See dance parrot at Bandcamp.com Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2023.

  On Listening   I can only tell you tip of the iceberg Because the First World Wouldn’t get it Living in illusion And prep school codes of behaviour   Grow up folks!   I'll write my book   & Burn it coz I don't trust you   Other than to gossip     This written page   Is driving me insane   & for who's benefit?   You just want me to betray my soulmates   You want me destitute & homeless   & alone     For you to play on your phone.         Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2023.   South East London Turned in on itself It turned bad   I ran I didn’t even know I was running.     2008-2023 – 15 years: A Retrospective   48 hours of interrogation & solitary confinement With the lights on –   The passageway Which took me From the Singapore Police Under psychosis To my freedom In Australia My psych meds My internal prison   A life of life

  But Yes Equally   But Yes Equally I’m lonely & I fear for where my muse is headed I don’t want to depress, there so many misery gutses around the place I’m always waiting for people to laugh along When all they do is look worried Jesus Life’s absurd Cruel, needlessly cruel Terrible But you can’t take it seriously You gotta laugh   I guess for those who don’t go so deep They’re worried That they might wake up from their dream Not dreams that begin responsibility, as for Yeats But dreams of responsibility & servitude   Ha Ha Ha Ha! God help us If I only had a laughing buddy But they were all taken early As the best ones often are   And so I must laugh alone. & It is yin: And cry alone.     Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2023.    

 I’d always been puzzled on the War in Ukraine.  What’s the reason? It seems a lot of effort. The media talks ideology. Fun fact: Ukraine has rich supply of Lithium used in solar batteries. Main business interests China and Australia  Also main supplier of corn and wheat to Africa. Good way to blackmail for African mining interests. War is all about money. (source: Business Today) Why does the media always crap on about Ideology? Why do you think USA backed away from the Middle East? The Future’s no longer in Oil but renewables. Ha! Millions die = business interests xx Sorry for the brevity: phone battery low xx

I can't have the final word coz I'm not Irish Well actually I am Coz legally I'm a citizen It's like being Jewish But I only know Australia I don't know my father tongue but there are traits in my being which rise from the Bog So there is no final world while men are counted & countered by census while the Earth is not our home and history creates horror & people are born in bloodbaths & love is a sugar lolly for children at Easter time how can you turn the other cheek when your family are being killed? I've given up on this poem It's shit Just end! poem end! but nothing ends so choose your starting points well if you have the power to direct Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2023.

 I was an accident of birth some had more power some had less bullies on both sides beating up on the same am I proud that the Irish fought for their independence too right am I proud that people got killed no way why is discourse reduced to argument? when we're talking about flesh & blood i am not God i am a child a child who hates fighting but must fight to survive till they grow to need it like the demands of the situation, like sugar, like alcohol, like heroin, like poetry Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2023.

 I wrote about him once when drunk & grieving I feel like I was born drunk & grieving Though I never drank till I was 18 I have no idea, I wasn't there The Irish were brutalised since time Immemorial & fought back with hatred Sands did something sacred & taboo He refused to eat & possibly turned things I have no idea I've been lucky No man knows Another man's plight I never really understood my father's suffering It seems surreal now It's not on trend But that is a scar That will never end Inside me Published & Copyright Malachi Doyle 2023.

  The Big One   What a claim! Oh God   I can’t talk about it The conflict of my genesis   Let’s just say it was tough & my love was mixed with contempt My contempt was mixed with love   I envy you if you knew who the goodies & baddies were Lucky you   I’m sure you love todays politricks “Yeas” and “boos”   It’s like that old music hall stuff The Punch & Judy show “He’s behind you!” Pantomime   Except we had no entertainment All we had was war   & while it was only on the tv It was echoed in our loungeroom   When I … no … You wouldn’t understand I don’t even understand   Am I “IRISH!!!!” screamed at by my teacher? Or was I “a fuckin Pom!” hit out by my father?   I was meat in the sandwich Like all victims of war   A WW2 vet I spoke to put it like this, quite calmly “Either I shot them, or they shot me.”  -- I don’t find politics fun I’m with the Somalian bloke I talked with once “Politi