All the Babble of the Souk, Cartoon Molecules and Next Arrivals, collected poems, & Moon selected Audio Textual Poems available at Amazon.com as well as translation of Guadalupe Grande´s La llave de niebla, as Key of Mist and the recently published Tesserae, a translation of Carmen Crespo´s Teselas.
Robin Ouzman Hislop is on line Editor at Poetry Life & Times at Artvilla.com. His numerous appearances include Cold Mountain Review (Appalachian University, N.Carolina), The Honest Ulsterman, Cratera No 3 and Aquillrelle’s Best. His publications are collected poems All the Babble of the Souk,Cartoon Molecules, Next Arrivals & Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems. A translation from Spanish of poems by Guadalupe Grande Key of Mist and Carmen Crespo Tesserae, the award winning (X111 Premio César Simón De Poesía), in November 2017 these works were presented in a live performance at The International Writer’s Conference hosted by the University of Leeds. UK. A forthcoming publication of collected poems Off the Menu is expected in 2020
Basquiat & Hendrix you were cheated
out of life by mortals it wasn't what
you gave but what they took as if
you could get high on that poison
they fed you
they didn't leave you an exit
once they'd locked you in
to show what you'd got
they snatched the hoard
& lit the building
with you in but you didn't know
how to walk away
they were still your gods
you'd shot down to the providence
where you sought them where they took you in
ritualised to a myth that sucked
played you that hand that spun to win
where you put your foot in your mouth sold you out
Robin Ouzman Hislop is on line Editor at Poetry Life & Times at Artvilla.com. His numerous appearances include Cold Mountain Review (Appalachian University, N.Carolina), The Honest Ulsterman, Cratera No 3 and Aquillrelle’s Best. His publications are collected poems All the Babble of the Souk,Cartoon Molecules, Next Arrivals & Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems. A translation from Spanish of poems by Guadalupe Grande Key of Mist and Carmen Crespo Tesserae, the award winning (X111 Premio César Simón De Poesía), in November 2017 these works were presented in a live performance at The International Writer’s Conference hosted by the University of Leeds. UK. A forthcoming publication of collected poems Off the Menu is expected in 2020
Robin Ouzman Hislop is on line Editor at Poetry Life & Times at Artvilla.com. His numerous appearances include Cold Mountain Review (Appalachian University, N.Carolina), The Honest Ulsterman, Cratera No 3 and Aquillrelle’s Best. His publications are collected poems All the Babble of the Souk,Cartoon Molecules, Next Arrivals & Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems. A translation from Spanish of poems by Guadalupe Grande Key of Mist and Carmen Crespo Tesserae, the award winning (X111 Premio César Simón De Poesía), in November 2017 these works were presented in a live performance at The International Writer’s Conference hosted by the University of Leeds. UK. A forthcoming publication of collected poems Off the Menu is expected in 2020
Over my defeat only her orbit
you will bring me her heart
when from that high state of grace
you were before
you wept before his impassioned face
before what was shared what was lost
before what had taken place had taken place
& that little trick of fate
the doors that open the doors that close
the doors that wait
within that labyrinthian trap
you cannot escape your state
cast that to the winds that howl by chance
to the fields that wave upon a dance
& judge how you perform before the curtain falls
for as Blake decreed the pic axe harms not the worm
& even the stones move free so let the desert be green again
( the desert the desert the desert be green be green be green
againagainagain be green again the desert be green again )
Robin Ouzman Hislop is on line Editor at Poetry Life & Times at Artvilla.com. His numerous appearances include Cold Mountain Review (Appalachian University, N.Carolina), The Honest Ulsterman, Cratera No 3 and Aquillrelle’s Best. His publications are collected poems All the Babble of the Souk,Cartoon Molecules, Next Arrivals & Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems. A translation from Spanish of poems by Guadalupe Grande Key of Mist and Carmen Crespo Tesserae, the award winning (X111 Premio César Simón De Poesía), in November 2017 these works were presented in a live performance at The International Writer’s Conference hosted by the University of Leeds. UK. A forthcoming publication of collected poems Off the Menu is expected in 2020
as our planet hurtles through (hurtles hurtles hurtles)
the aftermath of a super nova (super nova super nova super nova)
mid-stream – beyond the void faster – void faster
than entangled space – as stars go out as stars go out as stars go out
as stars go out world wide world wide
on our daily media show
we chat to each other
as if we were in the know
fine tuned to dystopia
in our quantification of atomic seconds
seconds seconds seconds seconds seconds
does anybody know – does anybody know
what we are from before - before before before
in our new normal normalcy normally normal
in our new normal normalcy normally normal
with our daily dance with death on the doorstep
with our daily dance with death on the doorstep
as sudden as a theatre's curtain falls
or calls for a change of costume (calls calls calls)
& nothing more that this isn't
the war to end all wars
at least not yet not yet not yet not yet
just the plague regularly
as empires fall regularly
regularly regularly regularly
Robin Ouzman Hislop is on line Editor at Poetry Life & Times at Artvilla.com. His numerous appearances include Cold Mountain Review (Appalachian University, N.Carolina), The Honest Ulsterman, Cratera No 3 and Aquillrelle’s Best. His publications are collected poems All the Babble of the Souk,Cartoon Molecules, Next Arrivals & Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems. A translation from Spanish of poems by Guadalupe Grande Key of Mist and Carmen Crespo Tesserae, the award winning (X111 Premio César Simón De Poesía), in November 2017 these works were presented in a live performance at The International Writer’s Conference hosted by the University of Leeds. UK. A forthcoming publication of collected poems Off the Menu is expected in 2020
when it's off why even bother
i'm all done it's just another
it's not on in what's come
& u can in what's well
wonder what's gone well well well
wrong a song wants to come
on but it's never to keep
not what fits bundle to heap
only a bit but got u
what u ask through & through
words must pass an alliterative stash
first & last in onomatepoeic crash
for a poem a mere backlash
to be born mush and mash
beyond the seventh wonder in zenith
come on soon the mirage cometh
in a swoon no doubt about
off's not on all's in rout
what's gone wrong we had thieved
a bitty song to be believed
starts off along i'm all done
put it away in what's come
for another day poem gone astray
it's a play come what may
the talkie talk it's off off
or blackboard chalk just as well
stork & baby but can't tell
drive me crazy in fucking hell
that's to begin off off off
can anyone say cloud into day
a poem's itness is its it?
Robin Ouzman Hislop is on line Editor at Poetry Life & Times at Artvilla.com. His numerous appearances include Cold Mountain Review (Appalachian University, N.Carolina), The Honest Ulsterman, Cratera No 3 and Aquillrelle’s Best. His publications are collected poems All the Babble of the Souk,Cartoon Molecules, Next Arrivals & Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems. A translation from Spanish of poems by Guadalupe Grande Key of Mist and Carmen Crespo Tesserae, the award winning (X111 Premio César Simón De Poesía), in November 2017 these works were presented in a live performance at The International Writer’s Conference hosted by the University of Leeds. UK. A forthcoming publication of collected poems Off the Menu is expected in 2020
in the me hit the in the me hit the moonlight through the pines
moonlight through the pines moonlight through the pines
road jack a boat to pines on road jack a boat to pines on road jack a boat to pines on
````````````````````````road jack a boat to pines on cmon everybody
`````````````````````````````````````````yes we red sails knock
yes we red sails knock yes we red sails knock yes we red sails knock
red sails in the sunset red sails in the sunset
red sails in the sunset red sails in the sunset
`````````````````````````````````````````knocking on yes bye no
hit the road jack
bananas
cmon everybody cmon everybody
cmon everybody cmon on everybody
cry bye on a slow boat to china cry bye on a slow boat to china
slow china slow china slow china slow china bye bye blackbird bye bye blackbird
bye bye blackbird bye bye blackbird me heaven's door me heaven's door me heaven's
door me heaven's door `````````````` yes we have no
bananas````````````````````yes we have no bananas yes we have no bananas
yes we have no bananas knocking moonlight knock knock knocking knock
knock knocking knock knock knocking knock knock knocking
through the blackbird on
through the blackbird on
through the blackbird on
through the blackbird on through the blackbird on through the blackbird on
heaven's door heaven's door heaven's door in the me hit the
in the me hit the in the me hit the in the me hit the
in the me hit the smoke gets in your
eyes `
smoke gets in your eyes smoke gets in your eyes smoke gets in your eyes
Robin Ouzman Hislop is on line Editor at Poetry Life & Times at Artvilla.com. His numerous appearances include Cold Mountain Review (Appalachian University, N.Carolina), The Honest Ulsterman, Cratera No 3 and Aquillrelle’s Best. His publications are collected poems All the Babble of the Souk,Cartoon Molecules, Next Arrivals & Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems. A translation from Spanish of poems by Guadalupe Grande Key of Mist and Carmen Crespo Tesserae, the award winning (X111 Premio César Simón De Poesía), in November 2017 these works were presented in a live performance at The International Writer’s Conference hosted by the University of Leeds. UK. A forthcoming publication of collected poems Off the Menu is expected in 2020
autumnal sludge trudge mush trudge mush
dear ape sweet ape good ape
O homo rapiens beautylovedeath
rhapsody in blue minor the trees
stark & bare don't care
mush trudge sludge mush trudge sludge
swing low sweet swing low sweet
coming for to coming for to
depending on where of kith of kin of kinship
dear ape beauty ape love ape
death gape in the dark void sing
beautylovedeath beautylovedeath beautylovedeath
deathbeautylove deathbeautylove deathbeautylove
& so on in a hole to fall in fall in fall in
falling falling falling
O O O dear ape
time closing the gap the long trek back
to the track the track the track
ancestor of the comet
where walls tremble back & bones stack
in the black in the black in the black
where echoes distort the answer
what stays what does not leave
in tunnels of light in tunnels of dark
that cross & intercede sculptured in the rock
the body on a rack where words crack
as sound surfaces on the surf surf surf surf surf
Robin Ouzman Hislop is on line Editor at Poetry Life & Times at Artvilla.com. His numerous appearances include Cold Mountain Review (Appalachian University, N.Carolina), The Honest Ulsterman, Cratera No 3 and Aquillrelle’s Best. His publications are collected poems All the Babble of the Souk,Cartoon Molecules, Next Arrivals & Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems. A translation from Spanish of poems by Guadalupe Grande Key of Mist and Carmen Crespo Tesserae, the award winning (X111 Premio César Simón De Poesía), in November 2017 these works were presented in a live performance at The International Writer’s Conference hosted by the University of Leeds. UK. A forthcoming publication of collected poems Off the Menu is expected in 2020
get on with life in whatever hapless fate befalls us
in this evanescent scenario of existence
though our whatever stance may be absurd
nevertheless grasp with final strength at the word
sign of life in what's been left as the millennium tilts
beyond the controle we can circumstantiate
there are those who believe we can be uploaded into
a cloud eternal information ether & the planet will slip
away as we all become timeless satellites in infinite space
so let the planet be consumed by the flames of hell
we're gonna be transported into a silicon heaven
even if we happen to be no more than a cartoon simulation
the cosmic joke to escape extinction the last gnostic
hope of salvation from the failed demi urge creation meanwhile
we have surveillance capitalism the greed of corporations
as super powers wage wars of economy as if should
this anthropocentric creature quit the planet life won't go on
but it will & it won't be uploaded in a cloud but simply
create new cultural non human life forms of communication
where hopefully animal life won't be bred for daily slaughter
to feed our rapacious stomachs in the name of the economy
Robin Ouzman Hislop is on line Editor at Poetry Life & Times at Artvilla.com. His numerous appearances include Cold Mountain Review (Appalachian University, N.Carolina), The Honest Ulsterman, Cratera No 3 and Aquillrelle’s Best. His publications are collected poems All the Babble of the Souk,Cartoon Molecules, Next Arrivals & Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems. A translation from Spanish of poems by Guadalupe Grande Key of Mist and Carmen Crespo Tesserae, the award winning (X111 Premio César Simón De Poesía), in November 2017 these works were presented in a live performance at The International Writer’s Conference hosted by the University of Leeds. UK. A forthcoming publication of collected poems Off the Menu is expected in 2020
