Coming soon: New Art-Poetry Book from Brian Franklin

A new compilation of poetry and art from Brian Franklin will be published soon.

Following in the creative page footsteps of  the 1st and 2nd series of ‘Tricks of the Mind’, this new 3rd book features an eclectic mix of verse, prose, and observations, including the thought-provoking art imagery of Jean-Marc Dublé.

THE TRIP

Feel all the music smash inside your head

Dream sounds like the flowers are all dead

Take a trip down the orange sunshine line

Don’t come back until you find your mind

Pretty girl gyrating with long golden hair

Snaking naked around hawkwind’s lair

Guitar solo crashing through your brain

Dancing like mad skeletons in acid rain

There’s no going back once you take a tab

Always one chance you’ll end up in rehab.

See all the furniture melt before your eyes

Don’t get scared if there’s a shock surprise.

Smoke rings circle on the mirrored ceiling

Cracks in a coffin seem strangely appealing

Half drawn joint dangles from your hand

Finger angles that you cannot understand

Dark fire night folds like a vampire’s cloak

Black sabbath witches in cauldron smoke

Enter eagerly into the politics of ecstasy

Reach nirvana after a psychotic fantasy

Free as a raven bird high in a rainbow sky

Falls flightless to the ground wondering why.

Zeppelin angst tasted in the zeitgeist room

Fate’s future lies true in today’s reality doom

Soul set for no escape in a mindscape chance

Strange sex whilst in a pure chemical  romance

Thinking is the best way to travel in no shoes

Lyrical tunes could give you the moody blues

Don’t get the giggles when you touch the moon

Morning’s sunlight will dawn again too soon

After it’s all over you realise what you’ve done

Then take a ride again now you’ve learnt to run

(Copyright of Brian Franklin © 2016)

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