Tag: The Tate

HOW BRILLIANT IS THE SKY TONIGHT 

How brilliant is the light tonight 
how brilliant is it 

Flashes like meteors boom and bang 
A festival of fireworks 
Heading here and there  

How brilliant is the sky tonight 
how brilliant is it 

But some won’t see it 
Others will  
A child points at a flashing light 
And then they are in it


How deadly is the night tonight 
How chilling is it 

David Mellor has been published and performed widely from the BBC, The Tate, galleries and pubs and everything in between. Now, resident in Turkey he has continued his literary career with his work appearing in journals including a weekly column in Canakkale Gündem about his observations of Turkish life. His poems and writings are autobiographical, others topical and several his take on life. 

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By David Mellor

Dreaming of leaving
	This rock above my
		Head 

Dreaming of leaving 
The thought you are dead 

Dreaming of leaving 

Going back to when I 
played here, running up
the path mama mama 
kissing your sweet forehead

now motionless and
	cold

Dreaming of leaving 

			Not wishing to go 
But there is no one here, just the buzz
Of the drone overhead 
And night falling in my soul

Leaving leaving 
Dreaming dreaming
of leaving
leaving leaving
leaving… 

David Mellor has been published and performed widely from the BBC, The Tate, galleries and pubs and everything in between. Now, resident in Turkey he has continued his literary career with his work appearing in journals including a weekly column in Canakkale Gündem about his observations of Turkish life. His poems and writings are autobiographical, others topical and several his take on life. 

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PLEASE NOTE: ARTICLES CAN ONLY BE REPRODUCED IN OTHER SITES WITH DUE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO BORDERLESS JOURNAL. 

Click here to access the Borderless anthology, Monalisa No Longer Smiles

Click here to access Monalisa No Longer Smiles on Kindle Amazon International