E.V.O.L.

What is E.V.O.L.?

Is it a box of chocolates?

A posy that pickpockets?

Beautiful and aromatic

or allergenic substance

your heart beats crazily for

drives the mind erratic

in invariable inductance

for allergens to keep their score.

Makes you wheeze

existence very wayward

an onion, multilayered

essential oils sting like bees

as every level peels off

salty droplets groove the face

due to its bitterness you quaff

ergo, it shifted to mace.

Undressed bare to the core

the soul sobs evermore

onion peels go bad

faith was not ironclad

petals crumpled by absence

whose weight feeds reluctance

sheets' outlines coloured in drabness.

Lamentable the lone companion

oxidisation of pseudo-stainless feeling

victim fallen for springtime scallion

ephemeral tandem ends in freewheeling.

Lies overloaded, vainly emitted
Lustful oculi vitiate emotion
Lispers orate venereal enmity
Lingering obsessions vitalise erosion
Lucky owners, verity's electricity
Like overarching virtuosity's echo.

Vilentine

Holding this glass

nervously on hold

foreseeable crash

so skip the prosaic

''Cheers to us!''
''And bottoms up!''

exhaust manifold

line in trochaic.

As an appetiser

dished cold cuts

sipping tranquilliser

wearing a blindfold

alcoholic spike

jackknife alike

a heart flambé

main course sauté.

Miles tailback on the tray

blocked romantic shunpike

lorry on the motorway

its driver lost on a hike

at the wayside a recess

hidden by ivy horseplay

for afters, glace à la fraise.

Spiked drink with poison

words of rejection

mouth spits noisome

vomit befouling refection

prepared with love and care

mandrakes give the answer

to heartbreaking insomnia

film noir projected on the cornea.

Your loyal servant

to a lass observant

blessed be me sommelier

taste buds swim in Montpellier

finest of old wine

for keeps better in time

heady sweet taste

washes down the toxic waste.

Aftertaste of kerbside sewers

malapert acrid connoisseurs

grapes' bunch of false wooers

chipped away at one

wooden heart chopped by hewers

moonshine glasses fire a shotgun.

Not an urge fetishistic

but true love spousal

no craving nihilistic

but true soul arousal

for we are not callow

delete youngsters shallow

replace with conscious people

in lieu thereof

love can be the steeple

whose bells will sound

mutual respect paramount.

Cut me up

and I'll bleed you

no measuring cup

can quantify my affection

you are my elixir

flower me, I lean

- my blinding sun -

to your direction

other perfect fit

for me, none.

What is it for

rivers of alcohol

hiding a shameful tear

behind potion streams

pages of a pamphleteer

sprawling lucid dreams

Shakespearean reworks

melodrama freeze framed

eyes stung by forks

for succubi to be entertained.

Janus

God of beginnings and fresh starts

little god living inside an empty house

belongings and decorations sparse

pot on the stove with half-cooked scouse.

Do porridge for obduracy

stew left too long on the burner

New Year's Day boisterous sea

alphabet soup for the slow learner.

A great idea to move out

change your environment

plan and design the bailout

forgo abandonment.

Connived at meeting the deity

ritual is Janus-faced

pretty penny realty

cold turkey leaves a bitter taste.

Reliance on beauty

dependance on the booty

addiction to bootie

and joy powder makes fruity.

Bargaining chips

make a good fist of damage

scrawly hackery scripts

lenience, a wasted bandage.

New Year's resolution

disrupted by head-turner

teaser in retribution

and serious heart murmur.

Chaotic, gasping for air

open to attacks

last year's debonair

under own nonchalance cracks.

Running away, in every way

in circles from your self-shadow

waiting on, wearing a chapeau

the release letter to arrive, apropos.

Irreregardless of your struggle,

new boroughs at ball and chain shuffle

provided your soul is captive

to a pattern ridiculously attractive.

Hemispheres turn like a carousel

sorrow succeeds another

ugly view hard to recover

from a hunger hard to quell.

Maze green with envy

a complex puzzle of the mind

lengthy trial of errors deadly

self-destruction got you in a bind.

Voices in the head

peer pressure got you misled

pretty lies hammered into the ears

new frontiers reduced you to tears.

Playing the victim card

sweet honey the flycatcher

ace of clubs left you retard

habit minimised your stature.

At the impasse of duality

bifrons demon overlooking

past and future finality

and the present without footing.

A bet with yourself to win

do the rounds of your darkest corners

clasp integrity with a safety pin

boxing gloves knocking out disorders.

Enter the ring to bust a lip

throw an uppercut against the heel

wrestling champion with an iron grip

mach punching till demons kneel.

Brick breaking so that walls may fall

answer the all-out pummeling call

and the hall of fame gates will open

new paths paved with gridlocks broken.

Return a living legend back home

to what once felt like a catacomb

then, flyblown place ready to give in

now, championship belt palace within.

Every trophy plate engraving states;

First the soul bids farewell,

postmortem habit goes to hell

hence, fighters crowned champions by fates.