Messages for Mj: Another Collection of Verse

By Ian Wilcox

Messages for MJ is the second book from this visually impaired English poet and is dedicated to his daughter following Letters to Lodieta, which was dedicated to his partner.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Oct 25, 2018
• ISBN: 9781543492484

Ian Wilcox

Ian Wilcox is a 50+ London born man of many thoughts Although I have been penning verse for over 40 years, it was just a hobby that passed some time. Following a Heart attack and Stroke that left me, among other things, registered visually Impaired I made poetry a reason to learn to adapt so that I could write again. I have a loving Partner and Daughter who are both from the Philippines and are the reason that I smile everyday Messages for Mj is my second Book project this year following the publication of Letters to Lodieta

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Copyright © 2018 by Ian Wilcox.

Library of Congress Control Number:     2018910627

ISBN:              Hardcover                             978-1-5434-9250-7

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Rev. date: 09/07/2018

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CONTENTS

FloatingMarbles

Alligator And Crocodile

Damn, Did, Stood, Hid

El Lugar De Los Santos

Boy Of A Billion Dreams

Angels Rode On Horseback

‘Ello Mister

Children Of The World

Mother Nature’s Using Talc

The Silence Of A Sacred Soul

Blooming Heck

Help Miss!

Feel The Rain

Human Race

Kalokin

Billy The Banjo

Kith And Kin

Starlight Through A Sandstorm

Catch Me If You Can

Twenty First Century

Flip Splat Where’s It At

An Enigma Solved

Dress Maker Turned Tailor

Mary Pocket

Climbing Mountains And Descending Valleys

Scars

Crispin Called Today

Knowing Place

Which Way Went The Wobbling Wizard

Amidst The Midden Maze Of Mayhem

Have You Ever Felt Inferior?

Popcorn

Shaker Stick

Someone Said And Someone Said

Come The Dawning Of Your Dawning

The Lake

Flip Flap Clapt Trap

In All The Days

Cornelius Claptrap

Kitchen Capers For The Braver

Reader / Writer

Sangfroid

Celestial Sequins Circulating

Occupied By Another Occasion

Occupied By Another Occasion

Oojamaflip

Consensus Of A Confused Mass

Disparaging Ditty

Concubine Of Calamity

Cool Head Carl

My Dice Has Measles

Cement

If Music Be The Food Of Love

Cryptic Lyric

Corn Fed Lily

Flipside Golden

Cornflake

Dance The Dallies Of The Deceiving

Illumine

Eeblebleedlewonsonklinkak

Remember Fireflies

Sands Of Time And Mountain Scar

Come Into My Head

Messages For Mj

A Young Lady With A Smile

Can Anything Be So Beautiful?

Hail A Princess

Mystique Moments Keep Me Sane

Have You Seen My Pigeon?

Bing, Bang, Bong

Pencil Flowing

Mj’s Boat Ride

Dad Is Dreaming

Karaoke Queen

My Love For You No Jackie Chan

Believe In What You Say

A Father’s Favourite Female

What Say You?

Where Has Gone?

Dream Police

Cantaloupes And Caltrops

Oh My Gosh

Shallow Shapes Shelter Shadows

Summer School

Cosmos Ride

Two Angels Walk This Earth

Daughter Dancing With Different Dalliance

Sit You Down

When In Love

Can You Hear The Thunder?

Million Memories

A Message To The Artist

Coordinated In The Contrails

Keep Those Home Fires Burning

Dream Maker And Heart Breaker

No Different

What Becomes Of Today

Dear Anak

Footsteps Fall In Fallow Field

Dearest Nak

Picture Book

In Peace My Little One

What More

Can I Love You

And Then Came Silence

Dear Daughter

The Making Me A Father

Holds Your Hand

Interested

Awesome

A Picture Born

Sell Me Dreams

One And Two

Safe Hands

Good Morning Nak

My Young Lady Likes To Play

Exchange Our Views

The Lady Makes Me Proud

I Searched

Missive

Can Anyone Tell Me?

It Will Come

Came A Stranger

Change My World

Arms

Super Star

Can You See Your Future?

Life

A Shout Out To My Heroes

Effluence To Affluence

You Hurt Me - I’ll Kill You

Yabba Dabba And Pickled Walnuts!

Blindness

Did Some Writing

Jericho Wall And Lodieta

Goodbye Midnight

What Made Me Love You?

Accoutrement

Disdain At Disabled

I Am The Boss

Sextant

Emotive Fire

Winds Blows

Caffeine

A Phoenix From The Ashes

Limited Vision

Hilarious

Sixpence

Epiphany

Pickled Walnut

Aleatory

Awkward Encounter

Melancholy Mid Afternoon Moments

Back To Front Lobotomy

Blue, Grey, Green

The Father Of My Father

Sorry Mrs Wilcox

Book Of Life

I Took A Wife But Gained A Nation

Got A New Phone

Between The Lines

Sometimes Sit

Blow Me Down

Loves Two Women

Greatest Achievements

Birdsong

Sonnet For The Separated

Writing

Came Home Today

I Came To View

Ology’s

Monday Morning

Mission I’m Possible

A Requiem To Random Logic

That Light Brown Skin

Clue

That Fox Is Noisy!!

And Now Rest

Calling All My Yesterdays

Many Moons

From Rags To Respect

Who Would Be?

Climbed A Tree

The Illusion Of Insanity

Dance Trance

The Sentinel Of Solitude

Cornucopia

Come Into The Garden

I Am Not Perfect

New Barriers Falling

We Three

Abstraction Is No Distraction

My Transcendence Into Rapture

And So Good Night

Thought

A Eulogy To Life

Eviscerated By An Emotion

My Family

Solomon

The Mother Of The Children

Amazon Echoes

Who Cares For The Carers?

Calming In The Calculation

Gaze Out Your Window

Silence Settled

What Becomes Of Memories

Coffee Drink

Patient Pendulum Of The Passive Aggressive

Define Expression

Guardian Angel

Silence The Storm

In That Moment Of Inner Peace

Excuse Me Please

If I Was Smart

Liquid Lunch

All Fall Down

Exploration One

Beyond Plain Sight

Worried Is A Family Thing

Dewdrop

Inglorious

Into Eyes

Perfect Day

Normal Life

Activation - Delegation

Excuse Me

Lay At Rest

Common Notions

Within The Enclosure

A Pilgrim Of The Alter Ego

The Afterlife Of Being Dumb

Pathway To Future Glory

Echo Speak

The Man That Plays The Fool

Absence

Goddess Of Delirium

Would Have

I Saw The Words

Chorus Call

Hard To Bear

Eloquent

The Concept Of Cornucopia

Can You See?

Just Moving On

Many Say

Those Seas

P.c. Rhyme

When And How

Cold Call

Maudlin Moments Make Morose Man

If I Were

The Sanctuary Of The Self Contented

Days

Someone Said

The Eclipsing Of All Emptiness

Be The One

The Confliction Of An Affliction

The Evaluation Of A Strange Situation

W.o.t.

A Verse From The Beautiful And Talented Young Lady Herself

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MARBLES

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ALLIGATOR AND CROCODILE

Alligator lay on the Bank

With a toothy smile

Chatting with its bigger friend

The quite distinctive Crocodile

Basking in the warm bright sun

Warming up their blood

For water was deep with lots of feed

The season of the flood

Had spent some time and that was fine

Now was time to go

Was feeding time and stock was fine

With the river’s flow

See you later Alligator

The Crocodile did say

"Not for a while Crocodile

For I must go away"

The friends swam away until the day

That they would meet again

Both considered mean but were not as seen

For tried to kill without the pain

But sometimes instinct took control

Prey larger than their bite

Then a struggle ensued as their poor food

Was dragged deep and out of sight

Alligator and Crocodile

Were quiet a strange affair

Let’s be frank for on the Bank

Have you ever seen this pair?

DAMN, DID, STOOD, HID

Cam said damn

Candi did

Sam just stood

Samantha hid

With Dan ‘the Man’

And Mabel ‘maybe’

Carl did snarl

Christine went crazy

Then came darkness after light

Then diminished future bright

Were too young to see the Light

‘Hey! I’m young and I’m all right’

So, so sad when see the sight

Teenage kicks and future blight

Long and cold will be that night

Would it change with just foresight?

Silly dare with no care

Quick how got so out of hand

Never thinking because been drinking

Now one is in far off land

Didn’t mean, so does seem

Foolish words did go astray

Young people brave, no caution gave

When dangerous games they play

Others stood with tilted hood

As on stretcher one did go

Covered full as per the rule

The sight was not for show

Then came darkness after light

Then diminished future bright

Were too young to see the Light

‘Hey! I’m young and I’m all right’

So, so sad when see the sight

Teenage kicks and future blight

Long and cold will be that night

Would it change with just foresight?

The one who taunted, forever haunted

When actions spoke out loud

Way not right to end silly fight

Especially when in front of crowd

Two lives it cost, though just one lost

Of other it still might

Survivor pays each and every day

In that way two took flight

Silly names and no restrain

Alcohol and blood

Big the crash when tempers rash

The cost not understood

Then came darkness after light

Then diminished future bright

Were too young to see the Light

‘Hey! I’m young and I’m all right’

So, so sad when see the sight

Teenage kicks and future blight

Long and cold will be that night

Would it change with just foresight?

EL LUGAR DE LOS SANTOS

The place of Saints was my type of Town

Silent, peaceful and a dust blown street

A place to go to discover

A destination for yourself to meet

The creak of the old sign as it swings above me

Gently blown by sand filled air

Not strong enough to disturb my hat upon me

But strong enough to displace my care

Just find a Fonda to wash my mouth out

Perhaps get me a bite to eat

Then a bed if just for one night

That has soft pillow and clean sheets

Saddle and blanket are my normal

Beside a fire that’s gone by morn

Open spaces are my playground

For to the wilderness was I born

Where a Colt 45 is not a beverage

A shot is not just some small measure

A place of wonder if you respect it

Your death sentence or life treasure

For tonight I’ll kick my boots off

Get a hot tub filled for a soak

For tonight I’ll sleep in silence

No nocturnal hiss or croaks

Three weeks on Horseback makes one weary

As I trek from place to place

Though would not change it for a lifetime

A lifetime spent in a business race

Got my pot and got my coffee

Water bottles and hard tack too

Now and again find an Oasis

The place of Saints to one like you

El lugar de los Santos fits its description

Fits it true and fits it right

For like the Saints it offers blessings

To red rimmed eyes a Heaven sight

Yup one night here will be plenty

Allow me to stand up clean and tall

Then saddle up and ride to bugle

The addictive notes of the Nomads call

Someday, maybe I will return

To El lugar de los Santos and call it Home

A nothing place with all I yearn for

When bones do tell me I’m too old to roam

BOY OF A BILLION DREAMS

They mocked him for his vision

They beat him for his thought

Deprived him for his independence

All, however, were a lesson taught

He absorbed and then did vow

To never be the same

Opposite of what he got

He’d give with his own name

Broke a mould he didn’t know

Broke the chains that bind

Broke the rules set by fools

Broke from restricted kind

To some he seemed quite insular

To some he seemed aloof

Others thought him all bravado

All promise and no proof

But who did crow at final show

The accepters or the daring??

Those who shout into the Wind

Or those conformist caring

Nothing ever was transparent

Nothing quite as seems

He was a Child of a destination

A Boy of a billion Dreams

One by one things fell in place

Step by step did he ride

Was quite happy with achievements

Thought kept in check that thing called Pride

Neither extrovert nor self proclaiming

Let others judge and do the naming

Whatever called he found not shaming

Life’s a game and all are gaming

He laughs at smears and agrees with insults

Thus removing barb before the hit

They may beat him if in possessions

They are defeated in game of wit

Something new he longs labelled

For all known he’s heard them all

If someone became quite inventive

He’d shake their hand while strong and tall

Little Boy into an Emperor

Ruling Empire of just one

Smiles and chuckles at his achievements

So far removed from whence begun

And nothing ever was transparent

Nothing ever as it seems

He is still somewhat an enigma

For he was Boy of a billion Dreams

Who is this Boy I hear you ask

Well here’s a simple clue

Forget the gender, if you’re a Creative

Then my friend it could be you

ANGELS RODE ON HORSEBACK

When Angels rode on Horseback

The ground it shook and Faith did cry

For both armies believing theirs was Righteous

Never did allowance try

Hot heads both sides

Did the fury whip

Though were the minority

They were the pointed tip

Blows exchanged, the passions changed

War cries rose from what was quip

The Faithful like Families took their sides

Sometimes is what families do

Get involved with one sides reasons

Of whole facts they have no clue

Some relatives commit atrocities

So whole religion does get the blame

Psychopath sect are ecstatic

When reaction does suit their game

The bold and brave strap on their armour

Saddle up and then ride out

Create the vacuum that sucks in others

Ride to glory with scream and shout

Been here before in our History

Victories gained but nothing changes

We’ve moved on with weapons and tactics

Though not to point that rearranges

So innocent once more will pay the blood bill

Fantasists will flock to join their banners

That is us in a nutshell

Gone are wisdom and gone good manners

So many aggrieved at outside influence

When upset at things at Home

Cost of living and future prospects

Hear a preacher and choose to roam

Though that preacher has agendas

For live in same world but have solution

Politics is hard, Religion easy

Both though ripe for