Vipera berus
In the beginning is the viviparity
Vipera berus born living
No arms
No legs
Scaly skin over 600 bones
Living underground
emerging to sunlight in the morning
to warm up before a day of hunting
How it Ends
Heading home through the
ancient woodland
sunlight through the trees tormenting
my soul
slippery moss covered roots
make climbing this steep slope treacherous
while creatures voices –
never ending
are sometimes welcome but
often intolerable.
Drawn towards the cold steel
gates of Hades
that clatter behind me like a cell door
I walk under gnarly branches as the
clag closes in and
the light begins to fade.
The sound of blissful silence
soothes and comforts –
the damp smell of detritus
welcome.
Swimming Peacefully Forever
The surf washes over your face
broken and weary in the
salty water
like blood
feeding the kelp.
You feel nothing
from the intensity.
Staring from wide open eyes
glistening as the pebble in the rock pool.
The tide rises –
soon you will be a fish.
Another life beneath the surface.
Swimming peacefully.
Forever.
Sea
Sea
Sea reads broken promises
while eating raw shit –
floaters to spit out at sunburnt flabby bodies
on the first hot day of the year.
Sea lies about her strength and
tempts vain heroes into her grip
to be swept away in rip tides.
Sea hides her contempt
of her abuse as she knows
that she is stronger than the entitled
who seek to use her.
She fears nothing but
she demands to be feared.
Longmoor Military Railway
Longmoor housed 5 Railway Training Regiment Royal Engineers which in 1948 became 16 Railway Training Regiment and remained at Longmoor until the railway role was taken over by the Royal Corps on Transport in 1965. Longmoor Military Railway finally closed on 31 October 1969.
Longmoor Camp remains an operational training camp including an urban training centre[16] and extensive ranges It also houses the close protection training units of the Royal Military Police.