Tuesday, 15 June 2021

The Road To A Chattering Maw

To Trip Upon The Rising Whipping Strut, 
In Timed For Not The Clicking Tick, 
As Dwarven And Buried As The Scarab's Scratching Gnaw, 
Then To Wards Of Oblivion's Laughing Glass Jaw... 
... 
How Do The Cowled Howl To Spoon At A Moon's Gate, 
Under Naught The Saucer Nor Cupped, 
To See The Saw By Ruby Wooded And Stoned, 
And Bee For The Maw By Baby Hooded 
And Honed. 


-RICHARD WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK-THORNE


*This poem was originally written for an Elder Scrolls Online player with the PSN name "bokurai" who offered me 2000 gold (in game) for a poem. Enjoy.

Thursday, 25 July 2019

Have A Drink



Time Rhymes With Orange Rinds,
My Mind Is Not Of Yours Pined...
...
What Is Mine Not Yours,
Through My Walls Or Doors...
...
You Will Know As I Be Spined,
That Last Secret You Shall Find.

-RICHARD WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK-THORNE

Saturday, 20 July 2019

Hello


If Something Be Rotten In The Maw Of Denmark, 
Then Wroughten It Be As Caged... 
...
From Maw To Paw, Then Paw To Gold, 
What Silence Come Forth To Hold That With A Sigh's Last Beating,
To Then A Twilight's Last Gleaming…
...
To When The Age Upon The Coin, 
As For The Lion To A Loin.

RICHARD WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK-THORNE

(Props to Shakespeare.)

Thursday, 31 January 2019

Strange Tidal Briefly


A Vertically Challenged Walk For Great Herons
And Woods-Creeping Kildeer,
In The Ebony Knotted Ceiling Of Stars,
Where All That Bellows Belong To A Handed
Bewilderment... Untame And 
Bearing Its Own Upon Its Pitted Back,
Plotted Black... Loss Of Worlds... Glass-Shattering...
...
A Brief Wash-Over, A Muddy Soft Reincarnation,
Throats Tightening Before The Sooty Docking 
Premonition Drives A Crowd Before A Cracking Whip,
Leaning Into The Support
Scratching Its Side Against The Posts,
Taking Into The Flesh For Confident Zealotry,
Pearls To The Everlasting Deep...
...
Minds To The Horizon,
Lost For Its Travels,
Nearing Not One Inch More...
...
And Now... A Switch... It Clicks Into Place,
The Lasting Cupping Of Hands,
Take What You Can... As It Pours Out, An Amber Burned Sunset...
...
Swirl Your Fingers... Trace The Licking Flames.

RICHARD WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK-THORNE
Ottawa,Ontario Tuesday November 27th 2018

Saturday, 21 July 2018

Prom On Neptune



Four Stones With Four Tries,
For Eyes And Bow Ties,
Some Skip... Some Skim,
They Always Sink
When Dared To Swim.

-RICHARD WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK-THORNE

Monday, 16 July 2018

Ode To My Hatred Of Khaki



Find Some Comfort In This Uncomfortable Land,
Lay Some Blankets Upon The Sand,
Roll Those Pebbles Along The Beach
Until They Become As Smooth As Pearls.
...
Oh Oh...
...
One Of Vanity Arrives
Mantled In A Soft Sweater
Sweating Not One Drop,
Heading To A House Of Wedding Dresses
In The Middle Of A Heat Wave.


-RICHARD WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK-THORNE

Friday, 23 February 2018

Canada, The Scottish Taffee Puller's Wet Dog

It Is Like A HouseWife
Who Finds A Poisonous Snake,
And She Takes It
Back To Her House,
She Puts It Into Her Bed
Next To Her Sleeping Man.

She Nurses It
Back To Its Health,
Her Man Wakes Up
To His Death,
So She Gives Up
Says "What Is The Use
Of Saving A Man's Life
When He Gets Bit?"

-Richard William Kirkpatrick-Thorne

Wednesday, 21 September 2016

PledgePuffer




Witness To A Hole,
See How A Box Sinks?
In Its Finest Garden
And Aloud Before A Jest,
It Dashes Across Eyed Silver
For The Horse's Savage Arse
To Sniffle A Pastel Deliverance,
A Mural Combed And Cock-Sure
Knitted Into Soft Device
With Hymns Perloined
And Lions Purlined.




Originally posted on the blog "To Whom It May Concern" Sept 19th 2016- https://letterstoq.wordpress.com/2016/09/19/pledgepuffer-richard-william-kirkpatrick-thorne/

(*I will not be writing as much poetry as I have been these last 6 years, but anything new I will definitely post.)

Tuesday, 23 August 2016



Hi everybody!

Well, It is finally here! MY THIRD BOOK!! And since this is my final book of my poetry you KNOW it is ultra-special to me. STILLNESS AND ECHOES is now available in paperback and eBook formats from the cool folks at Friesen Press (THANK YOU VANESSA EGAN!)


                                                     (Just click on the picture below...)




LINKS TO OTHER ONLINE RETAILERS:

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Amazon.com- https://www.amazon.com/Stillness-Echoes-Richard-William-Kirkpatrick-Thorne/dp/1460294998

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Have a good one and PLEASE BUY MY BOOK!


-Richard William Kirkpatrick-Thorne
 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Sunday, 18 October 2015

My Third Book Of Poetry, "Stillness And Echoes" in the works!

Hi everybody,

I hope you have been enjoying my work and I just want to let you all know that I am currently working on my third book... transcribeing my poems from two of my notebooks into my laptop, readying them for publishing.

The title of my third collection will be "Stillness And Echoes", originally I had "The PitchFork By The Halo's Loft" as the working title, but as stillness and echo are recurring themes I decided on giving my new book a more appropriate name.

So, here's an idea of what the cover of "Stillness And Echoes" will look like... useing one of my photos from my old project...






It will be published within the new year (2016), so I will keep everybody up to date
as the book progresses.

Thank you for reading,

-Richard William Kirkpatrick-Thorne

* and here are my first two books of poetry, if you are into that sort of thing:

L'Oeil Du Minuit             

The Tangled Cedaring Sublime & Its Knotting InTo NoThing Of Time

Friday, 9 October 2015

Obliteration Will Have To Wade In With Both Feet Soggy (Originally written for a contest on allpoetry.com Oct. 9th, 2015)


You Have To Feed A Cookie To The Soul,
That Magnificent Monster Crawling In Circles
Round And Round In The Core Of A Man's Mind,
Its Approximate Location Is UnKnown To Most
From OutSide One's Skull If Not The Host,
Though SomeTimes Science Gets Bold Enough
To Counter The Pompous Spittle Of Their Holy Zeal
With An Overwhelming Urge To Command And Conquer,
Set Up Bubble-Glassed Research Stations And Bullet-Proof Census Tickers,
Hand Out Pamphlets With Treats For Involuntary Response,
Run A Ritualized Process Of Evolution InTo The Ground Of MotherHood,
And Construct New Churches For Architectural Obligations
To A Million Bird Martyrs And Cupid Worm Compromises,
All To Pass Some Endowment From A Cunt's Wafer Off As A Sweet Deal,
Then Instruct The Wet-Nurses Ways To Silence An UpRiseing,
Before A Lost Soul Can Direct A Finger
To Point Out The Lack Of Sand In The Concrete
Before It Sets Around The Frosted Foot Of A Decorated Enemy,
Lest His Pointy Nose Persuades The Irish To Be As His Hounds Of War,
For Green Potatoed Visions Through The Greys Of Their Lives.









Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Circe Would Be Proud

The Fire Alarm Screams
That High Cold Electric Squeal,
There Goes That Fat Piggy Running For The Exit,
His Ham-Hocks In His Ham-Socks
Run Run Running For The Door,
Curly Piggy Hair On His Burly Piggy Head,
Sweat On His Warted Piggy Tongued Brow,
Certain To Be Twitching In His Fat Piggy Pants
That Cork-Screw Tail To Do With A Piggy Pig Dance,
ABoard A Fat Piggy Bus To His Piggy Piggy Shack,
Then Get To His Invisible Piggy-Club Sty
Meet Up With The Secret Piggy Piggies That Spy,
All Scared Of Fire... Because Piggies Will Fry,
Though They Pray Piggy Prayers To Giant Pig Piggies,
For That Piggy Piggy Paradise Of Bigger Piggy Pigs,
Why Is That Piggy Such A Piggy Piggy Pig,
As He Pigs And He Pigs And He Pigs With Piggy Power,
As He Runs For The Exit For A Seat For His Piggy Pig Ass,
His Ham-Bone Pig Piggy Arms WindMilling... Carrying Him AWay...
...
Piggy Piggy Is Now UpOn The Wind... Beyond The Fear Of Frying,
He Is Flying...
...
He Is Flying...
...
He Is Gone.











Friday, 25 September 2015

A Sea Half Full (Originally posted for a contest on allpoetry.com 09/25/15)



What Pierces Through The Nightingale's Chord,
To Rest As If NoThing On The Back Of A Hand,
ALit And Lightly Through The Windowed Maw,
As If Through Lunacy Could It Cure
The Meandering Thoughts Of Clammy Despair,
From Where One Could Be Found Bound In Somber Depths,
Whistleing For Wolves To Shed Their Skins...
...
When To Be The Cause Of Charon To Tilt The Chin,
To Gaze Up At This Earthly Domain,
And Then Row Silently Over Shadowless Waters...
...
...?










Wednesday, 23 September 2015

Mother Spider

She Strangles Strangers,
Watch Them Dangle In Their Free-Range Sandals,
Hung Up Like Hams In Circus Tents,
Sighing Over Anxiety InTo Their Psalms As Salt Hits The Safety Nets,
Slobbering At The Ropes... Showing The Crowd Visions For Drunken Fish...
...
It Is Her Crowd... And Her Audience Claps At Another Dumb Fuck,
Another Fallen God In Debt Up To His Crown Jewels,
Eyeing His Pope's Floating Elephants To Send For Sacred Brethren,
Dissipating In The Final Thresholds... InTo The Stomachs Of Chamber Maids,
Imagining WithOut A Doubt...
... 
...
For A Wondrous Sundering Of Thunder,
Flaps Opening Wide For A Dust-Moted Blast Of DayLight,
To Wagner's Riders From The Third Act Storming In To Save The Lost Reich,
The Grey Race Of Spinning Puppy Psychologists And Their Apostle Harvesters,
A Brazillian Renaissance Assured,
An A-List Charter OutSide Of Some Two-Faced Muddy Barrow,
Because...
...
...
Tested Proven Through The Mystic Virginity Of Tesla's Tied Tubes
Nature Is A Curious Cloud For The Stench Of AnyThing Fat And Dieing,
So Naturally All Dogs Piss On Any Gate They Can Find,
Beside Their Uncanny Talents For Gnawing At Bones, Sniffing Ass And Licking Palms. 







Thursday, 10 September 2015

A CrossRoads In Canada

At The Corner,
Go On... Put Your Hands On Your Waist,
And Make Haste,
GodSpeed And In A Boy-Dream
With One Toe Over The Curb,
Cross With The Bell-Curve,
Let The Shadow Of The City Smooth Your Way,
Blotted As A Meadow's Peak Roughened By Morning Clouds...
...
You Are A Butterfly In A WindStorm...
...
Separate Each Voice You Live In Colors Of Flickering Irises,
View Lightly In Each Step And Being,
Flow InTo The Following Of Night To Day,
Sculpted As You May Be To The Grand Wax Politic,
Toil For The Gold Of Maples,
Charm The Phone-Line Poles To Bare Loins For Aristotle,
Swallow Those Brittle Wafers Of Obligatory Subjugation
And Cling To Your Mother's Dress.








Wednesday, 26 August 2015

The Fold


I Can Not See My Eyes,
I Climb InTo The Mirror And Through It,
Through Where My Eyes Would Be,
And NoThing Is Stareing Back At Me.
...
...
A Face And A Mask Is What Am I Now,
Drawn To Reflect And So I Turn,
InTo The Edges And A Weakening Hold,
Players And Smoke To Mind And Mold,
These Ages Furrowed For Rocks To Throw,
I Ready MySelf And Aim For Thrice,
For The Shadow Of What I Am To What I Will,
Until Beyond The Fold To What I Fill...
...
...
Never The Earth To Hold My Ground,
Never In Sleep Could Peace Be Found,
ForEver I Be Simple For Words To See,
And NoThing Bleeding Back To Me.






Saturday, 1 August 2015

(...) As Humboldt The Drum

Chide The Rulers,
Entomb Your Kings And Your Queens Under The Table,
Let The Gamble For Blood Be Pricked And Run Blue,
For Its Purity Be A Rabid Chase InTo The Fold,
With Its Badges Gilded As Its Bridges Be In Kind,
Over Burning Ravines And Canned Applause,
Tense With A Molted Salivary,
Clapping Against The Body-Electric,
Sinking It Deep InTo The Sour Earth,
Vineyards And Vanity... Insects In Sects,
Hive The Heavy-Breaded In Honey,
While Death-Watches Hold Hands For Hoods,
Ticking Steady Near HeadBoards For The Mother Of Pearls,
An Hour An Ear On Signals From Pluto's Orchard,
To Tell Those Red With The Rust Of Eleusinian Mystery
That Her Fruit Has Fury,
And Amber Be Its Garden's Palace.











Wednesday, 15 July 2015

What The Fuck Does Norman Mailer Know About AnyThing, AnyWays?

An Inked Epidemic
To Fit WithIn Borders,
High-Diveing Fifty-Fiveing,
Splattering UpOn The Paved Recess,
With The Obsession Of Rorschach
To OutWit Pollock,
And Resurrect A Cold-Nose To Beg
Joan Of Arc Out From Under Her Corset... Worming In A Fist...
...
Hinting Patchouli In The HayStack... The Marco Polo Of St.Louis,
Crooking All Spirited To Arched Bluffs...
...
Arrested InTo A State Of Commercial DisOrder,
Needled InTo A Rug SomeWhere In Tangier,
Liquor-Soaked...  Pursueing A Lesson In Taxidermy,
Old And Dieing And Queer... Coughing Dry As Swine Drowning Would,
Sticking What Timely Bones Remain InTo Stomachs To Drain,
As Hotel Bills Pile Up Beside Greasy Floor Cushions,
To Muffle The Pot InTo A Softly Padded Cell,
That Dead Wife Laughing Last... Storming In And Fast.














Friday, 10 July 2015

Inter-State Peppermint

Gaze Up At The Heavens,
Those Little Plastic Boxes,
Down Here Life Went Missing,
And It All Comes Back To Those In A Piece Of Cake...
...
Some Days... Lift Blue Eyes To Witness,
Other Days... Blink AWay That Wetness,
Too Many Days Have Come And Gone,
And Skin Only Lasts So Long...
...
Not Starving Yet Hollow,
Fed Dry To The SkyLit Shallows,
Absurd And Obsolete To Wear Those Masks That Hang,
ALone With Hands AWare...
...
So Now To Autumn For Heat's Last Grasp,
Long As Those Roads Where Trees OverLook,
Passing By Like Phantoms Of Dawn And Dusk,
Left To Cut Through With Limbs Lost.