Something started and left undone like the falling of the sun to the falling of the sun

by Jonathan Beale

As the mind pursues the impossible—as Hemingway

Pursued the Marlin in the depths

As they wander around seemingly lost on some kind of track

With some kind of destiny –

Unable to care or focus the flicked cigarette dances

In the moonlight.

On and on they go—and to where? Or even and to why—

No one knows

There were many things started and fell to rest on the roadside

Life like rubbish

Collecting the fumes of passing trucks and cars

Going on their business

Seeing something started and left undone—like the falling of the sun;

Or the falling of the sun.

Jonathan Beale has 500 plus poems published in such journals as: Decanto,  Penwood Review,  The Screech Owl, Danse Macabre, Danse Macabre du Jour, Poetic Diversity, Voices of Israel in English, Miracle-E-zine,  Voices of Hellenism Literary Journal, The Journal, Ink Sweat & Tears, Down in the Dirt, The English Chicago Review, Mad Swirl, Poetry Cornwall, Leaves of Ink, Ariadne’s Thread, Bijou Poetry Review, Calvary Cross, Deadsnakes Review, The Bitchin Kitsch, Poetry by Birkbeck alumnus, The Dawntreader, I am not a Silent Poet, Pyrokinection, Festival of Language, Festivalwriter, “Don’t Be Afraid: An Anthology to Seamus Heaney,” Ygdrasil, The Four Seasons Anthology, The Seventh Quarry, Van Gogh’s Ear Anthology, The Curly Mind, The Beatnik Cowboy, Dali’s LoveChild, Storm Cycle Anthology (Best of Hurricane Press 2015), The Jawline Review, Bluepepper, and Jellyfish Whispers.

He was commended in Decanto’s and Café Writers Poetry Competitions 2012. His work has appeared in such books as Drowning (Scar publications) and The Poet as Sociopath (Scar publications). He is currently working on his second volume.

His first collection of poetry The Destinations of Raxiera, is published by Hammer & Anvil.  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Destinations-Raxiera-Jonathan-Beale-ebook/dp/B018F6GWQ6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1452199641&sr=1-1&keywords=jonathan+beale

He studied philosophy at Birkbeck College London and lives in Surrey, England.