When We First Heard the News
We heard it on the Beeb, it was no freebie
This news so sad, that the mother of our monarch
Was deceased. She went in her sleep, for,
She’d had a good life.
Month: February 2018
WEDDING POEM
All hail thee, lovely laughing maid!
On this auspicious day thy match hath made!
The Lord shall Bless, and all shall see
And on this day, shall married be!
Wordy Beast
I tied a dead body to my steed
And dragged it through the dusty town
It was the corpse of American democracy
SIR GAVIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT
Since the siege and the assault ceased at Troy
Smashed and burned the castle to charcoal and ashes
The man who was there wrought the cunning devices of treason
Was tried for his trickery, though the truest on earth.
LET MY COUNTRY DIE FOR ME – A Mis-Reading of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
MAHAK MAKAR A BAK HI! HI!
BANG, BARANG BANK BARAABUM
BARAABUM! TINKLE! SHRIEK!
SEX IN THE 80s.
You may be all grown-up and free from guilt concerning sex
But I’m not, I’m caught in some God-damn 80s hex
Belonging to a long-forgotten age of superstition
Second Skin
Before I cast off my second skin
And let the silky darkness in
Turn off the light
And into night
Spill the day’s noise and din.
The Last Living Rose
God bless…
Beautiful England
As the last living Rose
Quivers in your hand.
REDEMPTION POEM
When will I listen? When will I learn?
The right to exist doesn’t equal the right to earn
The Turning of the Tide
Lady Luck, she’s a whore
Learn to live and lick the wounds
Self-inflicted that you adore ~
Pick at the scab that which heals
To deaden the pain which anneals
Kneel before the law you abhor
Over the Bridge
Cross the bridge- Budge!
Criss cross
Pipes, Cables, Girders, Bolts
Whilst up high
Birds wheel in the silky sky
Land treads softly at water’s heel
ON A LOVELY DAY, COBO, CASTEL, GUERNSEY
ELECTRIC ARCHING CRISS-CROSS, MAUVE AZURE AND BLUE
A RIPPLING CORUSCATING COLLAGE OF COLOURS DANCING IN THE SEA-SAND-SCAPE
SUN DIPPED BELOW TUMESCENT KOHL-RIMMED HORIZON
Of Charming Monsters
Who am I?
I am the sun that shines on everyone
Lights you up from tip to toe
Tell you things, perhaps
You’d rather not know
NO NUKES IS GOOD NUKES
NUCLEAR FAST BREEDER REACTOR
SPEEDING TIME IN FISSION FACTOR
PARANOIA BREEDS DISTRUST AND DISDAIN
PUTS BLINKERS ON THE BRAIN
DISGUST AND EXPRESSIONS INANE
Mad Woman, Leave me Alone!
Mad woman, leave me alone
When I tell a joke, you throw a fit
And frown and scowl and moan
Negativity Poem
Bad People
They Swear a lot
They don’t Care a lot
They Spam a lot
They Jam a lot.
KRAW T’CHI
The rising sun faces
The sickening moon
And the fires in the engines
Go on one by one
I Was A Rasta
I was a Rasta, a Taoist, Zen, Christian, Buddhist, Pagan Homeless, poor, yet wealthy and landed My forebears knew Christ, yet the horned god
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I HAVE SEEN MY TRUE SOUL.
I have seen my true soul:
It is neither young nor old
Neither rich nor poor
Neither a believer nor an atheist
HUMAN WEED.
Working in gardens
Tangle of weeds menaces at me
Parched soil where weeds are concreted in
Arthur’s Castle
Thunder from a jar
Lies
Stored
Taken from afar
Lies
FRAGMENTS.
Fragments of life is all we have.
Crazy-Paving-Yellowbrick shithouse
Road to Nowhere Everywhere
Shining crock of golden shit
Fools no-one
Everyone loves it.
Evidently, Donkey Town
The bloney traffic’s bloney slow
Everywhere you bloney go
The bloney Social’s bloney tight
The thugs in pubs all love to fight
Enough Conceit.
Yak yak yatter
Nic nik natter
How I hate the chit and chatter
Aimless as starlings
Pointless as meteorites
Abstract trajectories
EARTH CHILD.
Before the wind kissed my feet
I tied ten blessings in a sheet
Cursed by a crow, carried afar
Don’t call me on Tuesday my socks are neat
Ten thousand crushed cataclysmic catacombs
I thought you had wallpaper paste in your hair
It was a drowned apocalypso downed your daisies at dawn anti-cymex egg-smeller!!
It was you megalithic monolithic van der Graff
Island of the Disabled
As I go on my round of late
I see bodies, with shambling gaite
I wonder, do they suffer the cramp?
Dark Gardens of the Empyrean
MEETING ON THE BANKS OF THE NILE
YOU COULD SEE PEOPLE GOING PAST ON BENCHES
WE MOVED, AND ROLLED THE LAWN FOR THEM
‘Crow’-magnon
Shining bright over Moytura
A glistening sea of spears and blades
In the dark, denizens illuminate
Come Closer
You sat
Like a cat
Blue eyed and
Perfectly relaxed.
CHRIS IS A VERY SPECIAL GUY
YOU WANT TO KNOW AND ASK ME WHY?
Because he is humorous and always funny
Even if he has not much money
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Carried on a dragon’s back
Into oncoming clouds
The ground is very far away
Hear the thunder’s loud!
Blitzkreig Baby
In Social Insecurity
They read out your name like a curse
Like they’re announcing the plague, a disease
Behind Bars
This poem should be behind bars!
It injects drugs and drives around in cars!
It meets loose ladies and hangs around in bars!
This poem should be behind bars.
Beauteous morn to see the day
Beauteous morn to see the day
Young babe sleeping in a manger lay
Peaceful, innocent and so full of life.
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“BANE-HERBS.”
Witch me a herb, which herb is which?
Whether grown in a greenhouse, or in a ditch
Toxins that repel, ward off, or give grace
These herbs are all banes, where they leave a trace
Baby Shower Blessing
“Congratulations on your baby to be born
May her future be so bright
With flowers adorned.
God protect her and her days be filled with light
Jesus bless her and keep her with his might.”
The Blessing.
“Congrats on your baby to be born
May her future be so bright
With flowers adorned.
God protect her and her days be filled with light
Jesus bless her and keep her with his might.”
“Man Bites Dog!”
‘Man bites dog!’ so the headline goes
Though how it ever ends no-one really seems to know
The dog was full of spite and the man was full of hate
The newspaper’s aim was this image to inflate
The dog bit the man so the man bit back
Anger Revolves the Heart T’entrap
Anger revolves the heart t’entrap
Tethers the mind by ties of time
While tides flow out and in
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