SAFE HARBOUR, SAFE STEERSMAN
Unnumbered boys regarding me But glad said they that I had come Their swaying souls were safe said they For Christ had steered them home.
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THE VOICE THAT SPOKE TO ME
For I am sailing these fierce Arctic seas Berth place for three thousand men I shout to wake them, if they please To come back home with me again. Imagine I could make them wake To make them come with me Undrench their eyes for Heaven’s sake And heed them lively to my plea. Imagine I could make them dream Of life beyond this sickened sea Where salty bones […]
FACES OF THE VERY YOUNG
It’s not the deaths of old men That cuts me to the quick It’s not the surge of the blooded sea That grieves me, makes me sick But faces of the very young That surface and then sink down And sink down deep where I cannot see Where I cannot see them drown.
D-Day Outlier Poems
THINKING YOU’RE NEAR In the lap of the waves I hear your voice On the incoming breeze I feel your fear In the holidaying children I weep for your loss With the passage of years Betrayal has snared us Yet set fair in my heart Unforgotten. ON THE BEACH I HEAR YOU CALLING While on […]
D – Day
D – D A Y TUESDAY, 6TH JUNE 1944 THE FALLEN BOYS HAVE GONE ASTRAY This pulsing boy A corpse Within a splintered second His tensioned grip His sweating tremble His prayerful pleas All gone. All gone This shattered self Now just A floating hindrance For other souls of Other desperate boys Not yet corpses […]
BRANDY, PRINCE OF CATS
After being left to my own devices Making marmalade with gorgeous spices I’m pulling on my silver trews And lacing up my pointy shoes Then off to a castle in my flying car And find the bright, spotty door ajar Leaping slippery steps up slanty decks Past anchors hauled from ancient wrecks And meet again […]
THE FALL OF A SENTINEL
Heavens above! We come upon you So utterly Destroyed. Truly splintered Ribs and arms Splayed akimbo By outrageous power. What thought you, Whispering tree, So torn apart And hideous? We gently touch Your pines Your cones Now sleeping. And what has been Is now not so, No longer Swaying, sighing. Why solely you Amid […]
4:10am AND SLEEPLESS
Who Out there Shares This time With me? 4:10am In the black Suspension Where counts My heart. Peopled by Surging shards Of troubling voices, Agitating this Indignant me. She, sleeping As I, driven And pestered by an Inconvenience Of frowning memory. Pinched by failure By duties missed, My mouth protesting Wordlessly. […]
LE JOUR DE NOTRE MARIAGE
UN SONNET POUR L’AMOUR Je te conjure, mon mari, D’être gentil avec moi Et je te conjure, ma femme, D’être affectueuse avec moi Traverse la vie avec moi et ne me quitte jamais Garde-moi, ton amour, auprès de toi Je serai avec toi pour toujours Nous avons traversé des plages […]
THIS ‘ERE TREE AND WE
This ‘ere tree Fascinates me. In shape divine By the railway line. Balance complete At thirty feet. Something true Just like you. Nature’s designer Brings little finer. This neat symmetry Sets a mind free. Sense you we, Entrancing tree?
AN IMMINENCE OF ONSLAUGHT
Heavy the dread darkness Expectant the land Descending and drenching Enthrallingly grand. Trees uprightly pointing Like hairs on a head Quivering, defiant While we humans fled. A furious sight now Of breathtaking act Clashing forces collide Inhuman, in fact. How savage the onslaught, we didn’t see My thoughts for my girl and hers for […]
BLACK AND RED; RED AND BLACK
I stand before you In black and red For those alive For those still dead. I stand before you In red and black Our justice dodged It’s what we lack. I stand before you Brethren mine We shall survive We have our shrine. The law’s delay The insolence of office. ======xxxxx====== […]
COULD THIS BE LOVE?
Tousle me, tousle me Tousle me, Beauty I’ll laugh for a lifetime Come, tousle my hair. Come dance with me, Beauty Prance with me, Beauty Sing what you dare For my joy’s in the air. Fling with me finely Swirl me divinely Dance and enhance me My heart is astir. I’ll pull at your ribbons […]
IN MAUD’S GARDEN WITH CLAUDE
I’ll come into your garden, Maud To see what we shall see I hope you’ll not find me a fraud When you chivvy me onto your knee. I imagine this bench is insured For you’re the pride of Wavertree But my curious nature is cured As I bolt to the gate and flee. […]
PENELOPE HENELOPE
Such tawny plumage has Penelope Pleasing, intriguing the watchful me Staccato stalking on yellowed claws With splendid luck and a safe outdoors And pray Phantom Fox is late for tea!
BURGLAR BILL BEMOANING BURGLING
In the pitch of the night came Burglar Bill Slithering over our window sill But he came a right cropper when he tasted my sword That pricked him quite proper and made others applaud Since when he’s been most alarmingly ill
WELL, JUST FANCY THAT!
Well, just fancy that When our next-door cat With a touch of the haughty And most likely quite naughty Drops by for the occasional chat.
SKY PEBBLES
Tight knit, these pebbles Although not knitted at all If our brains were in place. Magically magical But truly, touchingly magical Though impossible to touch. As if some god had woven them Having shouted at stray clouds To form up and bunch in tight. Just letting us know Down here but looking […]
CLOUDSHIP, SPACESHIP
Oh, gorgeous saucer Cruising, skirting Clouded skies. Assessing, digesting Thinking, deciding As time flies. Camouflaged spaceship Cunning as cloud And quietly spies. Such spirit of travel Exploring new dawns Thought multiplies. In our world unknowing We battle away Enmeshed in lies. Slim saucer surveying A cloudship sweeping In trim exercise. Cloudship as spaceship Skims […]
WORDSWORTH AND HIS DAFFODILS – A CARTOON
Wordsworth wrote many sonnets, giving me the opportunity to add yet another cartoon from the witty pen of Pete Williams. I HEAR YOUNG WORDSWORTH FORGOT MOTHER’S DAY AGAIN..
PANTO PIN PAIN
Little Miss Angel Stepped on a pin She screamed so loud One dreadful din. Hopping on one foot She screamed again Flapping her wings To dampen the pain. Teacher dashed over Rescued the pin Snapped at Angel For audible sin. Angel reacted With shocking force Reprimanded By Mother, of course. Her […]
THE FALLEN SKY
Look! Our sky has fallen Crashing down Wounding loyal souls Of many nations. Submerging us Deep below Through swirling mists Of darkened tempers In uncertain minds. Yet in resilient hope Our bounteous Queen Trails rainbow glory Across our hearts And lives true within. FOR OUR GLORIOUS QUEEN DEPARTED
WITNESSING MYSELF
Now that she’s left us Bereft Alone in our millions Contemplative And destitute too. Finest of Monarchs I’m holding you close Charged all my life through In honour bound This Marine attends you. Tears fall fast For her closing of eyes Our great Queen departed Yet Death is outsmarted A pure voice replies. […]
Witches Hurdle Time
Slipping through the beating race of Time We have scurried, dreaming, nine by nine Witching, singing, making spells by rhyme We covet that which for now is thine. Witches! Pray thee, let us sing our song We thrive on hatreds amid the throng Our joy is found in fortune truly long And spell out […]