Let Peace arise and make the harvests flower In homage to our Glorious Dead For we are those who bless this new born hour Before when millions of us bled Who passed the gate of Hell yet cheated Death And mourned for many friends To live a life of sorts with every passing breath Yet […]
When last you called my name I wasn’t there My soul is flown, spread fine across the wind Cast up towards the stars yet freed from pain Lost to human life and blown beyond repair. So when you in tears sit choking on the stair And press my image to your faltering heart Think not […]
Out from the shadows the marching men Thumbs up and laughing passed by But I feared as I lived I’d not see ’em again They’d been sent to this place just to die. For these were our boys in youthful blush With ammo strapped hard to their chests Marching as one they passed in a […]
There you are Upright Implacable Waiting. Your hose arm Curved Skinny when Compared. Your cylinder Ruddy Shiny Explanatory. Explosive Foaming Action As needed. Invisible Unregarded Passed by Yet crucial. Fire! Fire! Grab it! Whoosh! Escape.
He was an offensive fool from near Bude Who enjoyed being quite shockingly rude Last night he came one hell of a cropper Hurling light ale at a furious copper Since when sharing a cell with a nude.
There once was a grand hero of ours Whose history’s a garland of flowers For Nelson delivered one hell of a hammer That made the French tremble, shudder and stammer Making Britain the greatest of powers.
The shadow ship slips silently Across the deathly bay And from her spars, amid the ropes A tune was heard to play. The tune piped out so mournfully As night replaced the day And from her depths the shadows came To dance the night away. The shadows bowed and whirled around Their hazy coats pale […]
There once was a girl from Madrid From whom all secrets were hid She thought New Malden was north of the Mersey And Gibraltar somewhat closer to Jersey Which stretched even the patience of Syd!
The Prince slowed his brig with a show of surprise In the glory of this fabled lagoon Acknowledged her beauty that ravished his eyes And a palace shall be his by noon. The Prince draped in rubies and silks under pearls Stepped ashore in pink pantaloon Amused by the clamour, absorbed by the girls As […]
Perhaps I shall See you once more unvexed Unstained Freed from the hurt of those Smiling intoxicants That, inter-laced with Hateful drugs, Have ravaged you. You, if only now I could Unhook you from This Devil’s claws Undraw your present state Unwrite your foolish past Wipe clean the pain From your dear, wounded self And […]
She was never averse To some scurrilous verse Cursing the Count who had wronged her She wished hot coals on his head And dreamt he was dead In Hell she believed he belonged there.
A wet herring could have knocked us down When laughingly the girl leapt Into the decembered sea From the pier’s bleak end On Hogmanay. How mad is that? Into the swell from our ice cold pier Micha stepped out With her plunging and deep sinking And her late, late surfacing Gasping and electric Shrieking cold, […]
Cecilia! Cissy! Can you hear me, Sweet? I’m here in the drapes close beside you I shall love you forever, beautiful child Sweetheart, I see that Leonardo smiled. It is I, Milan, who adores you, fine beauty With my people enraptured before you My regal devotion is yours to command Pray, accepting this Duke, take […]
Well, it happened quite a lot Not that our rulers cared a jot That the common man fell lifeless in the futile, screaming battle When millions jigged to the rhythm of a bloody Spandau prattle And our countries blindly went to pot.
By the light of the pale silver moon I saw it was just after noon When up popped a general keen to go over the top Being the only one willing from such a large crop But I awoke from the dream too soon.
Pom pom di di pom, pom pom di di pom We’re marching to the Somme, di di pom There’s a million of us going Our hearts are overflowing Deflowered and devoured at the Somme.
Fast drove we by car When Out stepped the hare Long legged, dainty Such liquid grace With casual stride It nimbly jumped Verge and foliage Then, like a prince Was gone. Around the bend Ours and other Murderous cars In pincered rush Missed the hare And simply Motored on. Moments Of innocence And beauty Made […]
And here they come, moving quite overwhelmingly Unhindered by creaky laws of science known to us Out of a darkened sky to make our narrowed sight Bleed at the fierce intensity of such pulsating light Arriving as blazing flamingos slowing in a final rush To stand, engulfing all around in a blind caress. Useless stupefaction […]
Dolce ti è la vita, o mia signora Tu ed il tuo mandolino Che brilla, per opera del Maestro Dentro al tuo fresco palazzo. La sua melodia riflette la tua grazia La purezza della tua anima senza peccato Firenze ti circonda con il suo clamore Prima che la sua potente oscurità la pervada. Le corde […]
Life is sweet for you, Lady You with your mandolin Gleaming from the Maestro’s making Your palace cool within. The tune reflects your beauty A pure mind avoiding sin The clamour of Florence about you Yet free from its mighty din. Plucked strings so sweetly singing The Lord then touches your chin Jewelled sword lies […]
They couldn’t miss the delicious miss When she fizzingly spat with a hiss “Gerroff my case an’ leave me alone I’ve told you before you can’t have my phone Shove off, an’ leave me in bliss”.
“Damn’ funny chaps, these golfin’ gals”, The aged one vaguely remembers “They’re full of froth with squeaky pals To trample us when they be members. “They damn’ well crave their rights with us By Jove, they’ll mount a frilly revolution They’d change our laws, just monstrous Thank God for a cast iron Constitution. “Our comfy […]
So hugely ambitious was Claude He felt Maud he couldn’t afford So he spoke to her father Provoking one stinking palaver As he confessed he wasn’t insured.
He felt that while he was able He should continue to visit the stable For there he would meet And lovingly greet A fabulous fancy called Mabel.
There once was a girl called Consuela Who expected to marry a sailor But when he examined the cut of her jib He saw she’d invented a peach of a fib So she flounced off and married a tailor.