The moon was dramatically rising Which in itself is rather surprising When the deep sea diver Soaked Lady Godiva And copped a wicked chastising. It’s not that he’d done anything rude For he liked to please a good nude But as she’d had a fine drenching She accused him of wenching He sobbed as she […]
The girl with her sweet mandolin Faintly heard from somewhere within When the Count soft approached her And deftly encroached her She made one helluva din.
‘Honey, d’ya wanna coffee?’ The sister barista shouted ‘An’ shall I add a toffee?’ As in the sun she pouted. ‘I’ll have it strong, I’ll have it now’ The sleepy beauty snorted ‘Forget the toffee, stupid cow’ Was what Facebook reported. ‘It’s comin’ up, it’s comin’ up’ Replied the qualified barista ‘Speak not like that […]
I just missed treading on his gravestone At least, on the corner I saw Quite unattached the fragment’s alone Not so far from the Cathedral door. Clerics laid paths with these headstones Drenched once with family tears Now Tom’s not mourned by his loved ones Gone themselves these two hundred years. Whatever the whys and […]
Words in sleepy night slip past as silvered fish in a heaving deep sea, effortless Catch them lightly or a shoal quivers away in dreams, leaving me comfortless. Note for Night Fisher 1 and 2: How often I find thoughts like flotsam floating through the disconnect of sleep to be caught at […]
Asleep yet stirring, deep-water thoughts swim upwards from the ink-black ocean where all is blind Bursting through jostling fathoms to hunt in shoals through the sunken valleys of my midnight mind.
Tell them I fought at the Gates of Hell Pinned down then flayed by Spandau Tell them I charged before I fell While the General’s to tennis by landau.
The aforementioned had the strangest of feelings That somewhere she’d been spoken about before.
We can’t yet be sure what make of sheep you are, my dear With your long legs so typical of those that leap from rocks In streams and boggy marsh grass unperturbed, untroubled With ease and grace of movement that makes you splendid. And there again, your black face and ears so keen to […]
Hey ewe! Standin’ there Givin’ me the once over What’s yer flamin’ game? Ewe woolly-back, paradin’ Long legs an’ fluffy jumper Starin’ at me now ‘n’ forever. D’you want a chase, like? Through the trees to the gorge An’ back ‘ere as fast as light. Ewe are one smart woolly tart An’ no mistakin’ that, […]
I found you watching from within those trees One captive soul from someone’s captive flock Yet free to run and question why indeed I’m here Free to race on skipping feet to place a gorge Between your panting self and those who might Wish you dark misfortune on this dazzling day. And yet, proud ewe, […]
Slenderest forms of silver birch Searching, stretching skyward Aching to reach this azure sky Fearful their beauty lies unseen They vie to breast the gritty crop Each crowned a swaying queen Of silvered day and blindfold night.
Quick the armoured Angel comes, in majesty Quite blazing up the shivering room With a blinding incandescence Dancing round His searing, wondrous form. In trepidation peering, a heart so riven My scalded, mortal eyes search His And, seeking prophesies, I stand Consumed in the Angel’s grace. His feathered mail pulsing liquid gold His wings, now […]
She’d proclaimed that her name was Lucia Making sure the young men could see her By adjusting the tilt of her elegant wig Then squeezing the straps of the rest of her rig You could see that her gender’s unclear!
The dim recruit was remarkably tall With a brain quite remarkably small When he’d spotted the Bishop consulting an actress It confused him no end when they ordered a mattress As they’d sniggered about having a Ball.
Hurtling north on the packed M6 Not chosen as the best of picks Hurtling onwards at forty or fifty No space at all to be extra nifty. Northern loaves south speeding ever Always onwards, it’s all so clever Others northbound or east or west Do they speed to where it’s best? Slab sided lorries like […]
There once was a fine Greek called Euclid Whose slick mind was mathematically lucid On completing the search for his soulmate of choice He ventured to screech at the top of his voice ‘I’m thrilled to announce that it’s you, Sid!’
There once was a maestro called Klopp Who came, saw and conquered the Kop He promised us trophies and many surprises Thunderous occasions and glittering prizes To strive and never to stop.
Ever so high on the dusty wardrobe top Entirely motionless for ever so long Sat a furious hat in a silent strop But to whom did this splendid hat belong? You couldn’t tell what the hat resembled So wrapped in tissue with its muslin furled But it missed the wedding then assembled And lay unused […]
Give back the rock Send back the frock The wedding’s off The wedding’s off! Urgent action take To freeze the cake The wedding’s off The wedding’s off! Cancel the flowers And hats like towers This wedding’s off This wedding’s off! Forget those classy photo-shoots Email those who are in cahoots There’s now no need No […]
Eternal Rome, shimmering anew in her glorious heat Brings us alive, despite dizzy heads and aching feet While Mama delights us daily with her exquisite food We then explore your history before another interlude Of coffee, cakes quite gluten-free, with glitzy Roman ices And later still, the pastas, pizzas and finest Italian spices Laughing and […]
I’m coming early in September And I’ll be happy to arrive My life’s something to remember As gladly I shall strive To love my family dearly Enjoying life as a laughing girl I think I see that clearly As I skip and shout and whirl. I know I’ll be loved for all of time As […]
Snapdragon and violets alongside showers of flowers with fancy spots Advancing shiny beetles, jaunty, leaping dogs and wild forget-me-nots Hollyhocks and roses, this arching, yawny, golden cat, sweet columbine Await your entrance softly as I hold you loving close, dear baby mine. Warm breezes dry uncoiling worms, our slippy slugs and fragile snails A falling […]
I beseech you, husband Be kind to me And I beseech you, wife Be fond with me Travel closely with me And keep me, loving, near I am with you a lifelong time Shorelines walked with truest hearts With mind and soul and body We face the world complete And from our loving selves May […]
It’s here that life and death perhaps, weigh upon us, strangely still So silently the twelve souls tick and measure snail-paced time Until two more arrive to break the heartbeat of the ever waiting room And so another joins and jolts us with her muted, half-heard voice Not vital matters of the State but just […]