Entries by anotherliverpoolpoet

I Think For Hours

I think for hours Then buy her flowers I’m glad she made Fresh marmalade She is to me A mighty sea Of deep emotion Without commotion But with devotion No self-promotion True support That’s never fraught Keep up the trick Through thin and thick Just entertaining While stimulating.  

The New Macbeth

How now, that in the sightless, mean and sooty night I am besieged with visions that affright me Choke me, throttle me with their easy might And curse a dodgy war I waged so morally? And marching regiments of boys now out of time Chant and unnerve my drenched, dissembling heart They brandish severed parts […]

Drenched Am I

Glancing at you sideways when you know it not Glimpsing fragrant moisture on half-open lips That sweetest tongue alive with words of fire Touches teeth a-gleam that sears me with desire. Your face is peerless in its form so close to mine As now your nose and eyebrow sweep my cheek Drench me in warming […]

Beautiful Player, Beautiful Amour

I have compared you with all those summer days that Will has spoken of And sly-eyed you across the chessboard as you richly mimicked Kasparov Enjoyed the honeyed, dappled fingers reach mockingly to take my pawn And burned with shame when first you laughed my poorly chess to scorn. Those tawny and compelling eyes so […]

Twin Leaders

Strutting like fascists pumping hard, oozing pomp Twin leaders, at twin lecterns now stiffly arriving Muscle-bound mouthings from  twins on the stomp Our language deformed with mis-facts so contriving. Frozen smiles pucker lips seen on millions of tellies While out there our lads fear lead in their bellies. The leaders synthesize speeches with ranting rejoicing […]

156 And Counting

Another three, another three Smashed boys have gone to heaven While in the dirt and in the sand There lie remains of someone’s hand. Surely this isn’t what the PM planned? And don’t forget the other boy Maimed and weeping, deep in shock Splattered with mucus, flesh and crap Victims of someone’s little trap. Will […]