After all the bombs have died outthere’s nothing like calm.No one’s died downand everyone’s come to harm. After everything’s called it a dayand the dawn’s gone to sleepmost of the most live the leastand fewer than the few believe in peace.
Author Archives: aprettykettleofpoetry
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Extra Time
In football, not everyone wants it.Not everyone gets it (even if they want it).There’s the chance to win, the chance to losewith those looming penalties as a brilliant bonus or shitty cruels! In life, you’d normally want it, wouldn’t you?Unless, for some reason, penalties would take you to all-time lows.But, in life, I’d say everyone …
Find Enclosed
Find enclosed some posts going backwardsStart from the start and they’re going forwards Find enclosed another unpublished poemby an author to push up daisies, still unknown find enclosed my C.V. and applicationto the city’s mental institution find enclosed what i couldn’t saythe words came out anyway find enclosed a paper dreamit hardly took up a …
The Grand National
Dictatorial This one will dictate the pacethroughout the race.Others will fall by the waysidewith its aggressive ride. But don’t expect it to finish the coursea winner. It’s not that kind of horse.This one has a lot of promiseBut will lead you down a bookmakers’ abyss. Elizabeth Taylor Photogenic from the first shot of the starter’s …
Jack-a-Nory E.P.
Safe Hot-Water Bottles Everywhere Mum taught me something I’ll never forget:When you fill a hot-water bottle with boiling kettle-boiled H2O,hold the bottle over the sink in case it falls‘cos if u scald yourself you’ll know. To everyone in the world now,Peace and Love. Hope it’s so close to home, you’re care free enough to freely …
Pop Catchy (2022)
I’ve put my latest poems from summer 2021 to February 2022 in this collection with some new collages. You can see it in the menu above together with my other collections.
Confessional
Frogmarch myself to what I sort of knowcan only end in tears for me.If things are going too well, time to get low,and laugh if things are going badly. I’m in two minds as to whetherI’ve got a split personality or notbut it’s just trying to prove a point I’m cleverwhen it’d be easier to …
The Posh People v. Ian Dury
(or Why the ruling classes won’t ever let anyone else rule) Got a pill for every hang up.Got a hang up for every pill.Being clever dicks with cannonballs,their blow-up knights in bouncy castlesare delivered by Royal Mail in letter bomb parcelsto detonate on University Challengejust as Ian Dury buzzes ‘What a Waste‘thus undermining any chanceanother …
That Last Belittling Little Betrayal
As you take after who you’ve becomeand school teachers, in detention, chew gumthe headmaster sends it to someone whois off the hook with nothing better to do.
A Pretty Kettle of Poetry 