Up in the menu is poems written this year. Some have been published in the course of the year, others haven’t, but I have put them into a new collection or, as I like to think of them, a new album. A double album in this case! Nearly all poems have brand new collages to …
Author Archives: aprettykettleofpoetry
Garden Maze
More & more in a muddleSomewhere in the middleYou turn in on yourselfwhere’s there’s no-one else. You don’t know where to look.Autumn leaves left underfoot& a green-finch on the pathyou remember seeing in the past. A snail-shell weighing you down;All your possessions lost & found.Slow-worms & slugs that go on slow.Blackbirds & thrushes lying low. …
Dickensian Kenneth
Dickensian Kenneth as is his ilkIn pyjama regalia picks up the milk.Slippers quick-march hup hup one twoBack at the double to Breakfast HQ. Where in her eggcup marmalade empireTea toasted soldier paraphernalia,Victoriana’s rule of thumb clear;He’s under hers “Yes love, no dear”. ‘X’ marks the spot on his Union Jack botWhere the canvassing Conservative candidate …
A pie eye for a pie eye
Drunk on revengeSee them square up to each other.The same old scraps.The same old bother. They hold their minute of silencewhile bad-mouthing and incapable of keeping silent.One day, both sides might come to their sensesas amateur giant-killing peacemakers beat professional war mongers in a cup tie upset that sends dailies into delirious cup fever excitement. …
giving the ‘v’ sign is half the battle
life is hardlike a wari’m no bardthat’s for sure bombs and bulletstears and tormentblood and blitzis what I meant every dayturning to nightcome what maybefore the fight fearing a lossyou pray for victorybut who gives a tossdown on one knee?
Tricks of the Mind
Plate-spinners spin tales.Jugglers juggle coincidence destinies.Acrobats do tumbles and cartwheelswhile banging against skull cavities. What people said and what they didgets distorted in a hall of mirrorsas escapologist brain cellsvanish and disappear. Trapeze artists in high-low mood swings.Clowns doing slap stick comedy routines.Dwarves playing pranks round and round in ringsas magicians cast spells to magic …
add another death of a loved one to the toll
like a piece of you has gonegone into another life cut short and wrongi’m standing mime-drumming on my balconyand the next day is as tomorrow as far as I can see football is the theme tonighta match between my heart and souleverything I love is out of sightand trying to understand is the goal
Cats’n’Dogs
Teatime rain brewing in teapot clouds,powers-that-be dunk their big biscuits in their big cup.A pretty kettle of fish and bones boiling in up-the-revolution kitchens with rights overlooked and doffed hats centuries kow-towed:something’s getting somewhere like a cat from a kitten or a dog from a pup. Legendary ties get consigned to history,to be dug up …
Bus Route 1 Revelations #9
Writing this on the Number 1 bus.Late meeting my instant love for dinner.Met by chance lingering friends drinking to usand, having to get away, made excuses like an original sinner. Today I’m in such a good mood:I might have cracked the meaning to it all.Be cool, don’t fret, avoid any feudand, if possible, stick to …
see if you like it
i was borni was a kidi had a markfor everything I did i grew upgot a jobbent over backwardsto please the mob i got marriedwent up the aislehad a familyin traditional style i got olderwondered whygot a policyfor when i’d die i got onworked and workedhad my doubtsbut never shirked i retireddrew my pensiongrandkids roundrelieved …
A Pretty Kettle of Poetry 