Sixth sense at sixes and sevens,reading too much into bibles and heavens,best be down to earth and no nonsense,with a say it as it is and a penny for your thoughts with a sales tag pence. Play dumb to deceive.Play undertaker to bereave.The younger you are, the longer you’ll lasttill aging takes over which it …
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Blind Date with History
Occupational hazard for the meaningfulis posting their ideas for the meaningless.The worst best thing for guillotine builders is being coolas they lose their heads in a bloody mess. Running to the wings and coming to a dead endpoor little rich millionaires run out of mansion bedrooms to hide incornered by wool knitting nitwits who’ve pulled …
Houdini Getaway
The getaway car’s engine is running inconspicuouslyready for the disappearance act.Timings throughout meticulouslytimed to overturn doubts and make them fact. If all goes to plan, the getaway will get away with it.The authorities won’t have a clue.No fuzz but champagne fizzand living it up in sunny climes with nothing but leisure to do. Codename ‘Calvin’.Make …
Sniper of Words
Writing poetriesis like Nostradamus wrote prophesies.I don’t know if they shed lightbut, if you drink enough to candles like me, they might. If you breed sentences with turkey-fat wordsyou can make them full of fake alibi meaning.In any court of poetic justice, you might get away with being a free-verse jail birdwhen you answer for …
New Year’s Revelation Round the Corner
Sixth sense at sixes and sevens,reading too much into bibles and heavens,best be down to earth and no nonsense,with a say it as it is and a penny for your thoughts with a sales tag pence. Play dumb to deceive.Play undertaker to bereave.The younger you are, the longer you’ll lasttill aging takes over which it …
At the End of the Day, it’s the End of the Year
365 daysdo 360 degreeswith winter snow, springtime bloom and summer hazethrough to autumn leavesspiralling back to icy freeze. I’ve had quite a yearthat no new year’s resolution could have crystal-balled.An unseen leap year forward on February 29ththat would have left any boastful know-it-all fortune teller appalledwith no anniversary near. How’s it been for you all?The …
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Newspaper Theatricals
The actors can’t remember their linesso, their hands are grippedon The Right Rant Rag Mail, or The Dark Deluded Mirror. or The Troubling Timeswith their lines tucked inside centre pagesso they can read their cover-up script. They walk the boards in every scenewith their characters tabloid-nose downand sell tickets to audiences who are keento see …
Digital Breakdown
Can’t remember which password.Don’t remember what to click.Can’t remember why this doesn’t work when it should.Don’t remember what option to pick. Can’t remember how to read.Don’t remember what to say.Can’t remember that stuff about “hand” and “feed.”Don’t know what else to do but turn it off and prey. Can’t remember what’s beeping in my head.Don’t …
Imaginary World (2024)
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 …
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. …
A Pretty Kettle of Poetry 