School Reunion- Miss Cadogan's Room
Miss Cadogan’s Room
Some smells just do it don’t they.?
The limbic whoosh that picks you
Up so fast and drops you back in time, so true
And real, it barely feels like memory.
Her room of course had not remained the same.
But one faint trail of polish, chalk and, books
Structured my lost geometries of chairs, the board and desks,
Held me tight in symmetries familia...
Friday 25th November 2011 7:27 pm
My Shooting Stars By Alice Age 6
My Shooting Stars By Alice Age 6
'In our last session, you said you couldn’t say
Just how it made you feel'.
Three long years on, still mistaking my frown as hesitance,
She consulted notes. A professional , tiny, half-smiled prompt.
I 'd drifted off and wasn’t sure how long my absence
Lasted, The face I’d drafted on, assuring
...Thursday 20th October 2011 9:20 pm
Doubting Thomas Or Epiphany in Halifax Last Sunday
Doubting Thomas
A Sunday morning of lassitude and sooty rain,
Found me pushing open the bookshop door, piqued and sniffling
At the bastard bastard train
That had not appeared grinding
To a stuttering halt at Platform Four
To take me home. Incurious, determined to ignore
The gracious smile of Mr Owen (Prop)
I reset my face to jus...
Monday 17th October 2011 6:34 pm
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
You Too can Have a Body Like Mine
As Barry, his Personal Induction Coach, enthused about
The lats and abs, the pecs and delts, that ugly
Awkward lexicon of vanity,
Frank could only think of Jan’s parting words that
Made a more familiar sense. ‘ You are Hopeless. Lazy,
Indolent.’ The first two words he knew, but ‘Indolent’?
Just clos...
Friday 14th October 2011 6:08 pm
The Real thing
The Real Thing
Some people can finesse the pain of parting with an ease
So consummate, they manage, somehow, to please
Almost everyone. Not me, memories and dread
Stalled my words, as my penitent caress turned
Her pliant face to mine. Oh help me here somehow
Find the words, because good god she deserves to know
It’s over. A deta...
Thursday 13th October 2011 5:49 pm
GSOH
GSOH
Find Love! the DreamMatch™ site enticed
And the girls in Sales had twittered and cajoled
Oh Derek it will be so much fun
To meet that Soulmate, that Special One.
Oh Good God Derek ! Forget the cost!
And find Sunsets and Laughter, The Smile You’ve Lost.
The Woman of his Dreams he guessed did not come cheap.
...
Tuesday 11th October 2011 7:10 pm
Merry Christmas Archie
Merry Christmas Archie
I just don’t know what’s got into you. The Christmas Office Party?
Contempt suspended, as exhaling smoke towards his face,
She sniffed, her mouth a coalesce of distaste
And scorn. Oh god! You’re wearing aftershave!.
You’re Fifty Two for heavens sake and look absurd in that
Shapele...
Tuesday 4th October 2011 8:44 pm
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