2010 - A Year for Peace & Goodwill?
A new year dawns as many before,
will 2010 bring what we ask for?
A peaceful future that all can share
with the wealthy showing that they care?
In my hopes as ever that would be the plan
for without compassion what distinguishes man?
We may have tools and brains to embrace
technologies to help the human race
But if those minds just persue all with greed
then we ignore those with more pressing need
For f...
Monday 28th December 2009 12:54 pm
Beneath
Long lost they lay beneath the ice
in which their skated feet had cut a slice
as they once pirouetted together in delight
on a sparkling winters moonlight night.
The press would say they ran from view
and for a week or more theories anew
of where they went and how they slipped
past those that this accident had tricked
Pressed together their souls entwined
all troubles past, think of them kind
for such ...
Saturday 14th November 2009 7:51 am
The War Of The Roses
The War of the Roses
Red on one side, white on the other
the roses steadfastly facing one another
I was caught in the middle like some referee
with both lines armed with sharp points aimed at me
As I stood uncertain of which way to go
my hand gripped my own short weapon you know
twin blades close together would soon be apart
as I released the catch and to war I did start
Soon my blood was seen to dri...
Monday 26th October 2009 9:58 pm
Love Passes
Love passes joy from one to another
Over and over from daughter to mother
Valentines declare the state of their heart
Each raining kisses whenever they part
Pass some love each time that you can
All need some loving be they woman or man
Send some warmth to lift their days
See the real depths shine within their gaze
Ease their daily loads with a winning smile
Show all the world life can be less o...
Sunday 25th October 2009 12:38 am
After
After
The best of lovers will one day part
and such sad moments break many a heart
maybe a lifetime together has then passed
or one has gone, leaving questions to be asked
But then after the love of your life has gone
can you find new strength to somehow carry on
will there be words from friends to impart any peace
while you struggle through each day until your final release
To each...
Sunday 25th October 2009 12:35 am
Clouds of Rain
Clouds Of Rain
Weary though the world may be
still it's the only one for you and me
the one place we all must call our home
even the astronauts who did once roam
and set a flag upon that dusty moon
where none had been to sing a tune
yet all have witnessed the disc in the sky
ever since man first looked up and pondered why
the shape was sometimes full and bright
but then shrank into a crescent light
that vani...
Sunday 25th October 2009 12:34 am
A W.O.M.A.N.
A W.O.M.A.N.
A long time has now passed
And so the tale can be told
About a woman 39 years on this earth
Albeit her siren face didnt seem so old
When was the last time
When was the first
When she spoke openly
When she last cursed
Oh to be there that day
Only the rarest of times
Ought to be acknowledged
Otherwise ignore her jibes
Many are the times
Many the plaintive speeches
Many were hooked by her l...
Sunday 25th October 2009 12:27 am
Lost....
At last she gave up trying
When the hassles with kids
Had become much too much
For one who'd suffered such
One lied for a living
Another was so butch
And beat up all the others
Her sisters, her brothers
She sank into such deep dismay
Receding more each lonely day
There was nothing of interest
On tv is all she'd ever say
No job held any longer
No more need to get up
A tin can full of lager
And a fag so very...
Tuesday 22nd September 2009 7:28 pm
Nine Eleven Tribute
As the anniversary comes round again shortly, I'll offer up my own thoughts on the pain and loss of people not only in the twin towers but other innocent victims of conflicts around the world.......
Nine Eleven Tribute
No words of mine or others can change what went before
We can but stand in silence and remember them once more
Though years roll by without restraint and some images fade
The sights we...
Sunday 6th September 2009 11:12 pm
Waiting For You
'Never mind the quality, just feel the width'
Good enough for the spivs, but I think I'll give it a miss
For giving of our best is the forward way to think
And so I try to do my best with this paper and this ink
Maybe if you spot the odd mistake and take me then to task
I'll listen, think, digest it all, not turn to seek a cask
But perfection isn't always reached by grammar on its own
Somet...
Saturday 5th September 2009 11:08 pm
An Acorns Throw
Oh to be once more in the depths of green
Escape from the bustle of the present mainstream
Soak up the magic of natures verdant glory
Linger there a while and pen the story
For refuge what can ever surpass this haven
An acorns throw away from the commercially enslaven...
©Rhumour
August 10th 2009
Friday 4th September 2009 10:18 pm
Two Kisses
How much are you worth asked a dear friend
'Two kisses and a cuddle' was the reply he did send
'Two kisses may be found for you with ease
But a cuddle is harder to blow through the breeze'
'Ah but cuddles are warm and can last so long
Please see if you can manage to blow very strong'
'Much as I might blow long with all of my might
I doubt you would get that hug afore tomorrow ...
Tuesday 1st September 2009 9:21 pm
The Apprentice
The Apprentice
"I saw it all"
said the witness
"For I am the carpenter"
head down, foot up,
arm stretching ever more...
"Try to keep it to that line
hold it straight and true."
Teeth vibrating every stroke
board slipping, blood dripping,
from the deep cut then resulting.
"Darn it!"
Said the seamstress
"A stitch in time
you know will save nine."
Came forth from her needle tongu...
Thursday 6th August 2009 3:15 pm
Clammy Shadows
Clammy Shadows
None of us are immune from these clammy shadows
of ghosts that pursue us from our long, long agos
with drafty whispers teasing our ears at night
leaving as quickly as we are seen to take fright
well gone before any help comes to hand
nothing left for others to grasp and understand
So under the protective tent of covers we go
at least that way our googly eyes will not sho...
Thursday 6th August 2009 3:11 pm
All Butt All
All Butt All
Barely bothered as he lay down his weary head
Life was so much hassle, he just wished he could be dead
The medics kept his ticker beating as it should
But at what quality of living, he felt none understood
It's a dog's life he thought with such irony
If I had but been a dog, wouldn't they end this misery
Brighter days were now few and so far between
His memories s...
Thursday 6th August 2009 3:06 pm
School Rules
School Rules
I have to say with words I play so much it ires some peeps
But those that like to listen still are my friends for keeps
Whilst back in school my rhymes did rule too much from time to time
In English class acceptable but in History t'was viewed a crime
One day we had to tell the tale of Henry and his wives
But I was bored and pepped it up with a few comic as...
Friday 31st July 2009 9:58 pm
Winter On The Trailer
Back in the mid seventies, I spent some time working with a company that specialised in organizing sales based around taking container loads of goods direct to the car parks of large factories so that staff could purchase goods at rather low prices for the day. One time we had a real struggle due to the temperature falling very low overnight. I wrote this while shivering on the van...
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Wednesday 29th July 2009 5:28 pm
Last Runes Cast
Face down in the mud, he paused before he rose
'Women pay a fortune and I'm covered to my toes'
Back among the runners, he tried again to jump
Over the high barriers, but he really got the hump
When soon for the third time he took a mighty fall
'You'd think that after all this time my feet would now play ball'
Some weeks went by before he had to go and seek some hel...
Tuesday 28th July 2009 3:54 pm
I Aim
I Aim
I aim to be as true to all
As I have learnt from being small
Tell it like I see it when I'm clear
Zip my mouth if I'm not my dear
Now as time rolls on I find I still
Have a very strong unbending will
None too shy to state my case
Toe to toe, face to face
Tempering the above with concern
For others views where I may learn
More about this world ...
Tuesday 28th July 2009 12:02 pm
Dusty Books
Dusty Books
I'm a poet
Not a mechanic
If the rhyme breaks down
Should I panic?
For each syllable stretch
And stumbling scan
Do I search for another
Or act like a man
Must the purpose I scribe
Be for passing a test
Or maybe some mention
Of a tale with some zest
I think the audience tell
If they like it or not
And may offer a silence
...Monday 27th July 2009 10:59 am
Chip & Dips & Cool, Cool Wine
Chips and Dips and Cool, Cool Wine
Luscious lips
Curvy hips
Cool white wine
Chips and dips divine
A dribble here to lick away
A splash of dip has gone astray
Soft playing music may make you swoon
Gently lolling back in this vibrant room
A sash you pull to ease the waist
Pull me close so I can lick and taste
A subtle mix of fresh bathed skin
Traces of the wine that slipped within
...
Sunday 26th July 2009 9:18 pm
Stark Distillation
A slight departure from my more usual styles, an experiment in harsh revelation...
Stark Distillation
Wilt thou distill my bleating heart
To extract the spirit of love within?
Bottled in glass will it smell of pine
As just now it must within my breast
Take it then and rid me of its odour
Soured by the heat of your betrayal
Leave me no trace to fester as I sleep, but
Bury me deep...
Saturday 25th July 2009 9:34 am
Wait For The Flag To Unfurl
So you come to me and say 'I'm free'
And you claim all your words are true
Then you run from me, saying 'Set me Free'
Such confusion runs through you
Some years I spent in quiet retreat
Without such strife if incomplete
Dont play these games no more with me
Far better I'm left to rot in solitary
Each time you've run and turned again
And its truly sad to see your pain
But when ind...
Friday 24th July 2009 11:16 pm
Love Decides The Cast
Love Decides The Cast
Love did not arise
It sneaked up from behind
Love did not surprise
It just controlled the mind
All our senses swamped
All our logic shot
All desires inflamed
All at such a cost
Love burns so very bright
A supernova in our heart
Love takes us day and night
And breaks us when we part
All our futures centred
All passions r...
Friday 24th July 2009 3:41 pm
Long Lost My Heart
When did my troubled heart last open it's door
Easing your entry to it's welcoming glow
So many years past since such invasion
Crept stealthily in 'ere I could sense it show
The blend was changing so deep within
Taking such time to let me feel cheeks aglow
When your fair visage came once more into view
Take heed poor heart your defence did never know
Quietly healing from scars hi...
Thursday 23rd July 2009 12:54 am
War, War, War
Dusted off from 1968, probably my first serious poem with influences being mainly the news from Vietnam. I later used it as a song lyric with some variations, though eventually the music developed further into a fingerpicking instrumental that had a life of its' own, so the two have separated...
What is it all for?
Does it bring happiness
Does it bring joy
It gi...
Wednesday 22nd July 2009 10:43 pm
Adams Thumb Prints
Adams Thumb Prints
DNA is a marvel that's very true
And your's must reflect well upon you
Those twisting chains of proteins and more
Have in their ravels a record we now score
On computers the bases are being plotted to see
How clearly the great apes are related to me
But hidden amidst the recumbent parts
Are secrets of evolutions which all had to start
From s...
Wednesday 22nd July 2009 5:00 pm
My Eyes Will Ever
Tuesday 21st July 2009 3:04 pm
Black
Black
Black coal down the mineshaft so deep
Takes a pale sheen as my eyes do weep
Days without comfort are sending me down
The caged bird twitters but I still frown
Escape to the surface via cable or pills
The former brings succour, the latter masks ills
Sometimes my anguish calls the loudest of all
While strength I seek from a larder too small
©R...
Tuesday 21st July 2009 2:57 pm
Simply Time
Simply Time
With Crystal Ball, I might have found
Some way to weave my way through time
Instead, I played without the rules
Did it my way throughout the schools
Meandered free from guides or maps
Ate my meals from plates on laps
Camped and rambled, cycled too
My only aim - my love for you
Single till I sang your song
Wed while we were still so youn...
Tuesday 21st July 2009 2:38 pm
In Darkened Lair
Monday 20th July 2009 11:14 pm
Inverted Glow
Inverted Glow
The inverted glow of darkness
Can show where black holes exist
But to paint one on a canvas
Might leave clues easily missed
Yet we're told that they are out there
And can be seen because they bend
The light from all around them
With their super gravity they tend
To suck mass into their centre
But where does it go from there
Compressed tight in the middle
Or into another galaxy somewhere?
©Rhumour
...
Sunday 19th July 2009 6:42 pm
Stillness
Sunday 19th July 2009 7:02 am
Mandela
Hmm - should perhaps have posted this one earlier today - Nelson Mandela reached 91 today. This sonnet was written for his 90th last year
Saturday 18th July 2009 11:15 pm
Refuge
Saturday 18th July 2009 11:00 pm
The Depths Of Love
The great power of love is not in the mind
But deep in our hearts which can ache muchly sometimes
The passions we feel are beyond thought to control
Some say it is our hormones, some say it's the soul
But to live life in the shallows without loves warm glow
Is to be beached like a whale with nowhere to go
The depths may bring some sorrows and pain on the way
...
Saturday 18th July 2009 7:50 am
Dawn's Treasure
Thursday 16th July 2009 10:37 pm
Lonely Ness
Thursday 16th July 2009 2:02 pm
The End
The voice of hate
I've heard of late
Has sunk me down in terror
A crippled ship
I drift the depths
Of navigators error
Once bathed in light
I'm now undone
Left struggling in the dark
My memory turns
To days far gone
When the voice was of a lark
So tortured life
Now ends in strife
I gasp in vain for breath
Just left alone
Frozen to the bone
Shaking myself to death
(c)Rhumour 1974
Wednesday 15th July 2009 10:28 pm
Search For Astrology
Weave these moonbeams carefully
Embroider them with crystal flakes
Of pure white snow so scattered
To illustrate the stars we must forsake
The visions that we see above
Are ancient light they sent
Sparkling paths through deepest space
Some time they truly spent
If we could see them true
In the places they now be
What a difference that might make
To all that search for astrology....
(c)Rhu...
Tuesday 14th July 2009 6:48 pm
Many Challenges
The day dawns, the cat yawns
All across the land we rise as pawns
The systems says we all must try
And follow rules that by and by
Stifle your choice under the lie
Their myriad taxes run for whom
So many layers conceal in gloom
Search between and you will see
The tax is taxed for you and me
For every hour that we work or play
More dollars pass the revenues's way
And so the suits devise more schemes
Offshore b...
Tuesday 14th July 2009 12:06 am
Tribute to John
Monday 13th July 2009 11:25 pm
Become A Little Sage
Whilst it's true that I was born at a rather early age
Somehow I have survived long enough to become a little sage
To leave behind some of my points of view
Some quite long held though others I still review
Many perchance you will have read before
In verse I posted here for all to explore
Amid those words joined up in strings
Are stories of my life and other things
The way I see the world today
And how ...
Monday 13th July 2009 12:02 am
An Atoms Tale Is Epic
If I die before tomorrow
Though the sun won't shine for me
Take pleasure in it's warming glow
There's a future there to see
No life will last forever
The sun will one day fail
But not before we've all passed on
So who will hear the tale
A tree falls in a forest
A whale dies in the sea
What happens to the birds nest
Do the krill sigh with relief
Fo...
Sunday 12th July 2009 11:52 pm
Brand New View
For thee I pick an orchid
Full blooming in soft sun
Behold its splendid pastel shade
Its beauty hard for tongue
To capture in a moment
For words are way too young
Compared to natures beauty
All language has but just begun
Behold any small crystal
That sparkles in the light
Or try in brief to describe
A swallow in mid flight
Though poetry and story
...
Sunday 12th July 2009 4:28 pm
Swamping Tide
When rent in sorrows I try to find
Another plain on which to set my mind
To distract it from the downward vibe
And thereby avoid the swamping tide
The swamping tide has no remorse
It will hold you if you cross it's course
The suction of it's slimey waves
Has taken many a mind to grave
Grave and dark in their dual pact
Overpowering those that lacked
The energy to pull out of such mire
Their very ...
Saturday 11th July 2009 12:49 am
Demented
Demented voices shrieking high
Penetrate a gentle sky
Rent as with a lightening bolt
Who can make the culprits halt
Trails of crushed cans leave a clue
Some funny cigarette butts too
Curtain twitchers here and there
Nervous as they seek to stare
And catch a glimpse of figures three
Tottering along the road so casually
Furious fingers had soon pressed
Three digits which I think you've guessed
Blue ligh...
Friday 10th July 2009 8:33 pm
Siren Sisters
Are more infamous now than the lechers of Leicester
While walking with linked arms in Lincoln one day
They saw six sailors sinking pints on the public highway
Their giggles could be heard way down in Biggleswade town
Where the cattle drovers were supping in ye olde Rose & Crown
When one time they rummaged in the markets of Kent
Even they were shocked at the bra...
Friday 10th July 2009 12:29 pm
Woodland Trails
So wandersome in the deep dark middle wood
Paws padding silently on the thick soft moss under foot
Ears turning to catch a slip-slithery sound
Both pricked higher at far off cry of hound
Survival on wits is the name of his game
Rust red in colour but steel sharp in brain
Harsh brambles arming the sides of the track
Tall ferns shielding his eyes from the fact
That under them lurks a rabbit so still
Though...
Tuesday 7th July 2009 1:04 pm
The Hunger
For days now he had hungered
His search took him along many an avenue
Where his pleas were so harshly ignored
But his need was such he had to continue
So to all that he met he implored
Many turned him away with brusque impatience
What had he to offer them they all jeered
Still he searched with all true innocence
Of the way he was evidently feared
Daringly he turned his gaze upon all
All those who ...
Saturday 4th July 2009 10:53 am
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