Christmas rock’s but once a year!
Champagne corks that squeak and pop
Santa Baby and Jingle Bell rock
Boom out through the karaoke machine
The biggest party ever seen
Seasons greetings bringing cheer
Christmas rocks but once a year
Alpine scenes with trees and snow
Holly berries, robins, mistletoe
Dominate all the cards we send
To all our loved ones and our friends
Good will messages bringing che...
Saturday 18th December 2021 2:54 pm
Fairies, Elves, and Goblins
If Fairies knew what Elves knew
What would they become?
If Goblins sang like Fairies
Would they all sing along?
About stories, tales and fables
Bound in glossy books
With feasts laid out on tables
That command a second look
If Goblins did what Fairies do
Would enchantment be diminished?
The Elves may need to get involved
To ensure the work gets finished
The...
Sunday 12th December 2021 8:52 pm
Music Lovers
Rock music
Pop music
Old music
New music
Classical music
Jazz music
Soul music
Sad music
Punk bands
Glam bands
Garage bands
Brass bands
Metal bands
Grunge bands
New age bands
Brit pop bands
Boy bands
Girl bands
Big bands
Bad bands
Local bands
Cash in hand
Open mic
Dim the lights
that’s it
Thank you...
Friday 26th November 2021 10:35 pm
Replacement Therapy
I need to replace my phone
I need to replace my car
I need to replace my teeth
Or display them in a jar
I need to replace the batteries
In all my fancy gadgets
The things I do to fill my life
Make me look pretty tragic
I need to replace the locks
On all my doors and windows
Oh and on the drinks cabinet too
Where the whisky, rum and gin go
I need t...
Sunday 21st November 2021 12:29 am
Transcendental
Transcendental meditation
Trance like state for inspiration
Whirlpools of the mind in motion
Thoughts bombarding every notion
Levitation, floating onward
Dancing, prancing, lurching forward
In a dreamlike inner world
Flags of hope and peace unfurl
Revealing reality, will this free me?
Drifting, soaring, skyward leading
Vortex drawing me back in time
Transcendental ...
Friday 12th November 2021 10:37 am
Tell Me
Tell me you love me, tell me you care
Tell me I look good, my clothes, my hair
Tell me the truth but no more lies
Tell me the secrets shown in your eyes
Tell me a story, one that’s not true
Tell me it’s not about me and you
Tell me it’s finished, the affair you had
Tell me you’ll come back…
I’m really sad
Sunday 31st October 2021 11:24 am
I Hear
I hear river levels rising
I hear the howling gale
I hear the pampas grass swaying
I hear the cries of wildlife
I hear the screams of the suffering
I hear that some don’t care
I hear a promise of help
I hear there’s no new money
I hear the sound of war
I hear the bombed out cities
I hear the children grieving
I hear they have no hope
I hear the po...
Thursday 28th October 2021 10:48 pm
I see, you see, they see
When I look at you all, I don’t see
I don’t see the barriers others may see
Others may see what they want to see
What they want to see, I don’t
I see people for who they are
For who they are, I see them
I see them as the same you see
You see, everyone is equal
Sunday 24th October 2021 2:36 pm
FAKE
Everything’s fake, everything’s plastic
Knees, hips, even knicker elastic
Most things are virtual, and we can’t see
A doctor or nurse at the A and E
Ring 111, speak to a clone
Seventeen hours on hold on your phone
Banking’s a nightmare, interest is gone
You’ll be lucky if you earn 1% on a ton
Many profiles on the internet are fake
Be very careful if you set up a date
...
Saturday 2nd October 2021 6:38 pm
A Perfect World?
In my infancy I only remember darkness
The stillness, a damp and murky existence
Only very occasionally feeling any movement
It seemed that this was it…my life
The strangest thing was the feeling of growth; slowly forming in the black wilderness
Seemingly taking up more room than usual and a sensation of not being alone in here?
Time passed very slowly in the endless da...
Monday 13th September 2021 11:58 am
A Writers Life
A WRITERS LIFE
A writers life, a writers mind
Thoughts bombarding, counting time
You ache to write down what you see
The things you hear, the trapped, the free
Views and opinions, feelings strong
A writer knows not right or wrong
Just wants to capture colour and shade
Like military regalia on parade
To lure, to reel the reader in
To enter the writers mind wi...
Tuesday 29th June 2021 7:28 pm
Fathers Day
Fathers Day is here once more
It comes but once a year
As Dad gets up from off the floor
After a long night on the beer
Well it was Saturday night!
Cheers!
Sunday 20th June 2021 5:58 pm
Hippy Shakes
Faded, pegged, denim jeans fashioned by men who’s haberdashery skills were much in doubt
Bright paisley, high necked, tunic styled shirts,
collar as high a a Harry Hill prop
These memories give me the shakes, hippy shakes, like the many songs: ‘All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey’; Mamas, Papas, flowers, pots, pot and hemp and pipes, the lot
Hip, hep, beatniks, Gree...
Friday 28th May 2021 10:40 pm
Poor Boris
There is a Prime Minister named Boris
The opposition think he is horrid
He’s made many U turns
So his stomach does churn
And now he can only eat porridge
The Urban Poet 2021
Friday 21st May 2021 5:02 pm
It’s all about Football
It’s all about football
The goals and the net
Referees and assistants
And the stick they get
It’s now about VAR
And the lines that are seen
To prove how many millimetres
The player has been
Onside or offside
Will the goal be chalked off?
It’s all about football
The fans chanting loud
Obsessed with their team
As they’ve done them proud
To stay up or co...
Friday 21st May 2021 5:00 pm
Down the Pub
“Going down the pub darling”
“For what reason?”
“It’s the football season
and I want to see my mates
To discuss some dates
of the games and stuff”
“I’ve had enough
You’re not going”
“Oh stop moaning
I’m only having the one”
“You mean one too many
Well you’re not having any
‘cos you’re staying in”
“Oh stop your din
I’m getting ...
Thursday 22nd April 2021 8:27 pm
Lady Desiree
The object of my innermost desires
are neither abstract, theoretical,
hypothetical, or borne out of delusion
No confusion exists in my thoughts at all
just Lady Desiree
At first sight, in a glint of morning light
I observed her flowing form, at which point
I think I was reborn, because my life became transformed for the better
Although I'd not had a tryst, I started
...Sunday 28th March 2021 10:36 pm
Forming the Arts
Art forms, forms of art
are they part of a personal mystery?
Expression or explanation?
Statements of rebellion or frustration?
Pastel shades on canvas: life forms
Pottery in slate grey and terracotta
Tangled ironwork, challenging logic
Listed buildings, standing profound
Victorian factory chimney razed to the ground
Music through the ages, captivating,
Enthralling, e...
Thursday 25th March 2021 1:45 pm
Springing Up
Observing budding flowers in the balmy rain
Rain falling heavily, cascading through drains
Drains are there for such a time as this
This is the moment, I think it is spring
Spring, that time we all feel free
Free to meander through the trees and fields
Fields are ready, ready for planting
Planting, sowing seeds, becoming excited
Excited because Spring is here
...
Sunday 14th March 2021 7:04 pm
Here Kitty Kitty
Here Kitty, Kitty
Go Kitty, Kitty
No not in the snow
Kitty, Kitty
Your far too old
To go out in the cold
Kitty, Kitty
So Stay in with me
Share a cup of tea
Or a saucer of milk
It will go down like silk
Curl up in a ball
In your basket
against the wall
Or on your radiator bed
Kitty, Kitty
You can sleep there instead
Dream lovely dreams
Of bowls ...
Friday 12th February 2021 7:46 pm
THE SOUND OF BARKING
Hello Fido my old friend
I've come to walk you out again
Near your kennel softly creeping
I am hoping your still sleeping
But the soft, rattle of your collar
and chain, still remains
Amid the sound of barking
In fitful dream I walked alone
Dreamt you’d run off with a bone
You’d had a pee upon a street lamp
It blended in with the cold and damp
But my eyes, were...
Thursday 11th February 2021 8:49 pm
Zoom Tomorrow
We’re all going to the zoom tomorrow
zoom tomorrow, zoom tomorrow,
We’re all going to the zoom tomorrow
We can talk all day
Going to the zoom, zoom, zoom
What about you, you, you?
You can log on too, too, too
going to the zoom, zoom, zoom
We’re all going to have a virtual party
virtual party, virtual party
We’re all going to have a virtual party
We can dr...
Saturday 6th February 2021 12:27 pm
Drifting
As you flash through my thoughts
And I shake off the mist, and the dew
of the tears I look through
It’s the images I see;
that keep drawing me
And I’m drifting
I am drifting, drifting along
Floating on to where I belong
Which is with you, wherever you are
I’m just drifting, drifting
You just stood up there with
a guitar in your hand
And you sang with ...
Thursday 21st January 2021 4:30 pm
I’m a footie fan!
I’m a man, I’m a man
I’m a football fan
Everything else you can keep
Football’s what I eat and drink
No need for any sleep
That’s only wasting precious time,
for me to tweet about that team of mine
Or watch ‘em on the box with a beer
Don’t ask macho me to drink any wine
I’m very sporting, win, lose or draw
It doesn’t matter to me if things get a bit raw
In a fight or brawl when we pla...
Sunday 10th January 2021 2:10 pm
A New Year Rant
A new year, a new start?
Don’t make me laugh
Nobody gives a fart
Whether it’s old or new
The years just flew
Stuck in your ways
Over endless days
That all seemed the same
Mainly tears and pain
And the fact remains
That it never seems to end
On whom can we depend?
And what’s a ‘real friend’?
‘Cos when the chips are down
And you look all around
There’s ...
Sunday 3rd January 2021 7:15 pm
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