Poetry

Friday, 27 April 2018

To be continued


A large part of diversifying accrued agreement rests solely on the shoulders of giants. It is not that giant’s shoulders are literally any more satisfying to rest on than an ordinary man or woman’s shoulders – Giants can be the most quarrelsome and loathsome of creatures, whose habit it is to eat farm yard animals and anyone smaller than themselves – no the real advantage is their broad shoulderlieness. I say this as one who knows

Thursday, 26 April 2018

Do you like Techno?


When you finally realize
You've been talking to a white supremacist
And they call you a woman just to mask their cowardice
And they tell you its alright its not the tone
Of the skin
Its the ideology they have a problem with
Not the race thing
You realize they are a racist
A nutter, a fraud
That they are this brand of "English abroad"
Who think they have the right
To say what they like
because they live in
A country that is free from wrong or right
That they are just saying what everyone feels
That they have the upper hand on the
Unconscious subs meals
That they should be valued
Along with the rest
That they are the victims
Of all this unrest
That Muslims and Jews are a scourge on the land
And if they had their way they would wipe their hands
With all the unclean
The un-pure bred
Well just point out
They have something missing from inside their head
They have missed that they are the cowards
They think they are warriors
But they are brow beaten, brown-nosers
They are small little fish
Flailing in the mud
Their time is up
Their oxygen is sucked
They have little left to sustain a
dying life
They are ancient remnants
They must be consigned
To the rubbish bin of life
And if anyone asks you do you
Like techno?
Just respond firmly
No I do not
And walk away from the party because
It is shit
And they all need their heads examined
For dancing to it

Monday, 23 April 2018

out-foxed

a fox kept in a box
Is like to get the pox
But a fox without her socks
May tread on sharp jagged rocks

So, think outside the box
but inside the fox
Then a thought that can cause shocks
Will be more like one that unlocks

Unfortunately I seem to have

Unfortunately I seem to have lost my socks
They have run down the drain
They have been swallowed by the vain rain
That falls on all these dry rocks

Unfortunately I seem to have lost my slippers
They seem to have been collected by the bin men
Who have taken them and rolled them in bitumen
For not they are rolled out like kippers

Unfortunately I seem to have lost my braces
They have been over run by snails
I left them in the garden next to the rails
And evidently the snails used them for their races

Unfortunately I seem to have lost my sense of timing
I do not know who took it maybe the raven
He took it on the wing when I was craven
And now I am braver, but the bell is chiming

Saturday, 21 April 2018

Butterfly, butterfly


Butterfly, butterfly down on the ground,
Like a flower makes no sound
Butterfly, butterfly up in the air
Butterfly is the flower of the sky

Float away Butterfly
Fly in the breeze
Let the wind carry you over the trees
Or stay down here close to the ground
I’ll keep you with the other flowers I’ve found

Blood of the Land


The greens run out of the fields and
I can’t leave them behind
It is like I have green blood in my body
And it bleeds out in green tears when I cry
Yes, it is in the eye of the beholder
Yes, it is stuck in the throat
Yes, it is one lump of sugar
That you roll in your mouth until it floats
And somewhere between the saccharine spit
And the honey dewed flowers
There is a taste of England’s southern lands
That blooms up in olfactory towers

Is it some manufactured scene?
Some garlanded pound-land?
No, for I have seen it in my dreams
and chased it with the hounds and
Left it there behind the glass
behind the window,
As the train rolls past
It is in these salty tears, these salty dry skies
That never cry
Or look as though they never do
But always change when you don’t want them to

It is in the sound of the voice’s twang
Over the intercom
Onto the land and down the hall
Hearing the dead station’s silent call
From times past
Or perhaps
It is just that I know its history and it is a part of my own
Through osmosis
Adopted, but felt in the body
Like the green blood

Hungarian Woman


Hungarian women with their cigarettes
Leaning out of first story windows, hidden by shutters,
Thinking of their regrets
Hungarian women with their cigarettes
Walking their dogs down the leafy avenue
Spring is lending it a lush green hue
All aboard the yellow white tram,
With the orange seats
The Hungarian woman brings her bull-dog on
With his big white feet
He is like a bull dozer not afraid of anything
Sniffing around like a beagle, standing his ground
Blood hound, blood in his eyes
Hungarian woman cleaning the floor
changing the milk in the coffee machine
Hungarian woman getting up early
Making the sandwiches, chopping tomatoes
Giving us life like Eve with the apple
Giving us something fresh to eat
Then she smokes her cigarette

Hungarian woman with her socks pulled up
In pink
Gawky in the clothes of the charity shop
Walking in the charade
Of the parade
The others wear their Gucci and Armani handbags
And walk on pins down the pavement
I prefer the Hungarian woman
Who smokes her cigarette