Poetry

Thursday, 14 December 2023

Pastor of Muppets

 In life it seems you can either be a master of puppets

Or a pastor of muppets

Real people

 People are people

They've got to live

All about the mulberry bush

With a bottle full of fizz

In the eighteenth hole

Putting off the green

Who cares scares in the bunker

In tears, in tears


Living in the real world

Real people, real people

I want to be real

I'm an imaginary deal

Let it rip like thunder

The sport of the cracking willow

Feel the rain upon my face

Keep the wind as my pillow

Name

 You can say I'm better

Or you can say I am the same,

I would love you better if you could 

remember my name


Name, I want to live forever

No, I want to die in a flame

Come on write me a letter

People remember my name

All away

 Away, all away now

Oh you throw it all away

Well I've seen it all before

Like a desert floor

When you've thrown

It all away


Away, oh away now

Throw it all away

See that open door

Watch the ocean pour

When you have thrown

It all away


Away, all away now

You have thrown it all away

Well in the roll of a dice

Between the fire and the ice

When you've thrown it

All away


Away, oh away now

Throw it all awy

Like so many times before

Could've been rich but now you're poor

Because you've thrown

It all away

Wednesday, 13 December 2023

Snowdropping

 Drip, drop

warmth of Spain in your pale cream

Milk white warm 

And sadness for the year that's been

But like a mother's breast

Full of life giving

For the year to come


Miniature brothers

Miniature sisters go

walking through the forest

Praising the cool silent winter Earth

Healing flower footsteps

Bloom in their path

Praising the life of this good Earth


What purity you can read

In their books of green leaves

Standing up like flutes or reeds

But heads bowed down

In prayer, humility


Or perhaps

Just loving the Earth

As it smiles on them

In it's darkest months

Growing them in its womb

Like eggs, their bulbs will

burst forth in birth

Growing strong with Mother Earth's milk


Snow white babies crying out in joy

Snow white children running through the woods

In their snowshoes girl and boy

Telling all the fairy tales of childhood

Monday, 11 December 2023

Road hump

 I've got the road hump

It's sticks in my ear

Like a sugar lump

I want to swallow it clear

But it goes, thump, thump

Every time a lorry comes near

And my chair just jumps

And my windows shake with fear


I've got the road hump

I've been living here too long

The road hump that just rings out strong

Like a beef steak rump

That's too tough to chew

I've got it stuck in my gut

Like some kind of glue


That road hump

Like a bump to my head

That road hump

Gives me bumps in my bed

It's like a slow jump off a high cliff

I need to vote Trump or else smoke a spliff

Saturday, 9 December 2023

Ash

 I can't stand to see the Ashes fall

Though I know our backs are up against the wall

I can't stand to hear the Ashes fall


Another ax, another chain and ball

In our hands the keys to all

Will we understand when nature calls?

I can't stand to see the Ashes fall


All the Ash leaves, all their keys

Keys and locks, locks and keys

Another lock, one more key

Another prisoner is set free


In their limbs one disease

Take wind or whim, brings them to their knees

In our hand one more ball

In our mouths one last call

Who will answer the Ash's need?

See the fall of the twin bladed seed


One more flock of birds flown free

One more hawk flies across the sea

But one more knock on the Ash's door

Then another, then one time more

Can't you save the Ash from death's maw

Can't you help save just one more tree