Poetry

Sunday, 16 February 2025

Popeye's song

 This is spinach, this is spinach baby

Spinach, this is spinach baby

Everything is gonna be alright

Cause this is Spinach Baby tonight

Speak in Spanish to me baby

Speak me spinach in my sandwich maybe

I'll send you spinning crazy lady

This is Spinach baby tonight


Toss the salad, throw in an egg

I quack like a Mallard, but baby you said

Your olive oil's sleek like Ciabatta bread

Speak to me spinach tonight 

Saturday, 15 February 2025

Safeguarding

 I went for a job in safeguarding

I didn't expect to be positioned in a bank

One day these bank robbers came in

And said they wanted to withdraw

All the money without paying

I said it was against safeguarding regulations

And they got very irate

But they got the message eventually

So I felt like the rules are really working well

Then they came back in the bank and asked if I'd like to do some safeguarding for them, as they felt they needed my expertise. They said they'd pay me more, but I could keep safeguarding the same safe, if I just brought it with so I did. I got into the back of the van and they were very considerate carrying the safe for me. 

Laptop cable

 And low Abraham gave his laptop cable to Isaac

And Isaac lent it to Jakob

And Jakob, took it up the ladder

But it wasn't long enough to reach heaven

And Cain and Abel

Had a fight over a laptop cable

Because Abel wouldn't give it back

Cain stabbed him in the back

All over a laptop

In the lap of the Gods

The laptop cable  worked

Powered by Zeus'

Lightning generator

But up in mount olympus

There is very poor wifi signal

So they don't really know what's going on

You and me

 I don't see purple trees

I don't hear calvary

Nor the bells of the shells

Singing in the sea

I don't hear talismen's keys

Jangle in the frieze

And more than that

But nothing flat

I don't see you and me


I don't hear caravans

No see those family plans

Of holidays in holy blaze

I don't see you and me


Oh we were once an item

But we soon got sold

From off the shelves of our selves

in exchange for gold

I don't see ruby shoes

Dancing away the blues

But What is neat, is the sweet

I don't see you and me

Long time ago In the rockerie

 I remember then so long ago

Long time ago

In the rockerie

The rain did come

And the rain did go

Long time ago

In the rockerie

The thyme smelt strong

With the Rosemary

Long time ago

In the rockerie


Our love belonged like

A rock to the sea

Long time ago

In the rockerie


Now in this song

We can live free

It was a

Long time ago

In the rockerie

Cheese grater

 Cheese grater

They've gotta make yer

Creator of the alligator

Simple Susan

Held the dustpan

On the horizon of

The rising sun and

I loved you

Like a curfew

Like a soldier overdue

His leave

On a summer holiday

But cheese grater

I wish you'd stayed


Lift me up

In the hill of science

raise the temperature

On my conscience

It's too cold for caring

What I do to another

Because right or wrong

He is not my brother

Just another man

With a thorn in his side

Just a place for the living

Who have already died


But I'm tired of waiting

For the bus to come in

That will take me forever away

From sin

It is an illusion

Of a broken heart to think

This is a delusion

Of a kind of art

Take your money back

And your soul

Because what You lack

Is self control

Puppet maker

And King carole

I'm a world shaker

You're breaking parole

Cheese grater

Cheese grater


Wednesday, 12 February 2025

Go back to blue

 There's only one thing that I can do

Only one thing except go back to you

Well, well I'm going back to blue


There's only one song I can sing

And if you sing a along

Maybe we'll wing it through

But still I'm going back to blue


There's only one hole in my plan

There's only one hole bar none man

And if you think you're coming through

I can tell you, I'm going back to blue


I tried it black

I tried it white

I tried it bruised in a fight

But day or night

Wrong or right

I'm almost through

I'm going back to blue


Blue like the ocean

And blue as the devil's tongue

Talking strong emotion

When the fight is on

But I can call the shots on you

I can shoot the lightning bolts

Can you hear the thunder vaults too?

Well I'm going back to blue