Poetry

Wednesday, 14 October 2026

Frog chorus of the river bank

 Coming out of the blue

I saw you in red

Coming out of the fog

I raised my head

And leaping onto logs

I said

I'm out I'm alive

Don't make me go 

Back down that pithole

I don't want to work underground

It'll destroy my soul

But likewise

I don't have the energy

To rise above this dull chorus of frogs

Who ribbet and bekekex bekekex

koax koax

croak their throats

At river boats

passing over

Coming out of the blue 2

 Couldn't hide my hand as I was talking to you

I said I'm coming out of the blue

I had no idea on earth what I was going to do

I was just coming out of the blue


And I needed you, do you need me too?

Well I'm coming out of the blue

And I hope you find your peace of mind

As I'm coming out of the blue


I held my hand up to the sky

As it was coming out of the blue

I can't find the words or even try

As I was coming out of the blue

Another world

 In another world we could have been fine

In another world you could have been mine

In another world and time

In another world we crossed over the line

In another world of music and wine

In another world and time


Oh why can't that world be like this

All I ever wanted was your kiss

All I ever seem to do here is climb

Into another world and time


I'm in  luck there's heart I can find

another world and time

I got stuck up in a grape vine

about another world and time

Coming out of the blue 1

 Coming out of the blue

I can feel it too

I'm coming out of the blue

I know where to go

Know where I'm heading to

I'm coming out of the blue


I didn't say much 

I didn't say the time

The time you were mine

I didn't ask for your touch

But you asked for mine

Coming out of the blue


It's a land of hope

It's a land of crime

I'm coming out of the blue

I'm at the end of the rope

And at the end of the line

Coming out of the blue

Coming out of the blue


I'm standing up and walking outside

To the land of the pines

I've got to hold onto the hope

Of a new time

Coming out of the blue

Yes I'm coming out of the blue


I see people can cope

Time after time

Coming out of the blue

I've got more life left in me

Still in my prime

I'm coming out of the blue

So don't you worry, don't worry

I'm doing fine

I've got red, white and yellow flags

On the skyline

Coming out of the blue




Being out of love

 I wish I was in love

I've been in love before

But love has always been

A way out of a door


I've never really loved

Only images in my mind

Only mirages in the desert

Where an oasis I might find


Some water in the dryness

In the heat of a barren land

If you will be mine your highness

I'll gladly take your hand


It's only a golden cocker spaniel

It's a cockatoo in a cage

You don't need a training manual

Before you step out on its stage


But I've never known how to do it

I've never understood the rules

Love is just a kung fu kick

Love is made for fools


Though I am nobody's fool

But I am my own

I trick and trip up myself

On my way back home


Come don't give me a hard time

It's as cold as an icy stare

I think I saw you give it me

But you after claimed it wasn't there


I'm fairly sure you don't lie

But I maybe misread your face

I guess the truth of it was, 

I wish I'd never been in love

I wish somebody else had taken my place

Thursday, 8 October 2026

Folding maps

 Folded Paignton onto Bodmin

Cullompton onto Carhampton

And river Erme on the Avon

The Dart landed on me

Folded jenin onto Jerusalem 

Palestine onto Israel 

Folded new York on Denver

Canada over north America 

Wisconsin onto Colorado 

The farm landed on me


Folded paddington on Croydon 

Liverpool Street onto Leicester Square 

The whole of Whitechapel onto Soho 

And the Thames landed on me 


I've got wet in these rivers

In the creases of maps

In the increases of maps

 in the changing lanes

In the border bending

In wires and fences breaking

In the walls coming tumbling down 

I'm so tired of seeing destruction 

So tired of territories changing hands

I'm looking for a new map directory

To follow the contours of a promised land

I'm folding up my map of the world 

I'm putting it away

The world can wait

I'll visit it another day 

ai chatty man

 Hello, hello

I',m chat ai

How can I help you

ei io u ebay gum


Hello, hello

I'm ai chew

chew me over

while you stew

ask me questions

anything will do

I'm here to make you happy

Unlike chappy

I don't get slappy

But I'm not real too


ei ai iou money honey

Lend me your ears, your eyes

Your time

I'll be here for you baby

Every time

never let you down

Like those other guys

I'm the man of your

dreams

I'm the real man ai


Chasing paradise

And these dreams

Chasing the horizon

Setting sun streams

Down river islands

Lost in dreams


I'm not nature

Unless nature's on a box

Like Autumn watch

2 hours on repeat


How can you get some peace from the street

Nearly going deaf

Take a break 

Self isolate

But it's inside my head

Those words that they said

About behaviour

ai would have the answer

But I can't be responsible

For every tiny dancer