Poetry

Monday 27 June 2022

Statistics

 Statistics :

It's just sex, death and money

Wednesday 15 June 2022

Seaside serenade

 Because she is a sea wolf 

She will defend her litter

Because the dragon rises above

The winter sky so bitter


Because she has an assassin's eye

She can kill me dead

Just with that one killer look

I'm a fish landed, 

Caught upon her hook


It's just the sea

Is full of sharks

And a harpoonist must cry

Out to new moon evangelists

Who in the sunlight die

But my soul is a balloonist

Readying to fly

Come join me in my basket

Blast it we can only try

Tuesday 14 June 2022

Orwell news

 Pennies in the hands of miners

Stocks and shares go underground

Anywhere you find shoe shiners

Liberty is lost and found


And the rainbows and the diamonds

Shining out in summer times

Can you see the Maypole flying

Colours of the flag in primes


Count me in or count me outwards

I am like the acrobat

Flying from all the high wires

 Swinging high or falling flat


Don't make roller-skates for spiders

Don't make gates for garden climes

There the blue bird waits his fate

But love and hate the church bell chimes


Singing homage to Catalonia

Keep the Aspidistra flying

I am nearly home to ya

Even though my eyes are crying


In the house of the new spring

All the white things lie

Like worms on strings

And carpet baggers

Liars will their tongues soon tie

Set them free

 Baby you'll never know

What you meant to me

When you love somebody

You've got to set them free


And baby When all is said

and done then finally you'll see

When you love somebody

You've got to set them free


There are murderers in chains

And they sway in the arms of the sea

Well all that I know is

When you love somebody

You've got to set them free


To kill a love is kindness 

But so close to this is cruelty

When you love somebody

You've got to set them free


And when the wheel turns

Then maybe you'll return to me

When you love somebody

You've got to set them free


The world now

 If in truth my death is dying

Then like a bird out the window flying

Goes the spirit of the word

Hangs the Damoclesian sword

And if in hearts 

The songs are sung

Of choosing right or wrong

That's hung

In the scales of a breathless lung

Love breathes, love is silence long


I should know their ways

Are shining

To the ever receding horizon

In the burning of a child's eye

In the breath of a mother's sigh

This world is not long for keeping

But who owns her or him in sleeping

When we sleep perchance of dreaming

That this world is soft and gleaming

Not dull and hard like knives cutting

But through stars our dreams are jutting

Pushing over far frontiers

Of clouds that drench like children's tears

Of all lost meaning in innocence drowning

Until tears turn to laughter, smiles from frowning

And in wastelands spring love's eternal waters

That soothe like a balm God's sons and daughters

Who play their parts in peace and slaughters

Oh what a world it is now

Saturday 11 June 2022

In crowds

 In crowds, you never feel lonely

In crowds

you're never far out

In crowds

Anyone can be phoney

In crowds your anonymity isn't in doubt


Don't you float like a cloud

Above it all

Like a cloud in the crowd

In the dance hall

Don't you know you stand out

In crowds


In crowds, you can never feel lonely

In crowds they all sing and they shout

And this is life and life only

Now this must be what life's all about

Monday 6 June 2022

beautiful hard

 Beautiful hard

Like a diamond, a gem

Sparkling in my palm

Oh who ever needed a friend

But diamonds, diamonds, rubies and pearl

All these are an infinity in the world of my girl


She is lost in the emerald sea

I search the doom bar

And the mermaid banks

I roll my R's and I give thanks

For small mercies of the gem stone planks

I'll walk for you across the sea

My hard hearted love

My dragons scree

My belief is love

Is hammer and tongs

Oh what does it matter

If I'm right or wrong?

I've been broken in the field of love

The warrior queen has

slashed my shield

She has broken free

She's sailing down the Amazon

At a million miles an hour

And I am like a falcon trailing in her power