It wasn’t a good start, the plane had come in late
They’d been storms over Dublin, so I wasn’t feeling great….
Don’t Make Me Go Back
Don’t bring back the Sunday fear
As the awful day draws near
when “It’s back to old priorities
to restart the Economy”…
Isolation Suits Me
I’m not a people person
In case you couldn’t tell
So this self-isolation
Suits me rather well
I like to be at home
To potter and to mope
I’ve always tried to keep 6 feet
‘twixt me and other folk…
The Poet’s Sanity
WORDS CRASH AROUND MY HEAD
TOO MANY TO BE SAID…
Poem for Love Your Pet Day 2020
You trip me up upon the stairs
Lace my chair with mud and hair…
A Christmas Story
She’d only gone in for carrots and sprouts
(She’d heard they were 29p
For the festive period, not bad at all
Thought she’d have some with her tea
She crept through giant tinsel
A neon flashing Hell
American accents on repeat
Wailed a jazzed-up “Jingle Bells…”
AUTUMN JOYS (Acrostic Poem)
A lways have a bloody cold
U mbrella inside out
T rod in dog shit under leaves
U p all night with fireworks…..
Dear Alchohol
Dear Alcohol
We have had a long and bumpy relationship, but thank you for the haze. The half-oblivion when total oblivion seemed attractive.
We’ve had trial separations before, I know. But this time it feels different…
Things that frighten me….
Angry faces, emails
Texts going PING
Loud voices, tabloids
Bills, wedding rings….
Fifty
Blow me! I’ve reached half a century
And the devil still ain’t sent for me
I wonder if this is how it’s meant to be
Just me and a skip full of memories?..
