Every month should be October
When days are warm and nights are cold
Those sweaty days of summer over
And leaves rain down red and gold…
Category: poetry
Dungeness
Said Nature to Man your work is a mess,
look at it here in Dungeness
Nothing remains between your concrete posts
But a few straggly wires a-waving….
The School Photo
Mighty afros standing high
Pony tails swinging wide…
Concrete Prairies
Abandoned shopping trolleys
Were our wagon trains
Pioneers in alleyways
Damp from English rain…
Winter worry
I was worried that Winter wouldn’t be
as beautiful as the other seasons…
The Country Music Festival
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…