“Behold!”, I wrote, “come and see,
The seven year old (obviously, me),
Who, With complete disregard for her health,
Absolutely no thought of herself,
Jumped into a pond to save a drowning fox!”
“With Such Grace and majesty
She prevented great tragedy,
Showed such integrity,
Give the girl a medal! Or the key to the city!”
The grown ups did reward me,
For my wonderfully written story.
My work of ...
Your love is like an arrow... laced with poison
Is it love? or contempt? Disregard? Indifference?
Aflame, you bend, twist, burn and blow
Ignite us with your wicked glow
And soothe, your petals fall like kisses on my skin
As coyly you begin again
Spring, a fragrant siren, sits atop stone
Beside her, abundant, Summer’s warm throne
Autumn’s rubies in mysterious fathoms blaze
And Winter labours wit...
Rage simmers in the singed saucepans of the everyman,
Like soup from a dented can, stirred by blistered hands.
Do not boil as it may impair the flavour.
A freshly peeled newsreader delivers
State sanctioned judgement in her derelict timbre.
We’re the problem, eating Heinz by the nuclear glow of the TV,
Perpetuator of myths.
The prime minister kisses a grubby baby
With the same lips that sigh
Le...
I know all things, fact and folly
My tongue etches secrets into rock faces
And makes tall thin trees curl with disgust
or awe.
Salacious.
I tell your secrets too,
Whispered harshly into pink ears cupped by gloved hands
Or kissed onto the necks of sweaty daydreamers
Who sit barefoot by lakes on sticky days.
They don’t care, they have secrets of their own,
I tell those, too,
to time and the mounta...
leaves cling like amber earrings,
dangling, but only just, from
Seen-it-all-before oak trees, who sigh
Once Tall and jolly
with flowing blossom perms
Now Melancholy,
But handsome in their autumn gloom
Confident their youth will return
Smug, Invincible, but kind
Like a snuggly grandad with endless stories.
A Paper coffee cup, retired, upturned
Seafoam mermaid nymph ebbing away
Lazy and beautifu...