I like Autumn best of all, even if the Americans insist on calling it fall, I grant you that is what the leaves tend to do, it is true, but it is a description And not the name of a season lacking the proper diction. I like Autumn, an autumnal fall of leaves if you […]
Plumes and Platforms And little fluffy skirts Yellow and Pink But mainly Pink Plaited hair With golden ribbons Pink patent boots Higher than the knees Pink boaters With ostrich feathers Tall stately And faintly ridiculous Corsets tight Luminous Glittering gilt Ruffles on the plates Dancing, swirling Onlookers watch Not knowing the boredom Not seeing the […]
A glass pelvis Loose at the seams My own pain apocalypse Drenched in crises Drowning in agonies Each step a razor blade Cutting into the fabric of me Miss alined, broken, bent A pelvic shard Shatters in muffled screams Crying in the night Fragile Walking burns Dwindling the memory Sensation a shade Of grey nothing […]
The NHS is in distress As politicians make it an even bigger mess Sneaking in private sector competition Erosion of the health service is their mission Drs who say, ‘hang on a mo!’ Are told they will have to go Such cost cutting measures Will kill this most auspicous of national treasures Lets hope the […]
This a poem I have written for my little girl Jean who is so enthusiastic she wants to take part on the next Olympics even though she will only be 10 then! Her current plan is to work hard at Ju Jutsu which she has been doing for just over a year and to then […]
That moment when you’ve gone off to take one photograph and realise it is dusk, you are in a tumble down industrial area amongst broken glass and iron rods half exposed from crumbling concrete. You have £100 odd worth of camera around your neck, you’ve left your phone in the car along with you husband […]
Gone from me And from us Gone from your family From the girl you loved Just gone A tear shaped whole Is at my core My heart beats irregular A tear, a hole Where part of me Went with you
At the writing classes I used to go to we did a combination exercise – we had to write about how we viewed our selves as writers starting with I believe. I found out some very interesting stuff about myself during this excercise and it was part of the realisation that I really want to […]
Seagulls Soaring, roosting, perching Above, in, on Hospital peaks City stretching Inside Self Fully contained But the seagulls Show hills Disappearing mist Blankets – clouds Blue sky peeps Monolith old Religious relic Dominates domiciles – weak Hills wrap landscape Steel giants March endless Communication Gulls wings black – white Strip Eyes look Me – glass […]
Enunciating soundbites For nihilistic consumption By media masses Leads too Stressed out starlets with Brains bashed forward As they Sing down Depressive destruction Of their time