Dagger!

Any old cloud can be fluffy!

Any old cloud can be plump.

But I want to be a dagger

And aim for that old tree stump!...More

Oh, What Folly!

It seems to me the films of yore
Have a great deal to answer for.
They led us to expect Great Expectations.
I grew up thinking life would be...More

Platitude

Verse that rhymes is out of fashion,
Though I enjoy it with a passion.
Wordsworth and Keats are cast aside
Where once they were a nation's pride!...More

The Grizzled Sprid

The Grizzled Sprid
Did what he did,
And did it very well.
He chumfed his splang...More

My World: The Ocean Baths

I've seen lots of photographs
Of the filthy rich submerging
In swimming-pools set in the sea,
And glamorously emerging!...More

Earth Hour

Earth Hour came and Earth Hour went.
As for us our time was spent
Lounging in the candle glow
Listening to the radio. . .More .. .

A Sense of Moss

Here, where dryness follows rain,
Dryness till it storms again;
Here, where tempest, storm and flood
Leave cracked earth but little mud;...More

Lover's Leap!

Oh the romance of it! I could weep
When I see this gorgeous Lover's Leap!
Weep with joy that such emotion
Such desire and such devotion...More

Azure!

'Morning has broken' were ever there words
More perfectly chosen when speaking of birds!
This one I noticed so wildly rejoicing,
Thrilling to threads of its marvelous voicing!...More

Flash!

We were walking home from the park one day,
Little Kate, my grandaughter, and I,
When I saw great storm clouds
Rolling in out of an angry sky...More

Happy Birthday, Mummy!

Hear her say 'For goodness sake!
You ought to know I don't like cake!
You waltz in here, proud as you please,
When I'd much prefer a hunk of cheese!...More

The Last Word

She swept into the restaurant
Making everybody nervous,
Accustomed to alacrity
From those who gave her service...More

Milk-Bar Moment

Another drama is taking place,
Another response to a pretty face!
Those Bobby Soxers, with pony-tails,
Without much experience of males,...More

The Source

Witness the lovely Ophelia, there by the riverside.
We all know how she pined for Hamlet and how, in the river, she died.
We see her planning her drowning, gazing down at the water's flow,
Agonising over Hamlet and doomed to the water below.
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Fix!

I find I cannot contemplate
Missing-out tomorrow's date.
But today I've written quite a few,
So this little effort will have to do!

278A. Affray

It fell in nineteen fifty one upon an April day
That out into the channel went the submarine 'Affray'.
Her back was shining like a seal's and strong and thick besides.
Three score and fifteen mariners were locked within its sides.

P.S. Dear Sir!

Dear Mr Minister; You in Charge,
Who writes your name so proud and large,
I'm looking for an explanation
For a crazy situation.

Hamburger History

I always thought that, in Germany, the people went about
Eating Hamburgers by the tonne. There wasn't any doubt!
After all, Hamburg's in Germany as everybody knows.
That would be the source of it, wouldn't you suppose?

P.S. Rain Dance

The best advice I ever heard
With reference to life's pain
Is 'Realise storms are coming
But....
Learn to dance in the rain.'

For Richer: For Poorer?

Let's not forget that we, the ones who're cossetted and warm,
Are not in the majority; we're, sadly, not the norm.
We can't cure all the ills of life, and do we really try?
But it doesn't hurt to pause a while and simply question 'Why?'