Magical magic...

LOVE ON THE BUS

I fell for the spell

of love on the bus

like magical magic

my love became true

You moved to get closer

I wanted you too

your peppermint breath

I can still taste it yet

We spoke the same language

the language of love

Alicja I love you

you know that I do

You must have come down

from the heavens above

050314/1

Political something...

FRACK OFF

They're driving me mad

they said they've got a great idea

Where there’s water involved

it could have been solved

by not building on the flood plane here

But again and again on the Severn and the Thames

they're building like they're going insane

They're making me sad

they said they've got a cracking idea

Frack off we don't want Fracking here

010314

Clink~der~links     Ack-ack-ack, Ack-ack-attack!

Black and Decker Doctors

Two for one...

DEMI-BIRTHDAY

Hello Baby I said to Hello Baby today

Hiya she replied I’m six months old today

Happy Birthday Not really Demi-birthday

Hello Baby Happy six months today

160214

HELLO (SONG)

Hello Baby hello

Hello baby Lily

Hello Baby don't you know

Hello Baby hello

210214

On a windy day...

DOWN DALE

Hello baby went for a walk in a rucksack

To the Roaches uphill and down dale

Way way off the beaten track

The wild wind was blowing a gale

060214

Paraphrase of a Psalm

ALWAYS BEEN MY HOPE

Trust in the Lord not in confusion

Deliver and save me you are my rock

Save me from the evil ones

Who seek to destroy me

Don’t forget me when my strength has gone

Don’t leave me when I’m old and grey

You are the King and the Lord

You have always been my hope

I will praise you forever

All day long I will talk about you

Save me from those that seek to destroy me

I will always have hope in you

I will praise you for saving your people

Even though it’s more than I can understand

I will use the harp to praise you

And the lyre to sing praise to you too

You are my King and my Lord

And I will always trust in you

050214/from-Psalm 71 

Or is it just me?

SAD SOCIETY?

Sad Society

Or is it just me

Questions

Quest

Who

Tells me what to write?

Mad Society

Or is it just me

Questions

Quest

Who

Tells me what to write?

Bad Society

Or is it just me

Questions

Quest

Who

Tells me what to write?

Glad Society

tells me what to write

who

quest

questions

or is it just me?

210114

Like the movie...

BIRDY

She wears a Onesie on a Sunday

And a Romper on a Monday

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

She can fly. Oh she can fly!

She can fly like a birdy

So high up in the sky.

040114

Christmas pud...

LITTLE MISS SMILE

Little Miss Smile

Sat on a stile

Eating her Christmas Pud

Along came a stranger

Who told her the danger

Of falling off into the mud

080114

She wants to talk...

CHEESE AND CHALK

Lily’s much like cheese and chalk

Lily wants to fly and walk

Why does Lily want to fly?

Other girls just want to cry

That’s why Lily wants to talk…

020114

Somebody can fly...

LILY AND BILL

Lily and Bill flew up the hill

To save them a very big climb

Lily flew back when she saw Jack

And Bill said see you next time

Lily was home when Jack did phone

But all she did was mime

Jack called her mate to make a date

And told her a nursery rhyme

060114

Turkeytarian...

COLD TURKEY

I used to be a pesky but

I think I’m turning turkey

Turkeytarian that is

Cold Turkey at Crimbo

is the only meat I eat

050114

Happy New Thingy...

STILL THE SAME

Years and years and years ago

You know I said I love you so

I know because you told me too

And everything we said is still the same

If you think it’s all a game

Then you must think that I played you

Think again you know that that’s not true

I know because you told me so

That love’s a chance you can’t let go

And everything we said is still the same

Years and years and years ago

You know I said I love you so

I know because you told me too

And everything we said is still the same

010114

For Jerome

CRAPPY CHRISTMAS

Waiting for the promised snow

she sits there under the blanket

writing Christmas cards to herself

She signs the cards 

Love from So and So

Much love from Such and Such

and Lots and lots of love

in different coloured inks

But no-one really loves her

or she wouldn't be writing 

Crappy Christmas cards 

221213

Happy First Birthday!

BIRTHDAY GIRL
She makes a smile that takes your breath
For all the presents people bring
Birthday girl Elizabeth
Happy birthday we all sing
131212

Commor Error

TWENTY ONE FOUR TWO

ABC PC Double Dutch to me

I asked him what the difference is between

BC / AD and BCE / CE

Nothing he tells me apart from PC

Common Era is a common error

Before Common Era was Before Christ

So One O One Three BC / BCE

Would be three thousand years ago you see

Therefore then give or take a day in time

We'll all be One Hundred and Twenty nine

Or perhaps plus in Anno Domini

Twenty One Four Two AD or CE

I always thought AD was After Death

He tells me it’s the year that Christ was born

081213

Purgatory

POWER NAPPING

She lies down in a darkened room

Desperate to dream about him

If only he would come home

And make her life complete

She tries to sleep as her thoughts

Keep her awake then lull her to limbo

The clock ticks plays tricks with time

Power napping is purgatory

When she wakes she doesn't know 

Where she’s been or if she’s even seen him

If only he would come home

And make her life complete

Every moment seems like an eternity

She butters the toast on both sides

021213

Empowering...

THE MYTH

This is the myth that happens to be true

Hewn out of the stones that built the temple

Empowering the atheistic minds

Mindless as the Ancients of yesteryear

Yearning for the reality of faith

Thankful as any man out of his shell

Hell and then high water overshadowed

Over and over again sinking fast

Fast as a speeding bullet faster streuth 

Truth substituted for reality

Really I hear the great unwashed utter

Utterances of oaths and secret trysts

Try as they might to break the mold they hold

Holed up in the chimney this is the myth

27112013

Sambuca...

SIX OF ONE

The forty-five revolves on the turntable

Silently an arm makes the pick-up

Pulls the trigger, it's Russian Roulette

Game on, he takes a shot of Sambuca

Follows it up with a pint of Holts

Chases that with another shot

If it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger

Does he really need another?

Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

081113

Gold Trafford

Here's the cleaned up/whitewashed version of a performance piece:

MONCHENGLADBACH

HeCan’tSeeProperlyAnyMore
SoHeJustNodsAndDoffsHisCap
ToAllAndSundryHeSaysHello
ToPeopleWhoLookLikeOldFriends
NeverSureIfTheCheckOutLady
GivesHimTheRightChange
HeIgnoresHerAndWhenSheIgnores
HimHeThinksIt’sBecauseSheThinks
He’sABoreNobodySpeaksToHimAnyMore
BecauseTheyThinkHeThinksTheyThink
He’sCrazyHeCan’tHearThem
WhenTheyCallHimNames
OfCourseTheyDon’tInviteHimToTheMatch
AnyMoreItSmellsLikeGoldTraffordInHere
HeTellsTheKrautAtTheDortmundGame
YourRhineOrMineAndWhereTheEcclesCakes
IsMonchengladbachAnyway?

061113/1

Little-enders...

LILLIPUT

Lily went to Lilliput

and all the little people shook

She was a giant in their land

they really didn't understand

They read about one in a book

that's why all the people shook

When Lily went to Lilliput

041113

Nowhere to run...

UP THE ALLEY
Sometimes the inevitable happens
pens and inks like it's nobody's business
business has moved to the back alleys now
nowhere to run nowhere to hide no more

No more money left to feed her habit
a bit on the side or up the alley
Leyland Lill wouldn't recognise her now
nowhere to run nowhere to hide no more

Moreen  likes to figure everything out
outside it's raining but rain won't stop play
Players 'r' us give us yer money now
nowhere to run nowhere to hide no more

Oregano basil and black pepper
perhaps the inedible happened
231013

Society Vs Community

HIDING THE CRACKS

We've talked about the self

congratulatory society before

but what about community

and wheels within wheels

and who ever mentions the 

blokes who made the spokes

and told the jokes that kept

industry moving all those years

and the women that did/do two 

jobs came/come home and bring 

up the kids then put their husbands

dinner on the table and still do

I don't see blue plaques hiding the 

cracks on many terraced houses
there's one or two too few if you're not
on TV you won't have one will you

21102013

It's National Poetry Day 2013

For National Poetry Day 2013

ANDY SEWINA

They said I’ve got to write a sestina
I said my name is Andy Sewina
Would you like a bite of my banana
How long till you get some new pyjama
Is that a felt hat or a fedora
Did you sail into the new marina

I once met a mermaid called Marina
I thought I’d tell you in this sestina
That I always wear an old fedora
She said is your name Andy Sewina
Lemontina do you wear pyjama
Oh but please please don’t drive me banana

Joey likes to eat yellow banana
When he pedalo to the marina
Everybody loves his blue pyjama
When he goes siesta with sestina
He dreams that he is Andy Sewina
Wearing a big coat and a fedora

You really can’t ignore a fedora
Even a squishy squashy banana
Won’t make you into Andy Sewina
So don’t go try to swim the marina
Who said it’s complicated sestina
It’s so easy peasey in pyjama

Do the drama school supply pyjama
I’ll bring a pair under my fedora
It’s time for us to sing my sestina
Ba ba ba bana bana banana
Ma ma ma mamma ma ma marina
Yeah lemontina Andy Sewina

Dance like fiesta Andy Sewina
Do Sucu sucu Cuba pyjama
Discotina down to the marina
Don’t forget to don your old fedora
Ba ba ba bana bana banana
Singer ringer dinger my sestina

Dreamer dreamer sestina pyjama
Andy Sewina with his fedora
Slip don’t trip banana skin marina

280109

Here's the original post: Sewina Sestina.

More Limericks for Mad Kane

Here's some Limericks I wrote, all prompted by Mad Kane -

A fellow was buying a place

Uptown for his girl to save face

His wife didn't know

Why he put on a show

He wanted somebody to chase

29092013

A woman was eating a wrap

And fell for the usual trap

Of starting a riot

All over her diet

Of salad and celery crap

240913

A woman was flying quite high

Up over the Isle of Skye

I heard that she came

On the astral plane

Not blinking but more rapid eye

A fellow just loves telling jokes:

that bore all the girls and their blokes.

They are so unfunny

he doesn't make money

it’s all to annoy the good folks.

A fellow who needed a pair

Of glasses to see up the stair

Went out of his mind

And thought he was blind

When he lost his specs down the chair

11082013

A woman had planted a pine

Instead of her usual vine

It tasted like bleach

She started to preach

Then pulped it and drank it like wine

05082013

I heard it on the grapevine...

Here's a little something...

SILLY BILLY

There was once a young girl called Lily

Who thought that the system was silly

She picked up her phone

And called up the throne

Prince William Prince William King Billy

20092013

After a while...

THEY WERE ALWAYS

GOING TO LET YOU DOWN

after a while a pattern emerges

verges on similarity the same

insane insanity which way is up

upper new york state was never like this

thistles and thorns can scratch me to death too

two or three times a week isn't enough

tough they say and get back in their new car

karaoke would be the cool thing now

nowhere else to go what say you

you’re all I live for nothing else matters

hatters are said to be a little mad

madness isn't as bad as it’s painted

tainted with sadness I’m falling asleep

falling asleep never to wake again

15082013

THEY WERE ALWAYS

GOING TO LET YOU DOWN

(REVEALED)

tainted with sadness I’m falling asleep

verges on similarity the same

madness isn't as bad as it’s painted

you’re all I live for nothing else matters

two or three times a week isn't enough

hatters are said to be a little mad

falling asleep never to wake again

insane insanity which way is up

tough they say and get back in their new car

upper new york state was never like this

karaoke would be the cool thing now

thistles and thorns can scratch me to death too

after a while a pattern emerges

nowhere else to go what say you

15082013/1

Some Limericks for Mad Kane

Here's some Limericks I wrote, all prompted by Mad Kane -

Please stop smoking already. Don’t dicker.

Tobacco is worse than strong liquor

I've heard that your friends say

You smell like an ashtray

Go on give up, don’t beg to differ

300513

A woman was feeling quite ill

She told quack Jack her name was Jill

He gave her a smack

Somewhere on her back

And sent her to bed with a pill

270513

A woman was trying to ink

a love heart while all dressed in mink

She wrote I love Fred

then heard he was dead

And ordered another stiff drink

190513

A Vampire with too much red ink

And not enough blue blood to drink

Flew after a queen

To fulfil his dream

But she was a he dressed in pink 

190513/1

A fellow was trying to buff

His car with a cloth much too rough

The blue became green

And obscured the screen

His wife said I think that’s enough

140513

NaPoWriMo 2013 Day Thirty

NaPoWriMo 2013
Day Thirty

WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS
Any bit of sunshine brings them out
outside my front gate this morning
mourning the death of this cold spring
rings on their fingers banging tins.

Tinsel town it's not - Sunchester
Manchester with wheels - tyres screeching
ching ching cheers the mad mullah sings
singing over his car radio.

Radiotelegraphy phew!
hewn with an axe wheels within wheels
heels from Columbia - streetwise
wisdom comes from knowledge acquired.

Acquitted but guilty as sin
Sinbad  says - any bit of sunshine.
300413

Day Thirty last year.

NaPoWriMo 2013 Day Twenty-Nine

NaPoWriMo 2013
Day Twenty-Nine

THE GRASS IS GREENER
The grass is greener shorter than before
foreigners come and go the seasons change
anger consumes the abused - boils over
undercover officers roam the streets.

Treat or trick she says dipping his pocket
skyrocket taking his bus fare back home
homesick as a suicidal student
entering the lions den for the first time.

Timepleasers sheltering under the trees
essentially in the shadows dealing
lingering there no longer than they need
needlework inked in the prison workshop

Shop work wages won't pay the rent boys rent
rents his clothes plants trees - the grass is greener.
290413

Day Twenty-Nine last year.

NaPoWriMo 2013 Day Twenty-Eight

NaPoWriMo 2013
Day Twenty-Eight

Poetic Flash Fiction in 51 Syllables!

SELLING SINGLES
They say that thugs are selling drugs to mugs, but who's selling cigs to kids? Don't you know that if you do one thing wrong, you're doing everything wrong. And they keep on selling singles to nine-year-olds at the corner shop!
280413

Day Twenty-Eight last year.

What will you write?

NaPoWriMo 2013 DayTwenty-Seven

NaPoWriMo 2013
Day Twenty-Seven

WHO CAN TELL

She sits there waiting to hear what he wrote

Her hair still wet the blanket pulled up tight

It’s night time now and she dreads the morning

Tomorrow who can tell how she will feel.

She doesn't want it to end like last time

Her memory comes flooding back now fast 

It’s easy to take the first step but then

Tomorrow who can tell how she will feel.

She can see clearly in her own minds eye

Her blindness is no handicap to him

It’s time for him to read the words he wrote

Tomorrow who can tell how she will feel.

India

Lima Oscar Victor Echo

Yankee Oscar Uniform he says.

270413

Day Twenty-Seven last year.

NaPoWriMo 2013 Day Twenty-Six

NaPoWriMo 2013
Day Twenty-Six

ROUND ABOUT HELL

Not that hot all strangers to each other

Hermione told Helen about her dad

Dado rails won’t make the house trendy

Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.

Sarcastic as a naive art dealer

Alerting the world to the latest scam

Scampering up the hill like Jack and Jill

Illegally pocketing all that cash.

Cashless as they would like us all to be

Beer tax and credit card society

Etymologise each thought to the root

Route one end to end stuff just kick the ball.

Ballooning in the playground about hell

Helen told Hermione it’s not that hot.

260413

Day Twenty-Six last year.

NaPoWriMo 2013 Day Twenty-Five

NaPoWriMo 2013
Day Twenty-Five

UNSOCIAL HOURS
Punish the victim kick him when he's down
Own your own home or pay through the nose twice
Icicles hanging off his hob nail boots
Boob jobs and Botox best before breakfast.

Faster and faster quick as a vixen
End this stupidity while you still can
Canada would be a good place to hide
Hidden away in the giant snow lands.

Outlandish as it might seem there's a queue
Queens and Brooklyn are good to hide in too
Tomorrow is almost another day
Other days don't count as unsocial hours.

Ursa Major rocks at this time of year
Earlier they said punish the victim.
250413

Day Twenty-Five last year.

NaPoWriMo 2013 Day Twenty-Four

NaPoWriMo 2013
Day Twenty-Four

WINNERS AND LOSERS

They build you up and then they knock you down

Downtown Chicago winners and losers

Los Angeles is a bit like that too

Tomorrow another thousand will come.

Welcome to America and all that

Thatchers bricklayers and hatters wanted

Tedious as it might seem to the poor

Or even more so to the rich out there.

Here they come Ellis Island once again

In their droves to build the Chicago Loop

Loopy as a two bit Hollywood flake

Lake Michigan will never be the same.

Samantha changed her name and became Sam

Sambucas for the winners as they build.

240413 

Day Twenty-Four last year.

NaPoWriMo 2013 Day Twenty-Three

NaPoWriMo 2013
Day Twenty-Three

I'm doing the prompt at napowrimo.net today.

Today, let’s try writing triolets. A triolet is an eight-line poem. All the lines are in iambic tetramenter (for a total of eight syllables per line), and the first, fourth, and seventh lines are identical, as are the second and final lines. This means that the poem begins and ends with the same couplet. Beyond this, there is a tight rhyme scheme (helped along by the repetition of lines) — ABaAabAB.

Here’s an example by Thomas Hardy:

Birds at Winter
Around the house the flakes fly faster,
And all the berries now are gone
From holly and cotoneaster
Around the house. The flakes fly! – faster
Shutting indoors the crumb-outcaster
We used to see upon the lawn
Around the house. The Flakes fly faster
And all the berries now are gone!

Here’s mine:

UP AND DOWN

Life’s more like a rollercoaster

Thrill seekers coming back for more

For the cherries in the orchard

Life’s more like a rollercoaster

Up and down and squashed and tortured

Always more as time gets shorter

Life’s more like a rollercoaster

Thrill seekers coming back for more

230413

Day Twenty-Three last year.