14th/19

Napowrimo 2022

DAY #19

BUBBLY AS CHAMPAGNE

UNFINISHED POEM (part two)

Something old something new something borrowed something blue (something's gone wrong)

And the wedding cake blues goes on eat it for England eat your heart out

If you ever travel to the Pearl of the Orient you'll like this

Total recall is a bit like that too but can be really boring

You see the trouble is it drags on and pulls you back into the past

Random photograph's on an online blog site and one pops up of me

Fifty years old but everybody recognises me straight away

Sitting here in the provinces two hundred miles north of Manila

Drinking Red Horse after dark in the Kubo echo's of camping out

We go everywhere all of the time always have done always will do

Torquay Newquay Weymouth Blackpool Lytham Saint Anne's (and the North Wales coast)

Later but not much The Isle of Man Jersey Brittany St Malo

Normandy and the cider farms camping out in the apple orchards

We would jump the trains down to London from Manchester Piccadilly

To watch City play at Palace Chelsea Spurs West Ham and Arsenal

Got caught a few times but in those days you could give a dodgy address

Used to go up the Kings Road and Sloane Square never bought anything though

Jean Junction denim was king tie died tee shirts matching shirt and tie sets

The swinging sixties if you said you were there you probably were not

We were only kids but we had a freedom that kids today don't have

We could go away for days weeks and months sometimes without recompense

We hitched a lift got a ride from Stockport all the way to the big smoke

Then got a bed in the partitioned off bit of the Sally Army

It was in the transport part at Elephant and Castle stank of wazz

I bought a brand new towel and after washing at the communal sinks

I turned around and the towel was gone what a welcome to London town

You don't make the same mistake twice then it was off to hear the message

The Captain spoke about Barnardo's the shoe shines and the phossy girls

We've come a long way in a hundred years he said but much more to do

After prayers we went for the bacon and egg breakfast in the big hall

We knew all the jibs in London in those days and went to Centre Point

They gave us luncheon vouchers which we cashed in for cigarettes and Coke

At Saint Martins in the fields the vicar there gave us the train fare home

The seventies merged into the eighties and came and went so quickly

We knew everybody who was anybody and nobody cared

Almost all of the time we were too drunk to know who or where we were

19042922/51 

14th/18

Napowrimo 2022 DAY #18

& Andy's 150 Word Daily Nonsense Challenge

HIDDEN SECRETS

Information is key to our understanding of the Universe not simply for now but for the secret minute that moment of inspiration of innovation without which nothing that we have could ever have possibly taken place vast sums of money are exchanged for correct information a small difference of a percentage or two can cost buyers sellers and investors hundreds of millions of dollars in seconds decisions coupled with information will become powerful when mixed in the right way we each have a need that goes deeper than drilling the ground beneath the oceans very few people alive these days know the hidden secrets and the mysterious dilemma of whether to do or don't give birth to a new invention that could change our lives forever with the express power of life over death these things you already know but soon I will reveal everything that you need to know

18042022/150

14th/17

Wesolych Swiat, Happy Easter, Maligayang Araw ng Pagkabuhay, Frohe Ostern. 

Napowrimo 2022

DAY #17

SWIMMING

Going to the swimming pool

What times the next bus

They come when they arrive

At the swimming pool

What's the water like

Wet

Running for the bus later

(bone dry)

Have I missed the bus

Have you Buxton

they don't run this late

on Sundays

17042022

 

14th/16

 

Napowrimo 2022 DAY #16

& Andy's 150 word Daily Nonsense Challenge

DAYTIME TV

Devon and Cornwall up in Dartmoor or down by the sea

make your dreams come true in the Westcountry

believe the hype on Daytime TV that you can retire to a new county

of course you can and you'll love it too if you play Rugby or support Argyle

if you like a laugh it makes me smile when I watch the bile on Daytime TV

if you're not ready to sell your house and move just yet you can get a doer upper

for the price of a cuppa and flip it for a profit on Daytime TV

but don't go down the route of a second house or holiday home

it's not the done thing any more now than it ever was

it keeps the workers poor and the poor poorer than they were before

buy a Fisherman's cottage if you like he won't need it any more

16042022/150

14th/15

Napowrimo 2022

DAY #15

SCRUFFY DOGS

The sun shines like the rain pours sometimes on the just and unjust alike

The grass isn't any greener in this place because of the sunshine

Nor does the amount of rainfall affect the temperature boo hoo

They climb up the anthill at the base of the sprawling tamarind tree

Mushrooms and other white fungi grows there too scruffy dogs sniff at it

The rain stays off until late morning but the sun gets ever hotter

Oceans dry up moons fall out of orbit a new Universe appears

We sit there waiting watching powerless to interfere with such things

Some of our people have already been taken others are waiting

If it's not the Ginebra that takes so long to come it's the tonic

Party's are like that sometimes too all of the food sitting there waiting

And no one's got an inkling what time the cake is going to be cut

15042022

14th/14

Napowrimo 2022

DAY #14

PUTIN KNOWS

I shall fear no evil for He is my shepherd I shall not want

Although I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

Authentic as Shawarma Pizza

Italian as the Eiffel Tower

Insane as the Seine in denial

Putin sends thousands to certain death

Crimes against humanity crimes against war

Crimes against Christians crimes against Christ

Crimes against men women children the unborn

Crimes against his own people who are starting to suffer

As the secret crimes that only Putin knows about come out

The secrets of his blackened heart that have not been seen yet

As they begin to be unleashed like Genghis Khan

Or Hitler or some other type of Anti-Christ that we've not seen

Although I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

I shall fear no evil for He is my shepherd I shall not want

14042022

14th/13

Napowrimo 2022

DAY #13

YOU'RE FIRED

They talk you down until you're worn out they always know better than you do of course because they've seen it all before been there done that sold more than you've even bought so do you have a business plan or don't you if not you're fired but don't worry it's not real life it's just junk TV if you've got nothing better to do or there's no football on the other side talking of sides there's hundreds of channels on the box these days which one would anyone want to watch and why maybe one without commercial breaks or perhaps one with so you can multitask multitask TV that's a new one on me but I think we all do that sometimes don't we I find that if I read a book watch TV and do the crossword at the same time I fall asleep but that's just me

13042022/150 

14th/12

 

Napowrimo 2022

DAY #12

UNCLE WATER

The women here are very beautiful while the men are some of the most handsome in the world the women brush everything several times a day tables chairs floors pathways driveways everywhere you look someone is brushing something or someone and tomorrow they will brush it/them all over again I just want to brush under the table Uncle they tell me and studiously they go about removing every grain of rice that I have just accidentally dropped there and the cat didn't get to fast enough what they don't realise of course is the amount of dust that they are creating no wonder I've been coughing my guts up ever since we first arrived here the dust from the constant brushing and the emissions from the traffic all add up to make a sore throat really really painful have you taken your medicine today Uncle they ask and give me a couple of pills to pop just in case I forgot to take them then they say would you like some tea or coffee Uncle water please I tell them but they always ignore me and bring coffee anyway I wait for it to go cold and then I drink it but it's oh so sweet everything over here is sweet ever so sweet even the fruit growing wild outside has a devilishly fruity sweetness to it but don't knock it there's fruit everywhere no one's going to starve this week or next and there'll be steaks for all hanging off the branches in Tiny Tree before we know it

12042022

14th/11

 

Napowrimo 2022

DAY #11

HELLO AM I EVEN ABLE

They said we're going on holiday and started packing bags

Spent all night weighing them and packing and repacking

In the morning they/we were ready and sitting outside

In the rain waiting for a taxi when it didn't come

They phoned another one from one of their devices

At the airport check-in I ask them where we are going

A far away place they tell me it's called Tahiti

Oh good I exclaim I've always wanted to go there

Really they say laughing behind cupped hands

On the aeroplane and many hours later we touch down

In Doha wonderful place fantastic airport but Tahiti it's not

Don't worry they tell me feeding me my cocktail of tablets

We are only changing planes here we just have to wait

For six hours until they've cleaned and restocked the plane

I sit in the airport lounge and do the easy Sudoku in my book

They do what they always do lippy laptops and mobile things

They tell me last night's football scores like they're important

I don't want to know the scores before I watch the highlights

Hello am I even able to do do anything any more or what

When the second aeroplane lands I'm really excited but

They tell me there's been a change of plan we can't go to Tahiti

They say because French Polynesia is closed due to the lurgy

So we've come to The Pearl of the Orient instead

Wonderful I reply maybe we can still go Island hopping as

I had really wanted to go to Hiva Oa in the Marquesas Islands

They had never heard of Paul Gauguin and Jacques Brel of course

11042022

14th/10

 

Napowrimo 2022 DAY #10

& Andy's 150 word Daily Nonsense Challenge

VAST NEW WORLD

The bus flies past the shops I wanna get off

I scream the driver ignores me

When the next stop comes I get off as quickly as I can

I've never been this far before avenues criss cross streets

Buildings higher than hills taller than trees

I can no longer hear the birds singing for the roar of heavy traffic

Everywhere I look there are people either in cars or on motorcycles

and bicycles or simply walking the streets seemingly aimlessly like me

Before long I become very lost in this vast new world

I never suspected that my bus would actually run to such a place as this

I had always thought that the shopping parade was at the end of the world

and that the bus just turned around and came back after my usual stop

but now my eyes have been opened to a strange new world

10042022/150

14th/9

 

Napowrimo 2022 DAY #9

& Andy's 150 Word Daily Nonsense Challenge

EAT YOUR HEART OUT

They sell potato fries in the market ready cut up in placky bags

for you to take home and deep fry with your foot long saveloy

ketchup chilli sauce or soy and vinegar and garlic to dip

complementary fish sauce for those who can bear it

gobbledegook personified with double egg and chips

add a couple of rashers of bacon a grilled tomato and fried mushrooms

for the all day brunch wash it down with a litre or two of Red Horse

eat your heart out until pancake day or till the jokes on you

and when the mosquitoes bite you'll know about it good style

you'll scratch yourself stupid and it'll flaming hurt like buglery

when they ask if you're okay you'll say I'm fine as eggs are Eccles cakes

Salamat po but what you should have said is

am I Buxton I feel like a troglodyte on heat

09042022/150

14th/8

Napowrimo 2022 DAY #8

& Andy's 150 Word Daily Nonsense Challenge

LIFE GOES ON

Like fireflies they dart about

the motorbikes and tricycles

lighting up the dark

the Jeepney's of course are not running yet

after the Chinese infusion Asian flu it's not

world wide pandemic phew get a vaccine or two and a booster

when they tell you to don't step out of line and you'll be fine

but whose counting any more wear a mask to shop at the store

one each for your cats and dogs too on public transport

but kids under twelve can still go skat free

helter skelter we all fall down

sideways sometimes

but life goes on regardless

although it's good to reminisce

to say you were there on this occasion or that

it doesn't really matter if you missed it

you weren't the only one

so long as someone was there

to share and witness that great match

made in heaven where two became one flesh

08042022/150

14th/7

 

Napowrimo 2022

DAY #7

INTELLIGENCE

She thought a tonne of concrete

was heavier than a tonne of feathers

how she worked that one out I don't know

but work it out she did and forwarded it

to the board of submissions for a grant to study

for an MA in the field of intelligence and security

at one of the Ivy League Universities

of course there wasn't really such a course available

if there had been she almost definitely

wouldn't have been accepted and as for the grant

that too was a virtual non starter however as a point

of fairness and with the backing of the anti discrimination laws

in that country she was granted an interview regardless

On arrival at the college the chancellor sent one of his quislings

out to the parking lot to make a thorough investigation of the

candidates vehicle her car was a total mess

which disqualified her immediately

07042022/150

14th/6

Napowrimo 2022

DAY #6

THE THREE WISE MEN

They held a stash of folding cash unseen on earth before

specks of buried untold gold riches waiting to unfold

See ya later doctor data said the odd bod to the nerd

and the three wise men brought gifts

Crystals quartz lithium gold incense and myrrh

those forgotten memories that can never be restored

Once shattered erased forever on any day of the week

but breaking glass sounds smashing at any time of year

It sounds so good and loud when an oven door explodes

they live in fear waiting for the next bomb to drop

Like the stone statues that they say they discovered

no matter how old they are those stones can't talk

The secrets of the ancient ones who buried them there

are as safe with us as a Jenga Tower or a house of cards

Specks of buried untold gold riches waiting to unfold

they held a stash of folding cash unseen on earth before

06042022

14th/5

 

Napowrimo 2022

DAY #5

BARTER

We don't pay cash

dollars or roubles

for anything these days

everything is trade only and that means

barter to those that are in the know

you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours

if you know the lingo or even if you don't

the bottom line is I do this for you

you do that for me or we can step it up a bit and

introduce something like the Local Exchange Trading System

or the tool and car sharing programmes better still

we could start a community food exchange cooperative

and get all our supermarket needs and wants at no charge

what about dentistry and doctoring and free haircuts for all

you shave my bonce and I'll cut your thatch

pick and mix at the buckshee gobstopper stall

rooms without rent bed and breakfast at no expense

or beer and wine by the bucketful for the chosen few

05042022/150

14th/4

 

Napowrimo 2022

DAY #4

WONDERFUL PEOPLE

The spaghetti was Italian until they added the sugar

Like sweet sweet coffee and sticky soft drinks

Shaking like a wooden roller coaster

The tricycle thunders downhill and up

Stutters to a halt gives way to a Jeepney

Manila it's not but we are in the Philippines

Wonderful people and excellent food

Would you like a coffee Uncle they ask

Twenty times a day and some Pandesal

After breakfast they say It'll be dinner time soon

We go to the Carinderia to eat Mami

It's thirty five pesos and ten more for an extra egg

There's sixty eight pesos to the British pound today

I give them a hundred they deserve to keep the change

Like sweet sweet coffee and sticky soft drinks

The spaghetti was Italian until they added the sugar

04042022

14th/3

 

Napowrimo 2022

DAY #3

SUNDAY MORNING

Come on lady come and and have a Butchers

Hook at this little bundle of bath sheets

They didn't fall off the back of a lorry

I caught them they're bankrupt stock

They're yer genuine Egyptian cotton

Made by Japanese robots in Taiwan

Get some for the guest room or yer Airbnb

Any colour yer like they're soft as a baby's bottom

I'll chuck the towels in at two quid a throw

Five for eight ninety nine or ten for sixteen nicker

Who'll buy the first one to get me started

Any flavour come on sir do yerself a favour

If you see a Copper coming this way

You'll see me running that way

I'll tell you what I'll do if you buy one for two notes

I'll bung another one in buckshee

Okay I can see you're interested now

So who wants the first towel for less than two dabs

You'd have to go a long way to get quality gear like this

On a Sunday morning further than Timbuktu

Never mind yer designer labels

What we've got are cheap at half the price

Look in all the big stores behind me

These towels came out of the same stable

Okay I can see the hands shooting up there now

Less than a deuce for two quality bath sheets

That's all I'm asking one to the lady over there

And one to the gentleman with the umbrella

Me and my wife are in the iron and steel business

She does the ironing and I do something completely different

I'm clapping my hands it's my final price

One ninety nine a brace let me see those hands

Michael give the punters a penny change

Thank you lady thank you sir nice one squirrel

Last few now one over here Michael and one over there

And one to the little boy who lives down the lane

03042022

14th/2

Napowrimo 2022

DAY #2

GOOD TIME DREAMS

I'm waiting for her smile to set me free

She opens up her eyes and looks at me

Our winter dreams of skiing in the snow

In secret times and places that we found

The good time dreams that only we can know

With lots and lots of snow upon the ground

Still beautiful as ever so they say

As my heart longs to be up with the lark

We will be summer lovers in the hay

Loving in the park till after dark

Please take it any way you like alright

I have to tell it how it is for me

I only want to hold you tight tonight

You understand I know that you can see

She opens up her eyes and looks at me

I'm waiting for her smile to set me free

02042022

14th/1

Napowrimo 2022

DAY #1

STREET CORNER GUYS

Extraordinary things are happening

In places where you wouldn't want to sing

Most Jim's ain't gym's where you can exercise

The kinda talk they make street corner guys

The clenched fists that they pump the hands they shake

The dreams they hold the deals that they make

Please don't go rattle on up that back street

They're dancing with umbrellas for awhile

The downs and ups and outs that make you smile

I never ever thought they'd eat pigs feet

Here I am with you standing in the rain

Icicles even we don't feel the pain

So here we go quick don't quit quick quick slow

And that's not even back slang don't you know

In places where you wouldn't want to sing

Extraordinary things are happening

01042022 SEWINA.BLOGSPOT.COM

14th/Intro

INTRODUCTION

GLOBAL/NAPOWRIMO 2022

MY FOURTEENTH YEAR

Hi Everybody, it's that time again already where you can take the challenge of writing thirty poems (one each day) during the thirty days of April. As always, I would like to take this opportunity to wish each and every participant a very happy and creative Napowrimo. I won't be following Napowrimo prompts this year or fishing for comments, I will simply be posting a poem a day on my StraightTalkingStreetTalkingSweet bloggage at sewina(dot)blogspot(dot)com

Happy Napowrimo,

Andy

MY INTRODUCTION POEM

Here's mine:

WELCOME TO PARADISE

With the power of love and a sound mind

the children can play outside without fear

Here we go again sideways sometimes

sitting on Brown Sugar Beach

Watching the tide come in

waiting for the two suns to rise

(you have to be up early to see that happen)

up before daylight out before dawn

it's all won or lost by six in the morn

The strawberry scented ocean lapping the shore

never smelt so good as this before

Welcome to Paradise but some people

don't think that way the grass is always greener

on the other side of the pond they tell me

however I know that I know they don't know

For me this Island is the one and only Tiny Tree

the place where I've always been

the place where I will always be

My here and now on Earth taken with a pinch of salt

a hardwood honey dipper dripping honey

onto an overflowing glass of apple wine

stirred and shaken mixed with imagination

Blended into the unreality of time an eternal past

a present and a future shouting bawling screaming

the here and now from the rooftops

So your children and mine can play without fear

with the power of love and a sound mind

30032022/Nairobics

World Poetry Day 2022...

 

WORLD POETRY DAY 2022

DIG IT (OR MAYBE THEY DIDN'T)

Different people read tea leaves and Coke cans

Perhaps some people read The Sunday Papers

Woolly Mammoth Remains Uncovered

Screams the back page headlines of the local rag

You could take that more ways than one of course

Did they dig it or maybe they didn't (dig it up)

Who knows you have to read the story

Of course no one has time for that these days

The Wordle and Sudoku are waiting

Or the newsprint is too small

I flick through the Mirror and the Evening News

Reading the headlines perusing the football scores

No time to read The Guardian or The Times

Nobody buys newspapers any more do they

Okay maybe some people read The Sunday Papers

Different people read tea leaves and Coke cans

21032022

New Stuff IV

 

COWGIRL JOSS

Meet me there I'll be waiting for you 

Your long bleach blonde hair and everything

Speaking about secretive things

Rings diamonds and gold

Older than the olden days she raves

Save it for your memoirs lady

Shady as a blank sick note

Not much better than a dodgy MOT

Mother wouldn't have liked that

Thatcher roofer tiler Cowgirl Joss

Josephine not tonight baby please

Easy like you like it on the tow path

Patch it up in the long grass if you must

Trust me to be the one to fall for you

Your long bleach blonde hair mesmerising me

Meet me there I'm assuming that you'll come

21032022

Ukraine five...

 

Andy's 150 word daily nonsense challenge

Here's mine:

A NEW FANGLED WORLD

We're all worse off than we were before

There ain't no winners in a Mickey Mouse war

It's snowing in Beijing while bombs fall like rain upon Ukraine

Be a good guy to Chou en Lai recall the chant

an' don't forget what Nixon said that Putin's a good guy too

The Siberian holiday camps are Khuilo's not Pontin's

His bullets and bombs masked by Luzhniki Stadium songs

If you're not for us he rants you're against the special operation

Even the Chinese have said it's a difficult situation

With many strands to be untangled yet

There's a new fangled world emerging out of this war

Jaw jaw what a bore if only lives weren't being lost

The Kremlin are playing chess and strategic games

and they don't give a toss they don't know the rules of cricket

They'll only know it's a sticky wicket when they're all caught out

18032022/150

Ukraine four...

 

WAR FOR WARS SAKE

The soldiers came in search of something

It wasn't the lie of the land it was the lie of the man

That sent them to that land that they found

The man who needs to be able to tell his country

That he has won the war that he doesn't call a war

If the West thinks that we would step back

It does not understand us said the man

Restoration compensation evacuation

Excavation natural selection primordial soup

Inter galactic missiles we've seen nothing yet

As one city after another goes up in smoke

The buildings and the people engulfed in flames

Witches wizards warlords making spells in secret

Sending their troops into sovereign countries

Bombarding buildings against all international laws

They don't call it war they call it a spiritual choice

It's not an invasion it's the Mad Hatters tea party crusade

Restoration compensation evacuation

Excavation natural selection primordial soup

Inter galactic missiles we've seen nothing yet

Raving as a Martian stranded on the Earth's Moon

It's War for wars sake and who can escape that

His conscripts came in search of something

It wasn't the lie of the land it was the lie of the man

That sent them to that land that they found

The man who needs to be able to tell his country

That he has won the war that he doesn't call a war

Andy Sewina (c) 16.03.22

New Stuff III

 

HANDBAGS

Old apple boxes newspaper cuttings

Barrels of Whisky empty perhaps

Handbags at eight O 'Clock

Feint memories of forgotten lovers

Underground tunnels caverns uncovered

Digging for treasure in someone's back yard

Holiday postcards banded with rubber

Children's stamp albums with penny black stamps

Piggy banks overflowing with farthings

One open toed sandal one purple Doc Martin

Ten tin toy soldiers rusted to buglery

Take it on trust brass bugles don't rust

Treasures forever sweeter than honey

Gold and silver money nowhere to be found

Barrels of Whiskey empty perhaps

Old apple boxes newspaper cuttings

14032022

Ukraine three...

RUBBER BULLETS

More experts than a betting shop full of punters what time's the next bus from Basrah don't mention the war the mercenaries are already on board rubber bullets are in short supply the cooling towers are overheating what are you going to do when the four minute warning goes up run for your life or stay and fight rubber bullets are in short supply how many tanks does it take to flatten a city how many conscripts to lose their lives for a corrupt cause why die for pie in the sky ideology rubber bullets are in short supply as the ice and snow starts to defrost Russian half track vehicles sink in the mush their freezing cold tanks vulnerable to attack from the Ukraine vigilantes rubber bullets are in short supply collaborators conspiracy theorists fake news false eyelashes blinking like Blenkinsopp social media rubber bullets are in short supply

Andy Sewina (c) 13.03.22

Ukraine two...

 

PROPAGANDA

Goosey Goosey juicy propaganda

If only this was just a war of words

Ivory Towers and Bric-a-brac claims

Helter skelter down to the bomb shelter

Going round in circles without any gains

One old lady with no one to help her

Trivialisation and who is to blame

Lying and cheating their way to oppress

Everyone knows the aggressor again

Devastation destruction recklessness

Your war crimes really don't go down too well

Tit for tat they answer back lie for lie

Lukashenko Putin partners from hell

The threat of chemical attack is nigh

If only this was just a war of words

Goosey Goosey juicy propaganda

Andy Sewina (c) 11.03.22

Ukraine one...

 

EVEN THE GOOD GUYS

Bullets not bricks for Borodyanka

Petrol bomb factories they hope will stop tanks

Men women and children people like us

Even the good guys get shot or blown up

Put out Putin the Ukraine's don't want him

Warmongers don't care about who gets shot

The good not so good and innocent Joe's

Lie together in the same unmarked graves

Miles and miles from their worst expectations

In a violent and somewhat hostile land

Now that the globe has gone bonkers again

Cities in ruins towns raised to the ground

The landscape is different where are the trees

Mass graves in Ukraine and more will die yet

Petrol bomb factories they hope will stop tanks

Bullets not bricks for Borodyanka

Andy Sewina (c) 10.03.22

New Stuff II

 

SCAREMONGERS

Make no bones about it there's no dinosaurs around

we're not digging for daises when we go to break the ground

There they were all those thousands of years ago

creating and hiding things for us to find

All of the knowledge and the secrets that they left behind

we found a fragment or three on the last ditch dig

Encoding data in stone with supernatural personas

that could travel backwards and forwards through time

Nett pollution hieroglyphics unresolved reptilian gods

snake charmers ancient astronauts and other scaremongers

They congregate in the shadows watching us

maybe they think that we are unaware

Or do they know that we know that they are really there

we're digging up our future that they buried in the past

We're not digging for daises when we go to break the ground

make no bones about it there's no dinosaurs around

08032022/1

New stuff I

 

PERFORMING ELEPHANTS

You know what he taught you about what thought did don't you

he thinks that sky hooks are there for him to climb above the street

I could lift him up with one hand he's as light as a ton of feathers

of course a ton of concrete might be a different kettle of Hake

He always said that the circus was theatre in the round

performing elephants and I suppose he knew what a trapeze artist was

Never look a gift horse in the kite he says as he waters his horse

but he can't make him drink the Molotov Cocktails on offer

Animals are clever you can't talk to a car like that

but you can get dogs that put you to sleep and never wake you up

He says join the minestrone queue at the soup kitchen for egg and chips

or you'll be left with the cold cabbage slops they call consommé

First come first served but don't jib in or you'll get slung out

don't bite the canteen ladies hand or her nail polish might kill you

He thought that sky hooks were there for him to climb above the street

but you know what he taught you about what thought did don't you

06032022

Mad Kane Limerick Prompt...

 The Mad Kane Limerick Prompt was: Prime (at the end of one line).

Here's mine:

BITEY FACE

Even though some thought his rump was prime

It was squashy like lemon and lime

He makes a bitey face

As bitter as old lace

The butcher was having a good time

25012022/1/Mad Kane Prompt

Stations of the Cross...

 

MAD AT THE MADMEN

Left knee follows right stations of the cross

Story after story lying to her boss

My photographic memory she screams

The junk inside the margins and without

All that muck stuck inside my dreams

Pencilled on the mattress inside the bed and out

Fleet of foot chasing her pet clockwork mouse

She climbs the steps to the ninety sixth floor

Mad at the madmen in the penthouse

(That they won't let her rent no more)

When the storm came every jot and title

Oceans of emotions floods of tears

Dot to dot she comes tasty as nut brittle

Screaming as her nightmares turn to fear

Story after story lying to her boss

Left knee follows right stations of the cross

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Happy New Year...

 

OTHER METALS

like secret caves under the sea

inexplicable to me

everything different somehow

nothing much is as it seems

cryptic as the day's long now

stale tales visions dreams

whiskies gins the ladies sing

a ragmans ring silver gold

anagrams of other things

other metals bought 'n' sold

treasures lost fortunes found

ciders beers ales and stout

runners riders underground

how do these things come about

inexplicable to me

like secret caves under the sea

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