Plums

There’s no shame in having a fumble,It’s good advice my good lads,Don’t be shy about your y-front rumble,Get your hand in and check your gonads. There’s a pleasure in doing and knowing,You can ignore the advice of our mums,When you feel for what shouldn’t be growing,When you fondle your well matured plums. They may beContinue reading “Plums”

Daylight through my window

In the summer, the whole world overA dissolving moon in a brightening skyWill watch the saffron lips of the sunSoftly kiss the day awake. In my bedroom, however,Through the curtain’s gapped slashed sliver,It stabs me with its taser and yells“Get up, you must not sleep”. Yet in the depth of winter,In the dark of duvetContinue reading “Daylight through my window”

Mr Anthracite

When Mr An-thra-Cite is in town,The air falls to its knees in praise.The trees,Lower their limbs,Cover their leaves andAvert their gaze,As he takes to his stage.Dressed in the finest of ebony silk,He gleams resplendent.Such stature, such panache,So much elegance,Not a hint of “flash”.He is the maestro of the treetops,Dusk’s dazzling Diva,His notes can split clouds,PierceContinue reading “Mr Anthracite”

Norfolk morning

  Owls, hidden in acorn laden oaks,Speak a soothing, soft goodnight to each otherAs the sunrise, that only I and the farmer greet,Suggests the bright night stars should sleep. The gentle rolling simmer of ochre pigeon chatter,Is occasionally broken by the staccato scratches dispatched by fire-grate painted pheasants.Hares scuttle through the sharp spikes of fadingContinue reading “Norfolk morning”

Future postcard

  Through the plain glass paneThe cool, unmoved, slate grey is the same,As yesterday’s.As it will no doubt be tomorrow. Has anything changed?Will anything remain,Of the laughter, the love, the strains?Should we pour our memories down the drain? What if we wrote ourselves a note?We could sign it “well done you”,Then put it in theContinue reading “Future postcard”

Seasonal Punctuation

This weather, this part of this season,It’s nothing more than punctuation.A semicolon in our breathing,That slows our thoughtsTo calm hearts beating,A parenthesis with inserted meaning;You need to rest a while. It brings a comma to the budding flowers,And with bitter coldAnd sleet filled showers,That shut away all Jackdaw caws,And keeps sensible catsSensibly indoors,& makes theContinue reading “Seasonal Punctuation”