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- Fri Jun 12, 2020 6:54 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: No Spring Chicken
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1785
No Spring Chicken
If I was a garden I’d be overrun with weeds for I haven’t had the maintenance a tidy garden needs. If I was a car you might be thinking of a trade-in, considering my bodywork and the year I was made in. If I was a dog I’d be the friendliest of pets yet soon I’d start to cost a bleeding fortune at th...
- Thu May 28, 2020 2:23 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Heckmondwike
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1736
Heckmondwike
‘If you want to go to Heckmondwike’ - said this bloke I know called Mike, ‘you’ll have to go on your bike ‘cos there’s a concrete mixer overturned on the A62.’ (Mike talks about places I don’t want to go with stories and details I don’t need to know) So I said “Oh”. Then I said: Heckmondwike may be ...
- Tue May 19, 2020 3:55 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Driving out Daisies
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2340
Driving out Daisies
If you’re thinking of scrimping and saving to replace your front garden with paving ‘cos your parking space then will be double and nature’s just far too much trouble just think about whether it’s worth destroying this small bit of Earth. From wriggling invertebrates to creatures with wings and all ...
- Mon May 11, 2020 1:25 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Isolation
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2555
Isolation
I contravene the Highway Code and stroll down the middle of a four lane road. With no other soul nor a car to be seen it feels like a Hollywood opening scene, like something momentous has happened today -an asteroid struck but it seems I’m OK the scientists said that no man could survive yet I am un...
- Wed Apr 01, 2020 2:21 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Unclean
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2653
Unclean
Where once I’d stroll alone unnoticed and unknown, now people quake in fear whenever I draw near. Great danger do I broach - they quail at my approach. Their downfall they forebode as they swiftly cross the road and even turn their head as if that stops the spread. So every time I’m seen I feel like...
- Wed Mar 25, 2020 5:58 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Between poems
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3426
Between poems
Between poems I‘m unthinking, unblinking my sugar levels slowly sinking My vacuous face stares into space My head in some other worldly place. My cranium a vac u um. The intellect of a geranium. Bored slack jawed but not ignored, ‘Is he dead?’ they prod ‘It’s very odd, he’s mad you know, the daft ol...
- Mon Mar 16, 2020 2:40 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Precautions
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4655
Precautions
You may be a sad poet loner but you don’t want to die of Corrona so look out for yellowy glands and constantly scour your hands, ensure you’ve a hanky close by and your alcohol content is high. And if you are writing then please take a bath before touching the keys - a germ on your fat sweaty finger...
- Tue Mar 10, 2020 2:52 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Virus checking
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8443
Virus checking
It seems that we soon might be taken to task if we’re not conscientiously wearing a mask. With wrongdoers facing a travelling ban or carted away by an ambulance man. Avoiding the panicky public demand I luckily already have one to hand. It’s the type that you don when you hear the approach of the L...
- Wed Mar 04, 2020 5:05 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Poems Inc.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9976
Poems Inc.
I wondered if I might post more on the site so that people said Hey - that’s enough for today. so people said Wait - take it easy mate. so people said Damn - is that a bloke or spam? In truth I’m not that eager, my output fairly meagre. It might just depend if I’m at a loose end. But with radical so...
- Tue Mar 03, 2020 1:52 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Rescued from Oblivion
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18956
Re: Rescued from Oblivion
I’m just saving paper, saving the planet. Me and Greta whatsername.