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Wonka Land
Wonka land
Have you seen the land of chocolate
Just £35 from your own wallet
Promises of wonkas factory delight
But actually it’s a cooperate warehouse of shite
Ompa lumpars are large not tiny
I look and stare and think christ almighty.
Is it not Wonkaland? but another place
As I think of an excuse to this disgrace
Willy Wonkas now here and he’s complete...
Sunday 3rd March 2024 4:27 pm
STOP SIGN
Georgia, when submitting digital driver's license pictures
Please wear clothes when due
The word mirror should be the only time
We use phrase, rear view
Wednesday 31st May 2023 7:00 pm
Heyday
On those days when the news was slow,
Editors of a bygone age
Would hold the paper’s front page till
A tasty story reared its head.
You needed nerves of steel to bet
On beating deadlines with a splash:
A murder or a bank held up,
A bishop, caught in flagrante.
It was what the public wanted:
Big pictures, tearful confessions,
Have-a-go heroes, raffish cads,
Embitter...
Wednesday 12th October 2022 5:36 pm
Even Old Fools Get The Blues
we used to walk in the canyon
talk of a future that never came
gasping at the beauty round us
Selina was one hell of a dame
its a movie playing in my head
just pictures without the sound
a neck-lace of images inside a
cold tomb on hallowed ground
called to New York for a movie
turned your head with ambition
left me doubting your standing
fearing you inten...
Monday 31st May 2021 10:40 am
Growing
On hearing the latest study from RHS on how effective gardening is for boosting your physical & mental health....
A boost for the body
A balm for the soul
Go grab your shovel
Take up your trowl
Dig up your past
Remove all the weeds
Moving on fast
By planting new seeds
Reach for the sun
As you grow
Your success
New life has begun
A gardener is blessed
...Monday 26th April 2021 1:34 pm
November 2020
A plane crashing that never seems to hit the ground to explode
into pieces. A frozen moment in time.
Distraught, but then cleansed.
Broken again, only to mend.
Our lives - a computer graphic having a glitch,
repetition of the same sold narrative,
and then static.
Fading out with no soft cushion for landing.
Volume being culled.
A big brother house of Covid guest stars.
...Sunday 22nd November 2020 2:42 pm
Coronamas
On hearing we should start getting excited about Christmas now
Santa's bringing tissues
Santa's bringing masks
Santa's bringing I Miss You cards
Bulging from
His sack
This year he's got less reindeers
In his festive bubble
Cos if they spread the virus
We're in for worldwide
Trouble
Angel's there all distanced
Right at the top
Of the tree
So build up...
Wednesday 11th November 2020 4:29 pm
Good news, bad news, your telephone calls.
When I sit down to day dream in the wishing well of life,
it calls
“Madeleine McCann: German prisoner identified as suspect”
When I write on my laptop,
it calls
“Premier League: Clubs to meet to discuss premature finish options”
When I lift a cup to my lips,
it calls
“Rather cloudy with showers for most, but some bright or sunny spells too. Cool and breezy”
When I muse a...
Monday 17th August 2020 3:00 pm
New Normal
Gone in a glimpse
That life you once knew
Convinced it's a nightmare
"This can't be true"
Then keeper of dreams
Declares
"You're Awake"
You cry " It's not real
Must be a mistake! "
But weeks became weirder
Hair growing long
Some of those beards
Are seriously wrong
No more
Are the handshakes
There's limited hugs
We're all masked up now
Not just the...
Wednesday 5th August 2020 12:17 pm
The "Tourons" Great Day Out
Touron........A tourist who unfortunately also happens to be a moron!
The “Tourons” made up a picnic of all their favourite food and drink,
they brought along everything from home except the kitchen sink.
Bags bursting with goodies, enough to see them through the day,
but they left behind the empty packaging for others to throw away.
So much effort taken to pack everything...
Saturday 27th June 2020 4:36 pm
It is Rubbish
It really is so rubbish, to see all the rubbish
left in parks, on the beaches and everywhere
What gives people the right to think it is right
to leave it behind without consideration or care
I just do not understand people who leave litter behind
I just can not comprehend what goes on in their minds
The “Tourons” made up a picnic of all their favourite food and dri...
Saturday 27th June 2020 3:01 pm
Battles with broken shields
Invisible blindfolds
Are what we're now wearing
Law of the land
Almost past caring
At a crossroads we stand
Courageous but frightened
All of our senses
Incredibly heightened
Take care of yourself
Make your own choice
Never ignore
Your own inner voice
Tuesday 23rd June 2020 5:01 pm
Human
Some like to wear black
It makes them look slim
Yet want to attack
When it's colour of skin
They go on their travels
Wanting a tan
To be naturally brown
Is to sometimes feel banned
All hearts beat the same
Whatever the race
All tears still run clear
As they fall
From a face
Thursday 18th June 2020 10:18 am
Behind The Mask
Muffled speech
Behind a cloth
How she wished
He could take it off
Though his voice
Not clearly heard
Instead his eyes
Spoke every word
Little creases
Revealed a smile
Undefeated by
Life's new style
Friday 15th May 2020 6:03 pm
The "Corona" Special
So we all know this is bullshit, this thing called Corona Virus,
My friends and I don't wear masks and now people won't stand beside us,
Damn it's crazy that people still watch the news,
All they do is lie and it's owned by the Jews,
That doesn't make me a racist so please just relax,
Just look up the definitions and make sure you know your facts,
Can't you see this virus is one ...
Saturday 9th May 2020 11:12 am
Spring!
Call the trade descriptions police...we've been sold the wrong spring this year!!!!
Like a metal coil
Compressed
In a tense, uncertain
Rest
And when the pressure is
Released
Many mere mortals, by then
Deceased
They thought that
Spring
Was daffodils
Now life has fallen
Almost still
Invisible, silent, viral
Attack
The question is
Do we
...Wednesday 25th March 2020 4:44 pm
Earthling Evacuation
Maybe moving to mars is the only way to escape the virus!
Fingerprints of the sun
Upon the face of mars
New life has just begun
Way beyond the stars!
Wednesday 18th March 2020 4:07 pm
Friday 13th just got serious
It's usually the day
To steer clear of ladders
Blacks cats
If only they'd avoided
Those random
Flying bats
Nobody really understands
Exactly what we should do
Just got to keep
Washing our hands
Buying extra roll
For the loo
Good luck and
Hand sanitiser
Both in such short supply
Borris seems none the wiser
So do your best and
Try not to die
Friday 13th March 2020 11:40 pm
Artists & Critics
She doesn’t sing to win awards,
she sings to breathe life to her soul,
connect with spirits tuning in,
let them know they are not forgotten.
She knows she will have critics
that judge her art lacking.
Their negativity is nothing she hasn’t
overcome from herself a million times
on her rocky road to freedom.
She smiles as the ivory tickles her left palm,
sur...
Saturday 7th March 2020 12:54 pm
Sussexit
Ordinary people
(With titles)
To them
Their freedom
Was vital
So nice
Then turned
Mean
When they
Let down
The Queen
Now off
On their
Bike
They have
Cycled!
Monday 13th January 2020 5:43 pm
Pizza
It's not working
In Woking
Serving
Deep fake pizza
Do they
Deliver
Liver salts?
Sunday 17th November 2019 10:31 pm
Gaming Addiction
On hearing that the NHS are setting up new clinics for teenagers who are addicted to playing games online
N H Chess....
A different
Game to play
Wednesday 9th October 2019 1:45 am
Maui on my mind
A little farewell to a package holiday company
A paradise trip
I was trying
To find
A place
Like Maui
Was on
My mind
Beautiful beaches
Rolling waves
Then
Mr Cook
Took the
Money
I'd saved
Wednesday 25th September 2019 11:44 am
Mixed Messages
It was reported in the news a few weeks ago that those people who use more emojis than words are sexier, going on more dates etc....
Him-You don't need to read this
I don't have to speak
Let me just send emojis
To make your knees weak
Showering you daily
With heart shaped kisses
Showing I'm the one
To fulfil
All your wishes
I'm being so romantic
Never ob...
Thursday 5th September 2019 12:12 pm
Letting off steam
A Local Earthquake Today Inspired Me...
Fracking caused the earthquake
Lacking caused their heartbreak
The Magnitude of their
Solitude
Hit the Richter scale
Yet molten heat's
Release
Showed more
To them
They still made
The earth move
Monday 26th August 2019 7:33 pm
Giraffe
I heard that Giraffes have been protected from being slaughtered for their body parts for the first time this week....So a celebratory poem
It's Wonderful to have
A long neck
It reaches up
To the sky
I can nibble leaves
On treetops
And smile at
Birds
As they
Fly by
It's just
Great
Having this
Long neck
I can see
For Miles around
I always k...
Sunday 25th August 2019 11:14 am
Contusion Blues
Have I caught a cold?
I can feel it in my bones
this hollow sense that I can’t shake
when I gauge the current state
Newspaper, newspaper
you’re not paper anymore
and it’s not news
just the inevitable unfolding
an unstoppable rolling
towards flag waving
a dismantling, dividing
dis-united kingdom
This news, this news
gives me contusion blues…
Politics is broken, democracy’s a jok...
Wednesday 21st August 2019 3:18 pm
Perception
What if the hyperreal really isn’t real,
And the news never happened?
Our perceptions are just pixels, photons,
Bits and bytes scattered on a screen.
Gods and monsters both just
Misapprehensions of a troubled mind.
But whose mind is responsible for
The anxiety provoking representation?
Surely some eternal consciousness
Has not conspired to create in y...
Tuesday 15th January 2019 11:15 am
The Almost Child
I remember exactly the spot
the place I sat
when she told me
I remember the cooling coffee
forgotten
when I was told
I remember the uncertainty
in her voice
when she told me
but
I remember how I smiled
the joy I felt
when I first knew
my almost son
Monday 12th November 2018 12:16 pm
And Now The Weather
And Now The Weather
Rain drops smudge the inky page,
snowflakes on the talk shows,
the sun bakes hard the daily news.
That’s the way the wind blows.
Lightning strikes the gossip columns,
thunder rustles print rows,
All Hail the brave reporters.
That’s the way the wind blows.
Sleet and mizzle obscure truth,
pressure builds in highs and lows
from dull ...
Thursday 26th July 2018 7:18 pm
This Is The News
This Is The News
You know that there are statistics
waiting to be displayed
when a BBC reporter
stands to the left of a brick wall -
and when the report’s about finance
and they’re stood out in the rain,
you know they’re going to make a pun
about saving for a rainy day.
When did the news become a vehicle
for cheap shots and sound-bites?
Where young report...
Monday 7th May 2018 5:00 pm
Today's News Game
Today’s News Game
The woman who read the news smiled
and got excited by the prospect
of what was to come.
He proudly watched over
the seeds that he had sewn
in the name of his culture.
She said
“Don’t point that thing at me,
I had enough of it last time”.
They watched on with blank faces
and clapped in the right places
and some were secretly ...
Monday 4th September 2017 7:19 pm
Revelation
The shock was solid as a punch
That left me breathless, faint, unmanned;
So obviously lost that chair and water came
And it was I – so very briefly – nursed
Until my mind began to grasp the truth it had shunned.
How could I not have guessed or known
The woe, the pain, the destruction?
After all these many years, my failure to feel –
My hiding from the very possibility ...
Friday 21st July 2017 12:07 pm
Circles
the world awakes most mornings
and the news is always black
the newsreader is commenting
on another violent attack
another poor soul's been murdered
in search of another cause
it's always religion or politics
that starts the numerous wars
all in the name of religion
it makes my blood run cold
how can people do this?
how can they be so bold
spouting ideologies
they never seem to pause
...
Thursday 20th July 2017 1:46 pm
Better for my soul
Days have gone till I've felt something strange,
would I feel like that again?
Will my life be with the sweetness I haven't known yet?
One can do so much,
one can feel too much.
I admit I ache for something,
something unknown.
One thing is for certain,
I might feel it again.
Might not be the same,
maybe more...
Better of this ache,
better for my soul.
-G.N.D.
Monday 29th May 2017 2:05 am
The Chocolate Poetry Club
Hello friends of CPC,
Over the next few months we will be makin...
Sunday 23rd August 2015 8:50 pm
FoxNewsFact
Fox News got an expert in
to tell them about terror
he said he had some beans to spill
and then he made this error
if you ever needed evidence
his analysis is cracked
he told them Birmingham’s gone Muslim
it’s a #foxnewsfact
he’s seen the Mecca Bingo halls
and put two and two together
then come up with 5, or 39,
he’s really not that clever
he thinks Aston’s...
Tuesday 13th January 2015 10:06 am
The Communications Trilogy Pt:1 Television
Hi everybody
So I have written a trilogy of poems based on the subject of communication. I have rather inventively decided to call them The Communications Trilogy.
The first on the Trilogy is Television, whilst I am someone who is generally pessimistic about the media and government and don't really believe a word of what we are told, I do suffer from a subconscious paranoia. Beaten i...
Wednesday 27th June 2012 1:06 pm
Worldwide News
Default in Greece,
In Iceland – peace,
Protests in England,
Evacuation plans in Scotland,
Brace’s bakery success in Wales,
In The Sun read the details.
Italy is under water,
In Twee Ribiere it’s getting hotter.
Riot is in the USA on Wall Street,
Moscow is in the sleet.
Soon or right on time for Christmas shopping?
Asked King of Prussia,
Coll...
Wednesday 23rd November 2011 12:47 pm
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