Poetry Blog by M.C. Newberry
EYES - RIGHT!
No matter what you seek to say
Your eyes always give you away.
No matter how you play your role
Your eyes are the window to your soul.
Maybe you should avoid my gaze
When you involve me in your plays
Of make-believe and innocence -
In shadow-sway of sweet pretence.
Even when you lower your lashes
I seem to see those deceitful flashes;
So now sense says that we should ...
Saturday 27th February 2021 4:34 pm
EXCUSES, EXCUSES.
A modern trend that plays fast and loose
Is the ready way people find excuse
For actions and attitudes than can hurt
Mind and body and serve to divert
Attention from the need to prevent
The sort of scourge that life can present
To inflict disease and death in its path
Like some vicious vengeful form of wrath...
Payback for all the vain pretences
That pretend deeds have n...
Monday 22nd February 2021 5:32 pm
A POLITICAL CLERIHEW
Nigel Farage
Endured a hate-filled barrage
From those who sought his exit
But instead got Brexit.
Wednesday 17th February 2021 10:44 pm
A POP CLERIHEW (1) and (2)
Reg Dwight
Thought his name wasn't right
And decided upon
The name Elton John
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Elton John
Has been and gone
Like a moth that's pinned
Or a candle in the wind
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Monday 15th February 2021 12:29 pm
CLOSED MIND
Comment allowed - if you agree to agree
I'll do you proud if you suck up to me;
But if you take a different or questioning view
Then it's comment deleted - and goodbye to you!
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Thursday 11th February 2021 3:37 pm
THOUGHT FOR ANY DAY
These lines were seen as a comment elsewhere - and duly acknowledged for their relevance in life.
Hard times create strong men,
Strong men create easy times.
Easy times create weak men,
Weak men create hard times,
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Wednesday 10th February 2021 12:50 pm
ARTY-FARTY - a clerihew
Tracey Emin
Was the guilty 'fem' in
That unmade bed
Where true art lay dead
Tuesday 9th February 2021 3:21 pm
ANOTHER COMEDY CLERIHEW
Morecambe and Wise
Appeared average size
But when appearing on TV
Were as big as could be
Tuesday 9th February 2021 12:02 am
A COMEDY CLERIHEW
David Croft and Jimmy Perry
Created their version of Tommy and Jerry
The BBC bosses thought them barmy
But the viewers knew better and loved "Dad's Army"
Monday 8th February 2021 2:22 pm
A CONSTITUTIONAL CLERIHEW
Donald J.Trump
Gave Democrats the hump
Now they seek retribution
By misusing the Constitution.
Sunday 7th February 2021 5:38 pm
A CONTEMPORARY CLERIHEW
President Joe Biden
Seems on course to widen
The deep division in the community
Whilst espousing unity.
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Saturday 6th February 2021 5:07 pm
DISTANCE NO PROBLEM - a Covid poem
It;s been this way right from the start -
This distance that keeps us apart;
But it's still about giving
To make sure you keep living
And retain your place in my heart.
Tuesday 2nd February 2021 12:29 am
NEVER AGAIN - a song lyric
I'll never fall in love again
You won't find me like other men
A hopeless sucker from the start
When it comes to affairs of the heart
The same old story since lord knows when.
I'll never smile again and say
I'm yours forever and a day
A stronger man is what I'll be
There'll be a complete change in me
I'm headed another way.
Love may lead other men on a danc...
Friday 29th January 2021 5:59 pm
REACHING OUT
Life can be full of surprises and today I was the recipient of one such example via an email from a
lady in South Devon who was using "lockdown" to clear out stuff. In the process she says she found
a poem I had left pinned to a post at the entrance to a coast walk near her home in Kingswear. She had
copied it and had just re-discovered it. That pleased her enough to "Google" me and ...
Saturday 23rd January 2021 5:00 pm
A WORD IN YOUR EAR
Equality is an invented word
An idea of life that is preferred -
But how to make the word a fact
Takes more than presumption to enact
In day to day or year to year,
Its fallacy is frighteningly clear.
Questions asked about how to obtain it
Go unanswered - for there's no way gain it.
Am I equal to an Einstein in intellect?
Or a Soros or Bezos - to any effect
...Thursday 21st January 2021 6:05 pm
EVENTS, DEAR BOY...EVENTS
The title recalls words from UK P.M Harold MacMillan when asked about what could affect political aims.
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Come January the twentieth it's unlikely we'll see
A United America singing "A Biden with Me"!
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Friday 8th January 2021 4:55 pm
JANUARY THE FIRST
Hurrah - let's welcome January the First
If nothing else - it's not the worst
Of New Year Days that's ever been
Looking back at what this world has seen.
Twenty twenty saw lots of plenty
But not the sort the cognoscenti
Of healthy living would have chosen -
An invader that lingered as if frozen
In time that seemed interminable
To become something abominable
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Friday 1st January 2021 4:35 pm
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