Poetry Blog by Philipos
CASH STRAPPED
Cruel words remain in mind
festering away like Billy - Ho.
Hey Joe, I heard someone say.
Who's turn is it to pay? And this,
just before he was struck on the
bonce, being pronounced dead to
the world from quaffing hooch and
failing to place his ruddy hands
inside a sporran where his cash didn't
go forth but mightily multiplied itself
Friday 29th January 2021 7:48 pm
MILLET
Eyes flitting hither and thither
it settles on the bird feed box
tail waggling up and down as
it scans the landscape for any
intrusions from the hawks or
cats or larger avians before it
pecks away at the seeds to feed,
as suits red Robin's need, and so
as to stealthily reinvigorate itself
Friday 29th January 2021 12:32 pm
MORNING GLORY
I never talk to the trees
but I empathise with their
predicaments, stuck out
there in the freezing cold
like that, and losing their
leaves and things in given
static plots. But in the lower
ground unseen by human
eyes, surprises much abound
as Mother Nature goes to work
preparing for those crowns of
glory which emerge in Spring,
to reawaken zinginess...
Friday 29th January 2021 9:12 am
SCENT
What kind of information
does it transmit to the
brain, that super sense
of scent, which dogs have
knowing in advance of us
what lies ahead. And where,
for example, the cadevar decays
pit deep without intrusiveness
of bluebottles, or bouncing bugs
Thursday 28th January 2021 7:46 pm
BLUE LIGHTS
After the speeding round of
bends and smells of smoking
tyres, came the bang of a high
impact crash, followed for a
seemingly pregnant pause of
silences. Then old Hee Haw
kicked off with the flashing of
mesmerising and intermittent
howls, this followed by the snarl
of dogs, and the OMGs of lookers
on, as if in the aftermath of a bomb
only recently just d...
Thursday 28th January 2021 3:59 pm
BAGGING UP BONES
Can it be - no surely not,
according to Attenborough's
predictions, we the mighty
human race, merely reduced
to the next mass extinction of
a kind found only in fossilized
forms washed up, or blocking
clogged up drains, with a guy
from an unknown planet in the Sky
spouting 'Here lies another humanoid
cloyed with detritous of various kinds
and encrusted r...
Wednesday 27th January 2021 11:22 am
TOAST
To be as warm as this
under the current wintry
breath, when snow lays
densely packed outside
the garden shacks we
call 'The Shed' what joys
this solitude has brought
to gardeners now and then
who switch the pen and use
instead the trowels to prettify
their plots and in this solitude
without air borne bees to drone
and hum sweet melodies, quitting
l...
Tuesday 26th January 2021 12:17 pm
PIMPLES
Spottier than now, they
formed up on parade in
those days when discipline
was tough - buffing their
boots in the barrack rooms
under scrutiny of the junior
NCO - who strutted up and
down frowning at us pimply
types as we spruced our kit
and the junior NCO hooting
away at us - before we were
rifted onto the barrack square
hair clipped short and khaki
...Tuesday 26th January 2021 9:07 am
OLD LETTERS
They sit there yellowing
as if trying to hide away,
clinging to our secrets
from the past - but try
not to be aghast if you
happen to be revisiting
them, and find the odd
clue about the forgotten
things you used to do, or
special birthday cards sent
from a parent when still alive
of course, and when you ran
around the local fields and
squealed as ki...
Monday 25th January 2021 2:10 pm
DIADEMS
If the sky is unfathomable
in its entirety, and we are
the ones looking up at it
barely understanding how
to figure it out - why would
we be so lost without it in our
sight if perma-fog besmirched
our heavenly view of radience
Monday 25th January 2021 8:49 am
FREE FALL
They forecast heavy snow today
yet in the wider scheme of things
it isn't too bad. It falls in smaller
driplets from the heavens. This
means the buses will be fewer
in between - although this year
there is the usual lack of kidlike
merriment and cheer, due to the
restrictions on our citizens, and
usual exuberance of tiny tots, who
dash past down the road to...
Sunday 24th January 2021 9:09 am
ENTHRONEMENT
Decorators don't come here -
not into the bowels of the earth,
more than their life's worth, I
heard one say - seen some
strange sites though I imagined
a Musk rat muse - sightless they
inside tunnels all day long, and
the pong, better moving to Hong
Kong, perhaps as stowaways
a whiffy one implied - splat, splat.
What in Dickens name was that?
Make s...
Saturday 23rd January 2021 5:09 pm
DUMPER TRUCK
A long term friend sends
me emails on most days
one of them depicted a
Safari group confronted
in their vehicle by a group
of passing elephants, of
various size including the
toddler types. A roaring
bull approaches the jeep
and baring his behind, he
poops his innards on the
bonnet, before trumpeting
away. I can't think of a word
to rhyme with ...
Saturday 23rd January 2021 9:06 am
SIPS
This morning, Frost on
our roof tops under a
light blue sky. Pidgeons
and some other feathered
amigos don't seem to mind
they are dead set on rooting
out the Hawthorne berries
and other nutrition hoping,
(if wild life can think that way)
that today will bring them a
burst of sustenance which
helps them remain upright on
wintry trees with pecker's up,
...Friday 22nd January 2021 8:46 am
RANDOM NESS
There are plenty more
up in our Ionosphere
of thoughts - the mind
perambulating again as
if pulled in a million ways.
The days I like best are
furlough days when rest
kicks in and off comes the
suit, and I chill, hoping that
the draining journey on the
bus to town, and then those
half empty commuter carriages
will get me to the place I want to
...
Thursday 21st January 2021 10:06 pm
BUSH VELDT
Dark as eeriness the night
yet, not contrived the text,
out in the bush the strident
screams - as hyenas came
to finish off the Kudu feast,
poor creature still alive. How
do the herds survive - picked
off in the gloaming of a bush?
Thursday 21st January 2021 5:14 pm
URGENCY
Water is a valued friend
when yomping through our
deserts of the world - how
curious then, when in our
given hemisphere it should
flood the roads or moors.
Such raging storms - having
callers ring 999, to plead in
their emergent diversities
Thursday 21st January 2021 12:35 pm
STORMS
Now that the sacred citadel has
been stormed and democracy
almost shaken to the core - what
will become of him just as Biden
takes the corridors of power, and
wrests it from a glowering Trump
who argues all misfortunes of the
world have been laid outside his
door and treated him appallingly
yet in a wider thought, optimism soars
as democracy restores, Phoen...
Wednesday 20th January 2021 8:56 pm
STATEMENTS
How do they speak of us
these bulletins from the
banks, depicting all of our
privacies where payments
are concerned, us garnering
our daily bread and various
commodities, as unseen eyes
probe for a chink of light into
our hidden lives, of whom we
choose to pay: Day in, Day out
Wednesday 20th January 2021 6:34 pm
HEAVENS ABOVE
Our Word Smith
who lives in Devon
give us this hour our
daily blog, that we may
leap frog all adversities,
restraining uncertainties,
or perversities - oh, and
with the greatest respect,
help me to avoid bumping
into scammers with texts
Monday 18th January 2021 11:32 am
YAPS
An outer coat caked in
a flurry of teeming rain.
Orders barked by a guy
who appears the owner
of it - the fretful pooch
gives off it's worried yaps
during gaps of solitude.
The dude knows a Beak
won't put him away on a
sentencing day at court
whenever that will be - at
the moment he's free from
consequences of his random
pecadillos - tonight he...
Sunday 17th January 2021 5:55 pm
SUSPENDEDNESS
Waft away you swaying branches
on the trees, signalling abatedness.
What is your pitch today may I ask?
Before I set in train my retinue of
thoughts, which are snagged like
trapped tissues in the Briar twigs
Saturday 16th January 2021 12:09 pm
SHADOWS
It is strange, especially as i live
a solitary life, how fulfilled I often
feel, reaching out to the wider world
with just my electronic pen. These
days I never need to board a plane
to see the world and all that in there
is, I get my thrills from pootling into
town, and people watching as I down
my welcome Latte and a baguette
from Greggs, observing the curren...
Friday 15th January 2021 10:32 pm
SOLUTIONS
They say this Spray
keeps bugs at bay,
but as to the veracity
of it, I truly cannot say
Thursday 14th January 2021 8:39 am
AGE BARRIERS
I am aiming to be a good citizen
trying to understand and comply
with all the rules - they change
of course from time to time, but
like everyone else there are the
anxieties and 'What ifs' about me
travelling on the bus - now that
passenger numbers swell and
school kids fill previously empty
space - looking me up and down,
me an older man, trying t...
Tuesday 12th January 2021 8:35 am
RARITY
They have been around a long time
these guys with Armadillo scales, as
old as the hills some claim these
ageless Pangolins appear to be.
But it is that rarity that sucks away
at their future survival rates when
spirited off to distant lands for the
Muti medicines of ancient folk law.
And there is a bigger price needing to
be paid in terms of humanity. It s...
Sunday 10th January 2021 10:22 pm
REFLECTION
After the rain, I saw it clear
as day - a mirror image of
myself in a puddle, looking
strained and quizzical at all
the serenity nature bestows
upon our world in spite of
periodic episodes when our
drains are blocked and we
get into pickles about trivia
Sunday 10th January 2021 11:04 am
NEEDLES
Aspiring teenagers then
when Dad was out, we'd
play his gramophone on
the hedged front lawn and
followed the rotations of
his prized collection with
our eyes until the drowse
began like a light suddenly
switched off, only to awake
and find a gooey mess
as residue and the stylus
sratching away and we all
wondering about the price
we'd have to pa...
Saturday 9th January 2021 7:57 pm
POETRY IN MOTION
What does it see through
swivel eyes the scale skinned
frog, before lassooing its prey?
Does it gain a whiff of something
good as froggie taste buds go?
Or does the motion trigger a response?
Wednesday 6th January 2021 10:41 pm
Inside the old can tank
was another tin, swollen
and bloated by the desert
heat, unearthed by a passing
Bedouin having a root about.
An old photograph too was
found, all sepia and brown,
barely recognisable because
of the sweltering heat. A camel
skeleton near by, told of the
changing desert moods and
fortitudes of war, as whiffs of
Kerosene was f...
Sunday 3rd January 2021 8:18 pm
HOLY SMOKE
It is the absence of their
charm, alarming in a way
those church bell chimes
which boomed across our
villages and towns. Some
claimed they were too loud
for those who liked a lie in
on their day of rest, as others
felt a sense of reassurance
at its best. As to the truth of
it nobody seems to know or
care two hoots these days
although the whiff of ince...
Sunday 3rd January 2021 1:10 pm
PIRBRIGHT
They called it rifting then
up and down the barrack
square they chased us there
and back again, mere recruits
hotter than the beating sun,
but some were far worse off
than us - men on punishment
parades, no shade for them as
up and down the sand hills their
ascent, gasping for dear breath,
gaining leverage to the top but
barely an inch away from deat...
Saturday 2nd January 2021 9:56 pm
HUSH HUSH
In the training grounds for
teaching markmanship and
how to deal with noxious gas,
an unsuspected enemy had
lingered there unseen - nobody
could tell you where it had been
or how it came to pass until much
later on when the Asthma came to
roost on those with spluttering
coughs. Forget Kaleshnikovs
and stuttering guns - the truth
was far, far, simpler tha...
Saturday 2nd January 2021 7:27 pm
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