April 2024 Collage Poem: All Too Much
Too many holidays. Let's go to
Blackpool instead
A citadel, a red crescent, a wing
When oh when - tell me the fighting ends soon
Words weaving pictures
Wonderful windows on the world
Drink the water Ride the 192
Round we go again, with these selections
Florid foreskins, tea-stained, tobacco
stained perhaps?
As the knife slides into diva flesh
Prin...
Saturday 13th April 2024 2:32 pm
March 2024 Collage Poem: Footnotes in History
Intense embarrassment, gutted love
The fatal attraction of King George’s ruby letters
proved all too much
The accordion follows the footsteps
of the footnotes of history
up the stairs to the heavy door
Evidence washed ashore, dissonance not delight
and whisperings of the dead
estuary water floods over the road – wet feet walk
I Beech tree is a pedant...
Sunday 17th March 2024 5:12 pm
February 2024 Collage Poem: Strange Notes
Proud cufflinks punch drunken bees
fires of furniture at number 92
a sword of death a copper kettle
tick tock tick tock and the
glory of untamed flowers
who love to dance.
United in flames, the music bringing you
together, footnotes in history
Winnie the Pooh is still dancing
motes of morning light on the edge
of a life show doilies and discounted cake...
Friday 9th February 2024 9:40 am
January 2024 Collage Poem: New Lines
Still on the theme of fast trains
And eternal eagles
Welcome to the nasty party
Mutiny is in the making
Easter eggs crush the Christmas decorations
in the days of the New Year. But where
is the hidden message – the missing girl.
OCD rascals play havoc with my pegs
In the blowy greyness we can say anything is true
Window wind is it forever lost?
Blown bl...
Friday 12th January 2024 9:56 am
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