November 2024 Collage Poem: Chasing Dreams
Lined up to respect the harder life
A jackass of fools in a tangled steel suitcase
A SHAKING SHIFT OF FURNITURE
He is the pied piper of our times
Who knows how to play the odds
The Pied Piper carries the dreams of his followers
under maples flashing and slashing in an autumn that seems dead.
To dream in the hope the winter will be a subdued epoch
of da...
Friday 15th November 2024 12:08 pm
October 2024 Collage Poem: The Two Halves of Life
Cowboy erotica removes its Stetson
Eyes of ghost strangers
Sleep like silent fish forks.
don’t eat me, I’m not a pig
My coat isn’t thick enough in the winter
terrifying shop keepers
TAKE THE STAIRS INSTEAD OF THE LIFT
PIG PIG PIG – Bacon Butty anyone?
I ruminate on only blood and brain to haunt
the boneyard of my dreams
drinking a sunset in a spri...
Friday 11th October 2024 12:11 pm
September 2024 Collage Poem: Calming Mellowness
Love, care and compassion is what you need to show.
Two halves of life, older than sleep's womb
The imaginery giraffe in his dishevelled hat
trumpeted his inherited memory of a unicorn.
Messaging each other pecking away at our personal history
Barking dogs burrow into white chalk cliffs as the muted dead
turn under Stockport bus station
A Porcelain Moment as t...
Thursday 12th September 2024 9:41 pm
August 2024 Collage Poem: The Square Root of Loneliness
Race war frozen in memory
black dogs cast out angles that make me scream inside
This gift of feeling love ends with a thousand
empty days made of silk
In their lives of long distress
The solace of choice, securely made
near the coastal shelf of abstract loneliness
Dancing to Shakespeare and his funky
verses about metaphysical loneness.
The calming mellowness of...
Friday 9th August 2024 9:47 am
July 2024 Collage Poem: Walk the Walk
Boiled ham skies for a man in a
demob suit reflected in glass
Heart founded in tragic stories, a river
of endless tears
Arriving at Bradford Interchange the
Martian General remembered he had
not bought toilet supplies
Walk the walk right at the door
I am travelling the wrong way
on the escalator
ascending to the dark side of the moon
IS THAT OUR...
Saturday 13th July 2024 8:41 am
June 2024 Collage Poem: Under a Crystal Moon
Landing craft, full of movement and sound
under the just-boiled moon
We walk the walk and the guardian angel
will always be there.
The crazy people had a lifestyle to change
by choosing a good wash.
Taxi! Follow that moon!
I’m sorry my lights aren’t working.
Fear not my friend is here The Angler Fish
He lives in a hovel surrounded by woodland
Vote for ...
Friday 14th June 2024 9:07 am
May 2024 Collage Poem: Windows on the World
Gibbons in Fakenham time the trains to Sandy Balls
Dwellers in the summer going somewhere where
the dead watch the living
Dark, dusky silhouettes looming over us
Tight-lipped art revealed thru’
miraculously unbroken spectacles
Pass the chocolate Limes
These are the everyday resurections
the family blessedly released from the collision
the one you th...
Sunday 12th May 2024 12:35 pm
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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