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143 · Jul 2022
Peaches
Antony Glaser Jul 2022
Tiptoe through turquoise longues
curtain nets a  twitching
Ladies faces wistful
maybe tomorrow change
I am the breeze
cool as peaches
Houses were seen for miles
your eyes belie them
Me my friend
143 · Feb 2022
Psalm in a picture
Antony Glaser Feb 2022
Beneath dying  birches,
wild children play,
leaves fall through defiant sadness.
Empty mills observed.
Farmers sing and stags enter.
The ambivalent fire by the campsite,
blurred dervishes dance from a black wall.
Scarlet's laughter's a merry-go-round
143 · Jun 2018
Dragonfly Saturdays
Antony Glaser Jun 2018
Dragonfly days
are wishful bucolic  times.
There are blue clouds
to match their wingspan
and cider with Ruby
on merry go rounds,
promises of love
and heirlooms set  aside
Antony Glaser Jul 2022
We were political  friends
a generous  X at the box
But something terrible has happened
Public sector cuts
Councils allowed to financially run dry
Welcome to Brick by Brick Croydon

The general circumnavigation of Democracy
You've got a stone heart
and at the drop of a hat
You demonize your enemies

We've got a Mayor
with a presiding vote
NOC a stalemate assured
Give us back our Libraries
and Purley Swimming pool

The palliative cure is the Lib Dems
We are sick of the two-party system
Normalcy at a mid-runner's pace
why can't we be like Sutton and Richmond
the prequistive in ascension
142 · Jun 2018
santa came a popping
Antony Glaser Jun 2018
Santa Claus was drunk that year,
and all his presents were soggy
no good cheer,
especially as his reindeers were booked for double parking.
142 · Jun 2018
Crestfull days
Antony Glaser Jun 2018
on a crest of a wave
she rides on halycon days
141 · Dec 2020
Croydon part 8
Antony Glaser Dec 2020
They've wrecked the  illusion
that's towns are bastillions
made to last
instead they are monopoly money spinners
where building booms become bust
and rents dry up

They've wrangled the economy
now they go for the soul
Queens'  gardens future  design is allusive
as the scarlet pimpernel

I remember bee hives  next to the tax office
now its a busy builders yard
so  with investment goes ecological *******


The omens are ominous maybe the Tories can do better
141 · Oct 2021
These Poetry Days
Antony Glaser Oct 2021
Hello this is my poem
the one I sneaked on my mobile
whilst inspired by a journey to work
There was this impressive man
who exceeded the apex of my dreams
but I could never slay the sartorial dragon for him
my poetical vocabulary was too low brow
These arent my bouts of normal surrender
Yet there's never enough understanding
shown by my fairweather peers
140 · Sep 2021
1970s Music
Antony Glaser Sep 2021
Who cares if Bolan misparked his Jeepster
or Bowie had his Norfolk Broads moment
Give me sophisticated mid 70s tin pan alley
rather than Glam
Overnight Sensation by the Raspberries
or January by Pilot
From Glee to a top Three
in one easy swoop
140 · Nov 2021
into the light
Antony Glaser Nov 2021
Bronzed sun over the hill
Fieldfare flying South
The cartwheels stasis speaks to us
even now
as light steals itself over into
the steps into the sea
How could we not have
noticed this before?
139 · Jun 2018
Love
Antony Glaser Jun 2018
I am early morning
you are the aurora
together we easel a wondrous sight.
I am the evening
you are the dusk,
cossetting each other
in our urbane delight.
138 · Jun 2018
Tolerable
Antony Glaser Jun 2018
The glossy dancers swarm
vibrating against green theatre curtains,
visceral feelings
heavy heels worn.
They dance for purity
only second guessing heaven.
138 · Jun 2018
The solemnity
Antony Glaser Jun 2018
Soaked with lies
the arcaduim sighs,
listen to the falling leaves.
Ghosts will chase you,
winged creatures will crawl
(moving mountains with toil),
and you will find no relief.
Antony Glaser May 2018
I was in the audience when someone shouted Judas to Dylan for going electric.
I was near Paul Simon effected by the airs of dreary northern towns.
I was the ****** you smoked on bequest of some forgotten Zanadu.
I wrote the songs
you merely had to hum them.
137 · Jul 2022
Nikon F90X
Antony Glaser Jul 2022
Tough Bakelite body
A DSLR without the pixels
only lacking a LCD screen
Advanced autofocus
update from F90
choice of 3 alternate exposure meters
DX coded
iso from 60 to 2500
speed range 30 seconds to
1/8000 seconds
1992 to 2001
137 · Jun 2018
lullaby for a hippie
Antony Glaser Jun 2018
Beach head, light top,
regional Frisco veteran
full powered chick.
Youve outpaced the bikers
irradiated your enemies,
and smoked from their peace pipe.
137 · May 2018
cat
Antony Glaser May 2018
cat
I'm the cat that gets the creme
i may look lost and disposed
until you feed me.
If you have your own cats,
despite giving me a name.
I upsurp them, half knowing i've done wrong.
I will leave and be feed by a doting  spinster,
just for effect.
137 · Jan 2022
Cat No 11
Antony Glaser Jan 2022
The hum of electric contacts
fire heater
and the best nook by the computer
Interstellar locations
of the domestic lounge-type

arching your back
for a stroke
while carrying on sleeping
one open -eyed Patrick
let's articulate the imitative
136 · Jun 2022
Bodies
Antony Glaser Jun 2022
Don't know  where to hide the bodies,
or where that wild smile came from.
But I've got a bad feeling,
the longer this goes on
spots on the Sun will appear
as with gaps on the wall
If there isn't a body
then there's no crime
to support several lives
coming home.
136 · Feb 2022
Shoting with digital
Antony Glaser Feb 2022
Digital falls too easily
She took better in Slide
than JPEG
and even though the Slide was pushed
it had a retro Fuji green hue
than the dull colors of the obvious
shots per second of the DSLR
136 · Jun 2018
reading
Antony Glaser Jun 2018
i like reading you enter a new world, of causes and consequences
it should be more popular than tv.
136 · Mar 2022
Scrapbook
Antony Glaser Mar 2022
Have you ever kept a scrapbook?
silver slippers dangling in the sun
or have you ever seen that golden knowing

your memories could be temporal keepings,
that collage was only yesterday's decision

Those stet pictures are only a cellotape preservation away
Their meanings have been prolonged
136 · Feb 2022
State of mind
Antony Glaser Feb 2022
A silver lining passed by
the rainbow.
The sun is still shinning,
for my state of mind,
needs no defining, notwithstanding
yesterday was painted grey.
I just told a fairy story
of a redemptive gull.
Till tomorrow
we celebrate,
our February song
chasing its tail.
136 · May 2017
Option
Antony Glaser May 2017

To nurture a summit
way passing the stars
wouldn't it be heaven
I see no reason why not
But alpha centurai is a reckless place.
it offers no garlands
only fables
pulled as if from a paper bag
136 · Oct 2021
From a French Windowsill
Antony Glaser Oct 2021
From the windowsill lets feast on pea shoots
and chives
marvel at the paperwhites,
tall and slender with a magnificent perfume
and grow nepeta for our cat?

Why don't we call our flat Jardin?
so we may be associated with nature?

Let our first holiday be to Giverney?
the ardor will unfold your artistic eyes!
I could talk of hollyhocks for ages
They are like relationships the firmament
lasts forever of tendering
136 · Jun 2022
We the underscored
Antony Glaser Jun 2022
We the underscored
have come for our just desserts
meekly receiving our own rewards
It may not be pleasurable
what we receive
but with cuticled nails
and smarted suit,
let us wait profusely
for our undulations.
Our daily bread
this feeble feed.
135 · Jun 2018
Gods waiting room
Antony Glaser Jun 2018
"Steep steps for a cafe"
said arthritic Lucy.
"The **** rain plays it up".
Her husband brought the tea
and 4 slices of bread
to feed to the sea gulls.
Reginald was the husband
135 · May 2018
Winters people
Antony Glaser May 2018
stone feet with grey hearts,
the army of the lonely
find so little solace
in the turnaround
they were meant to conquer
Stone feet  with grey  hearts
the army of the lonely
find so little  solace
in the turnaround
they were meant to conquer
134 · Jun 2022
My Garden Part Trois
Antony Glaser Jun 2022
Abundant double-crested hollyhocks preside
White hebes, usually pink glance,
pruning rose hips from the vine
and prolonging their goodness.
Going to get a new fence
because of  Storm Eunice damage
Aching black roots of Elephant ears are cut down.
Green Sherwood paint for picket fence,
Take cuttings from lavatia
to flourish further anew
134 · Aug 2022
Escapades
Antony Glaser Aug 2022
Conflating thunderous intentions
Give rise to the lies
A passion play for the undoing
Escapades termerity

Ruined cities
Shuttered windows strike again
Lonely recess
There is time for heroes still
133 · May 2018
May feast
Antony Glaser May 2018
May is the blue print month
where the garden fast forwards,
in its boisterous growth
The shrubs are the season's tidings
with deciduous azleas and blushing
rhododendoms,
but beware of the summer ennui
133 · Jul 2022
Mother
Antony Glaser Jul 2022
Please give me some chopped aubergine
with Afrikanner chops
Could you give me your Ph.D.?
The planner of a healthy diet

Give me back your life
and undo your dementia
Let your care and concern
be the lodestar you gave us
133 · Feb 2021
New Horizon
Antony Glaser Feb 2021
Quebec  as plighted as a star
your unclaimed  luggage is nearby
in  nearly new corrugated  blocks,
brimming by the wayside.
Playing hide and seek
with stolen identity cards
making sure the hinterlands
wont find you
133 · May 2022
Christmas
Antony Glaser May 2022
Christmas  decorations in the dark,
same day motifs inspired by you,
hopes undeterred on fetching wind,
silver baubles bobbing on the bay.
Dormant dreams forlorn in Winterland,
yours is the world
begin with it.
133 · May 2018
Old Philosophy
Antony Glaser May 2018
she bangs on about the changing political landscape,
that she was a veteran of the Ohio State shootings
although only time could crack the  shell,
split the kernel we both know as truth.
133 · Jul 2022
Wanton Ways
Antony Glaser Jul 2022
I only the wanted presents
to show you cared
bright  young shiny things
without a vacant stare

Why should you be good to me?
without counting the Peebles in your hand
Why should I exhale
your attention?

And now you've had your wickedness
Does that make me your gal?
Your bravado won the day
beneath the irksome mattress!
133 · Jan 2022
Politics today
Antony Glaser Jan 2022
PM rescued by Civil Police
with a parliamentary redacted procedural withdrawal
questionable Ukrainian WAR WAR diplomacy
cost of living Inflation by stealth
132 · Jan 2022
Victoria Street
Antony Glaser Jan 2022
it's nice to walk down Victoria Street
It still feels like an undiscovered part of London
It has a Waterstones bookshop
and an earnest small Waitrose
Yet the Public Library is elsewhere
There's clearly an Architects eye for design here
belatedly re-discovering glass
to compete with the nearby Shard
Around Strutton ground
there used to be a watchmaker
next, it will be the shoe shop
and then book sellers Oxfam
to vacate their properties
132 · Jul 2022
The gentle coming down
Antony Glaser Jul 2022
She wrote me a  letter
trying to explain.
Winter is coming.
All the greys are here to stay.
Like a honey mustard vinaigrette
it thickly rains here

The cranes fly by,
as the lichen of years
withstands the wind.
There is silence
between the dead leafs.
The gentle coming down.
I belong here.
131 · May 2018
February
Antony Glaser May 2018
February can have sunshine as autumn or face the freezing rain.
Its soldier plants hardy preside.
Crocuses unharmed standing knee high in water,
or Irises thrusting their indomitable
flowers through the snow,
and our sageful Snowdrops taking on everything that comes.
131 · Jul 2022
Loves memories fade
Antony Glaser Jul 2022
Memories fade from your face
You decided to leave the human race
A bluebird flew through your hands
and saw you crying

Love never came to your door
What is it for
Something to warm the heart
and lessen the pain

How does it feel to be lost
to wake up in the morning and smile
open the door
let the wind ruffle you
130 · Mar 2022
The bells of rhymey
Antony Glaser Mar 2022
Spirits nestled in castled ruins.
Frangipani caught in the rain.
Poppy dogs with sheepish eyes
Happy as pie Larry in Lincolnshire fayres.
Dragons Tooth flowering late.
Ordinariness dressed in leitmotifs starts to fade
130 · Jun 2018
Gone away
Antony Glaser Jun 2018
Gone are the days we spoke truth
by the river bank.
All your promises were never meant,
and I lament your sudden change
oh you siren;
a wind of remiss.
130 · Apr 2022
Sweet Acorn
Antony Glaser Apr 2022
my sweet acorn laid there,
to feel your love
the thirst is spoken.
let it go on this way forever,
this dewy feeling,
with your wild acres
and cool brown hair.
130 · Apr 2022
Ill considered wind
Antony Glaser Apr 2022
I wish I were a vehement wind,
lofting your hopes away,
tussling your identity under bed linen,
with their origins abruptly shelved

I wish I could torment you,
along a long path,
painting you a long frown,
under the glare of an expectant lunar surge.
130 · Aug 2022
Quiet contray
Antony Glaser Aug 2022
Mary Mary.
The mottled peebles awaits
the light of the morning.
Fabled tales regail,
undoing their promises.

Through the nest,
the ship has sailed,
strange lands appear.
The wash lances against
the plaid sky.

Strangely Sunday love
is begone.
Soft was its murmur.
I've been on the blossom so long
Take pity on my bearings.
130 · Jul 2022
Pennies
Antony Glaser Jul 2022
They  give us pennies for the years
we have spent
Everybody says they care
Yet cant wish away their tears
It was not hard to clamber
Speed the unconsecrated times
Seen so many chances fall from
clumsy hands
Glad to leave my youth
The river of us runs dry
129 · Jun 2018
Togetherness
Antony Glaser Jun 2018
in the stillness of winter  
the dark city annoints
obscure spirits flying by.
129 · Feb 2022
Peter the Cat
Antony Glaser Feb 2022
We could go down the Spectre and Crown
where all the punters would admire your
white boots and penguin suit
Then we could go to the London Zoo
where you'd hear the hubris of
the laughing hyenas
and your whiskers would react deftly in the air
recalling some ancient fear
Then for the weekend, we go to Blackpool
and you'd taste one of the roller coasters
using one of your ample cats' lives
129 · Jul 2022
Dyslexia part deux
Antony Glaser Jul 2022
I'm as picqued as winter
and so let down,
you shouldn't leave me on my own.
Dyslexic's back story unreviewed,
a lack of recognition of your fellow beings feelings.
You didn't understand the part seconds
of the shutter speeds.
You were confused
and criticized your last teacher
although having no knowledge of the professed present.
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