We have lost the nations heart
We have lost the whole and center
The Queen has bowed and must depart
And through the door to heaven enter
For all her years she served us faithful
Warmly guiding nations subjects
Dignified and always graceful
Like a modern day Auspex
And now we find a King Renewed!
Where the hearts are healed and mended
We will find fresh goal persuade
As to regent He’s assented.
The Queen has died
Long live the king
She left with pride
Let choir sing……

There once was a small baby Zebra
Who said to his daddy one day
I know I’m a black n white horsey
But this I have just gotta say
Am I black with some white stripes along me
Or white with some black lines instead
I just gotta know what’s the answer
Cos it’s messing around with my head!
Daddy looked down at his baby
And said in a wise fathers voice
It doesn’t much matter the answer
Because my boy it is your choice
Be black with white lines in the nighttime
And white with black bits in the day
Or swap that around if you want to
Now trot off my boy and go play!

Can I be your shoulder to cry on
Can I be the man you need first
I want to be the man you rely on
I want to feed you and quench your thirst

May I be the one and the only
May I be right there at your side
I can be the first and forever
I can be the reason you’re bride

Please let me take care of you daily
Please let me be your hope and your home
Be my love and I’ll never betray you
Be my one and I’ll never roam

From till now till the stars stop there shining
From till now till the sun turns to dust
We will be a thing of beauty
We will love because we both must.

Cunning was the little fox
That padded in the lady’s garden
She saw he was a cheeky chap
So his indiscretions she would pardon
She loved to see him dance and play
Basking in the summers heat
And often when he came to stay
Shed leave him out a tasty treat
One day the fox came right inside
And settled sleeping on the sofa
And she didn’t say a word
About the wild interloper
He ate his fill and slept a while
Looking sweet and stirring not
Then when he woke he looked around
Nodded and then off he trot

Dare I write this poem
That will tell you how I feel
Dare I put the tender words
That my aching heart reveal
Dare I put the words down
That will expose my wants and needs
Change the way we interact
Alter thoughts and deeds
Dare I risk our friendship
Gamble and get all
Of watch the whole thing crash and burn
See the towers fall
And in the dark I worry
Pen trembling in my hand
Heartbeat thumping quickly
This poem I have planned
Will lead to love hear after
Or lead to loss and hurt
My heat will soar to heaven
Or be ground into the dirt
Do I dare to write this poem
And tell you how I feel
Or continue hiding loving
And my need for you conceal

When you have a partner and you’re  just a simple man
It’s important you remember to have a battle plan
For at some point in relationships a lady will want more
Than the efforts you are making , which frankly rate as poor
For simple men like you and I are often just borne lazy
And this fact can drive a woman mad, until she goes half crazy
So here’s  advice for Gentlmen whom are bright enough to read
And I hope you have the heart and sole to act on it and heed
Men of the world when you are blessed with a lady who would fight
Just keep your temper deep inside and love her day and night
Treat her like a princess and make sure she sees you do
And I promise that one thousand fouled she’ll return that love to you.

The year is turning slowly
And autumn has appeared
It’s the time of inward gathering
And the time of branches cleared
When the last of summer sunsets
Move over to the cold
And the trees go from the reds and greens
And somehow just look old
But with the marching of the hours
And the spending of the days
The coming of the winter snow
Or the cold mists and the haze
We know that spring is promised
And all this will come again
We will pass through all the dark and cold
After all the wet steel rain
To stand in pastures bursting
With wild flowers and the hares
And marvel at the gifts god gives
As his love he then declares

He doesn’t see her loving him
He’s never noticed her that much
He’s oblivious to her chained heart
Her burning lips he will not touch
In the office where they work
She glances at him every day
As she types there at her desk
He is just 6 feet away
At lunch she makes his coffee sweet
And the joy of her tormented day
Is when he thanks her for the cup
Before his gaze he takes away
One day she hopes his frozen heart
Will melt and he will see her new
But she feels the hurt of love
And this simple man has not a clue

In the darkest forest deep
Where the brambles bite and creep
The girl was stranded far from home
For she’d dared to walk and roam
So lost was she in woods so think
Her heart was scared, her body sick
She was stuck and oh so lost
And needed help at any cost
So out she cried when she saw light!
She heard a noise, through darkened night
And soon she saw the glowing horn
Her saviour was a unicorn!
It’s proud white flanks and tossing main
Filled her heart with hope again
And soon she found that this strong steed
Was pleased to help, fulfil her need
It took her home, not all the way,
For in the forest it must stay
But on the edge of the dense trees
He left the girl upon her knees
For she could see her village lights
And she now stays indoors at nights.....

If all the stars were diamonds
And I owned every one
I’d pay them all to love you
‘Till I was left with none
Then I’d take the moonlight
And sell it off for gold
And give it all away again
If I’d get you to hold
For diamonds are such silly things
And there’s nothing good ‘bout gold
But love can last a lifetime
Until we both grow old.

She is mine
I know this in my heart
She will do
I know that it is true
It’s been this way from start

She will love
It’s destiny and true
She will endure
She will be bourn anew
We will never be apart

She is owned
She will never be set free
She will serve
She’s devoted just to me
She is my work of art.

All the gold of a thousand mines
Every diamond so flawless that shines
All of the silver in necklace or ring
Every jewel or small precious thing

Showers of coins and notes by the score
Piles of loot and then piles more
Sprinkles of gold dust that fall like the snow
Secret old treasure that in dim light will glow

These are the things that can’t help with my heart
All I need is your love and never to part
For I’m wealthy inside and I’m happy to say
I’d trade all that is listed to be with you today.

In my mind I’m wandering far
Inside a fast low red sports car
I’m remembering the highland lane
That I want to drive again
Speeding passed the forest pines
Hypnotised by roads white lines
That count the seconds as I speed
With heart on fire feeling need
To escape the space that I am in
For really I’m enclosed within
From a virus I have fears
I can’t go outside for weeks or years
Until the virus is passed its peaks
And Boris Johnson stands and speaks
But in my mind I’m out and free
This quarantine will not beat me
I will stay safe and no one I’ll harm
By stating home and keeping calm

Talk to other people, like you are holding of their hand,
speak softly and with tenderness like every word is planned,
make sure that what you're saying is understood and every word
is treated with attention and make sure that it is heard.
Treat the conversation like a butterfly at rest,
and softly with your moving lips caress the words your best.
for language is a weapon that can wound but not draw blood,
instead it stabs emotion and makes tears run in a flood,
so don't toss words to harm someone as if you throw a dart
for what you say can cause great pain and even  break a heart

Last night I spent the night with her
Sleep did not find it’s way to steel our time
Last night we let our passions rule us
Like a poem we let our bodies rhyme
Last night we broke in waves of flowing lust
Moment by moment we felt the pleasure
Last night was slow and dark and flowing
Unhurried by the dawn we searched for treasure
Last night we became two together
Now as one thing we live in this world
Last night the essence of each other
Twisted together enjoined and curled
Last night was over when dawn broke
Streaming light through curtains peeking
Last night we started a new life
And both found the love we’re seeking.

Step out of your tight black dress
And let your hair fall in a mess
Turn the lights down low with me
And leave your inhibitions be
The warm silence broken with a gasp
A stroking kiss a hand to grasp
Breath comes faster passions rise
With soft moans and little cries
The dress forgotten on the floor
Two hearts entwine, behind locked door.

Dear departed loved one
I miss you in my days
The smiles that you gave to me
Have vanished in a haze
Your soft voice and your laughter
Are not around to hear
And your scent is fading slowly
It’ll soon be gone I fear
You chose to leave my presence
And that’s such a bitter blow
For where you went to wander
I can’t find strength to go
But know you are beloved
No matter where you are
And in my heart you’re essence
Will never be too far
For no matter why you left me
No matter why you strayed
There is no one in the world today
That does not wish that you’d stayed
Today we say goodbye to you
And put you too your sleep
And in our minds we’ll carry you
And in our hearts we’ll weep
But when the day is over
And the goodbyes have been spoken
The memoirs off joyful times
Will flood in and be woken
And thoughts of all the happy things
That passed between us all
Will stand strong and tower up
Like a grand stone castle wall
For love and laughter conquer pain
And hurt will run and hide
As we remember You were here
And keep you safe inside.

”Pleased to meet you.”
Said the man
As he came into the bar room
“Likewise” said the lady
As she sat up at the bar
“Are you local?”
Asked the gentleman
While he tried to catch the barman
“No I traveled”
Said the lady
“I came my way by car”
“Whisky with some water”
Said the man unto the barman
“Mine as well” She said seductively
“But please just make it neat”
The barman made the drinks up
And the couple sipped and pondered
What the evening had for both of them
To make the night complete
And so the bar room was a staring point
And the evening a success
He in a black tuxedo
She in a scarlet dress
It ended in a question
That he hoped she’d answer well
“May I love you?”
Then her spoken words said
“Yes you May Sir can’t you tell?”
And the sentence filled his empty heart
From the bottom to the top
And now tuxedo and Miss scarlet
Are never far apart.

I don’t understand it
The way the world makes people act
It’s like that human beings
Lack the will for kind contact

I try to be inventive
In the ways I interact with folk
Surprisingly it’s working
A smile often follows a joke

But I’m solitary
In my view that all ally  
It looks to me depressing
But to befriend I have to try

My heart is sometimes broken
But here and now I must admit
I’d rather be accepting
I’m proud to be a true misfit

Standing in a forest
Of people I don’t love or need
She’s solid as walnut tree
And rooted like religious creed

Blowing in the wind
She bends and stretches to the sun
Moving with a ballet grace
With wild hair the air has spun

Steady on the upland
She rules the woodland of my world
Deep within the darkest grove
She’s calling me with words unfurled

But she will not yellow
Or let her love turn shades of red
She Is for me my evergreen
Till the two of us are sadly dead

We will lay together
In cask made of the clearest pine
And we will not be parted
Because the woman is true mine.

What’s a family
My best mate said
It’s more than blood
Said the girl he wed
It’s loyalty
Said her mate Sue
It’s how folks feel
Said quite a few
I sat and listened
And looked round
At faces loved
And this I found
I had to say
To all those there
In softened tone
Almost a prayer
Family
Is what we are
It’s why we traveled
Near or far
It’s trust
In one another’s care
If there’s a meal
You’ll get a chair
Your welcome
If you turn up late
There will be food
Upon your plate
It’s a hug
It’s feeling love
It’s knowing that
You share thereof
The warmth of hearth
And heart and joy
It’s now
It’s what we now enjoy.

When open hearts are stressed and tested
And you lose the love invested
Most of us take time to heal
And morn the loss of something real
It will take days or months or years
To heal your scars and dry your tears
The wounds are deep, the cuts cause pain
But from the ash you will regain
Your self respect and joy again
The damage done will fall away
And then you’ll love another day
As men and women often find
That the tender touch of one who’s kind
Can heal faster than a tic or tock
Of an ever turning clock
So hear my words I say to you
Once you’re joy flows your veins through
You will rejoice and then unbidden
Love will return from where it’s hidden

I stopped work on Wednesday
I’ve been indoors 3 days
I’m getting pretty bored now
To amuse I’ve found some ways
I’ve played fetch with my doggy
I’ve washed all the clothes I own
I’ve had a shave and shower
And I’ve called Mum on the phone
I made some food and ate it
(I’ve done that quite a lot)
From cheese sandwich with some onion
To a very rich hotpot
Now I’m sitting on the sofa
With some tea and some hot toast
Feeling lazy and relaxing
Watching the Netflix I like most
So while you have to stay home
Try to do a bit of stuff
Because sleeping 19 hours a day
Will make you feel quite rough

The oak down by the river
Drinks cool water from the Earth
It’s done so since forever
When it’s acorn gave it birth
It’s stood there through the centuries
Adding ring by ring each year
But if it had the eyes to cry
I know it would shed tear
For this used to be a forest
It’s friends and piers stood tall
But axes and the wind of change
Made his family fall
But I’m not by standing
I will not let this tree
Stand so proud and lonely
It can rely on me
And so with ***** and saplings
I place new friends near by
So this ancient wonder
Can breath contented sigh

If you feel the stars at night
Shining with a light that’s bright
Or if you see the velvet dark
Spattered with the spots of spark
Know that I feel your heart beat
And know that I crave us to meet
So once again you know my love
Like smooth cool silk
Or velvet glove….

She will smile like molasses
She will touch you like cool rain
She will love you till forever
She will then just start again
For the a lady that will love you
Is a lady that you need
For that lady will envelop you
And your soul she will then feed.

He saw her walking slowly
In the fading summers sun
The gentle wisps of breezes
Made her dark hair flow and run
Her bright eyes flashed of danger
And her red  lips promised sin
So his heart ruled over his sharp mind
And said “let the games begin”
He made a move to claim her
He spoke to her words sweet
He adored her very presence
He worshipped at her feet
Forever he was with her
And always she with he
They were bound by all the acts of love
And never wished to be set free
The moral of my poem
If such is here at all
Is if you take a chance in love
You may hear Cupid’s call
You may feel his sharpest arrow
Or he may well shoot and miss
But you’ll never know that answer
If you first don’t chance a kiss.

❤️

Talk to me she said
Tell me all the colours of the rainbow bright
Talk to me she asked
Say the words of wisdom through the night
Talk to me she begged
Utter all the things you know to me
Talk to me she cried
Speak of all ****** things you see
Talk to me so soft
And let me lose myself within the word
Talk to me that way
I’ll hang to each and everything I’ve  heard
And so I lay at nigh all through the dark
Until the sun was greeted by the lark
And in the quiet nights we shared our soul
We found that our entwinmet was our goal
And now our minds and bodies face the world
Fighting off the prejudice it’s hurled
From the judgment and the bitterness we face
Together in our arms we have found grace

I have a workshop that helps keep me sane
I’m going there soon to make things again
Working with timber on a lathe I turn wood
I make small pots and bowls that are sometimes quite good
But the disasters that happen when the timber it splits
Or the slip of a chisel makes one bust into bits
Just goes to teach me I have lots still to learn
To make items perfect is something that I yearn
But with music from radio and a big mug of tea
I make something useful from a chunk of old tree
Something that someone will cherish and keep
When I’m gone from the world and take the Long Sleep
For I’m not making things for cash or to sell
I give them as gifts to prove I lived well
My friends and my family and my loved ones to
All get a ***, and this ones for you.......

The light sparkled on the water, as if the flashes were white flames
And the jealous sea took back its place, with tide its place reclaims
The salt tasted of adventure, and the sea spray felt like need
As the women on the quayside, prayed their men came back with speed.
And the ship, with all its rigging creaked a fond farewell,
Rolling gently on the comfort of the ever flowing swell.
That’s when I saw her standing, in the sunlight on the shoreline
More beloved then any goddess, more revered than any shrine
She stood with eyes that sparkled, like the seas own dancing lights
And she breathed with all the passion that calls and me invites
So I stood there watching still and calm, and I knew full well that day
That I’d come back to her forevermore as there was no other way
She is the one that holds my heart, she is the one for me
And so I traveled fast and hard, till the two of us were we.
And now I’m old and haggard and the lady she is to
Soon both of us will pass this life, so this I tell to you.
If I could see her stand again, on the beach down by the sea
I’d leave the ship and stay with her, she’d have more time with me.
For adventure is exciting, and the world is full of wonder
But the love you have for someone else, could pull the globe asunder.

In the den that was so deep
The ***** kept her cubs asleep
She curled around them warm and dry
Away from hunters eyes that pry
The tenderness of her soft care
Made them safe and contented there
The days bright sun could never breach
Through the tunnel it did not reach
The undiscovered foxes den
Kept them safe from eyes of men.....