John Bartholomew

John Bartholomew Jun 2020

Summer: Winter always rocks up when you least want it
Winter: And summers only stay until they turn toxic
Autumn: Then there's me rolling in like an unwanted smell from the gutter
Spring: But it's going to be OK kids, as I'll soon make it all feel like summer 🌞

John Bartholomew Jun 2020

Breathe

We all breathe
Yet sometimes heave
Let out a sigh
Followed with a cry
It makes us live from lungs to bellows
How God made man from the dice that he throws
Instinct with nature,
Something that we never have to remember

And,

Breathe

JJB

John Bartholomew May 2020

The Government says....

They make the rules up,
They break the rules down

The nation looks on with a solemn frown
This from the men whom wear this country's crown

JJB

John Bartholomew May 2020

Lego Love

A fresh start
Pieces to build
I've found a new heart

What segment fits where
You look
It's love
Just don't stare

Excited
To build this fortress of love
Each block just falls into place
The odd bit missing but who is to care

Segmented
Dislocated
It fell apart all to easy
Blown with the wind on a day too breezy

A castle isn't made in just a day
We build
We love
We hang onto what they say

I feel I go in way to gungho
And that is why it always falls apart
These days I see life in a different light
Keep calm and relax
as,
Love is like Lego
(it always has a new start)

JJB

#italsobreakseasily

John Bartholomew May 2020

Lingering

Removed
But not fully soothed
A waiting game of 5 to 10 years
Please be gone, save me my tears
Doctors do their job but not yet the cure
Sometimes it's in the hands of others
Relying on the faith of their Lord
Spreading like a ***** little rumour
Reappearing its filthy diseased head
Sorry, you have a tumour
So let's not let this thing bring us all down
You can beat it, I know you, never one to frown
Always the first to laugh with some daft banter
Let's kick this thing out of the park, this ******* known as cancer

JJB

John Bartholomew May 2020

I want a life (beyond living)

I want to have sash windows
I want to have high ceilings
I want a bedroom with chandeliers
I want to have false feelings
I want a car that I can never afford
I want to watch you cut that cord
I want our kids in a school privately taught
I want to see the Queen, Knight you with her sword
I want to show my parents that I want
sometimes gets
I want to prove that you don't have to be
the teachers pet
I want to fly the world in a millionaires private jet
I want all these things scooped up in one big net
I want an easy life even if its legs akimbo
I want to prove its good even if I'm living in sin though
I want to keep my partner happy, if its for some extra giving

                       As this is all I want,

               I want a life (beyond living)

                                     JJB

John Bartholomew May 2020

Mr Goody 2 Shoes

Not a step out of line
Your dance, your prance, your swagger
Perfection based upon your moves
This made me want to pull that trigger

Your tune
They fall to the floor from that tick
Tock-tick, tock tick
Man you make me sick

Walking past me like I don't exist
Just giving me the blues
Of course it's always you they choose
So I blew you away
Bye-bye
Over and out

Mr Goody 2 Shoes
(ha!)

JJB