John Bartholomew

John Bartholomew Jun 2020

Tea

A thousand thoughts
I don't know where to begin
Let's simplify this conundrum
Stop
Think
Kettle on
Breathe
A cup of tea
Always the best beginning
Simplicity itself
Tea.
OK,
Lets begin...

JJB

Where there’s tea there’s hope - Arthur Wing Pinero

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea - Fyodor Dostoevsky

A cup of tea would restore my normality - Douglas Adams

John Bartholomew Jun 2020

Lockdown lazy blues

3 months off and what did you do -

Learn Spanish?
Tile the bathroom?
Write that great novel you always said?
Rekindle lost love over the net?
Learn how to bake like the rest of the gang?
Its what we all do, it seems everyone can!

No

No I didn't

I watched box sets on Netflix and just got fat

Proper fat

JJB

John Bartholomew Jun 2020

Of Course/Off Course

Of course/on course
Swedish girl/slightly Norse
**** voice/mildly hoarse
Hotel in the mountains/Cornish tors
Didn't take long/knickers to floor
Passion intensified/not the usual chores
Way too pretty for this noise/Christ she could snore
Got to know her/a right ****** bore
A quick go too/not feeling sore
We often stray of course/off course

JJB

John Bartholomew Jun 2020

Still Alive

I wonder how,
Seriously,

The people you've *******
The drugs you sniffed and coughed
The cars you've driven and not even bought
The red lights you jumped and not even caught
The guys who's girls you've kissed behind their backs
The girls who said come again and back to their sack
The arrogance of a man you just knew he could
The luckiness he exhumed when he knew that he would

As he takes it for granted and all in his stride
And this is the surprise that he really is,

Still Alive

JJB

John Bartholomew Jun 2020

Seasons Reasons

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