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Feb 2024 · 118
What Mama said
Old enough to know what better could be
and better enough to understand that everything
I see is my perception of it

if I share this and you don't care for this
no one loses
no one wins
we will not die
time still spins
around the dial

you must remember,
Facebook is like a cookbook,
it's full of recipes
which seldom turn out like
the pictures we see

and at 21:33
although for some it won't be
I bid you a goodnight.
Microwave it
freeze and save it
have friends over
defrost and serve
let them savour
the super taste of
food from
the microwaver.

All is hunky
meat tender and chunky
your Great Grannie is turning
in her grave,
bit late for her to freeze and save,

thank god I don't have to slave over dinner
the microwave is such a winner.
Feb 2024 · 124
The seventh trumpet
I could have gone to Babylon and
made a living as a gardener.
but I hung out in Tyburn
swinging from a tree.
Feb 2024 · 204
Uncoiled
Monday and so soon
and
that's what I said
when talking with the Moon
and the Moon agrees
so
she shifts the seas for me
and I,
quite magnificently
arise from the oceans
of her eyes.

still Monday.
Feb 2024 · 170
On that day in history.
Bread soaked in milk?

I wonder if that memory was mine or has time overtaken me to leave me so doddery that I fell into someone else's reverie.

jeeesus it's Sunday give me a break.

A green soap and sugar hot poultice?
take no notice of me
I'm still in someone else's memory.
Feb 2024 · 104
Cookery crash
I'm trying to fix myself a dish
but the recipe eludes me
so
I'm adding a bit of this and
some of what I suppose it
should be,

if it rises I think it'll be alright
if it doesn't
then I shall be here all night.

Miss Jaffrey
just laughed me
right out of the kitchen
and me
with a bun in the oven
Feb 2024 · 85
That Hubbard thing.
Can't afford to spill the beans
they're all that's left to eat
and there's nothing left
to pair them with
I guess we'll have beans neat

but the greedy ******* skimming off the top
we put the work in and they steal the crop
I'm fukin sick of it and it has to stop,
can't afford to spill the beans.
Feb 2024 · 153
Gripe
I love it when kids say,
'back in the day'

I look at them
and think when and what day?

they is not even twenty
thinks they've seen plenty
but
they have seen *** all.
Feb 2024 · 90
Resets
At twenty-five minutes to just before you turned over to turn off the alarm
you put your arms around me in my dreams, however unlikely that seems dreams are like that and I like that.

At sometime past one of the hours when my clock needed winding up I got up being careful not to disturb my shadow which was still sleeping,

I had intended to make the bed but made coffee instead and pottered about until it was time to go out.

I think that I'm pottering more and more and my memories are going,
and they're not going out with me
they're probably stuck with you
at twenty-five minutes to.
Feb 2024 · 67
The digital warriors
Life's still hard when you're sat in the easy chair
and wondering who is it out there
that wants to get you,
get you though,
acting as if you don't have a care.
but
they're coming to get us all and
they'll wall us in
to
keep us out and away from what they plan to do
and
what they plan to do
is me and you.
Feb 2024 · 86
Architecture
It was all modern on
'Blake's 7'
but now it's all
brutal.
Feb 2024 · 149
The genie
They might as well modify
this old body that I
Identify with.

They have GMC
so I'm sure
they can alter me.

In this the twilight
where I measure each night carefully
fully aware that tomorrow is not promised to me
I wait.
Feb 2024 · 82
Dishwasher dirge.
******* burnt the pan again
boiling fukin jam again
they never ever learn.

They call them the
cream of the crop
but that's not a lot
when they make the pan
to frickin hot.
Feb 2024 · 173
Desiccated coconut
I don't think electricity was invented back then when I was a boy so we saved flashes of lightning in old pickle jars and we had a candle in the barn in case of emergency.

A backup was useful unless it was the toilet and then that was useless,
We could never have foreseen that back then we were really living the dream.
Feb 2024 · 167
Random #55
Delete
Delete
Deloitte
( oop, misspelling, free advertising)
delete
delete
De Longe this goes on
it goes on.
Feb 2024 · 103
Wax in my ears
I bury my head
can't bear to hear
what she said,
but then I look
and cor
luv a duck
she just wanted to,
but
that cannot be what she meant.

aha rhyming stuff and nonsense
I try to bluff my way out of it.
Feb 2024 · 86
Fifteen feet of ceiling
And then they forget you.

I run through scenarios
and think
well
that's how it goes
but
it doesn't have to
and you know it
too.
Feb 2024 · 82
Position X
The slate should be clean
for **** sake
I mean
after a lifetime
looking for a lifeline
the slate should have been
wiped clean.

life is never what you take it to be
it's never
mi casa su casa

pass a napkin
I'm crying.
Feb 2024 · 73
Sundaes
Aw fiddlesticks
I missed 06:06
and 06:14
doesn't rhyme,

the pain,
makes me writhe
what a time
to know I'm alive
and late.

..and when can't I tell the time?
when it's 06:10
and there's time to rhyme.

must get my eyes checked.
Feb 2024 · 115
The memory mill
Cod liver oil with malt extract is not something we lacked as children.
the old ones still had memories of rickets and didn't want us kids to suffer.

I liked the taste and the texture. the dark jar that it came in  the big spoon that I dipped in and licked clean.

I don't think I would have liked rickets as much
Feb 2024 · 147
Art works
Only She knows me like She knows me
and I know that She knows me so well.

Poetry and it's the sixties.

I miss the permissive society,
I miss the flowers and
wearing flared jeans,
I miss the intoxication
of incense and
Andy Warhol's tin of baked beans

but back in the sixties at fifteen
girls were a mystery to me
and the only permissive that I got
was a permission
to have some more tea.
Feb 2024 · 100
Charabancs and candy floss
Cockle picking
*******
skinny dipping
drinking
Tizer and
Cream Soda
boating
floating
out in Morecambe Bay,

so far away
but
back in the day
it was then and now.
Feb 2024 · 164
Seeing straight
..and if we did have it all.
we'd worry about everything,

every time the doorbell rang
we'd run and hide
we'd never dare to go outside
our world would become smaller.
Feb 2024 · 80
Preps for surgery
You have the time and think things will be hard but when you have no time at all they're going to be harder still and still we'll think that we still have the time to think that things will be hard.

I think that most of us or most of me can see that.

And there's always a true story

She said you're fit

I thought to myself
yeah
fit for *** all

I still told her that she didn't need glasses.
Feb 2024 · 56
Win hold and repeat
It took you
less than a moment to murmur your magic in my ears
but the spell that you cast on me lasted for one thousand
years
won't you whisper again to me
give me more centuries with you
and be who
we are.
Feb 2024 · 69
Upon my oath
As Victor said,
'I don't ****** well believe it'
but believe it I did
because I had to
when I knew
it was true.

Facts are like that
and sometimes it's hard
to concentrate
when they hit you
like bullets
exploding
your belief system
and
giving you
indigestion.

living and learning even
as my stomach's still churning.
Feb 2024 · 56
Take 'im down
'if you don't ask, you don't get'
unless you steal and then you get
but
you'll get into bother when the
Bobby Rozzers
collar you
and I'll bet you a dollar
you won't see them coming
because
you'll be having fun in
the Hood,
Robin won't even get a look in
he's already been booked in
for vagrancy.
Feb 2024 · 129
Electrification
They've started scratching out our names
next they'll do our photographs and burn the picture frames.

I suppose it has to be done if only to make way for others to come and take our places then
there'll be new names, new photographs in new  picture frames and sometimes I wonder if we'll remember the faces.

I hope so
those things are worth remembering.
Feb 2024 · 73
The unfairground
Well,
dip a duck
and pluck my luck,
it's raining
which they tell me
is due to
Global Warming,

I'm warm in bed
and that's where I'm staying

for now.
Feb 2024 · 63
Random #303
Drowning is nothing new
it's what drowning people do

and people drown in situations too.
Feb 2024 · 142
What reality is
I sat and watched a sad movie and it made me cry
so I went out to the offie and bought myself a Mivvi
and a three-litre bottle of dry
cider.

It feels like my life is being played out
on old cinema reels,
weird eh?
but that's how it feels.

anyway
I put on a highly-rated comedy,
it didn't make me laugh,
but the cider soaked my trousers
when I knocked a full glass over.

Sometimes life's a replay but I don't remember when
and so I sat and watched a sad movie and it made me cry
again.
Feb 2024 · 68
A port and lemons
The clock stood at 6:43
which it always appeared to be
but that was last century
and time has moved on

the cuckoo still cooks but now
we call him the chef,
I still call him a *******
because I know that he's deaf.

I became unemployed, but is
that better than being unattractive?
chance is selective
I know that now.
Feb 2024 · 79
A bunch of daffs
That shift from Winter to Spring when the promise of warmer days and all those leisurely steps we will take, that new ground we break will make everything worthwhile.

We should celebrate, a glass of wine, a tête-à-tête but perhaps conversation can wait and we could just soak up the sun.
Feb 2024 · 122
The spectrum splitter
Once again,
I **;d my breath and think myself to ten again,

that look back when you know that
someone else was living your life,

it's okay
just a knife I cut myself away with
and what I wouldn't give
to
rearrange the molecules that turned
this boy into such a fool.

the portcullis screaming down
wakes me to the fact that
I'm now an adult living it
in London Town
until
I hold my breath again,
and think myself to ten again.
Feb 2024 · 79
sIMCIty
I went out
but someone lit another match.

The town is full of kids
school trips
nature rambles
no blackberries
but plenty of brambles.

I did the shopping lickety
household's good for
household goods
moved along the
I'll be looking for single cream
double's my dream but I ain't
got one yet.

Unexpected item?
I think we've all found one of those.
Feb 2024 · 64
Misfire
Not too keen on it
won't be seen out in it.

It's not only tigers that tear your skin.

chill?
take the pill that only works when you're not ill
wheel 'em in
wheel 'em out

of course,
everything's a revolving door.
it's another place,
but you've been here before,

it's not only tigers that tear your skin
wheel 'em out
and
wheel 'em in.
Feb 2024 · 156
Redundant
Ten cents on the dollar?
follow me
for more updates.
Feb 2024 · 76
In case of emergency
Interference in the earphones and static in the air. the wavelengths are all shrinking,  things are happening out there.

I'm locking all the windows but I've only got one door so I'm triple bolting that one. I won't be going out no more.

If it's aliens I'm ready
if it's not I'm ready too
and if it's just a solar flare
I'll look a proper charlie.
Feb 2024 · 107
The Lakota badlands
That lonely haunting piercing cry of the eagle as it spirals above the canyon.
I'm thinking that it's looking down, shaking its head and thinking. look at that dipstick with his head in the clouds again.

Finding shade in these cathedral canyons is tough, the going rough and water in short supply

I wish I was that guy, that Indiana Jones guy who always has his eye on the way out,

perhaps the eagle is right,
take flight and get the hell out of here.
Feb 2024 · 86
The cripplegate fryer
We'll either be
chart-toppers
or
toast toppers
and according to
my bruvva
it'll definitely be
one or t'other,

my bruvv's older than me
by about two years
which in real money
is half a century,
so
he should know.
Feb 2024 · 212
Umbrellas at dawn
I woke up again
which is
good news for me.

Monday has an uncanny way
of making me think that if I blink
it'll be Tuesday,
but it never works

I try to make the best of it
the worst of it is done when
realising it's raining and today
there'll be no sun.
Feb 2024 · 77
27 days
If you love them
you love them.
no one can tell you
what you already know.

whatever the outcome
the sun will still shine.

and at a  time when it's done
you'll still remember the fun
still recall
how you fell for
the charm.
Feb 2024 · 146
Sundae
We go out to what is out there
and when
there's nothing out there
we share anyway,

this is social media
letting the others who
have need of ya
get their rocks off
as they feed on ya.
ouch
Feb 2024 · 53
Immersed
This
turned into a **** city,
they gave all the creditors
chitties,
bang bang
they still shot you down.
Feb 2024 · 64
Orders
She told me that I had to exercise more and that looking longingly at the door only counted as an exercise for the eyes,

She has spies everywhere.

When walking to town wears me down and going out for the day wears a bit more of me away it appears that I'm between the devil and a dream,

wish I could wake up.
Feb 2024 · 74
Them lot
They're either a ****-head
or a crackhead and this is
what your government has
brought you to,
the Desmond Morris
human Zoo,

and
I read the book,
looked at the pictures
took a look around me
and ****** off back to sleep.
Feb 2024 · 54
The light show
But what when it ends
as everything tends to do

what happens to me
what happens to you?

do we really think things through?

I thought of the ice age.
Feb 2024 · 51
Oh
Oh
When you're going to seed
the need for need becomes less,
but
the wont is still wanted.
.
Feb 2024 · 135
The penny box
The fruit salad
the black jack
the sherbet saucer
the mojo
in the sweet box
we'd all go
on pocket money day.

it was four for a penny
and four was so many
when I was a boy.
Feb 2024 · 83
Wtf again
It's all a bit, Jack,
and you know
that once
over the cuckoo's nest
there is no coming back.

Buying off eBay or Etsy
or
is that a touch to schitzy
to follow with?

but we're all a bit para'
and I don't mean the regiment.

it's still Jack,
even when you're looking back
with your head up in the clouds,

a case of
can't see the mist for the mountains.
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