John Edward Smallshaw: Poems

#10word Friday

John Edward Smallshaw Sep 2015

#10word Friday

Waking to this,
the very good
morning kiss,
absolutely
smashing.

#10word Friedrich

John Edward Smallshaw Oct 2015

#10word Friedrich

She read to me
Nietzsche
and I loved her
more.

#10word Gambler.

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2016

#10word Gambler.

The odds on
anything
getting worse
are better
than evens.

#10word games

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2016

#10word games

If it was
scissors
paper
rock and
dynamite
I'd
win.

#10word games.

John Edward Smallshaw Jul 2016

#10word games.

There are no
musical chairs,

but some chairs
do
rock.

#10word genesis

John Edward Smallshaw Jun 2015

#10word genesis

Cardinal sins are those
occasionally committed
by
(you guessed)
Cardinals.

#10word ghosts

John Edward Smallshaw Dec 2016

#10word ghosts

Defying sleep
my
eyes are crossed
by phantoms of
light.

#10word gift

John Edward Smallshaw Aug 2015

#10word gift

Charity,
the barometer
by which we
measure
the unbearable
pressure.

#10word Glimpses

John Edward Smallshaw Dec 2015

#10word Glimpses

She looks
just like I look
when I want
something.

#10word goals

John Edward Smallshaw Sep 2022

#10word goals

Underachieving

if that's what you believe in,

go for it.

#10word Gold

John Edward Smallshaw Oct 2016

#10word Gold

There's a bit of the
Yukon
going on
in everyone.

#10word goosebump

John Edward Smallshaw Aug 2016

#10word goosebump

Save me this sensation
to savour for
one more day

#10word grave

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2017

#10word grave

It will last
until I'm unfastened,
then
it will end.

#10word Hades.

John Edward Smallshaw Jan 2016

#10word Hades.

If you've been there
you'll know exactly
where
it is.

#10word hall of mirrors

John Edward Smallshaw Dec 2015

#10word hall of mirrors

If your chances
look slim,
get fat
simple
as
that.

#10word happiness

John Edward Smallshaw Jul 2016

#10word happiness

Hey,
cloud nine feels fine

what's all the fuss about?

#10word hashed

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2016

#10word hashed

When the Rapture
arrives
I wonder if
it
will trend.

#10word haunted

John Edward Smallshaw Aug 2017

#10word haunted

white faced
the inmates
look beyond
walls
into another
asylum.

#10word hearts

John Edward Smallshaw Oct 2016

#10word hearts

beats and beats us
every time.

''the other four words were lost in translation...**** on that one Socrates.

#10word heating the home

John Edward Smallshaw Jan 11

#10word heating the home

It has affected my balance,
that'd be
my bank balance.

#10word Heavens

John Edward Smallshaw Sep 2016

#10word Heavens

A shooting star
unzips
the night sky.

I am undone.

#10word Helen.

John Edward Smallshaw May 2016

#10word Helen.

I lit one fire
you
set light to
all
history.

#10word hijacked

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2019

#10word hijacked

This day, so long,
until I remembered
years had passed.

#10word hot air

John Edward Smallshaw Oct 2017

#10word hot air

There's more being said
than there ever is
being done.

#10word Howitzer

John Edward Smallshaw Dec 2015

#10word Howitzer

I am safe
in my shell
until
she fires me.

#10word hypnotist

John Edward Smallshaw Nov 2015

#10word hypnotist

She tells me
to sleep,
but knows
I'm
awake
forever.

#10word identity

John Edward Smallshaw May 2016

#10word identity

Did he?
was it we
who made he
did we?

#10word image.

John Edward Smallshaw Sep 2015

#10word image.

In the ether
of eternity,
turn,
look
at me.
Smoking.

#10word ism

John Edward Smallshaw Jun 2020

#10word ism

Existential dread
always seems worse
when you're laying
in bed.

#10word isolation

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2020

#10word isolation

While y'all praying
I'm just a playing
my banjo
solo.

#10word jenny

John Edward Smallshaw Dec 2016

#10word jenny

She
spins stories
like
spiders spin webs
I
am spellbound.

#love #magic #silk #webs

#10word jigsaw

John Edward Smallshaw Oct 2015

#10word jigsaw

A man of many parts,
let us call him
Frankenstein.

#10word judgement

John Edward Smallshaw Apr 2017

#10word judgement

Old people go to church
but
that's just a reaction

nearer my God to thee seems apropo

#10word jump

John Edward Smallshaw Nov 2016

#10word jump

Every time you
catch me
I
want to fall
again.

#10word kicker

John Edward Smallshaw Jun 2015

#10word kicker

Still.
Is a place inside and
sometimes
I hide there.

#10word killer

John Edward Smallshaw Dec 2015

#10word killer

Passing by me
she
remarked rather dryly,
'you look
rough'

#10word Kilroy

John Edward Smallshaw May 2016

#10word Kilroy

He wasn't here,

Paul Revere was

Lexington
Massachusetts
April 1775

#10word kipper

John Edward Smallshaw Oct 2015

#10word kipper

Keeping covered
hiding under the
duvet
dodging
the
frost
patrol.

#10word kitchenostra

John Edward Smallshaw Aug 2015

#10word kitchenostra

Tonight,
Don Corleone
you will steep
along with the
dishes.

#10word knife

John Edward Smallshaw Jul 2016

#10word knife

Slicing so slightly
to write of me
pages in
blood.

#10word Knowing

John Edward Smallshaw Apr 2016

#10word Knowing

Every time I look
she kills me with
that look.

#10word landscape

John Edward Smallshaw Apr 2016

#10word landscape

'Life could be a dream'
and
it's usually
a nightmare.

#10word Last stop

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2017

#10word Last stop

You call this poetry?
I call it
a
diabolical liberty.

#10word Liberté.

John Edward Smallshaw May 2015

#10word Liberté.

The guillotine drops,
she knits
balaclavas
for the dead.

#10word life

John Edward Smallshaw Aug 2016

#10word life

Poetry,
the reason for
and why it has to be.

#10word lifer

John Edward Smallshaw Oct 2016

#10word lifer

Part one done

adverts on now

waiting for part two

Almost televisual

#soap

#10word lifer

John Edward Smallshaw Sep 2017

#10word lifer

You're digging
your own grave,
that'll save on
funeral costs

10word #lifethought

John Edward Smallshaw Jan 2015

10word #lifethought

A second chance
only comes
once.
Do not
waste
it.

#10word #lifethoughts

John Edward Smallshaw Nov 2014

#10word #lifethoughts

We make more of nothing
than we make
of everything.

#10word livener

John Edward Smallshaw Nov 2015

#10word livener

Bells?
if it's not
a hangover
it must be
Sunday.