John Edward Smallshaw: Poems

#10word location

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2018

#10word location

You've got to be
famous
being nameless
won't do
it.

#10word lock

John Edward Smallshaw May 2020

#10word lock

Torn between watching drivel
or writing drivel, my mind
unravels.

Life is spaghetti on a spoon, constantly.

#10word lockdown

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2020

#10word lockdown

Six days and ******* it in
'how am I looking?'

#10word locker

John Edward Smallshaw Oct 2018

#10word locker

You don't have to
be lost,
you can find
yourself.

#10word loop

John Edward Smallshaw Nov 2015

#10word loop

When my time
is over
I expect they'll
repeat it.

#10word lost

John Edward Smallshaw Sep 2017

#10word lost

A meadow lark
in the trolley park?
Tesco
branching out?

#10word Lothario

John Edward Smallshaw Nov 2015

#10word Lothario

Every one of my scars
was handcrafted by
ardent admirers.

#10word lover

John Edward Smallshaw Jun 2015

#10word lover

..me and Chartreuse
a rose in
any
glass,

drinking her.

#10word lover

John Edward Smallshaw Jun 2015

#10word lover

The last time
like the
first time
was
just perfect.

#10word lovers.

John Edward Smallshaw Nov 2017

#10word lovers.

Is something wrong?

you only killed me twice
last night.

#10word lyric

John Edward Smallshaw Jan 2017

#10word lyric

Did he get you
on that slow boat
to China?

#song

#10word lyrics they never used

John Edward Smallshaw Jan 2016

#10word lyrics they never used

'It may be Winter outside'
but
it's ****** colder
inside.

#10word madness

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2016

#10word madness

Sometimes the circle
is lit, but
no one's on
Facebook.

#10word magics

John Edward Smallshaw May 2016

#10word magics

I can walk on eggshells
using
omelettes
as
protective amulets.

#10word magnetics

John Edward Smallshaw Nov 2020

#10word magnetics

Her moodiness is her loveliness,
she distracts me to tears.

#10word Man

John Edward Smallshaw Nov 2016

#10word Man

Imperfect as I am
I am made in
God's image.

#10word manner

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2016

#10word manner

Style.

is like
walking a mile
in some other
shoes.

#10word Married

John Edward Smallshaw Jul 2016

#10word Married

She lets me know

when I know

what I know.

#10word Meaning

John Edward Smallshaw May 2017

#10word Meaning

Life,

Inseminate
Incubate
Indoctrinate
Assassinate

why wait?
do it now.

#10word melt

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2016

#10word melt

She's ready to
catch me
and patch me
up again.

#10word memory

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2016

#10word memory

She was here
washing her face
yesterday morning,
years ago.

#10word memory.

John Edward Smallshaw Aug 13

#10word memory.

She was here
only yesterday
and the years
go by.

#10word Miasma

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2016

#10word Miasma

Smell
the disease
of a hell
above the
conscious level

#10word might

John Edward Smallshaw May 2015

#10word might

I could be a giant,
just need
to grow
more.

#10word miner

John Edward Smallshaw May 2018

#10word miner

The underground,
a submersive experience

I drown in it
daily.

#10word miniature furniture

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2019

#10word miniature furniture

When you get too big
for your boots,
go barefoot.

#10word Ministerial monkeys

John Edward Smallshaw Sep 2015

#10word Ministerial monkeys

We,
See no refugee
Hear no refugee
Speak no refugee.

#10word miscalculation

John Edward Smallshaw Jun 2016

#10word miscalculation

Six feet under
we are all
the whole
nine yards.

#10word moments.

John Edward Smallshaw Dec 2015

#10word moments.

Listen to this,
she whispered
a kiss in
my ear.

#10word Monkeys

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2017

#10word Monkeys

They are your demons
you snuggle them

I'll cuddle mine

#10word Monsters.

John Edward Smallshaw Dec 2015

#10word Monsters.

Who feeds these
bogeymen,
when
I lay frightened
and
starving?

#10word Moon

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2017

#10word Moon

I'll make for you
a
dream come true.

she did.

The Moon and I are old friends

#love

#10word moribund

John Edward Smallshaw Jan 2017

#10word moribund

Everything that means
anything
can be said
in
three words

#10word morning

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2017

#10word morning

Attracted to
distracted by
the colours painted
in the sky.

#10word Mum

John Edward Smallshaw May 2016

#10word Mum

The love she gave
we save
at
compound interest rate.

#10word Mystery

John Edward Smallshaw Jan 2016

#10word Mystery

Have you ever
wondered why
shadows
do
not cast
shadows?

#10word myths

John Edward Smallshaw Jan 2016

#10word myths

What's the use
Zeus?
no one believes
in us
anyway.

#10word naked

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2016

#10word naked

Slowly shifting
she lowers
the skirt of
the long night.

#10word needle

John Edward Smallshaw Aug 2018

#10word needle

‪We go around in circles ‬
‪but‬
‪there is a point.‬

#10word Nelson

John Edward Smallshaw Jan 2016

#10word Nelson

Kismet?
I bet my life
you never saw
that coming.

#10word night nurse

John Edward Smallshaw Aug 2015

#10word night nurse

Cold,
blue
running through
me.
You
know what
to do.

#10word observation

John Edward Smallshaw Jul 2016

#10word observation

I drive the road
to understanding
where punctures
are
plentiful.

#10word oops.

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2016

#10word oops.

My size nine foot
sometimes
fits right inside
my mouth.

#10word out

John Edward Smallshaw Jun 2016

#10word out

Brexit
wrecked it
for the ones
who wanted to stay.

#brexit

#10word outfit

John Edward Smallshaw Jun 2021

#10word outfit

Vladimir Putin
gets his suits in
Man at CIA,
probably.

Based on a real advert

#10word overload

John Edward Smallshaw Aug 6

#10word overload

Here
in my mind's eye
the minutiae
of this existence.

#10word pact

John Edward Smallshaw Oct 2015

#10word pact

Exclusivity
the
you and me
exclusively
excluding
all
but we.

#10word pair

John Edward Smallshaw Aug 2015

#10word pair

Being me
is easy,
but
being with
you
is easier.

#10word panhandle

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2016

#10word panhandle

The less deserving
always deserve
more
than what
they get.

#10word paradigm

John Edward Smallshaw May 2016

#10word paradigm

slim chance of it being anything to do with me.