John Edward Smallshaw: Poems

#10word Parliament

John Edward Smallshaw Dec 2015

#10word Parliament

A bulletin with
a bullet in,
silence in the
chamber.

#10word partners.

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2016

#10word partners.

Good
for each other
or as bad as
each other?

#10word pathfinder

John Edward Smallshaw Aug 2015

#10word pathfinder

She is so hot
but
she gets me
spot on.

#10word Peace

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2016

#10word Peace

Magazines should be kept
for reading purposes,
not for bullets.

#10word peepers

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2017

#10word peepers

The keyhole
is not just
for
looking through
is it?

#10word perpetually

John Edward Smallshaw Jul 2020

#10word perpetually

with that
with this
with them
with me,
you
disagree.

#10word peter

John Edward Smallshaw Nov 2016

#10word peter

Safe for now
but
someone wants
to crack me
open.

#10word pig.

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2016

#10word pig.

Straw houses are
not
the safest,
but are
the warmest.

#nurseryrhymes

#10word plaster

John Edward Smallshaw Jun 2015

#10word plaster

The sea closes
over everything
like one
big
giant
scab.

#10word pointless

John Edward Smallshaw Jun 2015

#10word pointless

Turning a blind eye when
the inner eye is
telescopic.

#10Word pop

John Edward Smallshaw Aug 2015

#10Word pop

I
open Pandora's
box
only to find
Jack's
smiling face.

#10word poverty.

John Edward Smallshaw Aug 2015

#10word poverty.

Up in the
North country
even the
winds
blow frugally

#10word prays

John Edward Smallshaw Jun 2019

#10word prays

Oh!
Summer come and
rouge my cheeks
with cherry blossom

#10word pre-decimal

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2017

#10word pre-decimal

A smile
could last for
a mile
in old money.

#10word prisoner

John Edward Smallshaw Jun 2016

#10word prisoner

She captured me
and
I'll never be free

so lucky.

#10word profile

John Edward Smallshaw Sep 2017

#10word profile

It's complicated because
Facebook gives you
that get out clause.

#10word prophecy

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 22

#10word prophecy

I'm falling into
the nearer to you
that I get.

#10word Prophet

John Edward Smallshaw Dec 2015

#10word Prophet

The miracle
was in the
birth.
I believe,
I understand.

#christmas

#10word proposal

John Edward Smallshaw Jul 2015

#10word proposal

I stop there,
pop
her
the question,
awaiting
the reply.

#10word protest

John Edward Smallshaw Oct 2015

#10word protest

A seething
mass,
gunfire
tear gas,
in
Montenegro
men cry.

#10word publicity

John Edward Smallshaw Aug 2015

#10word publicity

Run with the pack?
You
better howl
like a wolf

#10word Pyrrhic

John Edward Smallshaw May 2015

#10word Pyrrhic

Some try to save the world but can't save themselves.

#10word question

John Edward Smallshaw Sep 2015

#10word question

Does
she
see me
in my dreams
or
just
hers?

#10word question

John Edward Smallshaw Sep 8

#10word question

She's called time,
bedtime
am I in for a
treat?

#10word questionnaire

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2016

#10word questionnaire

What if,
life was the destination
and
not the journey.

#10word race

John Edward Smallshaw Oct 2015

#10word race

A competition
between the
past, present
and the
Poetic
condition.

#10word racers.

John Edward Smallshaw May 2016

#10word racers.

Rabbit stew?

winner makes a dinner,
the tortoise ate well.

#10word rebound.

John Edward Smallshaw Apr 2016

#10word rebound.

The pain
never goes away,

it just hides
and waits.

#10word renewal

John Edward Smallshaw Jul 2016

#10word renewal

Regret nothing
remember the best thing
and
that was you.

#10word reset

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2019

#10word reset

Can someone please switch
Monday off,
it hurts my eyes.

#10word resonate.

John Edward Smallshaw Jun 2018

#10word resonate.

We all need
to be keyed
and
played in tune

#10word Ressurection

John Edward Smallshaw Nov 2016

#10word Ressurection

On Tenth Avenue
where she
dismantles you

you become whole.

Dreams of New York

#10Word Revelations

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2016

#10Word Revelations

I wonder if God
sent the bible
to be
proofread.

#10word revolver

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2017

#10word revolver

We live
and die
so
others can
do
the same.

#10word revolver

John Edward Smallshaw May 2015

#10word revolver

I am satellite,
tonight
I am
moving in
her orbit.

#10word revolver

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2016

#10word revolver

I have the
whip hand,
but she
holds
the whip.

#10word Riches

John Edward Smallshaw Sep 2018

#10word Riches

Weekend,
spend it
freely
there's more
where this came from.

#10word Risks

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2016

#10word Risks

Chances always are or
they're not,
chance upon them
anyways.

#10word Robin

John Edward Smallshaw Jul 2015

#10word Robin

The web untangled
becomes another
string to the
archers bow.

#10word roundabout

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2016

#10word roundabout

If valued as worthless
am I worthless
than you
value.

..creating equality is an exercise in humility.

#10word rumours

John Edward Smallshaw Sep 2015

#10word rumours

Peter Piper picked
his nose
he never picked
pickled peppers.

#10word Russian

John Edward Smallshaw Dec 2016

#10word Russian

A full Samovar
for one cuppa cha'
seems like
overkill.

#10words

John Edward Smallshaw Apr 2015

#10words

Performance Poets
are the babies
of mad gods
with rabies.

#spittinginks

#10words

John Edward Smallshaw Oct 2014

#10words

The day matures,
ripens and
I stand here
and rot.

#10words

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2015

#10words

I count each kiss
on the abacus,
beads
feed
me.

#10words

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2015

#10words

If she is the cream.
I am
the happy
cat.

#10words

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2015

#10words

Summer fields
yield up to me
their
unassuming
blooming
beauty.

#10words

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2015

#10words

I dream on
only to give substance
to the night.

#10words

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2015

#10words

As I
kiss
her lips,
her eyes
swallow
me
entirely.

#10words

John Edward Smallshaw Oct 2014

#10words

Preserve me in memory,
I want to remember
your taste.