John Edward Smallshaw: Poems

#10word truths

John Edward Smallshaw Oct 2017

#10word truths

Yes
I love you
and you
know that
don't you?

#10word truths.

John Edward Smallshaw Jan 2015

#10word truths.

She has the ability to
humble or to
make me.

10word truths

John Edward Smallshaw May 2015

10word truths

There is only one reason
and that reason
is you.

#10word Truths

John Edward Smallshaw Apr 2015

#10word Truths

White lies are
the grey elephants
that run through
rooms.

#10word turntable

John Edward Smallshaw Apr 2016

#10word turntable

Instantly
exciting me,
moreover
inviting me
to see
her collection

#10word twinkle

John Edward Smallshaw May 2015

#10word twinkle

We fall into
each others eyes
and see the
stars.

#10word Twitter

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2016

#10word Twitter

Waiting for Tweets
to arrive,
but the
postman
only whistles.

#10word undecided

John Edward Smallshaw Jan 2017

#10word undecided

What do we
want
and do we
want
it now?

10word universe

John Edward Smallshaw Jan 2015

10word universe

On the plus side
we can ride the
stars
tonight.

#10word Untitled

John Edward Smallshaw May 2015

#10word Untitled

Cauterise the wounds
to heal and
feel the pain
again

#10word Untitled

John Edward Smallshaw Jul 2016

#10word Untitled

Haiku
like
Kung Fu
has
a strict code
of
conduct

#10word vacancy

John Edward Smallshaw Sep 2019

#10word vacancy

Beware the void,
but
what if
we are the void?

#10word Vase

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2016

#10word Vase

Even as I break
the pieces of
my life
reassemble.

#10word verdict

John Edward Smallshaw Jul 2020

#10word verdict

The internet
is probably guilty
of murdering
the singing wires.

#10word Vice.

John Edward Smallshaw May 2019

#10word Vice.

Can't think
until
I've had that first
drink of
coffee.

#10word Viva

John Edward Smallshaw Apr 2016

#10word Viva

I loved it and
you
never liked it.

The difference.

#10word voyage

John Edward Smallshaw Dec 2015

#10word voyage

From the promontory
she
waves and
blows me
a kiss.

#10word Vulcan

John Edward Smallshaw Jul 2016

#10word Vulcan

I watch the eruption

sure that

she's a volatile

volcano.

#10word wake up

John Edward Smallshaw Oct 2015

#10word wake up

I really, really
want to know
how the dream
ended.

#10word waltz

John Edward Smallshaw Jun 2016

#10word waltz

Remembrance,
a chance to
dance through
those steps
we took

#10word Wand

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2016

#10word Wand

Together we made
the magic
that made the
loneliness disappear.

#10word want.

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2020

#10word want.

Searching for a spirit guide
the one I had
died.

#10word Warmonger

John Edward Smallshaw Nov 2015

#10word Warmonger

We bring you
shrapnel
made by
the
Krapshell & Co.

#10word warp

John Edward Smallshaw Sep 2015

#10word warp

The
cotton looms
over me.

A millstone around
my neck.

#10word Wat

John Edward Smallshaw Apr 2017

#10word Wat

Tyler's a while
in coming back
just like
King Arthur.

#10word Wavell

John Edward Smallshaw May 2016

#10word Wavell

cutting a track
the jungle grows back,
life goes on.

For the Chindits.

#10word weather

John Edward Smallshaw Aug 2015

#10word weather

Only a few clouds
are tattooed with
the
number nine.

#10word weather

John Edward Smallshaw Nov 2020

#10word weather

Three degrees
in London Town?

I can't hear them singing

#10word weather

John Edward Smallshaw Oct 2016

#10word weather

A shower of hail,
words fail me
I
dry up.

#10word Wednesday

John Edward Smallshaw Jun 2016

#10word Wednesday

Retire early
and
sleep late
that's the way to
compensate.

#10word weekend

John Edward Smallshaw Oct 2016

#10word weekend

a series of
random events
trying to find
some order

#10word weirdness

John Edward Smallshaw Apr 2017

#10word weirdness

Labour day
Labor day,

the day that
no one works?

sounds about right

#slothsrule

#10word Western

John Edward Smallshaw Jul 2020

#10word Western

When those silent thoughts
can't keep the peace.

start shooting.

#10word whatever

John Edward Smallshaw Jan 2017

#10word whatever

Do you ever wonder
if Robert De Niro's
still
waiting?

#songbirds

#10word whatever happened to the pea green boat

John Edward Smallshaw Jul 2015

#10word whatever happened to the pea green boat

They painted it
battleship grey
and
sent it to
war.

sunk in the summer of '73.

#10word why?

John Edward Smallshaw Jul 2020

#10word why?

How can a briefing
take so long in
the telling?

#10word win.

John Edward Smallshaw Nov 2018

#10word win.

In the casino
with big dreams
watching the chips
grow.

#10word winner

John Edward Smallshaw May 2017

#10word winner

Like you've got a head start
on a broken heart.

#10word winner.

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 6

#10word winner.

Finally

I am bigger
than the triggers
that trigger me.

#10word Winter

John Edward Smallshaw Feb 2016

#10word Winter

You can't catch
a head cold
with
a butterfly net

#10word Winter

John Edward Smallshaw Jul 2015

#10word Winter

Some days the
Sun
seems so far
away
from home.

#10word wishlist

John Edward Smallshaw Nov 2023

#10word wishlist

Yesterday sorrow
tomorrow sorrow
but the day after
laughter,
hopefully.

#10word Woman

John Edward Smallshaw Dec 2015

#10word Woman

She dropped me a line
the hook
was
baited.

Caught.

#10word wonder

John Edward Smallshaw Oct 2015

#10word wonder

When
she looks like that
she looks just
like that.

#10word Word

John Edward Smallshaw Jan 2016

#10word Word

If and when
Kingdom comes
I'll probably be
at work

#10word work

John Edward Smallshaw Oct 2017

#10word work

Carrots and sticks
I do tricks
for
carrots and sticks

#10word wow

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2016

#10word wow

The end
lives in all
of us.
The beginning,
few.

#10word yellow

John Edward Smallshaw Aug 2015

#10word yellow

A coward
appears to
disappear
in a box
of bananas.

#10word Zenda

John Edward Smallshaw Mar 2016

#10word Zenda

Caught
between the rebel
and
the blue of her
eyes.

10 x no

John Edward Smallshaw Jan 2015

10 x no

No smoking
no drinking
no laughter
no joy
no boy for a girl
no girl for a boy
no husband
no wife
no children
No life.