for PATAYA TRADER 247 (E)

YES-MOZART-MADE-GREAT-
MUSICAL-LOVE
A queen of the night
in her bedchamber lay.
Mozart's Magic Flute
was in full play.
"Mozart, ah great Mozart,
you turn love into an art !"

A RUN-AROUND WOMAN
The wigwam woman,
she sure wasn't square.
Got around the men
did pretty Running Bare !
"Lady leave your teepee
and come get around me !!"

MELVILLE'S  MARINER
A Billy-be-damn.
A Billy-no-good.
Envy there'll be ever
of a pretty, if poor, Billy Budd.

for PATTAYA TRADER 247 (D)

WILD-WOMAN-WHEELED-HEAD-ON
With a cutlass
and a spyglass,
a ring in ear;
she'd venture
away from censure
this lady-buccaneer.
Go in pusuit
of loot, loot, loot,
rocked and rolled.
Showed no quarter
on the water
in search of gold.
Wildcat, seadog,
with ship's log
and compass;
sailed upon
The Black Swan
this ocean-gypsy-lass.
Girl of steel
at the wheel
in men's attire.
Nobody'd dare
mess with her
loose cannon fire !

for PATTAYA TRADER 247 (C)

No-TALL-TALES-
AND-NO-LONG-NOSE
Like Rapunzel
let down your hair -
when in towering trouble -
and I'll climb up there.

Like Cinderella
who has lost her shoe
I'll slip a brand-new one
on your foot for you.

Like Snowwhite
in her deepest-sleep
vigil over you, girl,
I shall keep.

What I say is true
and this you know
for I am no puppet,
no wooden Pinnochio.

EXTREMELY-ENGAGED-
TO-BE-MARRIED
She went left in the world
and he went right.
Half a circle each,
both met again to unite.
So it is with extremes,
surely with world-politics.
Go far left, go far Right,
only for both to meet and mix.

for PATTAYA TRADER 247 (B)

AN-OLD-SIAM'S-TROPICAL-
SPIDERS-NEWLY-CLIMBED
Outside of my window
a wide cobweb hung
there in a tall tree;
to its branches clung.
Gathered many a gadfly
this trap sure darkly-sprung.

Food for a predator
were these Thai gadflies
caught in the cobweb
and in the pink sunrise
that climbed, like a spider,
into a new morn's skies.

A-TWO-IN-ONE-THAI-FLOWER-
YOU'LL-HERE-FIND
Here the girl comes,
both a Lady-Rose
and a Madam-Lotus.
There she goes,
a flower upon uprooted toes.

BACK-ACROSS-THE-OCEANS-
TO-SHE-THE-OCTOPUS
She had the embrace
of an octopus,
and who was Tom
to make a fuss?

She had an embrace
that was surely-such
on Tom the sailor
the girl had a crush.

A crush, a crush,
a crush had she
on Tom the sailor
home from the seas.

She'd the embrace
of an octopus,
eight muscular arms
hadn't she just !

for PATTAYA TRADER 247 (A)

A-SPRINGTIME-CUCKOO'S
ALL-AROUND CALL
The pure-white snowdrop-flower,
the spring-bright's bluebell,
the bright-spring's crocus hour
and birdsong that wing's well.
Cuckoo-call, spring-madness all,
spin heads with wild spring's spell.

A-Subversives-in-a-Gnomeland-
Verse
one has plastic
the other has pot.
A plastic gnome
and a gnome of pot.

There in the suburbs
two neighbouring houses.
Who is the family fails
to keep up with the Joneses?