Friday, November 25, 2016

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 270 (H)

RETREAT-INTO-A-RAINSTORM
She's a Christmas cracker,
one I would like to pull.
I'm sure I'd get the push
for the girl's too beautiful.

The night has grown ugly,
my shyness is quite plain.
Time to leave the bar
and brave the stormy-rain.

Thursday, November 24, 2016

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 270 (G)

THE CUCKOO SEASON CLOCKED OUT
A cuckoo I was to hear call
through the woods at Rushpool Hall.
The first cuckoo call of spring,
to my ears the sound was to wing.
Summer too has now gone in a breeze
with the green and lilac on the trees.

WILD(E) ABOUT HER ?
She was ever youthful,
such a beautiful display."
This wasn't a true picture
of Dorianna Gray !

A BURNING-GOLD AGE
The golden age of Elizabeth
still got burnings at the stake.
The welcome of a new age
could still bring some a foul-fate.

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 270 (F)

A WORLDLY-OYSTER
New breath from his caress,
new life from his dreamy kiss,
the man gave the girl.
Her lover was heavenly-bliss.
She had shone like a pearl
in the grasp of a man of the world.

A-BUSY-HONEY-BEE-CITY-IS-
PATTAYA-AH-YES
The buzz in Pattaya City
feeds me poetic-energy,
youthful ladies keep me young.
Yes the buzz in Pattaya City
feeds me poetic-energy,
youthful ladies honey on my tongue !

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 270 (E)

GIVING AND TAKING MEASUREMENTS
I am 6foot 1,
was near 6foot 3.
6 foot 1, girl,
age has done to me !
I take size 12
now in a shoe.
A size that's less
cramps my toes blue
like my blue eyes
which size up you !

WAS-TOO-BUSY-BRINGING-OTHERS-TOGETHER
A Jane Austen match-maker were you
and you met your own match,
but you just let the guy get away.
Slipped through your fingers your catch.
Your match yet no match-maker he,
there are things not damn well meant to be.

Monday, November 21, 2016

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 270 (D)

WARM WELCOME
I was to meet you
at your ice-cold-igloo
though it was warm inside.
There was a yeti
who'd dropped by for tea.
His snowgirl white as a bride.
All this I dreamed
after I had been
to tea at your place.
The girl had been pale
as a wintery tale
and the guy had a hairy-face.
Yes the girl had been pale
as a wintery tale
told by a whispering ghost.
Outside was a storm
but your room was warm,
you the perfect host.

BOUND-FOR-HOME-THE-MAN'S-FROG
I met a strange man
walking his frog
(or should that be hopping ?).
I asked "Where's the dog ?"
He replied "Dead and gone.
I've got this new pet.
He leaves no hairs
though he's slimy and wet.
I keep him in the bowl
from which my dog had fed.
The dog used to lead,
now the frog is led.
He's such a slow mover
to be very fair.
By leaps and bounds
we're sure getting there."

A TITBIT ?
Have you heard
Britain's smallest bird
is the wren ?
The long-tailed tit
would have been it
but tail's length
here disqualifies
the smallest size.

ABSINTHE ADVENTURE AFTER AFFECT !
Absinthe - the green fairy -
we drank that night,
and away, oh away,
we pair took flight
into a dragon of a dream
to awake fairy or dragon green !

A-BROOKLYN-BRIDGE-BURNING-BLONDE-YES
The 'Brooklyn Bonfire' was Clara Bow,
silver screen "It Girl", film's 'nympho'
for many men deemed in-the-know !
Unlike a silent movie show
everybody's mouth was on the go.
The 'Brooklyn Bonfire' burnt bridges,
always a little rough round the edges.

TIDAL-TRIDENT-TRIUMPH
There's been a revolution,
much of the media was wrong.
The people have spoken,
the battle is now won
by all the Brexiteers
despite many MPs wishes.
Britannia rules the waves,
has forked the EU fishes.

Friday, November 18, 2016

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 270 (C)

THE LONGER LASTING MUSE
For the Muse of all my muses;
to the Muse I do now address;
you've been the most enduring.
You're this poet's gifting goddess.

ITS WANDERING MINSTREL'S TUNE
ON HEART-STRINGS MINE
Home is where my heart is.
So it be I may roam,
to settle down where I wish.
My body is my heart's home.

CARRIED TO HER CASTLE ?
The girl was against the rich
till she won the Lottery.
Now she's a right royal bitch
when in poorer company.

Work was for the damn-fools
whose taxes paid her bills.
She'd never worked since school
and now she never will.

LOFTY LINES ?
I know that you
think me aloof,
but, young lady,
where is your proof ?

Perhaps my head
is in another land,
you by my side,
your hand in my hand !

ADAM'S-ARTY-EYE-
AMIDST-A-GARDEN'S-BIG-TREES
Eve's in the garden.
Find her naked form
his eyes - with leaves -
Adam won't go adorn.
Hers is such beauty
and there he sees
that Eve's not wood
to cover with leaves.

Thursday, November 17, 2016

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 270 (B)

A MORTAL MUSE-VERSE MINE
She loved the idea
she would last in my lines.
Would last in my verse,
would last in my rhyme.
Forever be the muse
who'd stolen my time.
How long is forever
as to my short rhyme ?

FAME-WAS-TO-FADE-TOO-ONE-DAY
She trod the boards,
turned up on page.
Her portrait was painted,
she was all the rage.

Find life moves along,
even the so-very-fair age.
But her fame lived on
like a phantom on stage.

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 270 (A)

SCOTTISH SNAPSHOTS
Top of the castle
in Scotland
we viewed Edinburgh
hand in hand.
The day was dull.
It was to rain.
We said that we
would come again.
But we fell silent
as the cannon
you photographed
with me leant on.
We never did
a new visit arrange
Unlike the weather
we sure would change.

THE GOLD-BRICK LIAR MOULD
They'll promise us the moon
or a land that is as gold,
the power-seeking politicians
who'll never break the mould.

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 269 (F)

FLOWERS AND CONFECTIONARY
I'll send chocolates, milk chocolates,
and I will send roses red.
Yes I'll send roses too, a bed of roses.
Have you room for a double-bed ?!

BOOK BANNERS WERE BOTH
Delete, censor of redact
as with those made a pact,
the Hitlerites, the Stalinists,
two enemies of the capitalists
whom us books will not deny
because they'd have us buy buy buy ?

WENT THEY TO THE 'WRECKING' BALL ?
It was a St Trinian's fancy dress.
Girls turned up - hair a damn mess -
in gym-slips and school uniforms,
with guys impersonating the headmistress.
All were wrecked - of course - by morn.

PERSONALLY...
Words 'male' and 'female'
are becoming no more.
'Person' and 'they'
are to the fore.

What persons they
to be nondescript
so as not to offend
some prick or tit ?

Monday, November 7, 2016

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 269 (E)

A MAGICIAN
She'd not be his wife
but she'd be his 'daughter'.
Much younger than he
to the tavern he'd walk her.
They'd sit drink, talk
all about his poetry
and the magic voice
of the otherworldly.

No, she'd not be his wife
but she'd be his 'daughter'.
Listen to his tricks
on making wine out water.

NOT-ONE-A-WOLF ?
She'd has soldiers,
she'd had sailors.
Now she can joke
"They were all tailors !"

It paid her rent
and she was poor.
But it kept all
bar the wolf at her door ?

OVEN-HOT BIRD ADDITIONS
It's succulent sausages
with a-plenty stuffing
and a couple of chestnuts find.
She likes an Xmas tuck-in
to feed her juicy mind !

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 269 (D)

THE PUMKIN-LANTERN PLANET
WITH SLITTY MOUTH NOR EYES ?
Men go digging way-deep mines.
In the dark their torches shine.
Seems the earth we are hollowing,
lighting it inside like a pumpkin.

FISHING FOR THE CLUE
I went to fish
and caught a clue.
I followed the line
that led to you.
Funny that I now feel
you were the rod and reel.

CAUGHT IN THE MOMENT
Halts the hour,
stops the clock,
caught the features
where her locks
are brushed by the breeze.
She's a picture to please.

DERAILING-DEMOCRACY-DUE-TO-
SHADY-PARLIAMENT-MEMBERS
Men didn't use to have the vote
let alone all females.
Fewer and fewer cast a vote.
Democracy's running off the rails.
But many came out for a referendum
whose vote the losers would see undone !

A TOP-DECK DANCER PAIR
I love the lady legs
that are made for dancing.
I love the lady heart
that is made for romancing.
Shake a leg, let pump the heart,
on the dance-deck, girl, shall we two start ?

PC
Personal Computer.
Police Constable.
Politically Correct.
Delete Personal Computer.
Thought Police is left ?

SKY-SIGN
A new age is not
always golden.
Good and bad,
both do roll on.
Aquarius, oh Aquarius,
the two of them heighten ?

Friday, November 4, 2016

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 269 (C)

A BUTTERFLY COLLECTION
"Welcome to the collective.
We don't like individuality.
We don't like originality.
We DO permit diversity
to let you think you are free.
Of our power find us protective !"

Thursday, November 3, 2016

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 269 (B)

A JEALOUS GOD OF WAR
The thunder god Thor
way up in the blue
hit me with lightning
when I set eyes on you.

Hit me with lightning
the thunder god Thor.
I saw you, girl,
but he also saw !

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 269 (A)

YOU'RE MY AIM
I'll be straight with you girl,
I'm a straight sort of guy.
Straight as an arrow.
Your heart's my bullseye !

NAUGHTY NIN
The very erotic Anais Nin
was an Xmas stockings filler
for he, that porny-novelist,
who was known as Henry Miller.
He'd bed Anais as well as his wife.
Such can be the bohemian life !

CORRECTION: 'completion's in sports too' not 'competition's' should be the line in A-TOWER-OF-POWER-VERSE (many folk don't feel complete without success).