Monthly Archives: September 2017

Set a fly to catch a spider

Diving deep I hold my breath.
Who knows what will creep
Out from this rock
(I am beyond shock),
For this is the World Wide Web where spiders wait
And find too late
That the juicy fly
They hoped to entangle is … I

The Shame Game

Shall we play
The game
Of shame
Where you pass
Moral judgement on me
But fail to see,
In the glass
The slightest trace
Of disgrace
In your own sweet face?

Shall I say
By way
Of defence
That you did such and such?
Tis all too much
And a pretence
Of defence
As 2 wrongs do not make a right.
So we fight
And the bed is cold at night.

Public Speaking

I heard his peroration
About the good of the nation
And how we must all stick together
Through stormy weather.

I heard another
Say all men are my brother.
And rich old Jack
Must give what collective Jill does lack.

Looking back at that hall
I recall
The people cheering.
Others jeering,
And the cynics sneering.

The Lost Soul

In the beginning

Sinning

Is like touching a live wire.

You know

That you mustn’t go

There But desire

Twitches

And reputation, riches,

Are for a moment forgot

In pleasure’s  hot

Flush

And rush.

 

Later sinning

Becomes habit forming.

The devil is grinning

And there is no chance of reforming.

You fight

At night

Under sweated sheet.

When the morn breaks

The bird takes Flight

Leaving you in defeat.

Lost Shoe

Who
Left
Her shoe?
What should I do?
For a foot bereft
Of shoe
Is a sorrowful sight to view.
I grieve
As I perceive
That she lost her stocking
Too.
Tis a thing most shocking
To lose both stocking
And shoe …