Category Archives: creative writing

A Gossipy Young Lady Known as Cook

A gossipy young lady known as Cook

Has published a fast selling book.

An erotic dancer called Lou

Says we must sue!

But all Cook says is true …!

My Poetic Muse

The desk is cold to my hand.

I can not command

My poetic muse.

So think of girls who lose their shoes,

And poets who

Say more than they ought to

Of women and wine

And men who may seem

To spend their time

In fleeting dreams.

 

But it is no crime

For a poetic muse

To lose

Her ethereal shoes.

Yet what can be said

Should she lay her fickle head

Upon the poet’s empty bed

Where love sleeps.

Or is dead.

Being Blind

Being blind I find

I can read and write in the dark.

I have some small sight

So  turn on the light at night

To prevent the stubbing of toes

And avoid

The stairs.

For, if I fall

All dreams and nightmares

May end

And eternal dark descend.

 

 

But the night

Will shut out the light

For us all

In the end

Whether we have blind eyes

Or otherwise.

My Muse

The desk is cold to my hand.

I can not command

My poetic muse.

So think of girls who lose their shoes,

And poets who

Say more than they ought to

Of women and wine

And men who may seem

To spend their time

In fleeting dreams.

 

But it is no crime

For a poetic muse

To lose

Her ethereal shoes.

Yet what can be said

Should she lay her fickle head

Upon the poet’s empty bed

Where love sleeps.

Or is dead.

A Young Lady of Peru

There was a young lady of Peru

Who was famous for losing a shoe.

One hot day in May

They found it in Bombay,

Which was strange as she’d never left Peru!

The Rain Fell

The rain fell

In the wood I know well.

I could say it’s sound

Was very profound

And the forest rang with birdsong.

 

 

All of this is true.

But I was wet through

And wanted home

And hot tea!

Unreliable Narrator

A young man who works as a waiter

Has a reputation as an unreliable narrator.

He has written a novel

In a rundown old hovel.

But some whisper, he’s only a waiter …!

spectacle

A young lady who wears 1 spectacle

Has a reputation for being very respectable.

I’ve seen her at night

Dancing by the moon’s light,

And she’s only been wearing 1 spectacle …!

I Have Heard it Said

I have heard it said

That girls kick a shoe under the bed

In a purely accidental way.

Then,  in retrieving their footwear they take care

To check for knives

Or other things that threaten lives.

 

 

And, should they find more than a shoe

(which some girls do),

They run from men

Who would harm them.

 

 

But not all girls do.

And of those who do

Not all make their escape …

Bella’s Complaint

When a young lady named Miss Bella

Went and called me a rude fella,

I said, “my language isn’t crude!

And you madam are most rude!

You are thinking of some other fella!”