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Missing Dinner

There once was a terrible old sinner

Who ate all of my Christmas dinner!

I locked him away

Until New Year’s Day

And ignored his cries for his dinner!

Closing

The clock ticks another year towards its close.

Winter’s clothes will soon replace autumn’s leaf-strewn face.

Spring lies well concealed in the wings

And summertime is a half remembered rhyme

In the ageing poet’s mind

Where everything repeats

And time defeats.

Until all as leaves fall.

Pantomime

She makes no confession

Of her profession

As out of her clothes she slips.

They joke that “it’s friends with benefits”.

 

The clock ticks

And Cinderela is gone.

But no shoe is left behind

For a prince to find.

 

There is no Fairy Godmother.

Yet girls discover

A lover of a kind

In this passing pantomime

Lou Who Got Stuck in Glue

I know a young lady named Lou

Who got stuck in a pot of glue.

When I said, “you’re a snob!”

She called me a yob!

She’s always been stuck up has Lou!

 

Secret Desires

Dreams may express our secret desires.

Those hidden fires

From which many recoil

When awake.

Yet, some partake

And even pour oil

On their dreams.

Their fantasy burns

And  turns into reality.

Ere banality returns

And secret shame burns.

Winter Solstice

The wall clock ticks.

We have reached the Winter Solstice.

The ache in my shoulder

Says, I grow older.

But, after tonight

The evenings will slowly turn bright

And bare trees

Bring forth leaves.

 

 

The longest day will come.

The winter solstice

Will return once more.

But the great see

Must, one day

Sweep all this away

Leaving nothing behind.

Yet we still dance

A Decadent Young Lady Named Lou

A decadent young lady named Lou

Is coming round to mine at two.

We’ll have a lot to drink

But its not what you think!

As the bishop will be there too …!

Miss Green Who Lives in a Washing Machine

I met a young lady named Green

Who lives in a washing machine.

We went at great speed

To fulfill that girl’s need,

And then I awoke from that dream!

 

Surface

A shadow in the bathroom glass.

What I see

Is the public  me.

And when I pass

There will be

No me to see

Merely soulless  glass.

 

 

Yet reflected back

In the verse I leave behind

Some may find

In my rhyme

The black

And white we call art.

 

 

Now in the mirror I see

The surface me.

And not my heart.