Tag Archives: upper norwood poets

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.

A Man Who Calls Himself James

A man who calls himself James

Is known by many other names.

Some call him Nevile

And others the Devil –

I’ve seen James dance in flames!

Sirens and Birds

I heard sirens and birds

As I stood

In the darkening wood.

Later, when the sirens where gone

The birds sang on

As I passed through

The churchyard

Pondering on what is true

 

Bare

“The trees are bare”, you said.

The sun shone

And our 2 dogs ran on

Unaware their autumn

Must come. And a gentle breeze

Blew through grasses.

 

When young lovers kiss amidst spring flowers

In their urgent need

They fail to heed

How our hours are fragile as glass.

 

 

Spring and summer pass.

We come to autumn

And the bare tree speaks of mortality.

Table Dancing

I know a young lady named Spink

Who is extremely fond of a drink.

Her and Miss Mabel

Dance on the table

When we gentlemen buy them a drink …

 

Worms

When I am gone

My poetry may live on.

And when I go

Others will know

Whether it is so.

While in the cold ground

There is nothing profound

For worms have no time

For fleeting rhyme.

But love to dine …

Sometimes, in Dreams

Sometimes, in dreams, it seems

To me

That what I feel and see

Is reality.

But, when I awake

I realise my mistake,

And partake in what we designate as reality.

Yet I may dream

And the solid things I feel and see

May merely seem to be

As Poe saw long ago