Crow
One raucous crow
sat up a tree;
he was looking down
his nose at me,
‘Cautious be.”
he cautioned me;
the rest of the day
I trod cautiously.
The Arnold Trophy
The fact that Mathew Arnold, the poet, wasn’t the inspiration for the Arnold Trophy for Bodybuilding came as something of a shock to me.
I mean, Matthew Arnold, the poet, was surely one of the twentieth century’s foremost exponents of the dumbell – even though he died in eighteen eighty-eight.
This sequence of poems I have called, ‘The Diminishment of TRUTH’
“TRUTH Poem”
TRUTH
is wasted on the youth;
“Where is your proof?”
you ask.
“How uncouth!”
I respond,
“My truth
may not be your truth –
for I am long in the tooth
and you…
are young…
and inexperienced…
and have limbs that don’t creak.
The TRUTH,
of which I speak,
is for the older person,
the bolder person,
the ‘the days are getting colder’ person.
Him.
Or her.
Or them.
Or it.
Hmmmm.
Not sure about that bit –
I may have to edit
a lit-
A little bird once told me
that I was worth two bushes…
that was handy advice
at the time;
though I never wrote about it
in a rhyme.
I may have misremembered that…
it could have been a cat.
As T. S. Eliot once said:
‘A book is like the colour red’
or maybe it was something else
that he said.
Truth be told,
I’m growing old.
Older by the second,
and my truth is not
all that it shaped up to be…
am I fecund?
TRUTH is…
I hadn’t the foggiest what that word meant…
until I looked it up.
Does that make me a mug?
Or a cup?
–//–
“TRUTH Limerick”
There once was an abstract concept called TRUTH,
that was given to all in their youth
but, the the truth of it is
TRUTH is all bubbles and fizz,
and LIES are the gin and vermouth.
–//–
“TRUTH Haiku”
TRUTh is just a word…
National Poetry Day
proposed as a prompt.
–//–
“TRUTH Couplet”
A couplet were walking their dogma one day,
TRUtH be told, they never did, but they may.
–//–
“TRUTH in a Single-Line”
TRUTH is the luxury of youth.
And a ‘Parting Shot Across The Bows’:
TRUTH is…
everything;
and yet,
nothing at all.
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“Murder in the Bookshop.”
(aka “Murder!” she cried.)
It was Eleven fifty-five
on a cold, wet Monday;
when brollies did thrive.
It wasn’t a Sun day
when I walked through the door,
and headed for an aisle;
tripped over the body of work
that Catherine Cookson did while
away her hours in writing the text;
and, upon altering direction,
I arrived at the scene of the crime-fiction section.
“Next!” I proclaimed as I took up a book,
an Agatha Christie? “No!”
By hook or by crook
who has taken the fiction
of Hercule and Jane?
I took a Sci-fi novel instead,
and will have to return
to the scene of the crime-fiction section
once more, once again.
Posted in Poetry
Why do herds
suddenly appear…?
Maybe it’s because you’re a farmer carrying a large bale of… hey!
What?
Those cows.
Yes?
They’re herding this way.
Ah! I see, you are a punster.
Yes, and the name farmer is derived from the old ‘Fermor’ which meant tax-collector.?
But, my name is not Farmer it’s Doug. And I have a shovel.
“Clang!”
Touché, Doug.
That’s Mr. Doug, to you.
Touché, Mr. Doug.
Précisément!
Queen Mary was hairy
Queen Jane was plain
Queen Anne was a man
Queen Caroline was…
… well, a porcupine?
… Queen Sue was not a gnu
“Who? We’ve never had a Queen Sue!”
Oh.
Well, Queen Alexandra was… a candelabra
… Queen Josephine sold paraffin
to a puffin
that had considerably less than nuffin’
Queen Gertrude
(of Hamlet fame)
was particularly rude
to a fellow who interrupted her interlude
(and ‘he’ was particularly lewd!)
As for the kings…
There was an old woman who did,
though what she did she always kept hid,
she brushed under carpets,
bought fruit at fruit markets,
and she’d polish the bedsheets, God forbid.
Some more on this woman who did;
she secretly kept some things hid;
she was a spy for the Russians,
kept house for the Prussians;
she walked a thin line, yes, she did.
Furthermore, about this woman who did;
she was caught out when trying to bid
for some documents old,
that she wanted to hold
and pass to her contact, Leonid.
Finally, on this woman who did;
she was caught by a man in Madrid;
he was a double, you know
agent So-and-So-So;
who went by the code name of Syd.
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