‘Wonky Words’

Posted on July 15, 2022 by | 7 comments

Just to let you know that ‘Wonky Words’ is now available on Kindle and as a paperback from Amazon.

My latest (mainly poetry) poetry book, is raising funds for @TheSanctuaryAngels who provide Angel grants to sanctuaries, animal shelters (and the like) all around the world.

Almost 90 pieces of hand-crafted work are within. Some of my photographs, and a few of my drawings accompanying the words – but don’t let my artwork put you off.

Please check it out at Amazon, download a free sample, write me a letter of complaint, go for a walk, be your own best friend, hug a toy hippo (real ones are a bit large for hugging).

Here is the link: https://amzn.eu/d/gfAes71

Take care; but, most of all… take care.

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“I’m not a complete idiot!”

Posted on September 28, 2022 by | Leave a comment

‘No, I’m not a complete idiot…’

is what I say,

in reply to the question,

‘Are you a complete Idiot?’

‘And then I add,

‘… I have a few bits missing; so, not a complete idiot, am I?’

Paraphrasing from Shania,

‘This doesn’t impress them much’.

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I will write Haiku

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I will write Haiku;

and, more specifically,

ones that are this length.

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Cactus Caucus

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The Cacti had met

to sort out the Pros and Cons,

but mostly the Cons.

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One Day

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She said, ‘I’ll write that book…

one day.

It will say so much

that I want to say.

All my life has been the basis,

of thousands of words,

from a myriad places,

where once my feet did tread and pass,

tarmac roads, grass-grown paths;

and all I have to do is look,

and I can see the words there,

in that book…

… and I will write that book…

one day’.

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Words from that very mushroom

Posted on September 28, 2022 by | Leave a comment

Up an up, into the air, and up

much higher than the buttercup,

my face it wears a worried frown,

for what goes up, must come down.

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Mushroom

Posted on September 28, 2022 by | 3 comments

I threw a mushroom in the air

I saw it land I know not where;

now these few words I have to share,

for they are truly beyond compare.

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Sheeps in the night

Posted on September 27, 2022 by | Leave a comment

We passed

like sheeps in the night,

exchanging no glances

with one another,

nor bartering comments within the dimming light;

then discounting other sheeps that passed us not,

as they never looked our way,

nor exchanged unspoken comments

with the hidden stars that shone not down

‘fore break of day.

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There’s always a train

Posted on September 27, 2022 by | Leave a comment

I’ve said it before,

and I’ll say it again,

that in every episode

there is always a train.

And a steam train, too,

of the time,

and, usually, irrelevant

to the crime.

.

.Why not take a look at my previous poem upon this theme.

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Sporadic

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Words

.

coming at

.

you

.

.

like

.

hailstones from

the big

.

.

.

.

sky

.

making

.

your

head

bleed.

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The Haiku

Posted on September 27, 2022 by | Leave a comment

Choose a Haiku form

it is short and quite simple

and then go from there.

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Below, for example

a poem that can make you think,

open eyes, and blink.

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‘Walking in the woods’

Walking in the woods

more trees than most neighbourhoods:

here my mind will ease.

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