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Davies was almost right when he wrote that verse of his;
Pointing out the wonders that active people miss.
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In the hours before dawn the animals stirred
A pot bellied pig passed the word.
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The medics will all condemn it
It makes the cardiologists swoon.
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It is a simple think we ask
There is no mammoth arduous task
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I’ll do what I want and go at my own speed
Life is for living will become my new creed.
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We’ve all heard it said a thousand times
Poetry isn’t just stuff that rhymes.
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I see you but cannot touch
I hear you but cannot speak.
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I keep a little box
In my bedroom, on the floor.
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She stood breast high amidst the corn
Much beautiful and excellent and fair
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It could only happen in the U S of A
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For he’d have a couple of swords that were sharp
And all I’d be armed with would be a highly strung harp.
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I met him long before I knew him
His smiling face a beacon in any crowd
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Did you know that thanks to them!
A British printer can’t use an “em”.
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There is St. Patrick’s day if you’re Irish and Burns Night if you’re a Scot
But not much for the English even St. George’s almost been for
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They say that money doesn’t buy happiness
But at least it’d get me out of my current mess.
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You want my worst but that cannot be
For excellence is second nature to me.
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I am an evil physco with accent on the phys.
STOP!
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Morning, noon or night. In fact any time of day
By the pleasure of a book I am happily borne away!
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I have seen the rocks like crouching creatures.
Seen them change their eternal features.
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I’ve been poor, I know what it’s about.
But when I was down I did not shout!
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Her day began like a flame on a new trimmed wick
Through many hours she gave her all
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Sat at my computer idly scanning the screen
Flicking through pages where loafers have been.
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Some poetic forms are frankly rubbish.
Eliciting odium from a lover of verse.
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Fast flowing food store
Contaminated by progress
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Long ago celebration were hi-jacked and given brand new clothes.
The original meaning suppressed in favour of some infant, baby king.
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Like the great Gautama I must sit beneath a bough.
And from this mystery some sense must prise.
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I cannot promise to fulfil all your wishes
I only promise I’ll wash the dishes!
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Remember the small craft answering Dynamo’s call
To rescue the army with it’s back to the wall.
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We live in a confusing world,
where all is not as it seems.
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