every single f*cking cherry (originally written and published in 2025 — parental advisory: contains strong language)
CHERRY HARVEST 2025 POEM: — Excuse my French but….. (Yes the darn Iberian azure winged magpies have done it again in ’26… They just LOVE organic cherries it seems!! I just wish they’d left me a few… Please excuse the language Every Single F*cking Cherry Every f*cking cherry, yet againThose blue-winged bst*rds nickedThey simply swooped […]
haiku: the truth
I don’t often try to write a haiku-style verse but this one sprang to mind in words of 5-7-5 syllables:
starved for love: parts 1 and 2
An attempt at creating some amusing verses inspired by recent posts (May 2026) made by the esteemed British poet and humorist Henry Normal on his Facebook page Starved for Love(Parts I. and II.) I.(The Starving Artist) Poet:“I love you more than meat pieSlathered with mushy peasIn fact I’m so besottedYou’ve got me on my knees […]
too hot today | a springtime poem for 2026
May 2026: I was recently reminded that I have tended to write some kind of rhyming homage to Spring in recent years around about now… This time though something a bit different as I’m not feeling in so much of a rhyming mood today… 🙂 21st May 2026:Too Hot Today Already too hot today!Yet it […]
lament for a divided kingdom
A first draft… Lament for a Divided Kingdom (2026)…. Jotted this afternoon and inspired by discovering that in the UK some popular brands of cigarettes are now almost £20 for 20! Good grief!! Still trying to decide whether or not to change the word ‘traitor’ (verse 4) for ‘canker’ …but thereafter I’d have to find […]
death and resurrection (aka: not the man I used to be)
Somewhat inspired by being reminded about the ‘Ship of Theseus’ this morning… with, perhaps, a hint of Easter spirit still at play in the last minute re-titling… a quickly jotted ‘first draft’… Posted while I am still feeling myself!: Death and Resurrection I’m no longer the man I used to beThere’s thirty trillion reasons whyFor […]
all the violent people
A quickly penned draft lyric that I imagined being sung to a well-known Lennon & McCartney tune… Annie McCardle (All the Violent People) Old Annie McCardlelies in ICU just after her handbag was snatchedWho will they catch?Cops say likely no one the mugger was wearing a hoodThey were up to no good All the violent […]
‘He’ that raises our voices
With Easter approaching, and as the crisis in the Middle East persists, here I bring to the table a periodically influenced prayer… If we cannot heal the world, then at least let us have our helium… who’d have thought it was so useful! 🙂 (First draft 02/04/26) He That Raises Our Voices(Prayer 2026) He that […]
thoughtless gods | when our intelligence exceeds our wisdom (again)
Inspired by a Youtube link to some thoughts about AI from one of Google’s former senior execs. and author of ‘Scary Smart:The Future of Artificial intelligence’ — Mo Gawdat:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I39UoIGTptc Thoughtless gods We humans are so good at proudly inventingThings that might well kill us allFor our intelligence exceeds our wisdomAnd we forget ‘pride comes before […]
a quick glance in the mirror
I shouldn’t have looked… (based on a true story); another poem on the topic of the shock of aging: A Quick Glance in the Mirror… Who is that in the mirror?I’ll swear it isn’t meSurely I’m younger, better-lookingWith a smile that needs no dentistry Mine can’t be that wizened visageSkin like bark on an old […]