Stillness Class

Hosted a stillness group
I served cock-a leekie soup
Nothing happened next
What did you expect?
A light show in a chicken coop?

A Chocolate Orange

Sentimental for remembrance

Of childhood sentiments

Of chocolate segments
nothing rhymes with orange

 

Pricked Conscience

Reached a fork in the road
A pitch fork
In the pitch darkness
It pricked my conscience

Miss Anthropy

Miss Anthropy deactivated Facebook
Living in a vicarious virtual void
Erstwhile friends kidnapped by social media
Even her dog was annoyed

Miss Anthropy was bitter towards Twitter
Her followers fell short of 5k
A goal to prove the world was kind
A shield to keep her demons away

Miss Anthropy retreated into a twilight existence
A bleak future beckoned without a foothold
Obstinate obscurity and sliding into oblivion
Out of the darkness she suddenly struck gold

Miss Anthropy wasn't born to despise mankind
Help was needed to rid her of hate
She changed her ways on a day of redemption
When she found Hello Poetry and her true soul mate!

Lallana's Banana

Adam Lallana ate a banana
Then found no bin for the skin
He threw it in a hedge
Then ate fruit and veg
And became melancholy

Healing Moon

As I lay gazing at a star filled sky
In the throes of woe in the dead of night
A beautiful healing moon appeared
In my line of sight

Belief in Relief

Woke up again to agonising pain
4.30am as if a daily sickening alarm call
Enough time passed for last night's medication
To leave me like a slighted guardian angel
This angry nerve by the name of sciatic
This debilitating condition is no amateur dramatic
Slipping a disc onto me will you?
Do you know who I am?
I have friends
Back, hip, buttock, thigh, knee, calf and foot
I laugh in the face of your desperate tears   
Is that all you can fight back with?
The medics have heard it all before
Another holder of a low pain threshold
Try this, do that. sort yourself out
A five minute walk leaves a raging inferno
The limb seeks revenge for this testing temerity
There's always someone worse off than you
Self pity wins no friends
This means nothing when trapped in a moment of desperation
Got to find a way
Got to find the signpost to health
I've got to

Stuck In The Middle Of Age

A series of jobs but never a career
Looking to the heavens for a seer

Frozen dreams not thawing in the deep midsummer
Time like a drain in need of a plumber 

Time falling away without a purpose
Lacking mirth and feeling worthless
Waiting to be discovered but lacking tenacity
Malnourished but lacking voracity


Reaching out for a reason to quell his rage
Stuck in the middle of his age

Waiting For The Day

Waiting for the day that may never come
No angry faces filled with hate
No speeding metal boxes driven by thugs
No fishing for harm with evil bait

Waiting for the end of never ending crime
Offenders scarring, riddling with strife
Victim's cases too often forgotten
No rehabilitation with society's lowlife

Waiting for an era with a new world order
The end of mankind's flailing flaws
Humanity's enduring propensity for injury
Killing and dying in the name of a cause

Waiting in vain for a day without pain
Religion twisted into a killing machine
Refugees labelled as economic migrants
Waiting for the day that's never been

Golfer Afraid of Affray at Fraying Fairway

• Man accused of stepping on toes of Steptoe
• Rookie gardener allergic to a newly mowed lawn
• Golfer afraid of affray at fraying fairway
• Metal detecting benefit cheat found with iron giro
• Football legend's club foot described as leg end
• Cereal killer allergic to flakes of corn
• Bird thief arrested wearing budgie smugglers