i am not that type of madness anymore
it stopped when the clocks
started working once more
when i shuffled direct debits
and mortgage payments found my door
Tag: poems
Conclusions – Written Friday 1st November 2019 (Aged 44)
i do look at other people
and wonder how they cope
i looked at someone recently
and wonder to myself
had they ever found conclusions
Writing Pads – Written Friday 1st November 2019 (Aged 44)
margins of error
or just margins
and ruled lines
which seem to have faded over time
i wrote it all down
even though the pages
have begun to colour in yellows and browns
Foreign Currency – Written Friday 1st November 2019 (Aged 44)
i always –
settle back on being me
anything else –
feels like foreign currency
Childhood Trauma – Written Tuesday 29th October 2019 (Aged 44)
people tell me
someone
is confident and strong
all I see is a host of problems
that most likely happened when they were young
We Thought Thatcherism Was Dead – Written Sunday 27th October 2019 (Aged 44)
when tony blair –
lied about the iraq war
and claimed,
god said he was right
we realised that ‘new labour’
the third way, was just tory light
The Tiny Boat – Written Friday 25th October 2019 (Aged 44)
the tiny boat
on an unforgiving sea
the boat is fine
but life tacks,
and chooses the lines
Can You See the Night Sky? – Written Thursday 23rd October 2019 (Aged 44)
hello,
can you see the night sky?
the moon sits low
and stars smile back at you
I Should Have Kicked it Down the Hall – Written Thursday 23rd October 2019 (Aged 44)
i should have written her a poem
she could actually understand
and i should have remembered –
all the lines
in that sitcom that we wrote
does she now remember green park?
and how that dream went up in comedy smoke
Power – Written Monday 23rd September 2019 (Aged 44)
you fire your rapid fire ammunition
that is when people confuse confidence
and over promote selfish ambition
you may never melt down but…
personality does experience heated liquidation
