THE TREE
The brain of the tree
is in the grain of the bark
Spring green leaves fall brown
13022024
www.properjoes.blogspot.com Marian Bironski aka Ian Biro All work Copyright Andy Sewina (c) 2006 - 2024
THE TREE
The brain of the tree
is in the grain of the bark
Spring green leaves fall brown
13022024
TO THE KING OF KINGS
Wise men from the East Astrologers at least come to feast their eyes upon the King bringing gold frankincense and myrrh to the City of David at the centre of the earth where a virgin blessed by God has given birth to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords the Saviour for all sinners who believe for He proclaimed that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life for God did not send his Son into this world to condemn the world but to save the world through him Wise men from the east Astrologers at least come to feast their eyes upon the King bringing gold frankincense and myrrh to the City of David at the centre of the Earth where a virgin blessed by God has given birth to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords the Saviour for all sinners who believe
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CHRISTMAS EVE
Can you believe
it's Christmas Eve today
Mush mush and
Such and such
Slush slush
Slush slush and
Such and such
Mush mush
I don't know much about
Reindeers and snow
but I suppose that they're
out there somewhere
It's Christmas Eve today
can you believe?
24122023
ON THE CYCLICAL SCALE
Compliments of the season to one and all
Maid Marion, Robin Hood (and his merry men)
They tell me that Christmas is for Kings
donkeys wise men shepherds and sheep
others say that Christmas is for puddings
turkeys with or without all the trimmings
One man said it's for feeding the homeless
another said you're either ruthless or roofless
these days, and no one really cares that much
how cynical is that on the cyclical scale
We won't be giving many presents this year
there'll be one or two and they'll cost a packet
you'll know it's yours if the carrier bag rattles
if it doesn't it'll be leftovers for the microwave
Maid Marion, Robin Hood (and his merry men)
compliments of the season to one and all
19122023
DREAM NINE
Something I wrote in 2018...
PURPLE HAZE
He beats and bangs her drums until she comes
And flaps his wings and flies around the room
His winkle-pickers tapping to the tune
He introduces her to rock 'n' roll
He strips and bares his soul and starts to sing
Some people do seem to have such strange ways
When she begins to weep his guitar plays
Some people say this world is just a maze
He tells her that there's nothing much to do
And we're all living in a purple haze
Friday like any other Friday but
It's Friday the thirteenth and that means that
Strange things happen even stranger things are
Forecast ask Hitchcock and Castro et al
Don't listen to the things that people say
And all the Different Ones born on that day
He beats and bangs her drums until she comes
Backflips and flaps his wings and flies away
130418
Dublin collection
BOTH BANKS OF THE LIFFEY
Dublin at first glance the same as last time
and the time before that that I was there
kicking myself now that we didn't go
to see the Molly Malone sculpture this trip
but made up for it by discovering
a new Oscar Wilde figure plonked on a bench
outside Kennedys pub at Trinity College
We walked along both banks of the Liffey
crossing bridges several times in the heat
oh yes it was September but it was warm
I perhaps almost nearly forgot
to mention that the weather was extra hot
In sight of the Phoenix Park Obelisk
the Wellington Monument we turned back
Christ Church Cathedral Dublin Castle and
Saint Patrick's where Jonathan Swift is buried
The GPO on O'Connell Street and James Joyce
looking tired standing in the shadow of the Spire
Full Irish Breakfast at The Boxty House
Guinness straight from the river Liffey
Oyster Stout at the Temple Bar Porterhouse
More churches than the Vatican
more distilleries than Cognac in France
More singers dancers thinkers and drinkers
more writers than a library full of books
More trinkets than Las Vegas Bonanza
more poets musicians and song writers
More pubs than Greene King
07092023
Paris collection
THE TRAFFIC FLOWS
The Eiffel Tower mellows magnificently
lit up in red and golden yellows
Above the rooftops in every arrondissement
her searchlight sweeps the Parisian night
Clockwise
and counter clockwise all day long
relentless
the traffic flows on the Peripherique
likewise on Rive Gauche and Rive Droite
the cars go hell for leather hammer and tongs
The Sacre Coeur Basilica whiter than white
appears ivory when lit up at night
The Bateaux Mouches cruise up and down insane
from Pont de L'Alma on the river Seine
And Paris sleeps but doesn't sleep at all
Croissants Brioche Baguettes and Pain de 'Epi
all need to be made to feed the morning crowd
Yawning we head for the Metro - Airport bound
30082023/Paris collection
TOP DOG
The dog that usually comes to stay
belongs to the owner of the cat
top that top cat, top dog too
But the new dog that came yesterday
looks like a Cavapoo or a Shih Tzu
he's actually a King Charles Spaniel
Kris will be the one to look after him
feed and water him pamper him
walk him in the forest twice a day
Chodź tu mała, Kris beckons to the dog
WoW! Does he understand Polish? I ask
Yes replies Kris and Latvian too
14042023
TINTERNET LOST AND FOUND
The dog that looked like a Cavapoo
that came to stay at our house
escaped through the back door yesterday
We ran out after him calling his name
down the garden we went into the forest
and all the way to the creek
But he was nowhere to be seen
we asked everyone we saw down there
and all the dog walkers to look out for him
everybody said that they would
Eventually we went home empty handed
disappointed that we had lost somebodies
pedigree chum in the deep dark forest
Maybe someone had taken him to sell
dog snatched him like they kitnapped our cat
or simply took him home to join their family
Whatever had happened we would have
to face the consequences now emotionally
and financially how much does the top dog
that we lost even cost I asked myself
Just then the neighbour called from over the fence
He's okay we've found him he's across the road
we put him on the local lost and found page
on tinternet and he was playing in a garden there
Thank you I said as I saw my wife carrying him
up the garden path He went out the front not the back
she said stroking and tickling the priceless pup
turning to me she said Don't let him out again
if we loose him we'll be in trouble big time
03052023
Naprowrimo 2023
Introduction
This is my fifteenth year of taking the napowrimo/globalwrimo challenge of writing thirty poems in thirty days and publishing them on my Straight talking street talking sweet... bloggage.
So what will I write this year? Well right now, I have no clue, and very little idea of how I want to proceed. This of course could be a good thing, for some people, but having a little scaffolding to hold the structure up may well be a better plan.
I'm thinking that, perhaps I could add some pieces to my Plymouth collection which I actually started during napowrimo 2018, or maybe not. Anyway, they're for me to write and for you to read, although, I actually stopped soliciting comments on my blog several years ago.
LOVE PLYMOUTH
Pity the buses don't come on time
such a shame to have to wait and wait
and then to walk in the wind and rain
but I bet that you won't complain
Love Plymouth hate the hills
mad as Marsh Mills if that's a thing
maybe it is perhaps it ain't but
it has a good ring to it don't you think
31032023
JOYFUL ECSTASY
Above the Barber's shop in Timperley
From the cold attic window in my bedge
I saw the real Santa on his sledge
high up above the rooftops and the hedge
nineteen sixty Christmas Eve I believe
the only day it snowed in the village
I fell in disbelief from my bunk bed
onto the wooden floor and hit my head
I went downstairs to check the Christmas tree
to see if Santa left something for me
One thing I didn't get was the train set
but joyful ecstasy the pedal car
that I longed for to race around the yard
Santa Claus must have read the note I wrote
From the cold attic window in my bedge
Above the Barber's shop in Timperley
06012023
CHRISTMAS DAY
Born in Bethlehem
It's Christmas day
let's celebrate His birth
He is the bread of life
and he that comes to him
shall never hunger never thirst
Oh Lord please I plead
Keep me as the apple of your eye
make me the man that's after your own heart
Oh Lord please I plead
Keep me as the apple of your eye
make me the man that's after your own heart
Hide me Lord
I don't want to be seen
by those who seek to devour me
Hide me
under the shadow
under the shadow of your wings
Hide me
from my deadly enemies
that seek to hunt me down
Hide me
under the shadow
under the shadow of your wings
Oh Lord please I plead
Keep me as the apple of your eye
make me the man after your own heart
Oh Lord please I plead
Keep me as the apple of your eye
make me the man after your own heart
Hide me
under the shadow
under the shadow of thy wings
He saves them that put their trust in Him
He who created all things
in heaven and on earth
Hide me
under the shadow
under the shadow of thy wings
He is the bread of life
and he that comes to him
shall never hunger never thirst
Born in Bethlehem
It's Christmas day
let's celebrate His birth
25122022
Andy's 150 word daily nonsense challenge
(What will you write?)
Here's mine:
MENTAL NOTES
Big plans mental notes for all those unfulfilled plans we all have them deep down there somewhere at the back of our minds where we want to do so many things in such a short space of time we really intend to do these things but rarely do do we I've got big plans to build a glass bottle wall and have already collected six one ton builders sand delivery sacks full of the fluming things it nearly killed me drinking all that beer cider red wine and bottles of spirits not to mention the Champagne Cava and Prosecco that I'm not all that partial to but I do like the shape of their bottles and can see them sitting sweet in my wall the other thing I'm planning apart from laying the concrete foundations is building a cutting apparatus to make and shape bottle bricks mental notes big plans
01122022/150
Andy's 150 word daily nonsense challenge
(What will you write?)
Here's mine:
HIS SOLAR ENERGY
Closing my eyes I try to think of ways to heat the house for free there's a powerful sun up there maybe he will lend me some of his solar energy so here goes I cut into the water supply pipe to the kitchen sink and plumb it to an old central heating radiator which I fix to the outside wall of the house I then plumb another piece of pipe back from the radiator to the tap the idea being that the sun heats up the water in the radiator so I can do the washing up for free at the kitchen sink it works when the sun shines directly however I need to think of something smarter I join some copper pipes together attach them to a piece of plywood I plumb the contraption the same way as the radiator it works better but still not hot enough
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Andy's 150 word daily nonsense challenge
(What will you write?)
Here's mine:
GOOSEY GANDER
Priti Patel and Rishi Sunak
they've dealt their way
to the top of the pack
Jokers Jacks Kings and Queens
and now they want to send
everybody else back
If Jesus walked across the sea of Calais he
would be treated like a refugee
bound hand and foot and put
on an air plane to Rwanda
slave trade in the twenty first century
no human rights or lawyers to fight the might
of the minds that rob you blind and tax you out of sight
it's like you've won the lottery in reverse
with the curse of a free flight to Rwanda
and there's nowhere to hide
for the great and the good that washed up with the tide
they'll round them up and call them Goosey Gander
Priti and Rishi must think that
they've got all the aces up their sleeve
in a sick card game of make believe
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Napowrimo 2022 DAY #28
& Andy's 150 Word Daily Nonsense Challenge
THE WAR ON NEED
Cue camera action stop get back start again there's more celluloid on the cutting room floor than loaded up to this film we're going to go digital if we waste any more and the profits will be cut by half or even more but none of these things will matter much if we can't overcome the war on need the war on greed the war that's banging down our door if we can't afford the fuel to run the vehicles we have and the cooking and heating appliances in our homes what will we do how will we cook the food that we can ill afford how will we heat just one room in our abode how will we find work when millions are on the dole when we don't have the right skills to fulfil the needs of the major employers and what happens when those same companies fold
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Napowrimo 2022 DAY #8
& Andy's 150 Word Daily Nonsense Challenge
LIFE GOES ON
Like fireflies they dart about
the motorbikes and tricycles
lighting up the dark
the Jeepney's of course are not running yet
after the Chinese infusion Asian flu it's not
world wide pandemic phew get a vaccine or two and a booster
when they tell you to don't step out of line and you'll be fine
but whose counting any more wear a mask to shop at the store
one each for your cats and dogs too on public transport
but kids under twelve can still go skat free
helter skelter we all fall down
sideways sometimes
but life goes on regardless
although it's good to reminisce
to say you were there on this occasion or that
it doesn't really matter if you missed it
you weren't the only one
so long as someone was there
to share and witness that great match
made in heaven where two became one flesh
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Napowrimo 2022 DAY #7
& Andy's 150 Word Daily Nonsense Challenge
Here's mine:
INTELLIGENCE
She thought a tonne of concrete
was heavier than a tonne of feathers
how she worked that one out I don't know
but work it out she did and forwarded it
to the board of submissions for a grant to study
for an MA in the field of intelligence and security
at one of the Ivy League Universities
of course there wasn't really such a course available
if there had been she almost definitely
wouldn't have been accepted and as for the grant
that too was a virtual non starter however as a point
of fairness and with the backing of the anti discrimination laws
in that country she was granted an interview regardless
On arrival at the college the chancellor sent one of his quislings
out to the parking lot to make a thorough investigation of the
candidates vehicle her car was a total mess
which disqualified her immediately
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Napowrimo 2022 DAY #5 & Andy's 150 Word Daily Nonsense Challenge
Here's mine:
BARTER
We don't pay cash
dollars or roubles
for anything these days
everything is trade only and that means
barter to those that are in the know
you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
if you know the lingo or even if you don't
the bottom line is I do this for you
you do that for me or we can step it up a bit and
introduce something like the Local Exchange Trading System
or the tool and car sharing programmes better still
we could start a community food exchange cooperative
and get all our supermarket needs and wants at no charge
what about dentistry and doctoring and free haircuts for all
you shave my bonce and I'll cut your thatch
pick and mix at the buckshee gobstopper stall
rooms without rent bed and breakfast at no expense
or beer and wine by the bucketful for the chosen few
05042022/150
Andy's 150 word daily nonsense challenge
Here's mine:
STICKING
(YOU UP)
It's not the rain
or the rice
it's the sticky rain
if anything that kills it
the rain that comes down
bounces off the ground
jumps back up and sticks
like wallpaper paste to your clothes
gluten free it's not
unless it's rice that's falling out of the trees
and sticking you up like a highway robber
which makes me wonder if Robin Hood
and his merry men were merry as in as high as a kite
or if they were simply a bunch of happy chappies
especially when they were filching all those sacks of gold
that you carried stashed in the false bottom of your farmyard cart
anyway that was back in those days and these days it's something
different we call it currency or paper money
that is of course if you haven't gone cashless
paying for everything by chip and pin
or with a contactless card
04042022/1/150
Andy's 150 word daily nonsense challenge
Here's mine:
PAR FOR THE COURSE
Talking nonsense gibberish and such and such who knows which way is up don't hang around they haven't finished with you yet the gets they want to make you buy their get rich quick scam they tell you you can sell it on to make some dough and they already know that three percent of readers will enquire and one of them will buy the dodgy lie but don't invest you'll get a better return in a no interest savings account instead start a new plan think up a new way dream a different dream to what the punters say I wanna buy a mini bus to take the family out in the second highest priced market for used cars they drive on the left side of the truck of course but I guess that that is par for the course talking nonsense gibberish and such and such who knows
01042022/1/150
INTRODUCTION
GLOBAL/NAPOWRIMO 2022
MY FOURTEENTH YEAR
Hi Everybody, it's that time again already where you can take the challenge of writing thirty poems (one each day) during the thirty days of April. As always, I would like to take this opportunity to wish each and every participant a very happy and creative Napowrimo. I won't be following Napowrimo prompts this year or fishing for comments, I will simply be posting a poem a day on my StraightTalkingStreetTalkingSweet bloggage at sewina(dot)blogspot(dot)com
Happy Napowrimo,
Andy
MY INTRODUCTION POEM
Here's mine:
WELCOME TO PARADISE
With the power of love and a sound mind
the children can play outside without fear
Here we go again sideways sometimes
sitting on Brown Sugar Beach
Watching the tide come in
waiting for the two suns to rise
(you have to be up early to see that happen)
up before daylight out before dawn
it's all won or lost by six in the morn
The strawberry scented ocean lapping the shore
never smelt so good as this before
Welcome to Paradise but some people
don't think that way the grass is always greener
on the other side of the pond they tell me
however I know that I know they don't know
For me this Island is the one and only Tiny Tree
the place where I've always been
the place where I will always be
My here and now on Earth taken with a pinch of salt
a hardwood honey dipper dripping honey
onto an overflowing glass of apple wine
stirred and shaken mixed with imagination
Blended into the unreality of time an eternal past
a present and a future shouting bawling screaming
the here and now from the rooftops
So your children and mine can play without fear
with the power of love and a sound mind
30032022/Nairobics
Andy's 150 word daily nonsense challenge
Here's mine:
OUR AEROPLANE
Even the toy dogs are laughing at me now
barking mad like the rag dolls in her cupboard
that haven't seen the light of day for decades
snapping at my heels they make me feel sick inside
with worry fear and anxiety it's the not knowing
what they're going to do next that sickens me
will they pounce and if so when
Everything's up in the air except our aeroplane
they already kickstarted the propellers and revved up the engines
but we're stuck on the runway waiting to be cleared for take off
and for the right paperwork to be completed in this age of the computer
The balloon's gone up and a couple of helicopters
there's a drone or two and all those cruise missiles are flying good style
if not exactly the way nature intended certainly the way their designers
had hoped but our aeroplane is still grounded
24032022/150
Andy's 150 word daily nonsense challenge
Here's mine:
MAD MAD THINGS
To continue the Italian theme from last week as promised I will start with a moan about driving in Europe I must explain that in England many of us view Europe as some foreign place where everything is different As far as driving goes it definitely is You see we in England drive on the right hand side of the car and on the left hand side of the road Whereas over there in Europe they mainly drive on the left hand side of the car and the right hand side of the road Funnily enough it has never really bothered me that they the Europeans drive on the wrong side of the road It's just one of those mad mad things that they do and we don't do What does really really really bother me though is the fact that they drive on the wrong side of the CAR
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Andy's 150 word daily nonsense challenge
Here's mine:
HERE'S THE KEY
So what does new mean to the people of Manchester is new something that happened today or yesterday how far do we have to go back to find something that we can describe as new the Manchester One Tower is sixty years old that's old in most peoples books but Fraser House across the street is a hundred years older than that so what's new everybody says they love the old Victorian buildings but they hate the new towers that blight the city if only they knew that many of the new towers are not all that new look at the CIS Tower in fact many are older than the people who claim to dislike anything new and here's the key you see if a building for example was built before you were born it is old in the minds of some but if built in their lifetime it's new
19032022/150
Andy's 150 word daily nonsense challenge
Here's mine:
A NEW FANGLED WORLD
We're all worse off than we were before
There ain't no winners in a Mickey Mouse war
It's snowing in Beijing while bombs fall like rain upon Ukraine
Be a good guy to Chou en Lai recall the chant
an' don't forget what Nixon said that Putin's a good guy too
The Siberian holiday camps are Khuilo's not Pontin's
His bullets and bombs masked by Luzhniki Stadium songs
If you're not for us he rants you're against the special operation
Even the Chinese have said it's a difficult situation
With many strands to be untangled yet
There's a new fangled world emerging out of this war
Jaw jaw what a bore if only lives weren't being lost
The Kremlin are playing chess and strategic games
and they don't give a toss they don't know the rules of cricket
They'll only know it's a sticky wicket when they're all caught out
18032022/150
Andy's 150 word daily nonsense challenge
Here's mine:
RUBBER BULLETS
More experts than a betting shop full of punters what time's the next bus from Basrah don't mention the war the mercenaries are already on board rubber bullets are in short supply the cooling towers are overheating what are you going to do when the four minute warning goes up run for your life or stay and fight rubber bullets are in short supply how many tanks does it take to flatten a city how many conscripts to lose their lives for a corrupt cause why die for pie in the sky ideology rubber bullets are in short supply as the ice and snow starts to defrost Russian half track vehicles sink in the mush their freezing cold tanks vulnerable to attack from the Ukraine vigilantes rubber bullets are in short supply collaborators conspiracy theorists fake news false eyelashes blinking like Blenkinsopp social media rubber bullets are in short supply
Andy Sewina (c) 13.03.22
Andy's 150 word daily nonsense challenge
Here's mine:
MONSTER OF THE DEEP
North America and south of the equator deep down in the oceans far below anything that man can safely see there lives a monster and he's been called the monster of the deep although no living man woman or child has ever seen him let alone asked him what his name might or might not be so how do these stories come about did sailors of old see the monster of the deep or did the monster of the deep reveal himself to them on some occasion or maybe many times who knows nobody really remembers most people sitting at home in front of a warm log fire couldn't give a fig one way or the other however there are one or two people in the world who care and seek the truth about this matter the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the monster of the deep
11032022/1/150
Andy's 150 word daily nonsense challenge
Here's mine:
THE NEW MANAGER
As contradictory as a football coach often is when his goalie says I thought the coach was National Express and the number nine thought that Salford Van Hire was a Dutch footballer the actual coach who was in fact the new manager of the team fined them both a weeks wages for their stupidity which didn't stop them from being stupid at all but just meant that they paid less tax that month than the usual amount that they supported the government with as for their income it didn't decrease and they were still able to spend ridiculous amounts of cash on body ink and super fast automobiles at the end of the day they were no worse off than when they started their attempt at stupid banter with the international manager who had recently arrived in the country to accelerate their team to the top of the national league
10032022/2/150
Andy's 150 word daily nonsense challenge
Here's mine:
CRACKPOT
She slips and she slides and she glides flip flopping but will she reach the other side crackpot as a concrete ballerina skating on thin ice slipping and sliding flip flopping her way across the frozen waterway only she doesn't know about the cracks made by the kids throwing bricks that will soon be the death of her if she falls through the ice which she will if she doesn't get off that frozen canal quick or reach the opposite bank in a hurry no worry she thinks I'm wearing my padded jacket and my waterproof makeup what could possibly go wrong she starts to sing if I had a bargepole I'd leap across the cut if I had a narrowboat I'd sail it out to sea but I ain't got a bargepole or a narrowboat not me she slips and she slides non stop never reaching the other side
09022022/4/150
Here's an edited version of one I wrote in 2010
150 word daily nonsense challenge
Here's mine:
SHE KNOWS
She knows that I know that she knows everything about me that I know that I don’t know how I do the things that I do she’s got photographs to prove it and witnesses who’ll swear to it she won’t be happy till she’s got me right where she wants me not that she wants me any more than she wanted that other poor sod who ended up in the same place that she thinks she’s got me going she keeps on calling me she must think that I’m her puppet and that only she can pull my strings but this other girl’s tugging at my heart and begging me to enter her world and she knows that too because she put the thoughts into my head she put the words into my mouth she types the letters that I write she knows that I know that she’s manipulating me
24042+10/25012022
150 word daily nonsense challenge
Here's mine:
EIGHT MINUTES
Eight minutes is a long time to some no time at all to others not everybody can be right can they – eight minutes is three minutes longer than five minutes and two minutes shorter than the the ten minute norm - I wonder only as out loud - photographic memories lost in the library of discontent – although eight minutes is the time it takes to walk half a mile or so and to achieve about two miles give or take a few inches on a bicycle - you can drive a car eight miles at sixty miles per hour or read about two thousand words depending on the content and if your finger hurts – this is not of course a definitive guide to what you can do in eight minutes so don't complain if these things take you longer or less – what can you do in eight minutes - answers on a postcard please
16012022/150
150 word daily nonsense challenge
Here's mine:
SANDCASTLE BEACH
I left a text on your thing that goes ring I'm still waiting for you to reply don't keep me waiting please ding me thingy I really want you to try / cookies ice cream my kind of dreams any thing that you say / I'm sandwich deep on sandcastle beach longing for you to stop by / 'cos if you don't come the picnic's no fun / so give me a ring a ding a ling from your old dog and bone / don't leave me alone I need you with me tonight / don't stay away I want us to be together / walking around and dancing up town or sitting on sandcastle beach / whatever happens I'll always be true you know I'm in love with you / I left another message on your answerphone / for now I'm begging you to come home / don't let me down pretty please I think that I'm starting to cry
12012022/150
150 word daily nonsense challenge
Here's mine:
ROUND THE BEND
Barking as a mummified dog what went wrong and what's going on in Egypt I think they thought that the dogs were gods when the magic carpets came years ago from Prediluvionia however things aren't like that never have been look at the jelly fish that live forever and the billionaires that are injecting themselves with jelly fish glue does it work I'll let you know in a hundred years or so do unicorns really exist and how did you hide your third eye so no one else would know Stonehenge drives me round the bend and the Ley lines under my house pull me down to the earths core metaphorically speaking I find myself searching the back garden and the forest beyond for buried treasure that the Vikings may or may not have left behind my metal detector starts buzzing but only locates jar lids and rusted tin cans
11012022/1
150 word nonsense challenge
Here's mine:
NEVER MIND THE FA CUP
Flags flutter stutter utter denial religion on trial football was never so good on TV never mind the FA Cup what about an Open League where any team can play for free against any club from any league imagine me and my Subbuteo team up against Real Madrid and we're losing two nil at half time but I bring a couple of cardboard subs on Roy Race and Alf Tupper (the runner) and before you can say boo to a goose we're three two up and the referee blows her penny whistle for full time fantasy football it's not like I said to the Rugger player if you can't play football just pick up the ball and run there are of course those down under and over the pond and the Irish sea that think that that's more fun flags flutter stutter utter denial football on trial never mind TV
09012022/150
OTHER METALS
like secret caves under the sea
inexplicable to me
everything different somehow
nothing much is as it seems
cryptic as the day's long now
stale tales visions dreams
whiskies gins the ladies sing
a ragmans ring silver gold
anagrams of other things
other metals bought 'n' sold
treasures lost fortunes found
ciders beers ales and stout
runners riders underground
how do these things come about
inexplicable to me
like secret caves under the sea
03012022/1
Napowrimo 2021
Day Four
HELLO AM I EVEN WANTED
Yesterday they told me to fill the machines
today they said don't touch anything or else
sometimes I get really confused about things
they say that I'm being lazy but I do try
The bubble gum machines get very sticky
I asked if I could make them nice and clean
but they told me it wasn't my job to do that
don't touch anything or we'll batter you
You're getting a pay rise - so the maximum amount
will be the minimum wage - they tell me
I used to get plenty more than that
but they didn't raise my wages for ages
Do they need me hello am I even wanted
No we know you know zilch about nothing
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Please note that all my NaPoWriMo posts this year will be published on my Pub Poetry page 'Straight talking Street talking Sweet' at: www.sewina.blogspot.com
I wrote this one a while ago, but have now rewritten it slightly...