Showing posts with label poetry / poems: never mind. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry / poems: never mind. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Signs of the (Irish)Times - 2

Beware of the Bulls

Beware of the Bear

For Sale
Celtic Tigers
Only two left

Clean up after your TD
Use a poop scoop or plastic bag

You're Going The Wrong Way
- Turn Back!

School Ahead - Slow - Slower

Do not obstruct the view
Planners will be prosecuted

Thinking Allowed

Thursday, July 03, 2008

Coldplay

Coldplay at the BBC.
Great - I really enjoyed
listening and watching.
Great to see everyone enjoying themselves
- well, I take it the band were
- enjoying themselves that is
- I hope so.
Sometimes I wonder about
emotions without meaning,
bullet points without sense
- but, hey, nothing new in that.
And that silly nonsense of the interview
- give the guy some air
- give everyone some air
- some breeze for us all.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

train of thought

mind
the
gap

Sunday, May 20, 2007

moneeeeeeeeeeeeee.....

sometimes
good people
just don't know
how low
people
can go

sometimes
good people
just don't want
to know

some bad people
just do the right thing
even though
they know
it's wrong

moneeeeeeeeeeeeee.....

wicked
right?

Thursday, April 05, 2007

library table

at one end of the library table,
sixteen, sitting opposite two nuns.
dreams of writing about barbed wire
and discovers he can write with his
left, just for spite.

down the other end
fifty-eight, sitting fronting
laptop. thinks of writing how
clean a chicken can be inside.
discovers he can cut with his
right, just for fun.

so it's never too late to be
dirty.
'half-baked' is not very good.
and they shouldn't really believe
things
without knowing, but they would,
do, have been,
very well done.

Friday, January 26, 2007

deferred?

what is the attraction
in a dream deferred?
well it does seem to grab
in a sprung laid back kind of way.

i defer
you defer
he does, she does,
it does - surprisingly sometimes
we don't,
you don't
they never do, do they...

so i'll defer
'n dream...
you do what you want
maybe we'll realise,
know, no,
maybe some other day...

Friday, November 10, 2006

Hello

just now on the bathroom floor
two copies of Hello and one OK
nothing to do with me and don't
some people have good teeth
if seeing is believing...
[Hello - are you OK?]
what a load of total utter crap...

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

recycling

began a poem
about recycling
but decided
best bin it maybe
something better
will emerge from it

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

just in time for wednesday

just
in time
for wednesday

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

belaboured party 6th september 2006

a painful right hand.
try the mouse with the left
[microsoft makes it easier to switch].
felt like a broken right arm.
tried a glass of wine on the right
[just to balance things out, you understand];
but after a little break,
mouse and glass were on the left.
maybe foot was right after all.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

orchid

square bright bathroom window
squat round glass bowl
spongey seaweedy brown moss
large dark green oval leaves
silver roots finger the air
sustain three pale lilac faces
carefully calculated angles
hanging from living gantries
sniffing and feeling our world

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

argos catalogue

the argos catalogue
bigger than ever
3000 extra lines
over 1700 pages
illustrated in full colour
between PDAs and pedal bins
no entry for peace

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Poetry Not Crosswords

I try to write poetry
But some days
I don't have a clue

Saturday, July 29, 2006

History

history
is
a
thing
of
the
past
which
tells
us
about the future