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March 7, 2010

The Sunday Morning Relax

Filed under: poems — Trefor Davies @ 9:10 am

Classic FM on the radio provides a relaxing background to streaky bacon with one egg, over easy, and steaming black cawfee.

Sunlight streams through the slats in the blind in the kitchen window.

There is no pressure and I sit quietly on the pew, in the corner, uninterrupted. No jobslist, no hassle. I feel my shoulders loosen up and relax.

March 5, 2010

Carol Singing

Filed under: poems — dave @ 6:04 pm

Times were when I loved nothing more

than the ‘1812’.  Its cannons’ roar,

its church-bells’ ringing

used to make my pulse-rate soar.

But now what sets my heart a-winging

is Carol singing.

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March 1, 2010

There are trees in Northumberland Avenue

Filed under: poems — Trefor Davies @ 8:45 pm

There are trees in Northumberland Avenue
They were not cut down during the war
To provide spars for spitfire wings
To prevent them being a fire hazard during the blitz
Or to stop spies from hiding in their branches
And listening in on conversations

“Being Prepared”

Filed under: poems — Tags: — Trefor Davies @ 8:43 pm

“Being Prepared”
Selfridges Sell Fridges
Hitchin a lift
Fir StClass
NE Wark
Y Ork
E Scalator
Simple harmonic foot
The unfinished roof
Five elephants before the fall
I’ve just checked and the car keys are still in my pocket
I can see clearly now the book is closed
Vince’s flowers

Tsunami warnings over the weekend

Filed under: poems — Trefor Davies @ 8:32 pm

Hawaii
Australia
New Zealand
Central America
Pacific Islands
Isle of Man

February 28, 2010

Light

Filed under: poems — dave @ 6:30 pm

The sun set

an hour ago,

yet

through the kitchen window

I see clear to the bottom of the garden.

There, in the sumach,

singing still

and undeterred

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mind thegap

Filed under: poems — Tags: — Trefor Davies @ 9:23 am

mindthegap
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mi       ndthegap
min       dthegap
mind       thegap
mindt       hegap
mindth       egap
mindthe       gap
mindtheg       ap
mindthega       p
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February 24, 2010

Middle England

Filed under: poems — dave @ 6:01 pm

With a million single mothers all sponging off the state
The need for right wing government simply cannot wait.
Our streets are crammed with buggies, it really is a bore
the way it spoils our school-run in our Audi four-by-four.

The little bastards’ parents if daddy can be caught,
Should be forced to marry or encouraged to abort.
If not, then stop their benefits, it simply could not fail.
Well, that’s what Richard Kay said in last week’s Daily Mail.

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February 23, 2010

deep within life

Filed under: poems — Tags: , , — carla wilson @ 8:26 am

you came into this world
born to a life of sin
your elders gather round
smiling deep from within

the new dawn is here
sun beating down
no wind around, too much heat
your strength will never be beat

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February 18, 2010

what is this thing called snow?

Filed under: poems — Tags: — Trefor Davies @ 8:19 am

snow covered palm trees, somewhat out of place
snow bathing, it’s no use if a tan is the target
snow joke for the lifeguard, coldly surveying the scene
there’s no business, like the UK February half term holiday

the snow – it came, it went, it was soon forgotten. a mythological entity, historical curiosity, or both.

February 17, 2010

Resistible

Filed under: poems — dave @ 6:08 pm

I have a somewhat homely face,

my nose is wrong, I’m told,

and my body never would have graced a Playgirl centrefold.

But though I’m no Lothario,

I own  a natural charm,

I’ve always had a woman on my arm.

 

But the supply’s run dry.

I think I know why.

 

My bloom of youth has faded,

my mirror tells the truth,

my joie-de-vivre is jaded,

I’m too long in the tooth.

 

Affairs unfold so rarely now,

sporadic, inconsistent,

the last one was so long ago,

my love-life’s nonexistent.

 

Since then there hasn’t been a nibble,

not a soupcon, not a trace;

no maiden, ms or errant miss

has even granted me a kiss.

 

The upshot’s this:

I’ve become resistible.

February 15, 2010

Birthday Girl

Filed under: poems — dave @ 5:49 pm

The morning came and I awoke

to change so swift and unforeseen,

a leap from love to enmity with nothing in between.

 

What caused this shift from friend to foe?

What aroused her temper so?

What made her fury grow and grow?

 

‘Just go,’ she said,

‘if you don’t know,

then I’m not going to tell you.’

February 14, 2010

valentines wish

Filed under: poems — ben @ 12:29 pm

I’ve two moons in my pocket,
I’d swap them for a rocket,
To blast into the stars,
So when as far as Mars,
Then transmit out the door,
The thing that I want more,
And if that wish comes true,
I`ll always be with you.

February 13, 2010

When Digging in Other People’s Gardens

Filed under: poems — dave @ 5:23 pm

Before you set to digging in other people’s gardens,

first bear in mind what they consider weeds,

then be careful where you tread

and ask before you deadhead,

for all you know they’ll want them for the seeds.

golden magic fish eye

Filed under: poems — ben @ 11:44 am

I met a golden fish,
With a evil wish,
To use his magic eye,
And put me in the sky,
Now up there I won’t know,
What’s going on below,
He’ll steal my mobile phone,
To dial his way back home!

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