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December Collage Poem: Waves
Swansea waves words at passing poets
The twenty-fifth day is long and in others souls,
A week later we enter the next chapter with
New raging goals.
Kissing capitalism's ass and not mine
Highway traffic moves in waves,
Or should that be it crawls like a crab
Marrying a woman from East Texas
She cooked Christmas pudding for dinner each night
In peanut and r...
Monday 11th December 2017 11:24 pm
July 2017 Collage Poem: Old Photographs
An apt public hanging, packed treasure
Not like mine
The past zooms into focus in blow-up
In camera obscura
No-one spoke,
And the silence said volumes
Spuds and carrots and don't forget
To pick up the horseshit!
All sit in Domino rolls
I never told my students of stories
Waiting to escape
Pictures of matchstick men
Waiting to escape...
Monday 10th July 2017 11:11 pm
Easter WoL Collage Poem
A riotous toast to Queen Victoria
the lighter the better, under the table
black dagger stabs my heart
Oh! To be in Anglesea;
so beautiful -
death, rape, law, sacrifice. The more things change...
And still the penny rolls like a sunset
cascading what it simply used to mean.
We worry not, for our lady still holds
the sky whilst she sings.
The anxiou...
Monday 13th April 2015 11:49 pm
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