OrT umm

 Still warm light from autumns torch

Suns weak rays filter yellow hews

Blackbird trills in echoed alarm

Float in whispered warmth

Scent of Autumn , slight decay

Opens up the hallowed way

That ushers winter yet to come

Meanwhile soak up the fading sun

Dried up grasses swish and dance

As I pass ambling down the path

Strip the seeds as I walk past

And scatter them in random act

Through the dell and up the hill

Past the stream  now gliding still 

Cows look up indifferent, size me up,

As slowly , quizzically, chew the cud

Too the lake now gentle mist

A sheet of milk that swirls and twists

A chill descends,shoulders shake

Hurry back now before it’s late 

Black bird still startled in alarm

As I now take your arm

We wander home , two as one

To start tomorrow as today began.

12/07/2021. 20:05-20:31 

TI me Go ne

 That’s another ten years gone

Ten years done

What happened there

I blinked and it was gone

Nothing happened, nothing done

Gone in a wink

No time to think

Working away

No time to play

No time to speak

Rushing to the  end

No time for friends

No time to spend

Tunes transport me back

To the start line, to the track

To the proverbial starting gun

To Baba O’Riley and all the fun

Lost years ,gone forever

Remembering Clevor Trever

Never to be regained 

We’re all wasted , again.

BE er

 Now we are England on our own

Shackles of Europe over thrown

Can we return to pound shillings and pence 

Will we now put up a fence

Will we revert to potatoes with dirt

To half a cucumber not a portion

And also now without caution

Spring not salad onions

But I hear you cry

What about ounces and pounds

19 eleven and six

Rods Poles pecks and perches 

Chains and furlongs

Teenage kicks

Where are 5 pounds of King Edwards

Cauliflowers with leaves

Webb’s gone to seed

2 Bob bits

Three farthings

Penny, ha’penny .

I tell you where my friend

The drain of history and progress

But I take comfort in all this

As I nurse my very British warm imperial pint

That they will never, never dare to take 

Or am I dreaming ?

tHe JoUr Knee

Paths of life right or left

Some with joy and some bereft 

Some be lonely paths we tread

Some with hope, some with dread

Some friends with us will stay the course

Some by the wayside will fall

Some will join along the way

Others they will lag and stray

Whilst paths will cross at random times

Some will jump and cross the line

Some take your hand and lead the way

To lead you into sunny days

Some paths become the motorways

To speed along  

Some paths we know that we belong

Some paths are mires we wade through slowly

Some paths we take are oh so lonely

We start the path of life alone 

Turn left or right when first leave home

What causes us the take the turn

The unseen hand of fate , I learn

As time goes on the path it winds

And wanders aimlessly in time

Then slips into the waters edge

To take the boat to which we’re pledged

 

THy-mE

 We all are born with a bank of time

To spend as we wish through rain and shine

as we wend our way through daily slug

For some poor souls they lose the plug.

And time for them drains quickly away

27 seems to be the day

That time ran out for those who lost

The race against time,they just went bust

Time is equal to us all

Black or white , short or tall

Some have time they can waste

Some have time they spend in haste

Oddly time is slow when very young

And fast when old and clinging on

Time is spent and time is saved

Yet it’s more time we actually crave

Time marches on  in its own sweet way

Year by year and day by day

It creeps upon us with crafty stealth

It’s Father Time who measures our health

Then suddenly our time is up

It’s time we went, it’s time given up

It’s time the curtain finally fell

It’s time gentlemen please,

Oh hell!!! 

28/06/2021.   08.10- 15.30

BRe ak

 Breaking dawn,

Breaking bread

Breaking cups

Breaking ground

Breaking up 

Breaking down.

Breaking in

Breaking out

Breaking cars

Breaking shafts (as in half)

-Break for tea-

Breaking masts

Breaking glass

Breaking pencil

Breaking seals ( As in jars)

Breaking waters

Breaking teeth

Breaking laughter

Breaking chains

Breaking minds

Breaking arms

Breaking bank

Breaking legs

Breaking camp

Breaking news

Breaking clouds

Breaking records

Breaking dams

Breaking trust

Broken heart

diS EnGage

 From the screen reaching out

Stick thin kids lie listless .

Emaciated in a world that takes the life and squeezing hard

Destroys the chance of decent life of fairness.

Our heart goes out but what’s the point

They’re far away in some dark corner 

Of our dear earth victims of conflict ,

Politics, corruption 

They’re there again day after day

Year after year, on and on stretching in to 

Time unimaginable.

Worse and worse as mankind expands 

Like a plague that blighting 

Everything that it touches.

The door bell rings. 

Hello mate,

A beer, great thanks  .

I’ll switch the tele off

And in a instant

Problem solved .

17/06/2021 23:00-23:15