Sundays Whirligig

the stones
bathed in sunshine
baking in the fiery sun
trouble bare feet


ask for a hose
to spray the morning glory
and geraniums reeling from the heat

give the nasturtium seeds
peeping out of the crevices
a squirt as well

Johann Sebastian Bach: Concertos For Oboe

Love

marmalade boy
a huge dose of affection
bearer of great joy

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Stanley

 Stanley Spencer Artist
1891 - 1959

wandering up and down
the lanes with his pram
nowhere to go
poor stanley

leaves his wife and children
 
to marry a bloomsbury dyke
an unconsummated union
silly stanley

she keeps the girlfriend
the title
steals his house
tosses him out
poor stanley

paints jesus as a
clothed suomo wrestler
on all fours sniffing the flars

not the full catastrophe
strange stanley

trudging from pillar to post
bedsits and couches
homeless stanley

so they make him a knight
of the realm
sir stanley

when he leaves
to join the dementia unit
in the sky
cheery bye stanley

self appointed giant intellects
declare him a genius
clever stanley

sell his works for millions
you have to be rich
to buy a poor stanley

Neighbours

one two start attack
turn the volume up
let the rage begin
feel free to hurl
a few crispy phrases
keep it going till sun rise
if still yearning
to tell a few home truths
throw them in as well

Sunday Whirligig

 the remains of a broken basket
keeps popping up in her dreams
sorrow swims in her jagged thoughts
she is missing her tresses
since the mad  pilgrim
chased her and sheared her head
saying it would make her wise

Senryu

absent minded cook
utensils disappear 
where can they be

 

playing the fiddle
this is not what is meant
by foreplay Zzzzz





who would have thought
evolution occured because
of a domestic

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The Monkey On A Back

Brett Whitely , Australian artist struggled with heroin addiction for most of his adult life.He died of an overdose in 1992. This painting is part of an autobiographical tryptich illustrating what drug addiction feels like.

monkey on a back
the painting mirrors the pain
not worth the agony

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Direction

goths do things their way
a nietzschean direction
no correct way

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Pain

the missing piece
discovers the puzzle
no longer exists

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Cantata 140 - Bach

we smile - the mind soars
love rides on an angel's wing
glimpsing the Divine

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The Man In The Moon...Billy Collins

Time after Time

time after time
reminder of happiness
lucky ones find

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Huitain

 
 abbaacac...huitain (spanish version)

 B& P's Shadorma and Beyond MLMM

they called her the dragon woman
spewing flames and scorching hot ash
firing at the foe with some dash
then she met a mild mannered man
smitten sweet who bought her a fan
removed her thorns -fiddle dee dee
cooked lobster and crabs in a can
on the beach they danced by the sea


shadorma

hat wearer
with an awful tie
a sweet man
a kind man
intelligence wit abounds
in a lovely soul

Sundays Whirligig

fever skirt germs hiding sharp suitcases cake
scissors carrying envelope swaying memory

the big green fever germ thief
jumped out of the suitcase

he knew what alice was hiding
under her skirt

the mad hatter had told him
about the wads of cash in an envelope
the cake and the memory stick
in her stockings

shrieking swaying and carrying on
did not distract him for a second
he remained undeterred by her threats
of using sharp scissors on him 

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my sweet love
covered in chocolate
arouses my senses

Chevrefeuille




tablettes du chocolat
a visual sensation
so pleased he came to tea

Bach Ist Gut

nemo bene
boys playing nicely
together

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sweet man does not mind
if she borrows all his shirts
just sighs patiently