WINTER BREAK

Within this Spanish winter hotel

occasional sun warms the clientele

and stirs the dregs of teenage dreams

for so many old folks in jeans.

I stand disoriented, lost in space,

devoid of bearings to locate the place

I left so recently but sadly now

cannot remember where it is or how

to find it in the quiet gloom

of vastness in this hotel dining room.

Domestic abuse

So many young and beautiful women

sparkling everywhere on TV

could make some men resent their own women

being only ordinary.

In a house across the road

there live a young woman and two young girls;

no man but also an older woman

and I asked the young woman "Is she your mother?"

"No, she's my partner."  Oh ! Touchez.

How sad for a woman to peak in beauty

only a quarter way through her life

but there is the consolation of children

hopefully when she becomes a wife.

Tweets 24

Too late. No threat.

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Winter is stalking my garden

but Summer's already gone.

Summer sunset - glowing coals.

Old and waiting to die,

life seems the dregs of a dream.

Is it just coincidence that the rise in child ADHD cases

follows the growth of 'gentle parenting' advice ?

COURTESY OF THE ROAD

Politeness can sometimes go too far

like gesturing 'thanks' to an empty parked car.

MANOSPHERE

While you may compliment a woman

a woman complements you.

OLD  FART

I'm out of place in a disco

but what would I rather see -

real young people dancing

or actors on TV ?

Searching the table among the glasses

the collared dove found food to go

scattering every now and then

crumbs for the sparrow waiting below.

                                

I like those discos when the music

is catchy enough for dancing

and when the women are beautiful -

young and slim and entrancing.