Tweets 27

Life ?

I've tried it.

There were some good times

but I don't think I'll bother again.

NO  KINGS

What sort of democracy is it

when the elected 'parliament'

can't restrain the president ? 

If it's not the slugs and snails

then it's little boys with footballs

wreck my plants.

Is being addicted to phones

any worse than being

addicted to television ?

Will I get any poetic inspiration?

Well if I do, all good and well

and if I don't, so what the hell?

ALMOST  UNBELIEVABLE

A young girl walking along the pavement

reading a BOOK.

A QUESTION OF SIZE

I'm always pleased when I get some small matter right;

it helps offset the larger I got wrong.

Novelists write to please their readers;

poets write to please themselves.

Family life

Boys brawling, sister crawling,

baby bawling, eldest scrawling,

husband trawling, promise galling,

night falling, dreams calling.

TYPICAL

The bird fluttered upwards vertically.

Watching I waited for its singing

but it just flew away. Typically

Shelley got skylark; I got starling.

At the top of the plots

I sat here at sunset a week ago and bemoaned all vanishing Nature.

In past years I had watched bats hunting along the allotments hedgerow

but last week there was nothing flying except a partying blackbird.

Today I enjoyed the glowing sunset, silken sky and a single cloud

and as the land darkened, the sky above the streamside trees exploded

to a distant forest fire enfringing the whole width of the horizon.

The lonely cloud evaporated and Venus edged slowly eastwards

narrowly missing a collision with a plane from the nearby airport.

Then suddenly a twist and a turn in the air above my head !

A bat fluttered by and then another - relief, Nature ascendent.

PEACE PLAN

We'd clear the rubble from bombed buildings

and build some new ones, re-span bridges,

renew power and water networks,

re-create whole cities from scratch.

But what we can't do is raise the dead,

or heal the hurt or calm the hatred.

PUZZLING

Tell me why does America worry

about a nuclear weaponed Persia ?

They're presumably managing nuclear threats

from Russia, North Korea, China.

Iran would be such a distant threat

to the USA ( but so close to Israel ! )

BIG BIRD

I'm not amazed by the skylark's twitter

or the nightingale's melody.

What does amaze me when it's flying

is hundreds of tons of machinery.