ALL ABOARD

I lay here in my bed

In the dark and contemplation

The thoughts inside my head

Still don't know their destination

A MEASURE OF TIME

We travel in time

We all go the same way

But when we arrive 

That's not for us to say

We travel in rhyme

Our baggage is memory

The journey's sublime

Views are exemplary

We travel, we treasure

We grow, we evolve

The journey is measured

By who we involve

JUMBLE TALE

A cold April

A warm March

These Locked Down months are jumbling

Stumbling as they arrive

Bleary-eyed

Out of any order

We oughta look forward

To Christmas in July

Eating sunny mince pies

With November beached

Bonfire Night fireworks

Bleach into bright

August skies.

BOY SOLDIERS

 

we played at soldiers in the cemetery

we meant no harm

the momentum of youth

silenced acts of disrespect

machine-gun sounds and bombs

would fall between gravestones

of real war dead

they meant no harm

the momentum of youth

silenced by acts of disrespect

AMAZED

I once had a privet hedge

Private I was then

I'll buy some more, I made a pledge

Before long I had ten.

Soon I struggled to find space

Just what was I now raising?

I bought a field in which I placed

My amazing maze in.

AC/DEEP SLEEP

My alternator

currently

Alternatively

telling me

To sleep but also

make coffee

I'm still in bed though

restfully.

HIS NOSE STOPPED TRAFFIC

 

His nose stopped traffic

Everyone said 

It was quite graphic

Traffic jams bred

A short sharp burst

On trusted hankie

Drivers would curse

And get quite cranky

A town gridlocked

But a small investment

They made him opt

For decongestant.

NANTUCKET

A Limerick walking one day

In Nantucket, I'm sorry to say 

Was asked to vacate it

The town really hates it

When Limerick's go there to play.

POLLEN

next doors cat commutes between a gap

this seasoned snicket laid bare by Winter's demands

tiny buds of blossom hang from bushes of hopeful refrain

the cat's tail brushes 

briefly against them

its pollen palette confusing the bees who wait impatiently to continue

FLATBED VOWELS

I lay in bed and think of vowels

I'm far from consonontal

"Ayyy! Eeeh, Eyyye! Ohhh! Youuu! " I stretch

Though I'm still horizontal.