THE NAKED TREE AND THE EVERGREEN

 My two trees have stood together for decades. Each autumn one discards its leaves while the other looks on rather perplexed.

"I revel in this form so that Mother Nature will embrace me and in the Spring I am to be reborn" says the naked tree.

"Hippy" mutters the evergreen.

IN A DAYS

I wake up and can't think which day it is

Tuesday or Wednesday I'm in such a tizz

I struggle to think then look at my socks

Then I remember - I'm wearing odd clocks

ONE TRACK MIND

Occasionally during the night I heard a high speed train pass right through my house. I woke to realise it was the storm that's currently happening and not the dream I had where we'd bought the cheapest home in Northampton, straddling the track.

HAIR-RAISING SLEEP

I won't use hair nets, don't use grips

They're not that handy to lie on

Then I awake to a big mistake

My hair like a dandelion!

FALLING APART

He was a self-made man

He worked in a parts department 

At night he didn't go home 

He slept in assorted compartments.

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FIRST CUP OF TEA

sipping loads

gritting the road not taken; 

writing odes

sitting, probing locations.

FIRST CUP OF TEA

The first dialogue of our internal monologue.

THE SUBJECTIVITY OF ART

I told my wife I wished I was Bob Ross

So she permed my hair into candy floss.

AROUND THE SUN

I wake a year older and ponder the thought.

I've reached 57, I started at nought

It's not been the fastest of accelerations

The speed bumps of life take us some acclimation.

But here I now stand in my 58th year

The journey's the point, whatever the gear.