Fourth most popular pet in the UK
I'd say it's going okay.
Well apart from the mass of abandoned
It's alright
We'll get each of you a home
Safe and right
People will learn of the love you can give
They'll realise you're worth every year you live
12 years in the pot, and maybe more
For each one of you
I'm very sure
They'll be a home somewhere
Safe, sound and all that
And one day they'll be laws to protect you
As though as those for the cat
Or those for the dog
What is it they say
"A dog ain't just for Christmas..."
Well neither is a bunny, no way
They're here for life
All well and good
To be loved like they should
Like they deserve right from the start
For a rabbit is a friend from the very heart
A collection of poems and short stories, from a long time ago and from today. Some are light hearted, others are more serious, some are simply extracts from larger pieces of ficiton I am writing.
Tuesday, 1 September 2015
Sniff Sniff Thump
Sunday, 30 August 2015
Nonense
It's not just a moon
They say
They say that it's a supermoon
It's super strong
And super vivid
Not much bigger
But it's brightness is beyond anything
Anyone has seen
It's a super duper supermoon
Forever too big
To fit in my biggest spoon
Soup or tea or dessert
And despite the fact
I love my food and I love soup
I can't quite stop
Looking at this moon
Big giant supermoon
Brighter than anything
Not coming back soon
Friday, 28 August 2015
Mantle song
Let's all dance to the beat of the earth
Put your ear to the ground
And hear it's pulse
As your filled with the sound
It's a boom boom in the mantle
A thunder in the crust
Pick up your feet and dance
To the song of trust
Listen to her rhythm you dears
See the beasts pronking high
Deer raise their antlers heavenly
And roar to the sky
They bellow out sounds loud
And sounds quiet as mice
It's good to be here
It's good to be nice
Hold the earth tight in your arms
Feel her stone embrace
As she bestows vegetation upon us
Giving us some grace
It's a boom boom in the mantle
A thunder in the crust
Pick up your feet and dance
To this song of trust
Friday, 31 July 2015
Emotions When Depressed
There are these times
That won't let go
They grab me by the throat
And won't let go
It's all
Snatch snatch snatch
And catch catch catch
I can't get free
Won't ever get the chance
You see it's a disease, of sorts
An illness, the doctor's say
It's an emptiness of emotions
Not just "sadness" as some think
It's not feeling down
(Though that's often the word)
Its more a void
An emptiness
No matter how absurd
It sounds it's true
It's something in your head
Something in your bones
And you can't get rid of it
It'll come back
Again and again and again
Tuesday, 7 July 2015
Five
For the fifth time the bell tolled
Swinging on its axis in the tower
The clapper in the sound bow
Hitting each side in a rhythm of tone
Back and fourth it swung again
The noise it made a cacophony
Made of brass and sparkling bold
It yelled the hour to the four winds
Five it is, five and no more, no more,
Five it is and no more.
Thursday, 25 June 2015
I Imprisoned Me
All the emotion in the world
Entombs me right now
They have caught me in a fashion
In a prison of worry and fear
I have shackles of anxiety
Fetters of intense shame
Around my neck is padlocked sorrow
And chains of stress link them all
I'm in this cell where you see me now
Made of tears and sweat and blood
Only a barred window murmurs freedom
But it's too far and too beyond
My chains don't stretch that far
Too be able to see out of it
Though there is a dim light, sunlight
There is a ray of hope there
And its name is belief in myself
Wednesday, 24 June 2015
Cat and dog
Laugh at me
Said the cat to the dog
Laugh at me
And tell me why I'm fat
Said the dog to the cat
What on earth?
Shut up you idiot
And eat your food before I do.