Best Pinny Poems

THE LANCASHIRE LAD 1914-18

Hello Mother, a nurse is writing this for me,
I’ve lost my arm and a bit of my leg you see,
But I’m up on crutches and hobbling about,
So this afternoon, they’re shipping me out!
Please tell Maud next door ‘bout Tommy and Joe and...

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Bright bubbles. Such twirling crystalized hue. In Smokey paper eating wrappers. And dwelling not on a letter. Swelling in importance. Self importance. Ok then play circle bubbles in a packed out front room. Pong is pinging today and a pinny is not a vital asset...

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Institutional Jargon

Strait lined jacket, 
A wheelchair line-up peruses the pasty walls
In synchronized fashion
Secured by schedule 
Where the pristine uniform
Clicks heels and strides with purpose 
Adorned the fob with pen in pocket
To check the clock and the parade
Of faceless dozers where faraway tellies drone
Dismissed the saline...

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three thirty, exact
foregoing
  the afterschool
match

tuesday
  my weekly treat
   awaits on gran's
baking tray
arriving there
a spicy aroma
  fiiled the air
  it was freshly baked
my 
      weekly share

bread pudding
pipng hot
   drizzled with honey
moreish&
  ...

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Plank or axle
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Two lad's halted child
And men mature bolted out
One chose the plank
The other the axle
They laboured hard
For the slog on commission
They had to do
They sweated all the year's
And ripened old.
They fathered two a child.

Their offspring

Two boys energized
After going out of school
And in a...

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Tickety Tockety Sprockety Rockety.
Where is my shockety brockety pockety?
What is in it, that I can inny pinny have?
What is out there, that is bigger than a calf?
 
Tickety Tockety Sprockety Rockety.
Where is my mind, and who owns a rocket?
I am ready for outer space, I...

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So house proud
Yet nowt inside
This Terrace house
But family

Mum outside
Dressed up in her pinny
Gabby Anny
Gossiping over washing line
With nosy nextdoor neighbor

Proudly polishing
The front door step
Sweeping nothing up
Using vinegar and newspaper
To shine the windows pristine clean

Just before Dad comes home
After he has been the pub
Expecting his Tea...

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