Best Red Rag To A Bull Poems

Let's All Drink to Lockdown 
by Jan Beaumont ©

I'm normally a social girl
I love to meet my mates
But lately with the virus here
We can't go out the gates.

You see, we are the 'oldies' now
We need to stay inside
If they haven't seen us for a while
They'll...

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There’s cheap lunches in the Barley Tavern,
each Wednesday, when after one o’clock.
I always chose to eat beer battered fish,
plus mystery cake a little bit ad hoc.
And this Wednesday here in the tavern,
Ted Austin joined me with his chosen dish,
which consisted of fruit salad in a...

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Humanity keeps looking forward, toward the coming of a birth,
and we’re all deemed as equals on our first day on this earth,
but as the years go quickly by our lives become our own;
we’re seen as individuals that Mother Nature cannot clone. 

And so it is...

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pumped up with helium
blowing insane mad
quack quack
red rag to a bull
pork chops 
had a meeting today
flipping over backwards

sending out invitions 
who was not invited
frothing bubbles
insane  
out of his nose
stench of duck 
killer looms
raging shutters fall
protecting the duck's
tiny ears

sitting wearing
peter pan tights
retrieved in 
paradise island...

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Red

Red rag to a bull. It’s funny how
That makes me smile inside: I think of
Your hair and how it entrances me.
Red hair; and me, stamping and snorting inside
As those shiny waves sway and swirl, heavy,
Chestnut hued and red, red.

But you are no daughter, prattling child...

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If you come to my occasion
Maybe birthday or dedication
You'll be to me like a red rag to a bull
Asking for rice knowing the price of a bagful

Our common and daily food
Is becoming an august food
Either our leaders aren't aware
Or they just don't care

This continuous bulging...

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The colour of my party's flag 
that flutters in the wind. 
The colour of my cheeks,listening to Owen on the radio.
And to see Owen on the tele, like a red rag to a bull.

What we need is Corbyn, oh what a red letter day !
We...

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