An Island Home
...An Island home
A land that is not my own, but one I call my home,
born in the sound of ‘bow bells’, brought up in the squawk of seagulls,
my cockney slang, traded for a gaelic twang.
I steppe...
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Categories:
cockney slang, home, memory,
Form: Free verse
Bedtime Is Calling
...Time for bed
A laugh a minute is what they said
Soon after that I was brown bread
Cockney slang for very dead
Before I had even said
It's time for me to go to bed
DAMO xx...
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Categories:
cockney slang, humor, humorous, london,
Form: Free verse
Cockney Slang #2
...My basin of gravy has the worst raspberry tart...
My baby has the worst farts(translation)
My man's ian beale blotto, so 'es intercity is spent...
translation: My man's real drunk, so he's ...
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Categories:
cockney slang, funny
Form: Light Verse
Cockney Slang
...I right fancy an itchy ring
'Ope it's itchy teeth in my ivory band
to calm the hunger in my mathew kelly.
I right fancy an isle of skye, to help the inspector and tickle my Irish rose.
I bring my...
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Categories:
cockney slang, adventuredesire,
Form: Light Verse
Texan Rose
...London rain and Texan skies
Warm my heart and thrill my eyes
Flooded streets and clouds for miles
Think I’ll stay here for a while
Bright red buses and trusty steeds
Carry my spirit wherever t...
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Categories:
cockney slang, cowboy-western, life, places
Form: Rhyme