But not the interminably hopeless daddy longlegs
some say cellar spiders also know as the cranefly
lurking amidst the shower curtain then
flapping wildly all around my hat
just not first thing on
a Monday morning when stark staring
and uncoffeed thus it must
be duly despatched with an implement
humanely and meanwhile the water's
spraying in all directions
Later on leaving my nosy neighbour beckons
from her window and announces
there's a wet patch on the outside wall
you must have a leaky bath
you'll want to get that sorted and
I'm already late and it's the dullest
blanket grey dullest cold beans for breakfast
not that you have time for it
dead nothing morning and I wish you the best of
luck with the rest of it
Categories:
despatched, flying, insect, morning,
Form: Free verse
They
fought for
Liberté,
égalité
et fraternité
in a revolution
against royal tyranny
by a careless, selfish monarch.
On July 14th, they stormed the Bastille
in the first major act of violence
against nobles and the bourgeoisie.
The third estate, the poor, starving
watched as madam guillotine
despatched the King and Queen,
and their divine right
in a revolt
where many
lost their
heads.
Categories:
despatched, history,
Form: Etheree
"The Opponent"
Something familiar
breezes across
the smile
you balk
at the familiarity
for a very short while
the opponent
opens your windows
stealth like on pause
softly
sensuously
like a cat
for a split
second
violation recognised
and blithely
dismissed as
ridiculousness
yet like an
unwelcome intruder
slides the door open
en garde
lethal
messages
despatched
and plundered
sliced, and red
the comeback
cleanly
murdered
(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
Categories:
despatched, muse, poetry, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Brewed from a secret recipe
Nearly two hundred years old
Guarded by the family
Almost valuable as gold.
Using aromatic herbs from
Forty three different Nations
Gathered and despatched
From their various locations.
Distilled in Rheinberg
Forty four percent ABV
Guaranteed pure and
Contamination free.
Bottled labelled wrapped
in distinctive brown twist
Placed prominently by the bar
Where it just can’t be missed.
This miraculous infusion,
This real drinkers friend,
Has brought many a hangover
To a warm and pleasant end.
Very soon after ingesting
The upset is gone
And so for the dedicated
The drinking carries on.
For services to humanity,
For keeping drinking folk alive,
For all their essential work
May FamilyUnderberg thrive.
I can’t understand why
Much to my surprise
They have never ever been
Granted a Nobel Peace Prize
Categories:
despatched, drink, health,
Form: Rhyme
There once lived a man, abhorrent and cruel,
With family he resided, high up on the moor.
He yet drew breath, a misfortune unbeknownst,
To those in his care, their fate soon manifest.
His wife had passed, through illness he claimed,
He sent his two eldest, to labour the land.
So he remained, with child daughter abode,
As his drinking grew more, and his purse ever lighter.
On one stormy night, in a drunken rage,
He took her life, for two shillings and six pence saved.
Bearing child in grasp, to a disused mine he tossed her remains,
And claimed to his neighbours, he had sent her away.
By sheer fortune and distrust, the vicar enquired,
And so it was known, the man had lied.
Reports of a distant light, on that stormy night came in,
Led a search to the mine, where lost child was found.
So the man had fled, but the law followed close behind,
Even across the vast channel, he could not evade his fate.
In chains he was brought back, to face his shameful crime,
And so he was despatched by rope, the hanging man.
Categories:
despatched, father daughter, history, murder,
Form: Free verse
Melania spotted a louse
And caught a cab home sans her spouse
When Barron asked, "Why?"
She said with a sigh,
"Your father is in the dog house!"
Well, Ivanka soon learned the score
And despatched a nurse to the door
Nurse said, "There's a nut
Who barks like a mutt;
And groped me like I was an whore!"
Well, Ivanka's heart was so glad
For she knew that nut was her dad
She said, "Never fear
My dad's somewhat qu*eer;
His manners are ever so bad!"
Melania went out on the lawn
Exactly where Donald had gone
She called for a scoop
To pick up the poop
That Sessions had left and stepped on
Donald thought he'd bark out a tweet
Then he saw Melania's feet
He said, "Its a pity
That you feel so shi*ty
But the nurse has got something sweet."
Melania could smell a rat
And looked where the nurse had just sat
It seems a quick cuddle
Had left a wet puddle
Proving Donald had got it down Pat
Melania noticed a trend
Where Donald went off the deep end
So she could surmise
The President lies
And on that she could always depend
Categories:
despatched, betrayal, christian, family, husband,
Form: Limerick
latent privacy
emerges into the limelight,
into the unfamiliar:
emptiness
exhaled
anguish abolished
destroyed:
insignificance
dismantled
despatched
to the extremities
of life
Categories:
despatched, character,
Form: Verse
Bevy of swans in a sea-fowl cloud,
starling mumuration,whispering aloud.
Wray of quail,where teal spring,
tiding of magpie,as larks nesting, cling.
Nightingale watch a hover of crows,
herd of wrens,hosting sparrows.
Flight of doves,lapwing deceit,
charm of finches,swallows sweet.
Kindle of kittens,knot of toads,
a yoke of oxen shed their load.
Den of snakes,skulk with fox,
shires stabled and boxed.
Business of ferrets,labour with moles,
span of mules in a string of foals.
Harrass of horse,husk of hares,
rake of colts with a stud of mares.
Drove of cattle,with a tribe of goats,
downs of sheep,pack of stoats.
Spider cluster in a thatch,
brood of game,hatched,matched
and despatched.
Categories:
despatched, animal, bird, fish, insect,
Form: List
Bevy of swans in a sea-fowl cloud,
starling mumuration,whispering aloud.
Wray of quail,where teal spring,
tiding of magpie,as larks nesting, cling.
Nightingale watch a hover of crows,
herd of wrens,hosting sparrows.
Flight of doves,lapwing deceit,
charm of finches,swallows sweet.
Kindle of kittens,knot of toads,
a yoke of oxen shed their load.
Den of snakes,skulk with fox,
shires stabled and boxed.
Business of ferrets,labour with moles,
span of mules in a string of foals.
Harrass of horse,husk of hares,
rake of colts with a stud of mares.
Drove of cattle,with a tribe of goats,
downs of sheep,pack of stoats.
Spider cluster in a thatch,
brood of game,hatched,matched
and despatched.
Categories:
despatched, animals,
Form: Rhyme
and so it begins
can we ever feel pain over pain? a lust for the grave? we shall see
it has become an obsession of late that the suffering of angels that cannot
escape
the tourture of mortals and slayers of debt
come as visions throughout the day to disrupt the dimensions of time and space
to dismember the ocntents of the human race
dream my child as best you well as when you wake in the depths of hell
parisians weep in the winters musk as vampires dawn as it reaches dusk
a fear and hatred storms the skies clouds disintergrate with a betryalls lies
the lust for more the need for power grows and grows with every hour
a broken smile with hate inside at lust for blood from a virgin bride
sweet red nectar from broken flesh drained and acepted to repay a debt
a debt of destruction from a siars fangs i yern for a stake from a humans hands
two hundred years i wish no more just my final ashes on the floor
we are what we are souls lost of found, but we all end up beneath the ground
am i the monster you wished youve been despatched by sunlight with a slient
scream
Categories:
despatched, confusion, lust,
Form: Verse
Words to the "wise" on frittering breath
strike the aural canals wrought of stone and cement,
for know-it-all faces smile certain as death
'neath the crush-proof umbrella's dogmatic ascent.
The darkness may come when it's called, like a dog
that is trained and attuned to a graveyard of dreams
where defenders of love sleep as blind as a log
accepting that all is the way that it seems.
Yet sweet words despatched are the truest ideals
and their verses drip diamonds of blood and desire.
so priceless in value, lithe power reveals
each syllable sculpted with passionate fire.
Received in the heart are the arrows sent flying,
dipped in the purest language of gold,
never to tarnish, forever undying,
no less acerbic, default or grow old.
Away the darkness and those it embraces
with sin once imagined and that which was real,
away the darkness and all of it's traces,
true love claims dominion of all that I feel.
Categories:
despatched, life, love, passion, love,
Form: Verse
anticipation burns holes,
cigarette butt pennies,
edge-flared with embers
alight and undying;
and the juice underlying
the peptic wrack belly
wells up and explodes,
almost dismembers.
the touch, when it comes,
spider legged brushing,
black widow trail
of promise again;
an emotion insane
gibbers wild in the castle,
jumps mad as a hatter
shoots right off the scale.
in some skewed reaction,
recoiled in a spasm,
ejected, thrown clear,
nerves bare and bleeding;
the penance of needing,
frustration of wanting,
despatched in an instant
of intimate fear...
Categories:
despatched, confusion, life, passion,
Form: Verse
This oath I breathe into the night,
Where spectral voices wage and fight
For space to salvage, immunise
And subjugate before my eyes.
A song despatched with vocal chords,
Dipped in sorrow, ill affords
To waste a single key of sound,
To find the words not often found.
And thus in tears of honey dew
I turn the dial and think of you,
And know I will remain, prevail,
Hold fast my heart beyond the pale.
This muted plea of fire and ice,
It burns and chills, will not suffice;
This unremitting, ceaseless cry,
Fidelity tuned a perfect high.
This I must tell and you must know,
For when you leave me, when you go,
My world may stop and cease to be
'Till you return and stay with me.
Categories:
despatched, life, love, passion,
Form: Verse