Long Bridge too far Poems

Like Hannibal we crossed the pass and crossed 
   the Alps (okay, the Brynderwyn Hills) 
and a bridge too far on north-west passage.
   From out of the Valley of Mizpah 
to...

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Where was I on "Bull" Conner's day,
When the world saw white-hate on display?
Attack dogs, hoses, and lawmen's feet,
Blacks felled like timber on a southern street.
As fists and batons flayed the air,
Hate left the wounded laying...

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They’d crossed the great divide, to the other side of the ‘Oh My God River’.
Our Trolls were struck by the ‘Bridge Too Far’, it set their hearts, to quiver.
Yes, their curiosity and their great big...

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          O, elusive muse, mysterious and profound bruise,
you bewitch my soul, never to be found in the way of former use.
In your...

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i was walking down the tracks one night, it was dark -no moon above. i was just trying to
make it home, wasn't thinking of falling in love.

i looked into the distance, i saw a bridge...

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Christmas Castaways

My good friend Jerry’s unemployment had run out
I feared print journalism’s future was in doubt

But while we commiserated on Christmas Eve
A disheartening report was broadcast on TV

Local law enforcement had been busy that day
People...

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A broken record, gracefully posed in emotion
Arch of the wrist, scorched notes that came before
keys of safety, memories of old, hidden away

Digitally found glory interrupting true calling, behind closed doors
Dragging out every distraction, feet firmly...

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Beneath Australia’s expansive sunlit sky, I recall the patchwork quilt, where my life began
12 provinces united, one country created; uniformity resists when anthems unite the parochial clan

From staunch Overijssel in the north, to Limburg’s laughter...

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On a parched outback plain,
there is a winding course.
Red gums line the banks
of a once water source.
But sand is creeping quickly,
through drought and failing rain,
so the flora must adapt,
on a parched outback plain.

The black box...

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Back When, I Couldn't Walk I Had To Crawl

Back when, I couldn't walk I had to crawl
when that sad and low, you just cant be tall
Back when, life beat living hell out of me
when day...

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In my rearview mirror lies tarnished remains.
Ahead of me are the souls of past generations still decaying.
I'm living in the middle of a war zone,
but this zone of war is where I call home.
Where are...

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I'd like to go out 
But the rain pours down
The galleries
Are closed on Mondays
I checked the library
See what they have on
AA or learning English
Neither needed
My fridge and wardrobes
Are already full
Exercise is
A bridge too far
The cinema...

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She be like the best of rose
     which is not recalled by name,
Cool as ice yet warmed by scent
     that sets tortured hearts aflame.
Distant like the furthest...

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Desolate thoughts 
and counting crows
Specs of light 
spread across
Across the bridge so far
The Darkened moonlit sky
Red white and blue
Neon lights
Sparkle for the few
Left hanging out
In Spanish Harlem
That very night
Looking through
The windows of lost 
souls
I cry...

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A fisherman entered my favourite pub
He said he’d been fishing for that evening’s grub
He carried some salmon, a couple of brace
Which rather explained the big grin on his face

He said to the landlord, ‘Can I...

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Cause the world keeps turning, burning 
flipping upside down, my feet can walk fast forward
And I built a bridge too far!

I'm an angelic being without a reason or host
On wheels or wings, my engine thrums

I'm...

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Our pain runs deep and is always there like a shadow
We hold onto the bad memories and cannot let go
There’s no solution and we look for a miracle from above
Why can’t we forgive and just...

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A Bridge in Portugal 
There had been much rain in the upland and the river ran strong, so forceful
 that a pillar, on the old bridge, broke off and half of it fell.
Misty night when...

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Captain Cook.
I built a ship in a vale of stones and thorny bushes
it took 24 years and a bit more .
 from here I set sail on the dream boat to China.
I met her in...

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Barely out of her teens, just seventeen
To be like the rest, she has to be seen

Peer power, to be amidst, life's pressure shows
Her hunger to be accepted, internally grows

Dark corners she turns into an unseen...

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A bridge thus far,yet far away...
                       Met thy God, thru Christ's own way.
...

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A cosmic web that worlds unite
in outer space has come to light.
Astronomers will have their say
about this bridge so far away,
uncovered through antennal might.

My fancies take poetic flight
in great beyond’s unfathomed height
to thus envisage holding...

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It is not Trumpism that marks 
                       a Conservative, the way I see...

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People I knew who escaped alive 
From Arnhem, the Bridge too Far,
That Unsuccessful campaign
Of The Second World War.

But for a leg broken in practice
Richard would have been there
Maybe jumping to his death 
Through the clear...

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If we tried to sing the same song,
Some of us would sing in tune,
Others would sing flat,
No talent for singing, I presume.

Some stay silent
Because they have not learned the words
Some sing loud
They are determined to...

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