Long Patronising Poems

IT’S A MAD WORLD In a Lancashire Accent.

I went to the Confectioners today, there was a long queue outside, a metre apart, and it had started to rain. 
The assistant behind the counter had shiny...

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“Before The Firing Squad”



the firing squad 
came dressed
in faux smiles

the intervention cake 
was spoon fed, like honey,
by mother superior

to the lesser bee,
with self-righteous
magnanimity

she wore the badge
Devil’s Advocate, proudly,
without any clear authority

casting bloodied 
nasturtiums around the...

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TIME WILL TELL

A modest planet and quietly progressing
Troubling no other and fealty confessing
 Surviving well enough and paying its dues;
 Quiet corner of the galaxy. No foreseen surprise to bemuse

The ruling committee were in contented...

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Do you ever worry about? 
Some of the things that I see
Happening to hard working, decent families -
Or can you not imagine? 

Here is a taste of the lives of the working poor 
The people...

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"There was a Great Silence"


There was a great silence in that place, a kind of peace,
you sensed them, the unseen removed, all around you,
yet, all the cacophony in the noise from that Other place
the unexpected...

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you never told my other mother anything
id be looking
for the real thing
you never told my other brother
we would be confused by reality
and the fairytailes
would lead us
to a destiny 
unwinding the hands of tick tick ticking...

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With that invisibilty of age
I can fly my life like a kite !
Uninvited and unseen,
albescent, grey, you know what I mean,
( not the first flush of youth or strong,
the young forget that we were young,...

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Unswallowed lumps of lobster immodest
     Crustacean returns to pincers persimmon 
     Waitress whisk indiscernible clears linen 
     Custom of one equates her eight...

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Pushed aside, location of home obscured, limited by isolation:
drifting aimlessly - subscribing to a voluntary incarceration.

Outcast by an alternative perspective, a differing sense of direction,
through a desire to develop resolutions to numerable imperfections.

Others recede into...

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(Friend) "Okay dear. Can you hear?"
(Lady) "Yes. Yes! Of course I'm here!"
(Friend) "Your husband is on to second tee."
(Lady) "No. I haven't had my tea."
(Friend) "What a hit! Woah! Ho! Ho!"
(Lady) "Yes, my garden needs...

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The Black Enigma 
 In many big cities both in America and in Europa there is 
an under- class of black people or shall we say people of 
African background, but that will not be...

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Login’s For Me, Me, Me!

Some carers are shite, debasing and all that, not fit, 
Because just when I’m speeding to end my session, 
When they’ve come in on another patronising visit, 
They come over, bend...

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I was a total novice when I joined the site
hadn’t got a clue what was wrong or right
You were arrogant with overbearing bravado
patronising me, saying my poetry was trite
 
In your eyes I didn’t write...

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You’re a liar and a cheat
Just like a dog on heat

You lurk behind a cobweb thin disguise
and try so hard to fool the guys
But I’ve seen the way you try play the field


You’ve tried your...

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It seemed at first , a colour burst
Of dots and crooked lines ,
As I watched my "artful expert" 
See how he defines
The colourful expression
That is hidden the frame ,
With a twenty thousand price tag
By some...

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Speaking truth through lies, in a society so guarded, 
Desperate proclamations simply disregarded,
covered by what is maleficent,
unheard and insignificant, 

within the draught a cocktail of emotion,
patronising rumours ignite the commotion,
Preconceptions mask the integrity of one’s...

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False Friend.

Your bull smeared on crystal glass
Comes out of your mouth, out of your ass
Your high society, hold your pinky high
You found the gutter, reaching for the sky

Condescending, patronising, business failure
Buy a jacket from a...

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"A Recipe for Antonym"



the opposite of 
didactic
ulterior motive
Elastic,  
bend over for receiving
patronising missives 
presumptuous, friendly and deadly
with lol and smiles
then genuflect
then somersault backwards
it’s part of the ceremony
in the soupy wash
Socratic passive is us
plastic, pernicous,...

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JM
Does not want to believe he is invincible
Because he knows he is not invincible.
Because no one is invincible.
Gives himself a vision,
Deadline to complete his mission
Forces him to shine
Achieving goals.
Alternatively he may be not saying the...

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Telling people I don’t get it 
misunderstanding your objective 
my perception be corrected 
teaching me when I’m pathetic 

I thought you were horrible 
but you say it’s not possible 
my mind’s become illogical 
really you...

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SONNET FOR REALISM IN ACTION
OR: If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly

We’re told with smug assurance patronising
That if a job’s worth doing, then do well with it
But if we doubt our faultless...

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dear  mr. electrician
you're a man of distinction
thank you from me and the spouse
for rewiring our house.

you have worked hard
no wire out of place
you toiled and sweated
nothing neglected.

but we will not pay you
and here's the...

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It is true,
That once we were so much more,
But through the ages of devolution,
We have become lost within our time,
What once we were capable of now is incomprehensible,
No longer open to interpretation,
So few so close...

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