Long Wheelie Poems

Common American Phrase: Suck it up, Buttercup

I shudder and shake with epinephrine as the needle stings inside my cheek, like a bee stings. I’m not a child, I’m a buttercup. The shaking rattles me but...

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Watching from the corner, in her ‘Speedy’ ice cream van
While armed and hooded villains carry out their wicked plan
They rob the bank and make off just as quickly as they can
But Speedy does a wheelie...

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Imagine they find your bones
in a boggy field -
it happens all the time,
speaking of which,

time is your pocket handkerchief,
your wristwatch,
and your best evening pants
all reduced to insect dust.

Only a fragment
(a rust-addled skimpy second hand)
remains to...

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You came into our lives a spark.
A blur of chestnut red, 
Igniting us with canine love,
And nestling by our bed. 

Chasing swallows in the park 
That teased you in their flight, 
Relentlessly you chase them...

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6/1/22

Been in a chokehold
This world can be so cold
Lucky if you can grow old
Often things shook up like a snow globe
Do you know what it's like to have no home?
On the population a government spies,...

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All About Robert
 
  

Robert was born with a birth defect known as spina bifida. A disability that has 
not stopped him from achieving success in his life. Robert serves as an 
Advocate for...

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Robert M. Hensel
138 East Bridge Street
Apt A
Oswego, NY 13126
USA.
 
Dear Editor,
 
              I was wondering if you would be interested in adding...

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The sun was slowly setting mixed with an atmosphere of peace and calm.
He sat as his usual place, knowing he is in no harm.
All he heard was the rustling of the trees and the birds...

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The red  bicycle he had seen earlier in the store
was the one he dreamed of, the one he adored
With handles that could go up or down
And a shiny bell, silvery and round

Not to mention...

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First thing's first, free Cyntoia Brown, she's done nothing wrong, she's innocent
You lock an innocent girl like her up, but you free a guilty animal like George Zimmerman
I try and spread love, but it's getting...

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Timmy blew some bubbles and he watched them Pop! Pop! Pop!
But one went higher than the trees and right over the top
That one big bubble floated high as though it couldn’t stop
And just before it...

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I watered my plants as was my custom   
Late at night in my garden                   ...

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It is the grand pubah, Meebow Durchee herself.
Twenty Meegees of tar got excited and fell off the shelf.
You better button your lip I said to Bolo Scopey that day
The tornado took out Mary Booger’s barn,...

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WHEELIE BIN JOE
On the north side of Brisbane lives a man who does no wrong, 
He pongs a bit, he's grubby and his beard and hair are long, 
He sits upon the footpath mid plastic...

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The snowflakes fall,
each one unique and alone,
covering the Earth like returning souls
to mark this winter day.
 
Quietly I watch Nature perform
Her trick of purity and grace,
grateful for my solitude,
communing with my soul.
 
The flakes become...

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Long ago at Christmas time.
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author
And A poetry soup honourably mentioned  poet 
7th January 2017

Long ago at Christmas time.
It always use to snow.
We kids slid down hills on dustbin...

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THAT'S THE OLD BAT SORTED

There is another three days to go before those bin collectors do arrive
I really must do something to get this awful smell under some disguise

I threw in some really old rank...

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Wheelie bins know what you’re thinking
Deep down you know it’s true
They know just what you did last night
And they are judging you

And if you think you see them smirk
When you are walking past
It’s probably not...

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Taught Iago to trance,
the pungent smell made me balance the stance,

raided the 'pulse' and sought no other deviant,

I was looted in the same way I soared above all the monumentleness, 
and got into it ahead.

They...

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The seagull


In the winter light she limps through
Frozen snow on the frozen ground
In the deepest night the starlight
Guides her back to the colder town

Baby, baby bunting
Mummy’s gone a ****ing
Gone to fetch a wheelie bin
To bin...

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I screwed it on and it went right up the bank.
Hey! Said Crankden Cramden, was that mink named Hank?
The one who lost his head and needed a new one? I asked.
I think so said Bogland...

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It's the resolution graveyard
for those good intentions, cursed,
opening hours from New year's day
to February first.
Here's a pile of treadmills,
dumbbells stacked up near the gate,
abandoned by the desperate
who promised to lose weight.
The hungover who'd had enough,
repenting...

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Well you know me
I’ve never been one to nosey
But I just happen to be stood by the window
Behind the net curtains
With a pair of binoculars in my hand
I heard a lot of noise from number...

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Dear Lord this year to save time being lost
remind me- Turkey, Christmas Eve- defrost.
And when it's in the oven, leave no doubt
that I forgot to take the giblets out.
Five loaves, two fishes you fed five...

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Dad has ordered a new shed,
he'll site it in the shade
replacing the one put out by
the local Fire Brigade.
The wheelie bin is full of food
almost a three course luncheon
with sausages as black as coal
and harder...

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