Plank or Axle
...Plank or axle
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire
Two lad's halted child
And men mature bolted out
One chose the plank
The other the axle
They laboured hard
For the slog on commission
They had to do
T...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
pinny, age, allusion, bereavement, child,
Form: Free verse
Tuesday Memory
...three thirty, exact
foregoing
the afterschool
match
tuesday
my weekly treat
awaits on gran's
baking tray
arriving there
a spicy aroma
fiiled the air
it was freshly baked
my
...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
pinny, food, memory,
Form: Bio
Cooper Clarke Back Beat
...So house proud
Yet nowt inside
This Terrace house
But family
Mum outside
Dressed up in her pinny
Gabby Anny
Gossiping over washing line
With nosy nextdoor neighbor
Proudly polishing
The...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
pinny, life,
Form: Free verse
The Lancashire Lad 1914-18 War
...THE LANCASHIRE LAD 1914-18
Hello Mother, a nurse is writing this for me,
I’ve lost my arm and a bit of my leg you see,
But I’m up on crutches and hobbling about,
So this afternoon, they’re ship...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
pinny, conflict, courage, emotions, england,
Form: Rhyme
Tickety Tockety Sprockety Rockety
...Tickety Tockety Sprockety Rockety.
Where is my shockety brockety pockety?
What is in it, that I can inny pinny have?
What is out there, that is bigger than a calf?
Tickety Tockety Sprockety Ro...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
pinny, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Institutional Jargon
...Institutional Jargon
Strait lined jacket,
A wheelchair line-up peruses the pasty walls
In synchronized fashion
Secured by schedule
Where the pristine uniform
Clicks heels and strides with p...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
pinny, repetition,
Form: Blank verse
Streets
...Bright bubbles. Such twirling crystalized hue. In Smokey paper eating wrappers. And dwelling not on a letter. Swelling in importance. Self importance. Ok then play circle bubbles in a packed out fron...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
pinny, beautiful,
Form: I do not know?