Safety First
...When you’re driving please please be aware
of those walking or with a pushchair.
Watch for elderly who may be slow
and for cyclists not wearing day glo.
Stick to speed limits and ...
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Categories:
pushchair, school, travel,
Form: Couplet
The Zombies Hit the Street
...The Zombies are out there.
The zombies have taken to the streets
Stirring into nothingness and shuffling their feet
it's like they have just arrived from outer space
No soul in their eyes
A mi...
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Categories:
pushchair, angst, conflict, confusion, humor,
Form: Free verse
Circle Seen In Rain
...Stopping at the red crossing light,
I watched a trail of people walk
To the other side: my wipers
Flicked the teardrops of rain away,
Showing me a slide-show then,
In successive frames of progr...
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Categories:
pushchair, age, care, daughter, dedication,
Form: Blank verse
Meccano Number One
...Start life in a pushchair
end up in a wheelchair
that
doesn't sound fair to me
I'd like a parachute.
but we rise as we fall
keep our eyes
on the ball and
the game plays out as it will.
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Categories:
pushchair, crazy,
Form: Rhyme
Father Time
...It was one of those splendid mellow golden days
in early autumn when many trees, though still green,
begin to betray a trace of red or yellow.
In the afternoon I took little Eleanor to the par...
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Categories:
pushchair, autumn, child, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
Move Away Leave Him Alone He Is Not Right
...Move away, Leave him alone, He’s not right
Daddy take me to nursery
Yes Son, no problem
Lies, lies, mask my fears
It is a huge problem
Just my thoughts, no words, shield his innocent yo...
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Categories:
pushchair, confusion, depression, discrimination, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Why Is It So Hard To Be Happy
...Why is it so hard to be happy
But so easy to be sad?
When I see how people treat each other
Sometimes it makes me so mad
It costs nothing to be civil
To make life easier for one another
Repay...
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Categories:
pushchair, society,
Form: Rhyme
I Went To Iceland
...Today i went to Iceland
The supermarket not the place
Trying to find a short queue
Turns into a race
Elderly lady at the back
Tries to jump the queue
Those further forward voice their anger
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Categories:
pushchair, child, humorous, woman,
Form: Rhyme
My Bus Journey
...My Bus Journey
Getting on the bus to go into town
Ten passengers standing up, twenty sitting down
The card reader's faulty, won't recognise my bus pass
Youths standing at the bus stop banging o...
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Categories:
pushchair, people, society,
Form: Rhyme
Vantage Point
...The queue curls;
Serpentine.
Crimson faces
A woman exhales!
The last breath of her cigarette.
Takes her place:
at the tail end.
Thin silhouette, vital teeth missing!
We remain at the vantage...
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Categories:
pushchair, angst, anxiety, blessing, emotions,
Form: Elegy
The Toddlers Meeting
...Summer shorts and top – Nanny brought it
Theres one – She has got a toy
Shoes, dress, hair thing – the same colour as mine
Im going to talk to her – ill flap my hands, she’ll like that
Ill say “H...
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Categories:
pushchair, child,
Form: Narrative
Living Under the Weight of a Label
...The blind leading the blind, what is seen is how its heard
the thoughts that make the story are lost behind the words
do you see it as you view it, or take a deeper look
do you read into the narr...
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Categories:
pushchair, abuse, addiction, age, angst,
Form: Rhyme