Short Balaclava Poems
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A Teen Time Past
A TEEN-TIME PAST
Fairisle jumpers,short-trousers*
Plimsoles,balaclava,long socks
School-cap,blazared,with ties
Chip-butty,not stick-like fries
*a rite of passage when you were allowed to wear long trousers...
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Categories:
balaclava, childhood, nostalgia
Form:
Quatrain
Of Snow and Ice
Fifty-two words in Inuktitut
A full deck plus a Joker
That's me
As a bike courier
Each day's weather
Was a new game to play
Winter storms a sport of kings
For traffic riders
Crowned insane
Beneath a frosted balaclava
A fervent grin with
Road salted teeth
Grinding
Under tread
Fifty-two words for snow and ice
I don't speak but understand
I know them intimately each.
17.11.23
Composed for Viv Wigley's
"My Winter"...
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Categories:
balaclava, appreciation, language, weather,
Form:
Free verse
Fog
I kept on the grass
Away from the road
There was silence wherever I walked.
My school balaclava
Covered my head
And I “smoked” whenever I talked.
Assembled that morning
We'd sung about Jesus
And I prayed I was on the right track.
As the freezing cold mist
Invaded my senses
I met myself coming back.
I heard a cough
And it got louder
A figure with torch and dog
Appeared from nowhere
Through the blanket
Of that 1960s’ fog....
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Categories:
balaclava, childhood, confusion, mystery, religion, school,
Form:
Rhyme