Spanners Poems

The Genie On the Loose

...
                  The genie is on the loose
                    The genie is on the run
                Ali Baba and the 40 thieves
             Pandora box has been sprung;
        Pandemonium...

Whimsicality

...She had a face like a fish fryer's basket,
All stressed  and creased and lined 
His like  a bag of old spanners
Abused, misused, misaligned. 
She jumped his place in the bar queue
One  Boozy Sat...

Wash, Spin, Rinse -- Again

...Indictment-Excitement
  makes 'The News'

Politician-Magicians
  spin their 'Views'

Anonymous Economists
  sing 'The Blues'

Abolitionishist-Destructionists
  light the 'fuse'

Spanners ...

Power Mad Unlikeable Sad

...Trekking every which way
mentally mapping at pace 
to escape this place 
captured for an age

with its rotten decay 
compacted waste 
attacking my taste
lack hunger stray

overwhelm left sp...

Why You Need Me Because

...You need me because 
I have my own spanners,
And I am always on the lookout for loose nuts,
I also know where the best bolt holes are.

You need me because
I can be that spanner in the works,
...

No Busybodies, No Romance Spanners

...Hell’s bells knell if online love I accommodate
On Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
In moments driven by exhilaration to promote
A fad that’s all the rage online depending on which romance book

...

Crying After My Horse Bolted

...Disaster knell, disaster bell, disaster cell
Fly into my matrimony faster
When in a short time spell
I choose to plunge my home into a cluster

Where nonsense and indifference
Grow a foothold
...

Small Minds, Average Minds, Great Minds

...Small minds people’s frailties deride
Drawing comfort and report
Although average minds decide
Events to discuss in their effort

To imitate great minds
Who ideas and ideals discuss
Upfront an...

Ejected, Evicted, Unprotected and Uninvited

...Expectations unmet
In love that shone light
On hopes unfelt
Strode astride in flight

To Cupid’s abode
Where love smote
A heart that rode
A hurdle whose coat

Sought to suppress
An impress...

Meek Manners and Bold Banners

...Droves and groves of darkness driven in rickshaws of dissipation
Shake to their foundation heaps and drips of innocence
Grown in salient steps in anticipation
That progress pricks open wounds of i...

Harder To Take Bush From Salman

...Easier from a bush to take a man
Than from a man to take the bush
Cos bush sinks DNA into Salman
Making removal hard to push

In settings where Salman regresses to type
Despite apparent educati...

Roasted Chickens, Rusted Spanners

...Africa, why are you excited so much
with roasted chicken you get each year
coming to you from foreign poultry farms
Can they lay eggs that can hatch, multiply?

Africans, why are you excited so ...

Rod's Spanner

...I have some favorite tools I use,
Whenever I ply my trade, 
From the hammer in my leather pouch, 
To the retractable cutting blade.

I also love the spanners I have, 
One metric, the other in i...

Inside the Shops and Around the Town

...A rich rusty old screw on an escalator in a shopping centre can never really be as exact as a tidal wave forming with over fifty prawns playing in an elevator. For elevators are really lifts and lift...

The Rhyme Advancer With the Answers

...Poetry Soup, The foundation where I’m planting my roots, 
Lassoed by a rope that’s never loose,
Always bringing me back,
I’m here, ready with no fear, high jacking minds causing post traumatic pan...

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