Up In Smoke Poems

My pockets are empty 
My piggy banks broke 
My cars been taken 
My house up in smoke
My girls have left me 
My champagnes all gone 
  
Tell me tell me what I did wrong
I’m empty all gone 
All for...Read More

Some people like to poke
Other people, they think it's a joke
If you poke back
They give you a smack
Another friendship goes up in smoke!...Read More

You left me without a reason why
You said you loved me, it was a lie
Now I sit in the dark and just cry
Folk notice my demeanor and pry
I shut them out tell the goodbye
I just want to heal,but hurt is...Read More

It's funny how we go day to day acting as if life is just fine 
That's something found only in fairy tales and nursery rhymes 
True we hold up the image portraying everything's okay 
Even though someone wakes with a...Read More

And then the cold had its story to tell again and emerged overnight

The seasons had not changed but as always kept a sudden surprise

Days sunbathing and skinny dipping on the beach felt like a shiver

As the UV filter congealed in...Read More

A busty bimbo with bottle-blonde hair,
I married a brassiere millionaire,
Having modelled his lacy D-Cups,
Soon I was signing tasty Pre-Nups,
And very quickly I was wed,
And sharing his big (curtains tastefully drawn).
Hubby is a generous bloke,
His money soon goes up in smoke,
Our...Read More

I can see that you've moved on


I see you, across the crowded room,
but your eyes are fixed on him
My life now is filled with only gloom,
I guess it ends, before it begins

I see how he makes you laugh, right out...Read More

UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLVI - Tongue-Twisting Epigrams

An aborted foetus never stops growing in the mind of the aborted mother. She never tires of making more babies to nurture the memory of the aborted baby.

The Heart and Soul are as close as...Read More

Wind in time
Rapes the emotions, vacillating within
Moments shot down in flames
What can I do with these shattered pieces?
I've lost my voice, beneath their screams
I've been silent
Bending backwards till I've been broken,
I watch their love go up in smoke
Help me rise,...Read More

: ND- Rejuvenation Optimism

Renovation irony
Cathedral Notre-dame de Paris
Burning fifteen hours

Hopes and dreams
Up in smoke? No.
Faith prevails.

Masterpiece of Gothic architecture
Will be rebuilt
Rejuvenation optimism. 

The French gave the U.S. our Statue of Liberty
Andrew Tallon has given the French the gift
of his 3-D...Read More

One Step from the Fire

Martha lounges in her rocking chair book in knotted hand in her studio

On the wall a poster of Chipperfield Circus whom she had wanted to join

Just above a small marble statue that resembles the lost state...Read More

truth steeped in lies is no truth at all - wind collaborates with smokestack

3/27/2019
...Read More

Guess who the mad gab is all about
It's us, a well known pack of old geezers
Old grandpas that are in trouble no doubt
Now most of us are coughers and weezers

It was a risk to be cool and not hide
Drawn to...Read More

I dreamed I found the promised land,
Where people lived as God had planned.
In honest labour they tilled the fields,
Gathered crops and shared the yield.

No threat here of annihilation,
No fanatics or warring nations.
Our good earth pollution free,
At one with nature, as...Read More

Sheila dressed carefully, greeting first love in fits of anticipation,
Amid glittering disco ball promoting twenty-fifth year class reunion,
Drum master is at play, thumping Sheila’s traitorous heartstrings
Heart seizes brain’s logic. Goodness! There he is now!

Exposing her heartfelt imagined playoff,
Lifetime daydream of...Read More

Deathbed


When we are old and youth is in their hands,
I will be with you; heed my plans,
For I have waited for a lifetime,
To sit with you inside the sunshine.


I have since long ago dreamed of your love.
My wife of all...Read More

This is about Sue who was torn between two. One was True the other was her boo which she never knew, would stick to her like glue.

Although she was naturally adorned the day she was born but hadn't been forewarned...Read More

Without a warning, you can find
Your life completely changed
And all your daily habits
More than likely rearranged.

An unexpected illness,
Loss of job, divorce or stroke
May surprise and then accost you
While your plans go up in smoke.

Though we know that nothing’s certain,
Still, what...Read More

Poof!
Disintegrated
Shattered expectations
Should have known
The clues were there
High hopes
All up in smoke
Exploding in thin air
Powder puff dreams



posted on October 27, 2018...Read More

This is the apocalypse, we are all 
going to die! Pray for salvation but 
the sky won't hear your desperate 
plea the flames are at your heels,
get off your knees the stars won't 
save you tonight, tonight's the night 
the...Read More

** Apologies for anyone unfamiliar with the metaphors used, they're quite British ***

Most people in life work for someone
as all the statistics have shown
but I thought I'd go out and start up by myself
as an entrepreneur, go it alone.
My radio...Read More

Already the month
     of August 2018,
     May never become 
     a je June'm
     (Forget-me-not)
     time of year,
especially for nouveau
 ...Read More

a hard skin to crawl under
 when you can’t get with the joke
     ev’ryone is a foreigner
 they want to see you up in smoke
 burning, burning up in smoke
burning, burning down real slow

 friends looking...Read More

Neath midnight blue, the crescent moon hangs low
Complicit confidante, she knows my heart
This lovers’ bench we shared so long ago
Her and us, taking oath we’d never part

Still the perfumes of rose garden linger
While hovers aura of lavish thickness
He slipped a...Read More

Every morning, all my life,
I drink a glass of juice.
It helps the pills go down
And it is healthy, you’d deduce.

But as I just discovered,
If you did, you would be wrong,
For fruit juice in a healthy diet
Just does not belong.

It’s filled...Read More