April Urban Poems

THE SOUND OF TOWNS


Announcing  my address in Gateshead
Usually started me feeling half dead.
The flames crackled as the Detroit  River  burned to Toledo
While...

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If keen a goldfinch knits, loops and entwines
through hawthorn, urgent instinct loosens free. 
It's bright with flash that crimson blaze enshrines;
as summer scorches red, it...

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Always someone  at the window 
Looking out onto the street 
Always some curious face 
Man or woman 
Young or old 
At the window 
Looking...

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Every night, as ritual would have it,
though I sleep uncluttered,
I'm sure to leave my jeans next to my bed.
I want to meet them with my...

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BETSY MEEK AND MILD

There was a cow called Betsy
She was gentle meek and mild.
A pretty coloured Jersey one,
Milked daily by a young child.

Betsy loved to...

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In a far mountain area of Leyte
Located in the Pearl of Orient Sea
A South East Asian country

Lies a mysterious tale of Damdam
A wine bottled-size creature
Enormous...

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The TV shows
wars and scandal
with big faces 
moving lips
running words
on every wall
while disc jockeys threaten 
bad traffic and weather
through the ceiling.
I slurp my omelet’s florescent...

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Urban legends: The They

My grandmother always believed 
When one watches t.v.,
there‘s an unidentified they inside
Watching you back, as they spied
in your house, on your habits,...

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Matt the librarian loved to own thousands of rare books 
and displayed them on shelves keeping an eye on crooks;
one could find the music sheets...

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You might see me in the back streets
By the light of the full moon
With my look refined and cunning
I will almost make you swoon
Don't treat...

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Again, it is Spring
in the garden outside my flat -
flowers forcing colours
above ground,
remind me that in nature,
there still remains
a world of mystery

despite marvellous inventions
space travel
and...

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Again, it is Spring
in the garden outside my flat -
flowers forcing colours
above ground,
remind me that in nature,
there still remains
a world of mystery

despite marvellous inventions
space travel
and...

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No one knows the hour of Christ’s return.
And when he comes to earth what will He find?
A place where man and creatures co-exist
Or places where...

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H 
St.Charles Parish 
When René Robert Cavelier sieur de La Salle claimed this vast country of 
Louisiana for King Louis XIV on April 9, 1682,...

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On April 26th I was born,
In a world more than a hundreds years scorn, No healin' up
They sho' was pealin' up, casted the line and...

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