Miss Juliette trips the light fantastic
To temporary, temporal, tempo clocks
Pirouettes and dips, like tight elastic
In her bustles and bows and bobby socks
A whirlybird, a wonder, a wisp of the wind
Tippy-toeing to tantalize her toes
Spinning and grinning, unaware of the wind
Tippy-toes tapping to where the wind blows
Trump let one rip at his rally
(You know Jan's keeping the tally)
On November third
No more whirlybird
Prison is right down his alley*
*Despite Barrett, Trump's
Justice Department have failed to
block E. Jean Caroll's lawsuit
against the POTUS for raping her
in a department store dressing room!
Clouds gather, pours the rain,
Pray the Lord, to remain,
Streets fills up, cops stops by,
Pray the Lord, will survive,
Downstairs floods, guy on boat,
Pray the Lord, stay afloat,
On the roof, whirlybird,
Pray the Lord, I'll be heard,
Splashing about, glob, glob, glob,
Heaven bound, before God,
My dear Lord, You not hear,
Word for word, Angels cheer,
Cops, boat, and whirlybird,
"OM..." (CAREFUL) LEST BE TRANSFERRED
2019 September 18
Weather Thou Goest
Clouds gather, pours the rain,
Pray the Lord, to remain,
Streets fills up, cops stops by,
Pray the Lord, will survive,
Downstairs floods, guy on boat,
Pray the Lord, stay afloat,
On the roof, whirlybird,
Pray the Lord, I'll be heard,
Splashing about, glob, glob, glob,
Heaven bound, before God,
My dear Lord, You not hear,
Word for word, Angels cheer,
Cops, boat, and whirlybird,
"OM..." (CAREFUL) LEST BE TRANSFERRED
2019 April 30
Seriously Superb
03/08/2018
Seriously I need of this ugly whirlybird,
Uncontrolled thoughts, seriously disturbed.
Round they go totally unperturbed,
Too many thoughts, too many words.
Detox, withdrawal, whatever you’ve heard,
Leaves you agitated, anxious, wholly unnerved.
I’ll fly off the handle and show you the Bird,
My thoughts are whack, jumbled and stirred.
Yet this insanity won’t last I’m assured,
And soon one day I’ll be feeling superb.
Evil has torn the streets
Thus leaving it bare
Silence lurking as it peeps
Another house up there
Humanity chanting as we call
Heavens hear our pray'r
Keep our household away from harm
In this forbidding lair
Staggering footsteps roused the hounds
Manned gates so vigilantly
See no lights, hear no sound
Watchful souls waiting to flee
Whirlybird flies back and forth
Awaiting for first light
Hope infixed in our hearts
That we may survive the night
franticly, Bo cried aloud
the sheep are all astray
never fear,now Doe is here
and he will lead the way
we strayed because of hunger
and that hunger dreadful deep
lo' the master made them applesause
and bade them all to sleep
then lovingly he once again-
advised them never fear
and as they soundly slept
he gently whispered to each ear:
halle bopp,diddy wop
pass along the word
conductor's shouting "all aboard"
the magic whirlybird
god speed.
this was written
years ago about
the heavens gate tragedy
recently found it
cleaning out a drawer
hope you enjoy.
In this strategic somewhere
Battalions marched to nowhere
Keeping peace in face of dragons
Concealed in the foothills.
Tiger tracks in sand vanish
As though sucked into oblivion,
Wiped out by desert storms
And the unforgiving winds.
Dear Whoever letters mailed
To post-boxes, obliviously, telling
Of whirlybird crashes
And the charred dead remains.
Friendly fire a misnomer,
Murderous justification spun,
Revving propaganda engines
And wheels within wheels, etc.
We regret to inform
The child you bore and nurtured
Is unrecognisable to the eye
And like a tarmac jigsaw.
He’ll no doubt be sent back to you
Boxed in something smaller,
So you may burn again his bones
In a ceremony of your choice.
Some mandarin pontiff bids
And bidding is done remotely,
Far afield where life is spent
As though to burn.
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