A few poems to read

A few poems to read

I’m not gonna

lie

the idea

that life

isn’t infinite

spoiled my

porridge

Prepare yourself

for the future

grab some popcorn

it’s about to

begin

Always swim

on the surface

never be tempted

to go beneath

the waves

You see what the

world is really

like

when you go

where you

shouldn’t

I try to leave

my troubles to sleep

and step outside

their reach

but they follow

like hounds

on an aniseed trail

I poured tea

for a ghost today

she held no malice

on her tongue

no crumbs

of comfort

fell from her mouth

but sweet regret

she did serve to me

There’s something

spring in the air

a first daffodil

with something

to say

before the cavalcade

begins

that every shade

of green moment

an all too much

that can overwhelm

the unsuspecting

eye

I need sometimes

to turn away

and medicate

my gaze on the sky

Into my heart an air that kills

From yon far country blows:

What are those blue remembered hills

What spires, what farms are those ?


That is the land of lost content

I see it shining plain

The happy highways where I went

And cannot come again


A E Housman

This was published 1896

A sweet perfume

dies in the air

like the last notes

of a hot summer

Like something

beyond words

beautiful

achingly beyond

beautiful

put me in cuffs

I might swallow

it whole

The grass

is not greener

on this side of

the fence


remain in

your homes

stay safe

good citizens

I’ll never

know much

There’s too

many rocks

to look under

greed kills

more efficiently

than disease

Greed has no

cure

even good intentions

freeze

at minus thirty five

degrees

our thoughts don’t

turn out half

as nice

when instantly

submerged

in ice

As happy as

marmalade purports

to be

there is no mistake

that bitter sweet

belongs to honey

I wonder

where the other

half of granpaws

ashes is

half of him

lives in the attic

the other

an all over

american

we dumped

them on the

prairie

where he liked

to get drunk

but now hes

flying round

the universe

He never

included that

on his bucket list

nor the trip

to idaho