MAGPIE tALES 102

                                                                      CHILD'S PLAY
              

                                                                 

MAGPIE TALES 102

Red spot, God wot ,
But why not green?
A kid could do this,
It’s obscene.
The kid looked up
replying coyly,
“I did it all….
Except the Doily.”
            

Magpie Tales 101

                                                                       

ADVERTISING, OR WHAT?

“White Company” or “Jo Malone?”
Black- ribboned, folded, stark, alone.
Her nakedness and lank black locks
Would look much posher in a box.

MAGPIE TALES 100

                                                                            

STONE COLD

The only thing to do is sleep,

The cold cuts like a knife,
But little “things” keep waking me,
To give the kiss of life.

SUMMER NEW YEAR

                                                                         

SUMMER NEW YEAR

Why can’t we have New Year in summer?
Or in spring when the weather is warm?
We’d feel much brighter and less full of cold,
Not feel a-hundred and fifty years old,
That our “sell-by” date’s gone and we haven’t been sold,
Like we do in a January storm.

Why can’t we have New Year in Summer?
Resolutions might actually last.
(We’d not feel wretched or brim full of flu,
Hung-over or bloated by post festive “do”)
We might even feel like seeing them through,
Unimpeded by January’s blast.

New Year would be lovely in summer,
We might even mean what we say
When we wish “Happy New Year” to all that we meet,
While dressed for the sun as we walk down the street,
Topped off with a smile for all that we greet;
Wish it was on the first day of May.

MAGPIE TALES

                                                                        

 ROUND THE BEND

 Oh, do let us go round the bend, you and me,

That bend in the river, there,
There probably isn’t all that much to see,
-More river, more bend and another damned tree-
Such fun round the bend, on our own, it would be;
That bend in the river, there.