To depart this earth
With works and dreams unachieved
Would be a pity.
Immortality
Is threatened by those in line
So avoid that queue!
Doomed Titanic
Must seem like hopeless panic
Death so ironic.
Ferryman, a coin,
Ferry me across the Styx,
Make haste, and no tricks!
Inevitable.
You are born, you live, you die.
Nature’s progression.
Timelessness exists
As eternity appears
When we meet our end.
Black darkness ensues
Total nothingness plays host
To the last outpost.
Beyond a dark grave
Lies an awesome mystery
The last frontier.
The valley of death
Where travellers do return
As ash in an urn.
Live life gracefully
Avoiding calamities
And try to cheat Death.
Only one question.
When a man departs this earth
Did he have passion?
Tilting Titanic
Bubbles up its final breath,
The full stop of death!!
Obliviousness,
Impossible to reverse
The deep sleep of death.
The meaning of life
Something we can’t comprehend
Stops at journey’s end.
Black darkness ensues
Total nothingness abounds
Death is still around.
Beyond the coffin
Lies an awesome mystery
Entirely unknown.
The spectre of death
Is constantly upon us
Confounding us all.
On your last journey,
Luggage is not required
A mystery tour?
Meditation heals
A source of medication
Therefore meditate.
Tomorrow’s taste-buds
Lie in the future of food
Home-grown is the mood.
A shower a day,
Refresh and revitalise
Keeping germs at bay.
Alzheimer patients
Lives within their world alone
Thoughts pared to the bone.
A bloody good shit
Glad it’s done and over it
Excellent habit.
Greek philosophy
Should relieve anxieties
Psychotherapy?
Quality of life
Utterly dispensable
Pass your sell-by date.
Deeply frustrating:
Old men on their daily tasks,
Lost agility.
Holidays are here,
Hooray for sun, sea and sand
Pleasure in the land.
An illness creates
Such obsessive misery
Let good health prevail!
Funerals confirm
The brevity of one’s life.
Live it healthily.
Life’s an adventure
So keep calm and carry on
Live life gracefully.
Reflexology
A relaxing therapy
Foot fetishism?
Quality of life,
Is incomprehensible
To the decrepit.
Deeply frustrating:
Old age on their daily tasks
Remembers their youth.
Cuckoos destroy eggs
To foster their own offspring
Intolerable!!
On coloured steeds astride
Apocalypse horsemen ride
Your fate to decide!
To retain good friends
Pour oil on troubled waters
By avoiding strife.
A dark shot of gloom
Inhibits us in darkness
Ergo, let light bloom.
A light shade of green
Has jealous with envy been
Remains to be seen.
Defeat ignorance.
The modus operandi
Is improve teaching.
Wishes can come true,
But be sure what you wish for;
Some may go awry.
All things have an end.
Things like sausages have two.
Long live sausages.
An on-going spree
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
To please you and me!
Five fat fulmars,
Fleeing from fertile furrows,
Flying furiously.
Study of friction.
Wear on mating surfaces
Eased by lubricants.
Morning has broken,
Heralding another day
Wake and join the fray.
Our technology
Is making work redundant
Time is abundant.
Zero gravity
Journey to infinity
Earth unbound set free.
Habitual man
Conventionally urban
Bad habits are banned.
Peas the only thing
As long as they are mushy
With haddock and chips.
Impressive cave art
Indicates realities
Existing outside.
Inevitable!
Christmas is full of cheer,
But what of next year?
Bridges florescent,
Reflection on still waters,
Mirror our streetlights.
The love of money
Is the root of all evil
Be wise in its use.
To enhance friendships
Just agree to disagree
Thus easing tensions.
A dark shot of gloom
Have sadness in dark rooms
Let light be the boon.
Anniversaries
Those are days to celebrate
With champagne and cake.
New architecture
Symbol of modernity
Is unnatural.
The clarinet wails,
The loud saxophone prevails
Jazz bands uncurtailed.
Busy, busy bee.
How doth the sweet nectar flow?
To produce honey.
Congratulations!!
Your wedding day has arrived
Best wishes supplied.
Congratulations!
It’s your twenty first birthday,
And best wishes too.
For the eyes a feast,
The art of a masterpiece.
Wonders never cease.
Time in the future
When the world is efficient
No one needs to work.
Inhumanity
Creates heinous tyrannies
Yet man still survives.
Zero gravity
Black hole of infinity
And eternity.
Push the boundaries
Stretch it to infinity
Zero Gravity.
Last night of the Proms
Triggers Patriotic songs
With trumpets and gongs.
Man’s observation
And his curiosity
Promotes inventions.
Marilyn Monroe,
Exuding sex as she goes,
Red jelly on snow!
The woodland’s for me
Away from town’s jostling crowds
Beneath leafy trees.
I’m in utter gloom
When you leave and sail away
So please return soon.
I look to the sky
The Heaven's dark canopy
Colander with stars.
Now that you are five
It’s great to be so alive
Wake, and taste that prize!
Doing my head in,
Thinking about you and me.
What will be, will be!
An old sage declared
can’t teach an old dog new tricks
You can this old dog.
Now you’re twenty-one
There’re heaps of things to be done
Go to it my son
Sighing trees aglow
Above, sky of sunset clouds
My heaven below.
Your every wish
My consummate desire
Let wishes inspire.
Now that you are two
I wonder what you will do
Paint your face with goo?
Puerto Banus
A good family refuge
Bonding all of us.
Cats, I abhor them!
Their poo destroys my garden.
Nine lives too many!
Now that you are six
There’s nothing your Dad can’t fix
Have fun but no tricks.
The Great Gatsby play,
My grandson’s part to portray.
Good acting displayed.
They say faith is blind
Ignore thoughts that bind the mind
But keep thoughts sublime.
To enjoy the Arts
We need to look and listen
And appreciate.
Proponents of Art
Think and reason to excel
For prosperity.
To expand your thoughts
Concentrate on your navel
And contemplate.
Seek and ye shall find
But where is that Golden Fleece
It’s all in the mind.
Solid foundations
Can not be built on soft sand
But can on bedrock
Tomorrow always comes
As sure as day follows night
Be patient, alright.
Keep brain cells active
By exercising the mind
Writing Haiku Poems
Open hearts and minds
To the glories of nature
Extraordinary!!
Where do we come from?
Clues lie in our D.N.A
But where do we go?
Everything and nought
Love, romance, things worth a shout,
That’s what life’s about.
Don’t worry yourselves
Blind bake the pastry of life
To harden your soul.
Man is a damn fool
For some short time in his life
The wise avoids it.
Our intelligence
Is knowledge and our spirit
Feeds the inner soul
For great ideas
Dig in the mind’s compost heap
To generate them.
The art of thinking
Is – Fillet your red herrings,
And discard the bones.
Wisdom recommends
Placing my thoughts in your shoes,
To know what you think.
Be clever in thought:
-Psychological vision
To improve insight.
To speak soothingly
Absorbing conversations
Contain many truths.
Falling autumn leaves
Reminds us all life is brief
Believe your beliefs.
Fleetness of time shows
The brevity of our lives
Make the most of it.
The Age of Reason
Confounds the illiterate
But stimulates thought.
Your Priorities,
Is dependant on your needs
Draw up a short list.
Live life joyfully
Tempus fugit and waits not
When its time, its time.
There’s no tomorrow
Tomorrow will be today
When tomorrow comes.
What’s the BIG idea?
Is it the meaning of life?
You solve that problem!
It’s Impossible!!
It’s just two letters too long
Makes it possible!!
The human species,
They are born, they love, they die.
The rest is faeces!!
Forge experience
In the smithy of your soul
To embrace the world.
To know how to age
The master work of wisdom
The art of living.
Man is a damn fool
Try to avoid being so
The dawn of wisdom.
Mountains of the mind:
Thoughts of a similar kind.
Sharp needles of pine.
Forget memory
And condemn nostalgia
Life lies in living..
Have an open mind
Minimise disruptive thoughts
Requires insight.
The perceived glories
Of ancient antiquities
Confounds the future.
Divine rights of kings
Leads to absolute power
But power corrupts.
Inhumanity
Destroys with ferocity
And intensity.
Abu Qatada
Appeals his deportation
Just in time or not?
Growth sorely needed
Hindsight; a wonderful thing
Foresight is better.
Prolonged recession
An inconvenient truth
Enough is enough.
Growth spending projects
Are needed through investment
For full employment
The classical past,
Deeply dishonest present.
The verdict on Banks.
House of Lords reform?
Matter of indifference
In most people’s view.
The Mediator,
Mediates antagonists
To solve their problems.
Mitt the git Romney
Rude and undiplomatic.
Presidential Hope?
Radicalism
Declares hurt upon neighbours
A source of great harm.
Crossing the red line
Brings a shot across the bows
A shot in the dark?
A Ukraine crisis,
Deleting an “e” becomes
U.K. rain crisis.
Our generation
Is never far from ruin,
War’s apocalypse.
Build communities
Rejoice in freedom of speech
For liberty’s sake.
Inhumanity
Relies on sparing no one
In its chosen task.
I agree with Nick
But voters give their verdict
Have they judged too quick
Austerity failed
Ministers; they don’t get it.
Growth needed stupid.
Beat the recession
Invest in infrastructure
Get people working.
Lobby journalists
Set a thief to catch a thief
Politicians euh!!
House of Lords reform?
Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas
Will never happen!
The news bulletins
Confronts us with Syria
And Hysteria!!
Mitt the twit Romney,
Keep your remarks to yourself
You’ve been proven wrong.
Let trains take the strain.
But high prices are our bane,
They think we’re insane.
Accounting an art.
Government accountancy
A very black art.
A coalition
Gives power to third parties
Serious power.
Quantitive Easing
Monetary methadone
Deceiving addicts.
Shards of rainbow hues
Defines the Son’s dominance
Warming souls anew.
The robin at dawn
Heralds the glad Christmas morn
Our Saviour is born!
Religious beliefs,
Clings tightly to the flotsam
Their shipwreck of faith
A belief in God
Does not mean lighting candles
Make life meaningful.
Freedom from desire
Is sought after by Buddhists
Leads to inner peace.
The gates of Heaven
I hope they remain open
For sinners like me.
Oh! for a Noah
To tell mortals what to do.
Sin renounced or two.
Shout Halleluiah!
The risen Christ is with us
Now and for ever.
A distant prospect,
Peace between Arabs and Jews
Can it be pursued?
Hate and aggression;
War rarely achieves its goals
So give Peace a chance
Blue skies, high cloud
Draws us towards the heavens
Spirits are set free.
In the beginning
Was the reason for being
Man needful of God.
The Old Testament
The first historical book
Jewish heritage.
The earth within – God
Uplifts my soul completely
With thoughts most profound.
The pretty flowers
Within my scented bower
Astounds the mower.
Delightful Vision
I was born in love with you
That is my mission.
What sadness there is
In a painful broken heart
Left bereft of love.
You bring me such joy,
Love and gladness unalloyed
Spirit overjoyed.
Sweet silence the night;
Like diamonds stars shine so bright
Dawn puts stars to flight.
The moon’s pale mantle
Blankets the darkness of night
Earth exposed to light.
Time to laugh often
Is the music to the soul
Happiness ensues.
Quit this dreary place
To dream dreams of love’s embrace.
In deep sleep’s solace.
Smoke pluming skywards
The bright sparks whirling starwards
Stars and sparks conjoin.
Our greatest glory
Lies within our dreams and loves
Leaving us content.
An Assignation
Lovers clasped in tight embrace
And the world stands still.
Sweet silence the night;
Moon outshines the stars so bright.
Dawn seizes the light.
Sweet silence the night
Stars shining piercingly bright
Darkness is harnessed.
Time to be joyful
Is the avenue to love
Ecstasy ensues.
Desire to make love
It’s the privilege of gods
Therefore be godlike.
Willow on leather
The sound of English summers
Cream teas afterwards.
Sweet spot on yellow
Tennis stars on hallowed turf
Wimbledon’s glory!!
Tennis- stressed motion,
An explosive game of chess.
Scary emotions.
The Olympic Games,
A sports-related drama
Triumphs and tragedies.
The art of curling,
Requires sweeping and sliding,
To achieve an end.
Cricket whites on greens
A typical English scene
Grey clouds and sunbeams.
Serving double faults
Does not improve your chances
Serving aces do!
Tennis emotion.
Exhilarating motion,
Split- second action!
Lizzy’s skeleton,
Won gold for Britain
A fine achievement.
Lambs and daffodils
are the harbingers of Spring
Gladdening the heart.
White horses seawards
Defining the gale’s approach
Batten down hatches.
In the gloom of June
Unprecedented monsoons
Disastrous doom looms.
England’s green meadows
Alongside a babbling brook
Evokes summer days.
In soggy July
Torrential rainfall occurred
Has the jet stream erred?
Why is Spring amiss?
‘cause Winter’s blast still persist;
Does sunshine exist?
Inhospitable,
Winter’s grip on frozen waste
Spring should be in place.
Canute turned not tides
No hope for Thames’ overflow
Now the Queen must try!
Somerset levels
Is totally dishevelled
A watery hell.
Strong gales, ceaseless rain
The enlargement of water
Cannot be controlled.
Catastrophe looms
Environmental typhoons,
Global warming soon.
Every body
Is swathed in gloom and despair
Due to the weather.
In the gloom of June
Flooding occurs everywhere
Can it mean we’re doomed.
In the gloom of June
Unprecedented monsoons
Dismal doom soon looms.
In rain-soaked July
Sunny days do not apply
Storms, and never dry!
A walk from Cookham
To view the flooded pastures
Power of nature.
Spring cannot be sprung.
While bitter winter lays claim,
Dearth of sun to blame.
One of summer’s charms
Watching swallows swoop and dive
The birds’ acrobats.
Gales blow. Ceaseless rain
Thames’ tidal tides are rising
Flooding Windsor’s plains.
In extreme weather
Work is unsustainable
How incapable!
Devastating gales
How destructive is nature
How futile are we.