Monday, February 29, 2016

for PATTAYA TRADER 259 (A)

A-SO-TASTY-LONDON-TOWN-
LADY
Long legs, short skirt,
blouse busty and frilly,
the girl walks around
bow boy Eros and Piccadilly.

Wine, dine, party-time,
over on Soho's Greek Street?
Men's minds stray, wide-eyes follow,
their tongues would like to greet.

CAGEY PANDA
Eyes like a panda,
it is not mascara.
Both of them bruised,
she is so abused.

A DEGREE IN SEDUCTION
Actress Ross, she was boss
in The Graduate.
Cougar cool, she was to school
in the X-rate.

A TUNNEL VISION ?
Once upon a time
I worked down a mine
as though I were a mole.
Those days no more
there are still men bore
themselves into a hole.

WEDDING BAND
Yes wedlock's
a binding thing,
but some Houdinis
escape the ring !

FIGURE-IT-OUT-GIRL
Their Adam's apples now gone
you can't tell them from Eve ?
You'd tell them ladyboys, girl,
without their thongs, or fig leaves !

THE-BIRDS-OF-A-FREEDOMLESS-
FEATHER-NO ?
Speak freely today
and your tongue is 'loose'.
You must not say
"Boo" to a goose.
And all are geese
where folk gaggle
wagging tongues,
waggle ! waggle !

YES-A-WORDY-WIZARD'S-OLD-
LINES-NOW
The old wizard unrolls
a yellowing scroll
by flickering candlelight.
The lively wind howls
like wild wolves
out in the moonlit-night.
He reads of his love,
of his lady, his dove,
and young wizard he.
A wizard with words,
but flown his coo-bird.
Here yesteryears' poetry.

Saturday, February 27, 2016

CORRECTION:

and drank wine from her shoe (below).

for PATTAYA TRADER 258 (G)

GLASS-SLIPPER-GIRL ?
Her stepmother was a hag
who kept her dressed in rags,
but find she's no more blue.
She was left a lot of money
by a wealthy godmummy
and drank from her shoe
the man with the red rose
who kisses the five toes
that are now on view.
Cinders has a lover and fan
who's both her prince and footman ?

for PATTAYA TRADER 258 (F)

A-LADY-FROG-SOUGHT-A-
HUMAN-SPELLBOUND-PRINCE
The girl had hoped
to break a spell
by kissing frogs
near a wishing well.
She kissed, kissed.
Wow, what a snog !
But no frog-prince
for this princess-frog.

Friday, February 26, 2016

for PATTAYA TRADER 258 (E)

MAKING-MONKEYS-OUT-A-MOB ?
A monkey is to fool
the port of Hartlepool.
They think it a French spy
and hang the monkey high.
"Oh what an abomination
are they of the French nation,"
cry the crowd below
the monkey on the gallows
who thinks bananas gone
the crowd acting as one.

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

for PATTAYA TRADER 258 (D)

DISTRESS SIGNALS
In the sea of life,
every bottle carried a note
he delivered to his friends' doors.
They read "Keep yourselves afloat".

"Keep yourselves afloat" they read,
swim and don't sink down",
but he - already sinking -
in beer was to drown.

A-POLITICAL-POWER-PACT
Both Hitler and Stalin made a pact
till Adolph did his treacherous act.
Extremes sure meet in the circle of life
when marching far enough Left and Right.

IDLE RICH
He used to be a union rep.,
ever talked about poverty and debt
as to his fellow workers.
But then he was to win the Lottery.
Suddenly idle his mouth and he.
Sure could afford to be a shirker.

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

for PATTAYA TRADER 258 (C)

THE DEMON-DARK-DAYS
Beowulf, St. George, Sir Gawain,
fought monster, dragon, giant fleshed green.
Every hero sure has a dark villain
as both myth and history have seen.

PARTNER-PROBLEMS-EVEN-
IN-PARADISE-EVE !
Lilith was the first wife's name,
though bat-winged the woman became,
cursed Adam and then away flew.
So to Eve he turned to begin anew.

A-BREAK-IN-THE-BOHEMIAN-
BACKBONE ?
Around Ladbroke Grove
he was to rove
a broken-down guy.
An area of tribes,
artists and scribes,
his the load of many a 'high'.

ARTISTIC LICENSE
Shakespeare coined new words.
Poetic license I have heard
and the vernacular voice.
Seek spelling mistakes is your choice ?

THE-TWO-HOT-PATTAYA-PALMS
A song for Da
and a song for Dem.
This song I sing
for the both of them.
They are the palms
between which I swing
like a hammock
in a Pattaya wind.

FIERY-VIKING-FUNERAL-
BOAT-VERSE
As the phoenix burns to ashes
so like the smoke to go rise,
burn to ashes my dead body.
Cast to winds beneath the skies
my remains, upon the very shore
where Viking long-ships went before.

Monday, February 15, 2016

for PATTAYA TRADER 258 (B)

A-WYCLIFFE-WONDERMAN
Not for peace but with a sword
came the man they called The Lord.
No walked-all-over-pacifist he
out to overthrow a ruling enemy
by the spread of his, Christ's Word ?

PLOTTERS
If a just God
had foreseen all this:
was Jesus 'betrayed'
by Judas's kiss ?

Thursday, February 11, 2016

for PATTAYA TRADER 258 (A)

BLUE HEAVEN
Yes when in Rome
do as the Romans do.
With a Romeo gigolo
she danced the night through.
With an Italian stallion
romance sure was blue.
No friends, no family
to say "Don't you !"

PAM'S-UNDER-PARLIAMENT-PIMP
Pamela's Pimlico pimp,
yes what a ponce.
A Westminster Bridge wino
find the guy was once.
It put him on the path
to being street sharp,
now he's crossed over
from dim to very dark.

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

for PATTAYA TRADER 257 (G)

IT'S-THE-THUMB-DOWN-TOM-
AS-TO-OPIUM
Thomas de Quincey, he
sure'd no hope in dreamy opium.
A giant chaser of the dragon,
he was next a Tom Thumb.