Wednesday, December 28, 2016

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 271 (G)

AT THE MIDDLE OF A LIFE-SPAN
The Victorian railway viaduct
across the valley stood.
Stood over a wide waterfall
which made race my young blood,
and made race the river
down by the old pine wood.

The Victorian railway viaduct
across the valley stands.
Stands over a narrow waterfall
now I'm a middling man,
blood nor river racing
between this valley's span.

KISS-COLD-COMFORT-ARE-
ORWELLIAN-CLOSED-FISTS
To down-and-outs
now in London and Paris,
British bunch-of-fives
and Frenchmen's cold kiss.

THE WITCH-HAZEL WOMAN
She lives in a caravan
by the hazel wood,
a white witch woman
with gypsy-type-blood.

Witch-gypsy, gypsy-witch,
there's magic in her eyes.
She has a hazel wand
could be no surprise.

COGS AND CLOGS
The Flying Scotsman.
The Flying Dutchman.
One is an old train,
the other a phantom.
Like train and ghost,
girl I'm sure on track
to fly to you,
to return, come back !

DEATH AND DISTANCE
From this world to the next
he went quick as a phone-text
to the earth's other side.
Perhaps fast and more far
man will journey to a star
on some future ride ?

Saturday, December 24, 2016

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 271 (F)

THE SMELLY CHEESE
John Cheese
became John Cleese
when H was changed to L.
No taste for Cheese -
if you please -
it had a funny smell !

Friday, December 23, 2016

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 271 (E)

THE-BUBBLY-CHAMPAGNE-BATH-LAUGH
She had lain in champagne,
bathing in a full bath.
Playing footsy with its spout
got her toe stuck in a tap,
filling her maid with rich laughter
that was to drain her like a gutter.

Monday, December 19, 2016

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 271 (D)

CONFLICT
Intelligence said
"Go build The Bomb."
"Just try not drop it,"
said great wisdom.

THE APE OF THINGS TO COME ?
Progress ? It's progress ?!
Seems history resonates
as mankind evolves
into the super-apes !

A-MASTERLY-MISTRESS-
SOUGHT-HER-OWN-EMANCIPATION ?
She owned black slaves
like she owned pets,
but was an early
suffragette ?

Saturday, December 17, 2016

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 271 (C)

LOW LAYERS
There are those would
sell you down the river.
They give you bullets
they'd sure have you fire
(you're their free gun,
not even for hire).
Then they lay low
like a chick's under feather.

Friday, December 9, 2016

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 271 (B)

THE ROTTEN APPLES
A few fruit there are rotten
at the apple-barrel bottom ?
It seems such a damn lot
at life's apple-barrel top !

Thursday, December 8, 2016

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 271 (A)

FUNNY AND SAD
Comedy actress Eleanor Bron
infatuated the Beatle John,
her first name penned in a song
by McCartney who
was a Beatle too,
though the song was a solemn one.