Wednesday, April 26, 2017

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 275 (H)

THE CUCKOO CAP
There by the garden gate
stood the birdhouse.
Find a cuckoo entered
that home to a titmouse.

The cuckoo laid her egg
in the tit's nest
from which the chick hatched,
kicked out all the rest.

Yes big bully cuckoo
kicked out the tinier tits.
Not all bullies are cuckoo,
but sometimes the cap fits.

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 275 (G)

SUNKEN DRUNKEN
He will drink
until he's drunk,
till to the bottom of
the barrel he's sunk.

Roll out the barrels,
roll out the kegs.
His life is a drag.
His life is the dregs.

DOUBLE D
Ooh ! Aah !
Dem and Da.
My Siam suns,
my Siam stars,
my twin peaks
in the East afar.
Ooh ! Aah !

AN APHRODISIAC IN THE FLESH
"Love goddess Aphrodite,
where on earth's your nightie ?"
find some would say
on the globe today.
They'd try make sex past history.

NO LEFT-OVER LOVE
LOL meant Lots Of Love,
it now means Laugh Out Loud.
Let Off his Leash, I'd say,
since divorce has been allowed !

HULL MAN'S RIDE TO FREEDOM
William Wilberforce
got on his hobby-horse,
helped set the hobbled free.
Yes William Wilberforce
got on his hobby-horse,
helped put an end to slavery.
Slavery had ever been about
almost globally. He forced it out.

FRIENDS AND FOES
"There is a wall.
Here's a bridge.
Come cross over,
a wall's a wedge
between people." True.
But welcome enemies too ?

Monday, April 24, 2017

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 275 (F)

A MAN-TRAPPER FLAPPER
Dark, dyed red, then blonde,
yes the hair of Clara Bow.
She'd really have been the 'It' girl
had she three heads in a row !

A FRESH-CREAM CAT FIND
You're crème de la crème -
the cream of the cream.
Find I am the tom-cat
who has always been
fond of the she-cat
sure a catnap-dream.

WAILS WILD A WITCH RIDING
ON THE WINGING-GOAT
Astride a winged-goat
flies witch-woman she,
and wild is her wail,
like an Irish banshee's.

Between the goat's horns
sits the witch's black cat.
There upon her head
sits her pointy witch-hat.

"Fly oh fly, fly oh fly,
carry your witch my billy.
My warlock in goat's guise
carry your witch, your nanny !"

Thursday, April 20, 2017

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 275 (E)

A-VERY-COLD-BACK-OF-THE-NIGHT'S-
COAT-IS-HEWN-WITH-LITTLE-STARS
In a turning universe
its planets appear stock-still.
New breeds and new deaths
as to this whirling windmill.
The far bright stars dots
for a dark Cruella Deville ?