for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 284 (K)

THE STAR-WHITE WOMAN
Find the new muse
sure has style.
The lovely girl
has a beguiling smile,
her teeth a-shine
like a white star -
on a black night -
in the heavens afar.


MISS MISRULE
The woman desires younger men
whom she can dress in her clothes,
horse around with them in her bedroom.
Anyone may then suppose
that she'd love to be a man
and her young-ladies the men.
At a Fancy Dress Ball
she seems to 'fancy' them.


DESTINY AND DESTINATIONS ?
Off the girl will go
on a London trip
now she has missed
the good captain's ship ?
Oh such is fortune,
oh such is fate,
ring-in the New Year
this one's dead, is late.
The Big City's lights
might bring some cheer
to a landlubber lady
such as she here.
To Paris, to Amsterdam,
will the captain go ?
She missed the boat,
she was too slow,
but good for he
she was not aware
of the pretty penny
he'd have spent on her.
A girl too slow
isn't a fetching figure...
A girl too fast
might be a gold-digger !

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 284 (J)

AN EVER DIVIDED BRITANNIA'S
BOAT IS LEAVING
Had the Referendum result
been the other way round,
would not the winning Remainers
have gone stood their ground,
said "No" to a compromise
and to a second-vote ?
Would not the losing Brexiteers
try sink the anchored boat ?

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 284 (I)

NOTHING THERE
The girl's got little legs,
yet she has large feet.
Like a babe, foot in mouth,
its toes trying to eat,
a big mouthful of nothing
means she doesn't have to speak.

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 284 (H)

COCKNEY CALL-GIRL
Up the apples and pears
on the dog and bone
(up the stairs
on the telephone) -

above a tobacconist -
Cockney rhyming slang
she would feed
to the wealthy man

who was the client
she liked the best.
She loved to lay
her head on his chest.

He was her world,
she his lovely star.
She'd eat him up
as though he caviar.

How she would hang
on the phone-wire.
His smoky-voice set
her heart afire.

ADULT DIVERSIONS
She liked to read
Story of O.
This I know,
she told me so.

The girl was not
a masochist,
she told me this
and on her wrist

she wore a bangle
not a handcuff.
Didn't like it rough,
only read the stuff.

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 284 (G)

THE VIRGIN VALOUR VERSE
He was to die a virgin
in his battle-dress;
never to know a girl's kiss,
never to know a girl's caress.
Into his heart a projectile flew,
took the life no female knew.

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 284 (F)

GINGER BEER
There was a strawberry-blonde
who lost her cherry to
a guy nicknamed Ginger
who had roots in Peterloo.
She was a Liverpudlian
who was to Ginger's taste,
and the girl just never one
could let beer go to waste.

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 284 (E)

A POET'S PUBLIC PORTRAYAL
OF A VERY-PRETTY MUSE
Keep your clothes on lady,
we can just talk.
I am in no hurry.
Let's go for a walk.

Yes keep your clothes on lady,
beauty I like to court
and parade on my arm.
I'm an arty sort.

AN IMMORTAL MUSE
She had been a stripper
a long, long time ago,
in some shady den.
Only males paid for the show.

She then became a model
for a painter-man.
She made much more money
from this bohemian.

Yes she'd been a stripper
a long, long time ago.
Now in an art-museum
find she's on public-show.

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 284 (D)

PLEASURES OF KNOWING
I've had the redhead,
the brunette, the blonde.
Yes of the young ladies
find I am most fond.
I've had a wild time
with Thai-girls (Siamese);
the "Hellos", the "Goodbyes",
and the "Sawadees" !
But somewhere inbetween
I have aimed to please !!

A SOUL SEARCHER OR  SEEKER SHE ?
Within a wall of books
to divert a devious mind,
maybe seek a male-student
with whom to bind,
or a colleague even
with whom to unwind
and speak of the man
could have been her mentor,
the man with some fame,
a more mature lover,
a being within books,
her financial saviour
back at the Public Centre,
had she been thoughtful,
trustworthy and true,
had she seen the soul
behind his eyes of blue,
had she not lacked soul
or hid it from his view.

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 284 (C)

WAR WOUNDS
Some say forgive
and forget.
Some burn red-poppies
with no regret
for the hurt caused,
nor do they care.
We must remember
the scars of war.

THE RED-POPPY DAYS
Red are the poppies
for red was real
as the very flower
in the fields
where real soldiers
dead there lay.
Real as red blood.
Live-on Poppy Day.

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 284 (B)

SWORD CROSS
              i
              n
          sword
               t
               h
               e
            stone
            poem              

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 284 (A)

A TENDER TOUCH
All the boys loved her.
I loved her the best.
A snake for her stockings,
a tiger for the girl's long tress.

All the boys loved her.
She loved my soft caress.
She the beauty, I the beast
with the touch of tenderness.

THE TOWER BLOCKS
Money piles up like a high-rise
with more pay given some guys.
I guess that they go lose sight
of everything but power's might.

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 283 (K)

A FUTURE FOCUS
HAVING MOVED ON
Of your secret writings
do I surely know.
"How ?", you may wonder,
but it is so.

I know of the toy
you bought in Amsterdam -
with which you play -
and not a man.

Was it the angels
of which you've heard ?
A fortune-gypsy
or a little bird ?

You could have come
away with me
on big-adventures
far across the seas

or just said "Thanks,
but what you said
to a small adventure
with friends has led."

But you so lacked
a grateful touch,
an excuse now, girl,
should be double-Dutch.

A COCK AND CANDLE
The night was a canvas
on which to bestow
all the lovely colours
of the rainbow
when they made love -
as they lay low -
by a candle's light
until the cock's crow.

AN ADVENTUROUS ROVER ?
Ah yes, young ladies,
back to teaching I am.
I'll return to treat you
over in old Siam.
What a gypsy once said
has become crystal clear.
I was born to roam
upon this wide sphere.
A life of Adventure
sure was the call,
and death, I'll find,
the greatest of all ?

A SHAPE SHIFT
So it is beauty shall pass
from the body before the looking-glass.
Then it's up to the girl try win
from a beauty found deeper within,
if a real beauty so be there
inside a soul she can lay bare.

A NO-WALLS WORLD-ORDER ?
A world without walls
still holds people within.
Would a one-world government
truly be a good thing ?
Where do you go run,
where do you go hide,
if a one-world government
is not on your side ?

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 283 (J)

SHE HID IN HER SHELL
She could have had adventure
with a captain of romance,
sailed as on a dream-ship
across to Paris there in France.

On that dream-ship sailed
to fairytale Amsterdam
with a sure maverick poet
and find drifter of a man.

Oh but what the flaming heck,
oh but what the flaming hell,
she curled-up, a pretty pearl,
inside her own seashell.

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 283 (I)

DON'T-TELL-THE-OUTSTANDING-
FEATHERED--COCK-AGREED-THE-
SO-UNGRATEFUL-OLD-BOILER-
COLLECTIVE ?
He had always been so courteous,
he had always been so polite,
there to help the cooped-in ladies
if ever were to break-out a fight.
Then why did they all conspire
against the proud game-cock
not once - but twice - the bird-brains ?
Chickens ready for the hot pot ?

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 283 (H)

ARE MY VERSES RELATIVE
TO YOU ?
Some say I am insightful,
some say that I'm psychic.
All I can say myself:
seems sometimes the cap fits !

LIKE A YESTERDAY QUEEN INSIDE
HER FAMILY
She was sexually impetuous,
it's so, it's so, it's so;
to the point of being incestuous,
oh no ! oh no ! oh no !
Ah yes, ah yes, ah yes.
I said to the girl "Penny,
unlike the kings-and-queens of yest,
go play the cock-and-henny
outside your family. Fit into a dress !"

TRANSPOSITION
She will transfer
and he will transform.
Like karma carried-out,
he shall feel reborn.

BIRD-BRAIN ?
After her holiday
she whistled like a bird,
but then fell silent
should he have overheard;
he she did not tell,
whom she didn't wish to know,
even if through him
it was she got to go.
How was it he knew
that she got to go ?
Maybe it was the birds
that had told him so !

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 283 (G)

PROJECTOR
How could he love her ?
How could he even hate her ?
She is nobody special
as he'd discover later.
Just damn projecting he'd been
on one who's merely a blank screen.

BARDS AND BANDIT-BOHEMIANS
They might travel alone
or in gangs may roam,
bohemian-bandit and bard.
Move round the earth's stone,
find a place to call home,
different views on thinking HARD.

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 283 (F)

CATS AND RATS AND
PEOPLE GOING BATS !
Poleaxe
the council tax,
it's okay for fat-cats
who milk the poor.

Poleaxe
the council tax,
it's okay for rich-rats
with money offshore.

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 283 (E)

FAIR-PLAY FEMALE
OR FOUL ?
One who plays fair ?
One who is kind ?
A true rose, a true star,
here in my mind ?

She's a blonde beauty,
yet shall I find
her eyes sparkle
but mine are blind ?

A VAMPIRE OF VERSE
I'm a versifying vampire,
of her youthful beauty do I drink
when I look deep into her eyes
for a soul to drive my ink.

SETTLED
She is to leave
and he approves.
He has travelled,
made his own moves.

It will be good
to see her gone,
as if he himself
had moved on.

A FUNFAIR FORTUNE OR FATE
Some men call it karma, find.
Spiritually or psychologically sound,
like a fairground's Big Wheel
what you send out comes back around.
Yes it comes on back around
at a near or a far off date.
If you've been fair or unfair
the karmic wheel's the turn of fate.

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 283 (D)

WAVES OF GOLD
Her long golden hair
like sunshine on the sea.
Oh to drown in it,
to have it cover me.

Yes she so inspires
like the Muse of Poetry
possessing this verse-poet
as the girl can see !

REBIRTH-ON-ANOTHER-PLANET ?
Seven days in Amsterdam,
five days in 'gay Paree',
by ferry and hovercraft
we ex-lovers crossed-the-sea.
Another life and another world.
Another man and another girl.

('gay Paree' = bright carefree
Paris)

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 283 (C)

A SUNNY SORT OF SAWADEE
"You white monkey" she had said,
but naught to do with race
though it can be with some.
No, we both lay in my bed
and smiled face to face
in the land of a smiling sun.

THE DISAPPOINTED DREAMER
She's a damn disappointment.
Different I'd dreamt she'd be.
Sometimes I see ahead
as to others, not as to me.

As to my own affairs,
they're not so crystal clear.
Thus with disappointment
I'll live for many a year ?

SHAPING A FOLLOWING SHADOW
We can all make mistakes,
but the ones with intent
will catch up with us
in some future event.

Our own shadows know
just what are the facts.
We can lie to ourselves
but the shadow keeps track.

A PLASTIC ROSE
A young lady rose -
I'll not mask it -
but one with a soul
that is purely plastic.

WHO ARE YOU TO TELL ?
Where love is offered
it's often refused,
as if it be something
we can pick-and-choose.
Do not tell me who to love,
there're folk sure not worthy of.

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 283 (B)

A SNAKE-GODDESS ?
You can praise a woman
who turns out to be weak.
You can praise a woman
who turns out to be a sneak.
You can place her on a pedestal
only later to have found
your golden one, your goddess,
came on tumbling down.

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 283 (A)

EASING INTO A CYCLIC WORLD-LIFE
The girl shall settle down -
to a life mostly mild -
with a guy she works near,
with him and his child.
So knows the messenger
who carries the gypsy's words.
As mad as March hares,
as wild as the birds
the girl shall think him
when he is to relate
that before she was born
he knew of her fate.
Her fate is to slip
into the shoes of another.
Her fate is to play
the role of a stepmother.
Her fate, yes her future,
is there on Easy Street.
Easy guy, easy child and home,
easy shoes upon her feet.

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 282 (H)

A DEPARTED SWAN MAIDEN
Her spirit goes soar like a swan
over the green hills of Albion,
across King Arthur's Avalon.
Will soar into the setting sun.