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)