Monday, February 27, 2017

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 273 (H)

DOWN DELL-LADY'S DREAM
Wonders if a warlock, she,
can cast the magic spell.
Wonders does a wishful she -
by the wishing well -
will she get her prince...
a satyr for her fairy dell ?

Friday, February 24, 2017

CORRECTION:

BOW BOYS end line should be
'All their arrows on you released !
not 'release !'

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 273 (G)

A DRAX DRAGON
The power-plant dragon Drax
fumes by Carlton Towers.
The swans on the Carlton pond
are unruffled, they don't cower.
Men go feed the Drax beast
with their work. The fumes don't cease.

THE PERFECT PARADISE NOT
Paint me a picture of a paradise
with peacocks and with peahens.
Paint in their feathers no parasites.
Pictures do often lie to men.

Thursday, February 23, 2017

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 273 (F)

MANY WAVES ON ONE SEA
Unity
verses individuality ?
More individuality
for me !

Accuse me
of eccentricity,
too much
of an individuality,

unity
is ALL being free
from bonds
of one-minded unity.

END OF PLAY TODAY
Like the Dennis Potter play,
or one by Peter Greenaway,
you were hot, girl, yesterday
but now you have nothing to say.

UP-NORTH'S-SMILEY-
TONY-BLAIR-WENT-'SOUTH-MOUTH'
Blair's smile was as wide
as Britain's north and south divide.
But once Number Ten inside
he let out "What divide ?"

TOO MUCH FLESH YOU'D
LIKE ON YOUR BONE
They'd work men to the bone,
buy a palace with a throne,
but in their shoes
might not you?
Yes they'd work men to the bone,
men happy with a humble-home,
but in their shoes
no not you ?

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 273 (E)

FROM-SALTBURN'S-BECK-
TO-BELOW-HUNTCLIFF-YES
Upon a rock
midst the river
something part-human
was to slither.
It raised a head,
a fishtail swished,
sat on the rock
where men fished.
A fisher, whose
bait was a fly,
was netted by
her spidery-eyes.
In those eyes
he was to drown.
His ghost a gull
now flies around
the coastal cliff.
The coastal cliff
very foot of which
his mermaid sits.

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 273 (D)

THE-WOMAN-ONE-WITH-A-WOOD
Her hair cascaded
like the waterfall,
a raven-coloured.
Willowy and tall,
by the river
the lady stood.
A cawing filled
the  wild wood.
Heard the splashes,
rainbow-trout leaping.
Jumped with joy,
came nature seeking
the lady who
then parted weeping.

Monday, February 20, 2017

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 273 (C)

MIND-AND-BODY-BALANCE
Hamlet could only be
when inside his head.
A play within a play
the boards he'd tread.

We all have to think,
but some don't do enough.
It sure calls for action
when some think far too much.

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 273 (B)

THE COLD NORTH'S
HARD-HEARTED ANGEL
The homeless beggar
who'll also steal.
The upfront street-girl,
but down at heel.
The Angel of the North
with a heart of steel.

DANCING UNTIL
THE VERY LIGHT OF DAWN
A budding ballerina
dances in her bedroom.
Dances in the darkness
to the Swan Lake tune.

Dances in the darkness
only the stars turned on.
The dawn light show
she not a black swan.

FADED NOT HER NAUGHTY
MUSICAL MOVES
The opening act was a stripper
before came on the band.
Wild were the wolf-whistles.
The boys gave a big hand.

Time now for the music,
heart and souls bare laid.
Mine with the stripper
whose G-string didn't fade !

Saturday, February 18, 2017

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 273 (A)

PICTURE THE NORTHERN SCULPTURE
You were my Angel of the North,
your arms spread wide like wings,
till I found you'd an iron heart
though you spoke the sweetest things !

DARK DEPRESSION
Dawn cannot kill
dead of night,
but darkness disperse
with its morning light.

And do not we -
when we are down -
await a sun
which is upward bound ?

Friday, February 17, 2017

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 272 (G)

BOW BOYS
Kama, Eros, Cupid,
three gods of love these.
Hindu, Greek, Roman.
All their arrows on you release !

Monday, February 13, 2017

for MIDDLESBROUGH MAGIC SHIP 272 (F)

CIRCULAR SOWING SEASON
We reap what we sow.
We're aware from the ground
grows sunflower, deadly nightshade.
Sow, do then be bound
to what's sent around
surely reeling back around.

A TRUE MAGIC
Just like a genie
the truth will out,
and when it does
how you shall shout.

How you shall shout
and maybe scream.
You sealed the bottle,
truth uncorked'll stream.

CHANGES AND CHALLENGES
I am not the same as you.
You are not the same as me.
We've both grown apart,
on this we can agree.
There's ever conflicting interests
girl, as to individuality.

SPELLBOUNDS
His wife was a witch
he too late found,
but now, like a frog,
he bed-hops around !

A BEAUTY BENEATH
THE SPRING-BRIGHT SKY
The time will come -
as does it go -
when beauty fades,
leaves a thorn the rose ?

Leaves a thorn the rose
for men won't eye
the beauty that was
under a spring-sky ?

RISING-AND-RACING-UNRIDDEN
White-horses some name the waves,
waves by Poseidon sent.
White as his own Pegasus
whom his way winging went.
White as the white-hot sun
the day on the beach I spent.

THE ROARING 21st CENTURY ?
The big lion's roar
to the tiny mouse is thunder.
Are we to be lions
or among the mice number ?