Jolson
Enjoy that joy, Sunny Boy
Try make it last forever
In darkest night or brightest light
No matter when or whether
Grimbeau
Scroodles
Category: Jazz
October 2, 2015
Nicens
Byrd Parker with strings
Theolonius at wing
Coltrane opening favourite things
A nightingale sings
Sublime kind of blues
September 22, 2015
In draws night
Blood sun sets radish
Lurid twilight underworld
Soft Saharan soot
Seville’s soft underbelly
exposes violent fruit
Plaintive chants roam earth
Echoing cruel reveries
September 22, 2015
Ganges
Need a feed, a shave, a shower.
Aint got the verve, the desire.
Those who need terminal
or other flower cry posies
by and by, by the hour,
autumn flower, wet and drooped with
Rain, a face gone and still present.
~
In autumn rain, drunk on memory,
in belated golden light,
when sunshine livens shadow,
or that feeling, when your guts
give in to gentle sulphur gloam
~
So all will weep and sleep
Bless yourself your soul replete
September 19, 2015
Simon Says
Me no roast new pots
Numerous faith articles
Cultural wotsits
Handed down from mum to son
Prejudices common sense
What’s right and wot aint
September 18, 2015
Jaquaranda Swoon Time
starling minus star
german minus car
homuncular mamba
quinquireme nirvana
trireme quillabamba
lamb passanda
calls Miranda
crazed veranda
September 3, 2015
Tramp
Sleeping on the ceiling
everso revealing.
Staring at the flooring
everso absorbing
hiding in the attic
often problematic
being comi-tragic
really undramatic…
August 21, 2015
Toad
It’s quarter to three
Green witch meantime
Just me and a near
Distant petrol lawnmower
A big lazy sun imputes
Soon golden autumn
Which draws to the end
this sad episode
So it’s one for my Baby
And one more for the Toad
August 14, 2015
The Joy of Sax
Phew!
So much to do
and
no point in any of it;
just plain old survival;
avoidance of mishaps,
relief from pain relief.
No simple sample pleasure.
*
Eleven it says:
Morning constitutional
To the shed and back
Phantom bouquet
bonfire smoke whispering
Secret trysts at noon
Thrilled to bits I don
A cloak & gagger…
*
Phone calls to invite me to luncheon;
of course,
I accept with puerile alacrity.
What ensues is vintage time warp!
Clear the decks for a couple of hours;
put pressing needs on hold;
suspend more disbelief.
*
Hot colouring book trend offer:
one legged dormouse to play Plato;
Dizzy the Womble pours scorn…
Exasperated! Go touch your heels
Take odd drugs on a building site
Discover unknown places
July 31, 2015
Chatwork
Coffee rashers scraps
skidmark sunshine larks startle
descending Fuji
seasickness overwhelmed me
entered Turin shrouded grey
pollution made me husky
Yeti uttered clumsily
‘Attitude sickness, Nietzsche?’
*
I smiled like a mad trappist
Remembering who I was
*
Mass aerologic
Agent puella beehive
Kind as lost kind sculptures
Waving sad eyed drooped
Medicated breasts point
Easy on the shore: tortured
As an impossible embrace
Your face is what it is.
Grimbeau 