Grimbeau

Scroodles

Category: Poetry

Maiden Century, Cheers!

Joy

Ton up!

Long room erupts; wild whirligigs;

Zimmer frames defenestrated, joyous

Grimbeau: shy, retiring, dragged to his feet,

Takes bows, shakes hands, dodges back slaps, and utters:

‘Good feeling suffuses each and every

fibre of  my being to all of you from the pit

of the bottom of my heart and lungs that follow

these dribblings, scribblings, and other odd things..’

One day pass two hundred posts; shortly later,

today in fact, reach a century of readers.

Chuffed, warmed, valued, charmed,

and happy as a happy chap can be.

Whomsoever you are, or are not, may

the road rise with you along the way.

Never been much good

at saying thanks.

So, thanks.

Critical Mass

English: Boy with a scull; watercolor and char...

Idling around upstairs:

the crows nest on a dead

lead soft afternoon.

Was that our gate?

Is the back door locked?

Pscho-burglars,

Killer-flyers,

Mutant neighbours, midweek papers,

possibly a bloody postman!

hello…

hullo…

Helloohh…

stagnant pause (eleven years)…

sighs…(two short, one longer)

footfall on stair…

Shostokovich climaxes…

A throat clears…

Blue flush of toilet…

Phulushhh…

‘What was it?…’

‘When I picked it up it was dead…hisss

I mean dead happened just as I picked it up…

the other one was the paper boy…’

Deeep breathes…

so glad it was just a piddling matter.

Random Day: Jan 2013

Fragments of early marked pottery found on Can...

Dawdling in the dark, bed on fire, live wireless;

bailiffs at dawn, rogue elements everywhere you go;

Poet sent to prison for life in Qatar,

Emir takes big umbrage; World Cup queries.

Peon of praise for the Tunisian revolution did it,

posted on YouTube – whoops-a-daisy!

Emir’s wife sealed the deal on an

‘ephemeral, vanity project’

(BBC Today, Tim Franks 7.40 am)

insouciance advised for Davy Gravey –

zoot alors! Zoot suit!

Zoot Sims and crystal tips;

cellulitis suspected;

floccinoccinihipillification.

Wilko’s got the big C, no chemo on Canvey;

pancreatic cancer, ‘ten months, every little breeze

and brick in the street – I’m alive!’ Roxette! I cry! Dr.Feelgood…was that the news that day?

Lucky Little Lady

The Tamarind dropped anchor and despatched a

purple emissary

who announced the fate of the sweet, eyed,

lovely Maiden

from the coast of Malibar

to the swelling throng on the quay.

It appeared that, for once, the trades had been kind:

the Pirates of Somali

were living it up in Bali

English: Balinese stone carvings found in Ubud.

Scram

super macro blue and purple eyeshadow

Chewy lamb of god & son ltd
First compact runners
Old new potatoes reheated
Fresh mint sauce of summers
Then and now under lilac cloud
Eyeshadow, outlined by cable mascara
And toothpick telegraph poles that scud
Willy-nilly, abandoned to the coal nirvana
Trees call another dusk

Twilight of the Hods

Marjorie Lawrence 12 June 1939

Gotterdammerung’s off!

End of the world as they knew it.

All afternoon unquenchable thirst

accompanied by a mind made of puppy fat.

There is energy, it is all over the place;

thin and clumped, dry and soggy, like an ill

-kempt meadow or face.

 

For, making meadows is

no laughing matter: neither is the end

of the world, no matter when.

 

I & i

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Invented Spagetti

I said to Betty:

‘Drop everythingi. Tonight we eat

with Ferlinghetti. I will you uppy-pick

in my Maserati at seven thirty sharpish’.

‘What will we have, Jimi?

Probably spaghetti, or, maybe linguini.’

‘Yummi!’

Turning

home again...

Bedstretched a while;

thirst like a wadi;

it’s nice here though,

breeze shaded lush

green garden near

overgrown

overgreen

over right

shoulder

colder

clay hill side

 

 

Down my Way

July

Elevenish

Big rains water the pampas

washing away dust and clues.

The flora sleeps soaked

and wakes to day kisses

of sun and breeze.

Mind out of time out of mind.

July swings all the way to Westward Ho! and Hell.

The buttercups are salted by soft tears

smoothed away by aphids.

Dunkslam

English: Zebra in Wellington Zoo

Cruel and vicious age as ever was

longsuffering lifesufferer.

 

Do not bullshit one about the deprivations of the posh or chide me

I am unspeakable toothless with bite snap vengeful hard work

 

my reward three times twenty three this year shite up the snout

maculate deceivers line your nests and fill your boobies with

silica and choux pastry resentful me you betcha runs in the

breed like the wooden leg hip hop clip clop Iggy copped it

 

again last night a long drawn out affair mizzled puzzled dazzled

daddy sulks longest sulk in history of history and night

 

disturbing bassoon oboe stormtrooping quadruped

foodless as a mulligatawny owl a moustachioed pistachio

 

beckoned forward by a blindfold bogyman for mud is thicker

than water go the whole hog and take the plunge…