The carpenter was hooked
Three nails was all it took
***
***
***
You can find this and other poems in my free download of Wholly Man.
***
***
Wood Work
Category Archives: Famous People
Humpty Dumpty: View from a Tabloid
Dumpty: Did he fall or was he PUSHED?
Chick Claims: He was the best lay I ever had!
A Soldier Speaks: My Part In His Downfall.
Palace: Spokesman reports that the King offers his
‘deepest condolences’ to the family.
Wall: Latest Pictures!
Friend: ‘I BEGGED him to go on a diet.’
Comment, Page 8: When will the government act?
The Wall’s Too Tall: Six million signatures on our petition demanding that the Government restrict the height of all walls to six inches.
Sports Pages: Scramble to join latest wall-leaping craze.
***
***
Art and the Man
Jackson Pollack –
talent,
spotted.
An Original Poem
merriam-webster.com
There’s nothing like
the archetype
Until exists
analysis
Copies come
from that man Jung
Thanks to his fame
we’re all the same
Fun Poetry Fact #3
E, E, Cummings (often written as e e cummings), in his collection, No Thanks, published in 1935, lists fourteen publishers who rejected him. It is said to be in the shape of an urn, but it looks like a goblet to me. I’d say that either he was suggesting his success was built on the ashes of his enemies; or he was drinking in celebration that the fifteenth time’s the charm, but in fact, he self-published the collection and this was his dedication page.
Cummings was an important, influential, and successful American poet (and more) of the 20th century, but he obviously still felt every rejection.
The Venus de Milo
the Venus de Milo is marble-white
lost her arms in a bar-room fight
she is the image of her mother
she loves brawling with her brother
she grew muscles from each skirmish
for she is by nature churlish
her face is pale; did she at last take fright
when she lost her arms in a bar-room fight?
Politicians
Here be monsters
Here be freaks
Here be liars
Here be cheats
Here be MPs
Here be Tories
Here be Government
In all its glory
***
Dear World,
We apologise for any inconvenience our self-inflicted implosion may have caused you.
Love,
Great Britain
The Politician Boogie
I’ve posted this one before but it’s Party Conference season, so it seemed a good time to repost.
They gambol with truth
Feel you up as they flirt
Twist you round and about
To looksee up your skirt
They’re having a ball
While you pay the fare
They tango with facts
And they do it with flair
Their shimmying steps
Will leave you flustered
For politicians
Cannot be trusted
Going the Extra Mile(s)
A four-mile queue to view the Queen’s coffin:
it’s very British, but no one’s laughing.
Who knew we’d wait for days
and days as she lay in state
while folk file past
much too fast,
passing a box to mark the Queen’s passing?
The Queen is Dead
RIP QEII
I’m going to miss you
***
I’m aware that many people are anti-monarchy these days; I’m not one of them.
Poetry Fluff 