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May 15, 2012
Don’t speak to me now,
I’m deep in thought-
A sort of waking dream!
Don’t look at me now,
I’m lost in a trance-
Sat by a babbling stream!
To tell the truth, I lied before.
I didn’t think you’d get to know.
It simply was to save my skin.
But even so – it was a sin.
She was a virgin of her own choosing.
Not yet deflowered.
A fortress of protection,
or maybe a sexual coward?
An heiress of un-trodden sand.
Her body a temple
A shrine
A wonderland of undiscovered treasure
And only she held the key in her hand
She had a sharp side to her nature
It came from her mother’s side.
But thankfully her father’s gentleness
calmed the tempestuous tide
May 14, 2012
Go away, you are much too young for me,
You’re asking for trouble, so best leave things be.
It’s fun to flirt, until someone gets hurt
So please, just go away from me.
I know older women you find more appealing,
You say they make love with a lot more feeling.
I know you’re passionate, I’ve heard you talk
But for your sake now – little boy –just walk!
I felt it the first time I held your hand,
That sexual attraction, that nobody planned.
So I’m begging you to just leave through that door,
As I’m finding this feeling so hard to ignore!
Please go now, you’re just too much to resist,
I’ve known it ever since the first time we kissed.
But if in your mind you’re really quite certain,
Then you go upstairs, whilst I draw the curtain….
May 11, 2012
She disliked everything about her
weekly piano lessons, and especially,
the presence of her music teachers
husband, who always seemed to hover
uncomfortably in the background!
He was later arrested for something or other.
At which point, her lessons promptly ceased,
and she thanked God for divine intervention.
By chance, I came across Veronique
one Sunday morning in a Riga street.
She touched my very soul.
No more than nine or ten herself and
already a surrogate mother
out walking with her siblings
In charge
In control
Yet, so soft and gentle
She cradled her tiny young cat, Bonzic
as if a babe in arms.
He let her too!
He seemed content
and protected.
We chatted
Had instant rapport
She was as bright as a button
and introduced me to her eldest brother
around the age of six or seven.
His teeth in a state of decay
In a push chair were two more children
Looked like twins
aged two or three
or so it seemed to me
At the time my heart was breaking.
I was stressed
and out of my tree.
Obsessed with my own problems
I wanted to walk on with those children
Stay with them forever
They had nothing
Yet, they had everything
Love, contentment, bonding
I could barely pull myself away
They taught me so much
For sure, we are living through a drought
With sandbags at the doors all too evident
And ducks sailing down the streets as if in Venice
And the latest hosepipe ban removes any doubt
That we really are living through a drought
The bluebell wood a quagmire, they sit huddled together
trying to survive this unplanned drought
As we wade about in wellies through fields that
once grew brussel spouts, in our topsy-turvy
world, where there’s a drought
Flotsam and jetsam hurriedly swept along
fast flowing waters as rivers break their banks
Four seasons in one day, leaving not a trace of doubt that
with record April rainfall figures, and brollies selling out
This really is the strangest ever drought
May 9, 2012
I am a non-conformist ewe,
And stand on high moral ground
Enjoying the view.
However, my partner in crime
Can be rather frisky and enjoys
More than a tot of low land whisky!
I, being a non conformist ewe
Prefer to admire from afar
My dear rams bottom.
However, my partner in crime
Has a much more open mind,
Taking pride in the length of his stride.
I, being a non-conformist ewe
And also an expert de-coder
Can measure the length of a stride.
However, my partner in crime
Who I think I did mention, lives life
In a quite different dimension.
Fields of endeavour holding
Headstrong billy goats watching
Sheep tupping each other
Wearing waterproof coats.