Just Then

Sitting riverside in the Oxford sun

Letting it all flow by

Nothing said just a whispered wave

Sunlight warmed in a blue bright sky

Kissing breezes caress your curls

A teasing hint of smile

Absorbed in the summer atmosphere
Coasting gently for a while

Midnight Song

The wistful time approaches

As looking back concludes

Memories packed wrappings sacked

As new year hope intrudes

Linking arms in Auld-Lang-Syne

Hoping smiles will pull us through

A world rings out its midnight bells
Courage craving all things new

Probably (A Calculated Poem)

When thinking probabilities

It is wise to not forget

How prospects over egg a view

Of things not happened yet

Probabilities are likelihoods

Expressed as formulae prepared

Where alternative and variance

Account for random endings bared

Chattering Classes

Chuntering muttering

Gabbling off the cuff

Blathering beyond the pale

Overload of nattering stuff

Chattering and jabbering

Gibberish on tap

Random roads of rambling

Yapping on to fill each gap

Hot air room of prattling

Wittering chatty habit

Every waiting ear half listening

In a burrow load of rabbit

Partly inspired from reading 'Neither Nowt nor Summat'by Ian McMillan and dedicated to Dennis Skinner one of Britain's greatest politicians who got things done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Skinner 

Riposte

Retort for sport

Appalling cost

To blade invade

Your sharp riposte

Dismay you say

Your reason why

To spill and kill

Cruel evil eye

To stand on sand

Alone and lost

Desist to twist
One more riposte

Weather Warning

Angry weather declarations

Spreading major variations

Towers shake foundations quake

Pressure points on elevations

We sense the cost of inclinations

The favoured choice of exploitations

Human ash is driving so much cash
Corporate bane supplies vexations

Midwinter Frost

Sparkle dancing on a crystal shard

Glittering movement in the light

Tiptoe spinning on a sunset flare

Nightfall leaping out of sight

Softly silent on a snowflake wing

Coasting wild on frozen air

As the moonlight rings a twilight bell

A million eyes gaze out and stare

Random Rhymes

Do I need vibrations

Living in this street

Could be I need a light refrain

A mantra to repeat

I’m writing me a music note

To relax me and relieve

I’ve been feeling oh so crochety

I need to double up and breve

  

Thinking on this writing lark

How inspiration is the spark

No matter how much light I see

I feel tortured in the dark

In this room

I consider my presence

In this room

a cocoon of my me

A space for my trace

to inhabit a place

In these moments

of my certainty

On the cusp of massiveness

So many ideas in my head

Tonight I’ll write ‘til half past nine

Then ‘sod-it’ off to bed

Sitting edgy on a sombre tomb

Waiting in a catacomb

Wondering if there’s any room
For parlour games amid the gloom

Apricity Inclined

Waiting here in winter

Icy mornings diamond crisp

Feeling hibernation envy

Tied up dreaming in a wisp

Suddenly it dawns on me

How I am sensitive to touch

In this moment being all there is
These threads of quietness I clutch

What’s Going Down?

Out there with the where it is

On message up-to-date

Strutting stuff at cutting edge

In the heat where first is great

Chasing the latest neatest thing

Ahead of the folks who queue

Parading flair with debonair

Look at me the way I do

Storming the burning pyre of life

Fanning the blaze of fire

Playing the game of so much more

Driven crazy by desire

Based on Yesterdays Papers 

By Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

"Living a life of constant change
Every day means the turn of a page
Yesterdays papers are such bad news
Same thing applies to me and you"

Hull Out Loud

Jameson Street

When defining our significance

Declaring proudly here we dwell

Vital to our sense of heritage

This home fire cauldron citadel

Where rivers flow unceasing

A rovers rest and restoration

To build up steam to future dream

Glowing beacon of location

A sunshine arc of east to west

Lines a route of lightning thirst

Where Tigers roaring stridently

Announce 'Old Faithfull' full on burst