Tag: Poetry

The wall

 

Those days can happen,

when you don’t know what to do

when you hit the wall.

 

by Scooj

League

.

In the sun

the boys play football

the sky blues

play at home

against the claret and blues;

Sunday league football.

.

by Scooj

My first shadorma.

Clowns

 

Beneath the costume

we are not so different

you the clown and I.

 

by Scooj

 

Late in the office

 

Others have gone home;

shut the door on your way out

I think to myself.

 

by Scooj

Nightmare

.

Everywhere I look

I see the ragged remnants

of my waking dreams.

.

by Scooj

Autumn

 

Halowe’en is gone

pumpkins hurled in the compost;

time passes quickly.

 

by Scooj

 

Loop

.

Scrawls on newspaper

crafted into verse about

scrawls on newspaper. 

.

by Scooj

Non-natives

 

I’m awake early

squaking parakeets outside;

a London nuisance.

 

by Scooj

M4

.

Red kites above

great conservation story;

no more DDT. 

.

by Scooj

Nipper

 

Little Bristol dog

recognised by millions;

a canine icon.

 

by Scooj

 

Nipper, Bristol, His Master's Voice
Nipper, Bristol, His Master’s Voice