Poems

Dad’s been working late again, my dinner’s cold in my tum, He often gets quite irritable, and sometimes shouts at mum, Why won’t you take a break dad? Take us to the zoo or sea, We need to feel more a part of you, mum, little sister and me. I often lay in bed,...

From time immemorial to this present day, It’s mans quest to find, his origin some way From Darwinian theories, to alien makes Evolving from Apes or fish in the lakes One theory I have, is that us all, with respect, Are part of an experiment by a super intellect, A...

Our father, Which art in heaven; Give us a break, for Christ’s sake!

Wave us off to our deaths The fresh faced children of your country What horrors will we face in lands of far away? Dare we imagine the fates that await us? We are all smiles and caresses And full of songs of possible triumphs The band plays and we feel unstoppable And...

Somewhere there’s a Kansas sky eight hours chasin the sun hey would I lie all that day all work and no fun Somewhere there’s a Kansas sun I cry eight hours behind in the dark hey sweetheart would I lie let’s go kiss in the moon swept sky You been dreamin of this day...

Only the tormented can't sleep Eyes like black holes Begging for their soul to keep Unless its you who seeks A better day in the sun Sometimes my war is a dream That I sleep walk backwards too Things are not as real as they seem Soldiers are awake And "their" war is...

Under our sparkling red white blue We flag our hearts as strong and true Our national pride grows, never falters When attacked by demon doubters Our twin towers are faith and strength From our soul terror cannot wrench Our love of peace will be protected All violators...

We arrived like thieves in the night. The darkness cloaking us, hiding us, Rendering us invisible. We swarmed over the land, Making it ours. The smoke rising from the chimney. Chinks of light, split the night like laser beams. While Inside the building a young boy...

It rained, and I heard it fall. Maybe not every drop, but almost all. We cut the turf. And stacked it high. Two foot thick and just as wide. Rain ran down my face while it filled the hole. Soaked my clothes. Washed my soul. No gentle pitter-patter this, it crashed....

If I called on God in supplication, Would He want a detailed explanation? Would He say “Hi stranger! Come on in”? Or would He count my every sin? If I stood outside His pearly portal, Would He know my sins, venial and mortal? Would He gaze on me benevolent? Or mete...

Long before the hurt dug in, the build up had begun, The pointless comments the little quips, that ended all the fun, Anger filled sinew released in a slap, too late now on its way, It can’t be retracted once its sent, all manliness slips away, A look of horror and...

That bright star showed them the way, Where a King was born and respect to pay, A palace, castle one would think, No it was a stable with animals that stink. Probably grew up like us all in the HOOD, He found he could use his hands with wood, Water to wine? A problem...

Looking at your Photo makes me sad, with a smile. The miles that separate us will do so for a while. Sometimes I must be far away; you know that’s what I do, but when I’m there, you know my dear, I’m coming home to you. So if you miss me; as I do you, sometimes your...

The whining rise awakens us from dreams of better times Zombies in RAF uniforms follow the dimming light to outside Where the dark leviathans of the empirical kingdom lie in wait Their charioteers take their seat and gee up their horses While engineering creatures run...

I have to tell them Daddy’s gone Their faces smiling how they shone I looked around their room to see The gifts they made for their Daddy I feel the pain begin to swell The pain of death that comes from hell I feel the tears well up again That pain that makes us go...

Your two feet away I cant think what to say how my soul feels in this world today can’t pick myself up off the floor just a manic depressive some would say Appeal because you must understand that life does many things to people they hope to be in god’s hand turn to...

We sit in our homes with our TVs on we watch all the channels as though nothing is wrong We sip at our drinks be it coffee or tea and ignore all those voices begging us please We sit on our sofas that’s you and that’s me pictures of suffering, repetitive pleas we turn...

Those red poppies Are all that we give to those who receive They died on the bloody fields They wept their tears But determined to succeed They hid their fears. As their hats fell I hear the shear shudder As there hats fall I hide undercover For I am not a true...

Cold. Afraid and alone. Lost in the blankets of darkness. Life slowly seeps from the wounds. Where now were my comrades? Who would now comfort me? I see my mother’s face smell her sweet fragrance. Her tender embrace, brings brief warmth. But not for my body only my...

Like the density of clouds Or the cigarette that arcs, When flicked into the night. The tumbling of stars Is just another dream, Of how once, we lived our lives. Tomorrows, today’s And all our yester-years, Love and pride long lost. The moral and its lesson Well...

Mummy why are you crying, have you hurt yourself again? White make-up daubed around your nose your boyfriend calls cocaine, I hate to see you so upset, will a kiss or hug help out? Why are you always ill mummy and why must you always shout? Its every day, instead of...

My Grandson wakes from his afternoon sleep, life’s worries for him so far way, I greet him with hugs, and kisses and as he becomes fully awake, he just want’s to play, What will he be, Footballer, Fireman, Priest, Straight or Gay? I do hope it matters At The End Of...

My dog Fred’s dead. Me Mum said: “He’d just been fed; went to bed, and woke up dead.” Fred had no street cred, Anyway.

The letter came and I wondered what to say As I held it in my hands As his father had made a promise to return to him that day I walked into his bedroom and I turned to him and said “My darling Daddy’s not coming home” and he looked up from his bed “I know that...

What did I do, sonny, in the Great World War? Well, I learned to peel potatoes and to scrub the barrack floor. I learned to push a barrow and I learned to swing a pick, I learned to turn my toes out, and to make my eyeballs click. I learned the road to Folkestone, and...

We all try to outwit or say words to belittle scared paranoid losing it the weak knocked down like a skittle You say this I say that we all wish to be superior tall, short, thin, fat these make us inferior I know best I’ve seen the light but have you what do you know...

The sky is forming it's approaching me I see the sky is turning dark Through all the rain Through all the thunder I stare up and I look to my left it's my fellow solider protecting other we gazed and looked covered in mud n soot with heavy clothing I was forever...

What say you Knight Templar? Does this war bring forth forgotten memories? Does that dammed sand, still fly. Bite and infest the cup? Centuries have passed, Though, the cause is still the same? That flag that with cross and colour, That flew night and day. This now...

Today she loved me for me, For I gave myself to her. As for time is passing, Our bodies age. We became one, Then produced two. Who will with faith, Walk there path. So as the love builds, New families. Our lives together, Moves towards us apart. For god let us sow...

It’s the last summer With magic for me It shines in your eyes Such sweet memories Will always remind me Of dreams that you whispered I hear them call softly As sweet falling rain Softly softly sweet falling rain My lips remember - come here again Softly softly sweet...

Oh take me to a calmer place, where I can be at peace with myself, Where flowers bloom and birds sing out, and always in good health, A place where can I relax, chill out, float off and do my own thing, Let me while away the hours, no-one to interrupt me, I am the...

I’m sitting here before my P.C. screen, Thinking about things that might have been, Things in my life that I have seen, Lifetime hate between Orange and Green. Some things in life I’ve put to the test, Being right don’t give you a bullet-proof vest, It really don’t...

Stopped in my tracks; As if I’d walked into a brick wall Because I didn’t notice it was there. Struck down; The way a charging bull elephant Is brought down by the hunter’s bullet; Reduced to a heaving grey mass Among the dust. “The irresistible force meets the...

See me march past with the others who remember, But not with my legs do I pound the parade pathway Wheeled am I for I am old But the memories do not die as my comrades did Little Tommy Tomkins the London Cockney Sparrow Died when his head got blown off And I saw it...

I live in a country with no bombs or gun and my little sister died living here is no fun I recall that day I cried Why do they spend on hate? when I can’t even be greedy watching my sister die was too late god is supposed to help the needy Why do you all live so well?...

Give me a shilling Give me a note Give me a gun I’ll sing you a merry note Give me your weapons Go down on your knees Place your hands on the floor And beg for your life No catches, no deeds I’d bye you a drink If I wasn’t so weak I’d shake your hand If I didn’t need...

One tracer 4 ball One tracer 4 ball The chink of the link, The roar as they fall. Switch to the left, Then switch to the right. A cacophony of death, Cut a swathe of fiery light. One in Four, Seven point, six two. The sum total of life, In that summer, of 82.

As the bullets fly on war torn lands, And shoppers die with purse in hand. As western techno is turned around, Death Mobile not for fun. As children grow with minds of hate, With kill the infidel they relate. As sense washed out in such young heads, The old sad men...

Come on Meggy Ease your troubled mind Come on now Meggy Give yourself peace of mind I can feel it when you sleep I can hear your heart miss a beat but Meggy You can’t fight alone anymore I can trace the lonely nights Through the dark side of your life That’s when you...

Give them back the organs, taken without consent from their kid's, Their families have surely suffered enough, without reliving all this, This once legal form of grave robbing, unmoral in every way, These children's parts belong in graves, not in jars out on display,...

Woke up this morning with an aching head, The quilt hardly covering the form in the bed, Slowly trying to put my feet on the ground, This is senseless to the toilet I’m bound. After spewing up last nights beer, Feeling better head is now clear, About your drinking...

Wide eyed and restless; The way you make me feel. Wide eyed and restless; Was that part of the deal? No one said it would be easy, But no one warned me. When I end up crazy; Some may scorn me, Others may mourn me.

I stand here in the uniform they gave me when I joined I was the one who run to sign the papers and serve my country Now I am in a far off land that I cannot pronounce the name of And I wonder Is it my war? Is it my fight? Should I really be here? Then I remember why...

Up at sparrows fart to view A motley rabble a ropey crew We form up by the armoury To get our gats in line were we The corporal shouted (that’s not new) He bellowed loud as if he knew The sergeant waits with patient thin He looks so nasty what’s with him? We got our...

As I sit on my own at three am my heart shattered the women I love has left me my world with a hammer battered I feel this pain that I can’t see this pain all twisted and deep at times love is the enemy this pain is why I don’t sleep I wrote some words in a letter I...

We’ve found a site of poetry for you and us and me I’d like to thank the founder a lady called Annie People think that forces folk are hard and very rough but this is not the case at all as all of us need love Underneath we hide them our sea of deep emotions as we...

To never savour autumn Or smell the burning leaves, Sniff the scent of pollen. From flowers and the trees To hear the children's laughter, Of innocents at play, See the red of a sunset At the finish of your day. To hold a new-born babe, As you shelter from the rain...

Truly Brave men died here today. Did the swaying grass bring forth your tears? Will this land which touched, Nay claimed your soul. Stay serene forever, and remain theirs now? Or will man’s greed once more Bring forth the havoc that is war. To find our children Or God...

None of history's hero's turned up late To line up at St Peters gate Parading soldiers of all ranks Military precision - fronts and flanks All with unlined faces, weariness gone Remaining forever twenty one They stood in greeting, silent, mute, To give a welcoming...

On and of a Saturday afternoon set out, find the way. Wednesday night phone calls bleed into the weekend without a word, without a sound, without a peep, quiet as a mouse. Mice can be heard rattling around in the attic picking at old bones, speaking to ancient ghosts...

Like Pyro he sped flame hearted through life, Not waiting for time or mortal to catch-up, What losses had his soul endured over time, What heartache, to be forever forgotten? It could not happen He would not let his memory diminish like the departing mist on a spring...

I did not serve my twenty two, But in nineteen years I had a drink or two, Like young soldiers brave and hardy, I got to know Ron Bacardi, We drank doubles could not get enough of the stuff, Then I discovered Pierre Smirnoff, This friend would lead me a merry dance,...

The Spring floods did it, Those same torrents Which washed the bodies downstream, To festoon the trees near Klujc, The baubles of war, Multihued, lurid, Iridescent: almost. Stinking for former Yugoslavia. They also took the Hungarian Army bridge, On the road to Sanski...

In fields of scarlet poppies The ghostly spirits roam Cut down in their thousands Never more to return home At Arras and at Paschendale The Somme and Suvla Bay A forgotten generation fell beneath The machine guns deadly spray A fight for king and country For a mile of...

The lance jack was a lanky man His eyes were crossed and squint To cap it all his wife was fat A rude and boozy bint The corporal was a bigger man 6 foot 4 at least He’d come in at the weekends To give us all a beast He’s shout and scream at dark o’clock He wouldn’t...

I’ve faced my pain I've faced my past nothings to gain and nothings to last in times forgotten and in memories gained let the good times roll as the bad times fained Facing my pain which cuts so deep like butter through a knife praying for my soul to keep as I think...

There is a leafy tree Whose shady boughs Brought respite, From Summers sun, And then it’s Autumn leaves , Whence fell. A coloured quilt to protect, From winters feathery plight. Sparkling, we slept beneath it’s snowy down. Though those who sleep eternal. Some though...

I’ve seen the weak and the poor, Met the destitute and the dying. Destroyed families and lives, Without really trying. Death from above, Death in the air. Deliverer of pain and suffering I’ve developed quite a flair. Pass me another bottle, Share a cigarette with me....

We ventured across the sea, young and old, in search of a memory, a story From the sunny shores that had never known war, to the timeless fields of France where once the blood of the new generation bloomed as brightly as the poppies The last Anzac was soon to die –...

Comrades stood without sadness Fierce pride in reflection Autumn leaves fall rejoicing In wondrous mystic fellowship Streets of life with glorious past Flood the thoughts of all stood there Special people with one heart Badge and colour representing Swords outstanding...

This land is not yours for the taking, nor is it ours to give, It’s a place where man and animal, in partnership can live. You massacre our tribesmen, steal our horses, and rape our squaws, The old folk die and children starve, in a land not ours or yours. Our buffalo...

The sea of life is filled with Hypocrisy and scorn, The parents meet nine months later you are BORN, As soon as you learn to walk on your own two feet, Give him away these bills I can’t meet. The new parents adore you and so mores the pity, One sad day you all left...

There is no moral high ground on the battlefield, There is only the high ground, And, if you know what you're about, You'll damn well grab it. Little Round Top, Vimy Ridge, Montecassino, The Golan Heights, Divis Flats. The high ground: nothing moral there, 'Cause once...

Tears fell down her cheeks, caressing her face as she read the old letters outlined in lace. Edges are yellow from years gone by, as the letters she wrote always made her cry. These letters are some that could never be sent, for they were written for her marine...

Oh my gawd he’s ere again our nemesis our daily bane All instructors do is shout I wish he’d go and turn about Here we go now “line up then” he marches up says “right then men” “We’ll have a spot of drill today” hope he breaks his leg we pray Up and down we’d bloody...

When love dawns on a human being it’s hard to believe the pain it brings or this emptiness without seeing but it's the reason a man sings Yes love is all I had for you today there is no one else I was sorry for the things I did but today there is no one else You're...

Terrified eyes stare through the windscreen from a body already dead but unaware. The crowd presses in. A helicopter hovers overhead, so often the angel of mercy, now filled with impotent rage. The crowd presses in And two friends leave the world.

You, with your neat picket fence And freshly mown lawn. Where only the occasional daisy Pokes through. Sedately content You survey your domain. While I, ignored by the passing thrall I sit on this dusty plain My withered limbs Say it all Too sick to move I await...

The morning suns rays catch my face. Though it’s light and warmth touch me not. For I’m cold as the clay. Forever skywards I face. While my marble pillow changes to white from grey. Vivid coloured flowers gently sway. No scent, no sound, no taste, and no touch. No...

The whistle blew and, veiled in a dense cloud of smoke, the train pulled out on its long journey to the battlefields A face caught my eye, the face of a young man barely out of adolescence, His thin, pale face shadowed by the sombre khaki of his feather-trimmed hat...

Sweet and tender falls to earth Is it an angel which conquers my heart? Carved like a statue, blessed by nature, surprises the whole of God's creation. Moves like a breeze, talks so bold; with deep brown eyes she needs no more. The smell of her hair becomes my desire....

Blackened faces, red rimmed eyes so white they smart with light, Miners emerging from the earth’s deep bowels, a grin, not one, in sight, The end of a day, a shift so long, bones that scream with pain, Ten thousand tons of coal a week, the wants of man so vain, But...

They galloped down hell for leather, To them it probably did not matter, As they stood on the hills border, They could only laugh at such an ORDER. And so as the fetlocks rose high, They charged knowing they were about to die, And with each amazing stride, Four...

The cooling breeze of their passage, It felt so bloody good, So Micky raised his visor, To glory in the flow of desert air. Lead Rover: top-cover. Minimi to hand, Convoy escort: Shaibah to Basra, Fly the flag: show 'em all who's boss, Well, we all here know who's boss...

There was a man who held in hand His time in form of grains of sand And when it ran he didn't cry this man who had only one eye He’d walk along the little beach for shells of blue, yellow and peach when none could be found, he would sigh this man who had only one eye...

Now Ozi had a beret A hat all round and flat The Lance Jack wasn’t fond of it As he smacked it with a bat He took it off his head one day And stomped on it real good When Ozi got it back again He was really in a mood He mocked our section lance jack He said he was a...

Am I insane or so flawlessly deep or am I a genius waiting to peak wishing for a soul that I could keep as I go on this journey to find and seek The places I been isn’t got no names or boundaries the things I seen smogged like smoke from foundries Yes I seen so much...

What’s wrong with me? I wish I knew. All seemed okay, But then I blew. For 16 years, I’ve been good or bad Never knowing, Why I felt so sad. Sometimes the darkness, Held me fast Love, work and play All beyond my grasp. My emotions, Withdrawn from all. The woman I love...

He removed her fears, and wiped away the tears, as she cuddled and hung on to his neck. The smile on her face, matched the glow in his heart. And he realised how lucky he was. No one can say, ‘twere ever a day, where he’d never paused for thought. The thunder rolls,...

Tracer danced across the skies Red, green, and white Arcing, dipping, bouncing back up into the night. Schumulie’s whizzed and 2 incher’s plopped. Star shells screamed to make you stop. Flames in the gorse, With smoke in your throat Your feet splash through puddles As...