by Don Holmes | Dec 4, 2011 | Poetry
There’ll be presents a-plenty this Christmas But not at Jimmy’s place Children will smile as the presents unwrap But not at Jimmy’s place There’ll be hugs and kisses all round the tree But not at Jimmy’s place Turkey with stuffing and Christmas cake tea But not at...
by Stephen Williams | Nov 27, 2011 | Poetry
Help for heroes, so they say Buy a poppy on poppy day Show the soldier that always wins Despite the fact he has no limbs Clean it up, sanitise Nothing nasty for public eyes Heroes just for joining up? Here’s a ticket out of rut Can you walk? Can you run? Can you hold...
by Don Holmes | Jun 24, 2010 | Poetry
What am I bid for this goalie He only made one small mistake He only gets paid forty thousand So please give the poor guy a break What am I bid for this striker He fights really hard for the cause He’s busting a gut for old “ Ingerland “ As shown by the sweat from his...
by Mark Dron | Jul 29, 2009 | Poetry
Ranks of granite, Stand ranked like Grenadiers, lost in the frigid mists of time. Beneath these empty, silen t stones, unmarked graves, unclaimed bones, no names engraved, no legends, no words of solace nor holy comfort, nothing to tell those who will come, what...
by Jean M. Hendrickson | May 31, 2009 | Poetry
Veterans, return from war broken, stunned, unable to navigate the labyrinth set up to help, sit on the floor by the tubes in the cities: hey missus, hey mister gimme, gimme, give me—SOME—thing; these lost ones grab at subway riders, who shake them off before diving...
