Beware!
Secure your hard hat.
Danger lurks in the flat
Field and fresh air!
...
‘Tis a lovely Sunday mornin’ makes me glad to be alive,
‘Tis the kind of misty mornin’ when the scents o’ summer thrive!
O the fish is up an’ the milk is up, an’ the rest they lie abed,
While I’m ridin’ down the seaside with a singin’ in my head!
...
“... a silver lining to every cloud.”
I heard you say the words aloud
As you lay dying. By the bed
A cup of water; overhead
...
We are the men who bring the trains...
Tunnelling, tunnelling...
We are the blokes who clear the drains
Tunnelling, tunnelling...
...
I wandered, lonely, as a cloud
Of loose balloons above the fair
Carried the colours of the crowd
Into the blue and steamy air;
...
The clouds on the horizon
Are the spirits of the Bison
And they bellow in the thunder
With a fury at the plunder
...
(Aries) .............Teach me how to be,
(Libra) .............And be aware;
(Taurus) ..........Teach me how to have,
(Scorpio) .........And how to share;
...
I don’t want a lorry,
I don’t want a car,
I don’t want a taxi
‘Cause it isn’t very far.
...
Spawned in a constellation
Deep in the heart of space
A wayward alien nation
Grew to a master race.
...
Does he think?
Too small to be real, bearing
A marked resemblance to the trousered rabbit;
Apparently knitted,
...
“Just a Minute on ‘Silver Lining’;
Sixty seconds, and starting now! ”
“On showery days when the sun is shining,
A thunder cloud with a beetle brow
...
One day which never existed,
God
in solitary rage surprised Himself with a
Thought
...
Uncle George was very smelly,
Bright of eye and vast of belly,
Moving like a mighty jelly
Through the sea of our surprise.
...
I wandered, lonely as a cloud
Of smoke outside a cancer ward
Where cigarettes are not allowed,
And wondered where the drugs were stored.
...
1.
Toothypegs icumen in,
Proudly say Goo-goo!
...
If I would sing a song to God
Then I must sing a song for Man -
And I must sing it from the heart
As freely as an angel can.
...
Weird life.
All that time, that rolls
Before and around me like an irregular sea.
A pulse of the world s breath beats like a hill;
...
Old Kos is gone
Shadow of Bernie Rish
Long-time companion
Ate from the same dish
...
It’s March the First; the weathermen
And women cry, “It’s Spring again! ”
Despite the blizzards in the hills
And hardly any daffodils.
...
I have been writing poetry since I was seven years old, but rarely published any until recently. In 2012 a poem I wrote for ComputerActive magazine won me the unique prize of publication plus a very funny cartoon portrait on their Letters page! Since the Millennium I have enjoyed the discipline of Haiku and Senryu (in English of course) and had a few of these published by the British Haiku Society. Lately the poems have lengthened again, spurred on by my local Writers Club in Llandudno, North Wales, whose bi-monthly magazine The Moving Finger I edit and publish; and 'the best of me' is on my website at revpamcrane.weebly.com. The site title is The Adventurous Astrologer; the deeply spiritual study and practice of astrology has been my other delight since my mid-twenties - oh so many decades ago!)
Beware!
Beware!
Secure your hard hat.
Danger lurks in the flat
Field and fresh air!
Beware!
Don’t go near the water.
A man and his daughter
Are drowning there!
Beware
Everything you eat
Can kill you. Horsemeat
Everywhere.
Beware -
Only the thin look great.
Say you are size eight
Whatever you wear.
Beware
Losing your self-esteem
When Following your Dream.
Worst nightmare.
Beware:
Kids must cope alone
While you are on your phone
With stuff to share.
Beware
Trends that are so last year.
Insist on the latest gear -
It’s only fair.
Beware -
For anything really nice
Don’t pay the asking price
Anywhere.
Beware
Those beggars on your street;
They drink. They never eat
Or wash their hair.
Beware,
That man with the ready smile
May be a paedophile.
Get out of there.
Beware:
A touch is an assault.
Nothing is your fault -
You were In Care.
Beware of cuddling. Beware of love.
Beware of the velvet hand in the iron glove.
Beware of black and posh and daft and queer -
Beware of everything you ought to fear.
Estranged from mercy, trust, reflection, prayer,
People, beware.