Thursday 30 April 2020

blue sky
well it isn’t you know that
it is
combing the cat
graceful becomes grateful
then we have a snooze
a pearl
of inestimable value
in this black oyster
so rare the grit of words
that can wax the moons of time

Wednesday 29 April 2020

chuckling
i cannot stop the tears
of plinking smiles
every drop of wee
that runs from you and me
ends up in the sea
we are in this together
evaporating as rain
poems don’t rattle
inside my hand held skull
listen is written
what stirs the damp wind
that the apple blossoms snow 
upon winter’s death
prophesy 
what the blind see
eventually

Tuesday 28 April 2020

at the scrubbing board
the old woman washing clothes
how the brass shines
in the sea
grip of the lost
overwinters
sea swimming

colder and colder
the sea reclaims my time
again and again

deathly cold
the sea is eating me
all the way home

transfusion
of rain and sea 
salt

back in my armchair
the cold of the sea recedes
life returns
if only
the sea could speak
of death
of life everlasting
at death’s neap tide
snail
how slowly the yard
moves

Monday 27 April 2020

Sunday 26 April 2020

‪cyclists and joggers ‬
‪learning to time my held breaths ‬
it is an ill wind
when we were locked in
wandering through memories
remember this
purses
old ladies’ time machines
fumbling memories
past battlements 
how many clocks
have blown past

Saturday 25 April 2020

origami
folding into a face mask
the virus mutates
counting the daisies 
until the stars come out
counting the stars 
he’s a big boy now
first time off stabilisers
mum’s instability 

Friday 24 April 2020

then the blossoms
form a carpet walked to mulch
spring in my step

Thursday 23 April 2020

‪oh the sea‬
‪truly it runs in our vanes‬
‪pointing the way‬
corvid announcement
i’ll be astonished if i’m honest
believe me

Sunday 19 April 2020

pandemic
the slalom gets faster
as we get cold feet
in the cemetery 
the blossoms are falling
i leave now
‪pandemic‬
‪they are in their castles ‬
‪serfs dig their graves‬
hover fly shadow
circling my belly button
at mid day
the ant
does it see the beauty 
of the flower
bluebells and
dandelions and daisies 
and pear blossoms
forget me not this summer
when pussy went wandering 
‪birdsong‬
‪plinking chinks of light‬
‪in dawn’s blue egg‬

Wednesday 15 April 2020

planting beans
uncomfortably playing god
again
the butterfly 
and it’s shadow
unrelated
that meme muse
of retarded rhyme
bugger off
or the trick of thick rose prose
will prick you on the nose
‪pandemic news‬
‪all the acronyms‬
‪explained ‬
‪in case we have not caught on‬
‪they repeat them repeat them‬

Saturday 11 April 2020

lockdown 
counting the neighbours dogs
barking mad
summer prayer
drying in the sunshine
please stay
‪chickens‬
‪red combs in the sunset‬
‪a scratchy record‬
little fish swim
the egret strikes
little fish swim
storm beach 
pebbles eating everything 
except the sea
locked in we hit out
lock down  and
they give us the pollen count
but covid-19
is the new pollen count 
for eyes that are red with tears
in a wild sea
i dream of licking dried salt
later - when it’s over
female trombonist 
in a black suit and tie
black shoes
she sure knows how to blow
to march to the eternal tune

Friday 10 April 2020

words are cheap
but the right words are priceless
order yours now
irksome
when i mimic the birds
it annoys them
cherry blossom
milking the day’s dusk
moonshine
encore 
the silent applause 
of butterflies 
bugger off
the golf course is closed
social distancing 
‪what it once was‬
‪is slowly becoming‬
‪what it is‬
‪and what was left behind‬
‪will be soon forgotten ‬
‪social distancing ‬
‪detour through the cemetery ‬
‪with everyone else‬
‪we all say please excuse me‬
‪as we walk upon the dead‬
pebbles beach
everyone a lover’s face
for someone
the door snores
it is a spring morning
and the breeze brings
the cat in from the daisies
to lie as a sundial
time
and again
it’s time
pandemic
now we can see the palaces
from the wheeze

Thursday 9 April 2020

so now it is
mid april 2020
and the plot thickens 
the door creaks open
the c_a_a_a_t
walks in
under the bridge
the blossoms float away
fare we well
time was and now isn’t
blossoms sip tea
hover flies bomb sleeping cats
April lovers all
heat wave
the cat takes a hot drink
in the greenhouse
formula one
hover flies take the chicane
around the garden
meet me again
where time stood still
lost in ourselves
bean poles
tying spring to summer
twine time
huge icicle 
little blue hands carrying
it home to mum 
slum surprise 
hammering cockroaches 
at midnight
dear violet
lose me in your blue petals
embrace the light
slow sunbeam
climbing a single thread
night’s spider fled

Wednesday 8 April 2020

ghosts ?
i whistle a jolly tune
just in case
‪the language garden 
‪straight rows‬ and weeds‬
‪nettle wine‬
lexicon-19
epicentre megalab
herd immunity
government take note
when the nurses are dying
our patience runs out
local walk
i don’t meet anybody’s
happiness
‪keeping busy‬
‪permutations of time’s lock‬
‪after before now‬

magnolia
shedding petals 
snap!
bloody 
deep in the brambles
flowers
extinction 
the love gene’s transduction 
flatlines
love you 
in the way you love 
my love
‪winter‬
‪in my rice bowl‬
‪only tears‬

Monday 6 April 2020

Sunday 5 April 2020

Saturday 4 April 2020

Thursday 2 April 2020

Wednesday 1 April 2020