TIME TO GO

The second hand

Sweeps, rhythmically

Second by second

Jerking, another

Clicking, ticking

Another second

Then another and another

Sweeping inexorably

Unseen to its destiny

 

The minute hand

Clicks on in its turn

Minute by minute

Jerking, another

Clicking, ticking

Another minute

Then another and another

Clicking inexorably

Unseen to its destiny

 

The hands move

Not faltering

Sixty seconds

The minute hand moves

Sixty seconds more

Another minute passes

Then another and another

Ticking inexorably

Towards detonation

PUZZLED

 

You are 13 down

And always 2 across

You are never 1 down

And sadly not 19 across

You are six letters

Starting with a T

You are coffee time

And an acrostic too

As well as cryptic

Let’s try 11 down

Followed by three across

Which is what the canines do

You to be 7 down

I have never known

A dictionary won’t help me

Nor a thesaurus

For like most women

You are an unsolved puzzle

THE PORT OF CUBAN SPRITES

 

The port of Cuban sprites

Is I agree

A nonsensical phase

Meaningless and just plain daft

But its is still more credible

And makes more sense

Than some judgements

Reached by

The court of human rights

YORKSHIRE DINOSAUR

A dinosaur footprint, found in Yorkshire,

Is causing something of a fuss,

Having belonged to a real Jurassic giant

Called the Eckythumposaurus

THE ABERGELE ROADS

At dusk we walk slowly by the shoreline

The waves lapping at the sand break gently

While children play among the craggy rock pools

Or happily skimming stones on the sea

Dogs chase balls as we stand to consider,

The tide is it in, or out, no matter

The setting sun lights up the western sky

Illuminating stray clouds with gold strands

Then surrounding them with bright bursting rays

This sunburst silhouettes the beachcombers

Then blinds us all as it hits the wet sand

As quickly as it burst on us it was gone

Until we are blinded by the next one

Before the horizon swallows the sun

WHATS IN A NAME (2)

 

Does anyone know is Jonathon Swift?

Does anyone know can Oliver Twist?

Does anyone listen to James Whale?

Did anyone else see Alexi Sayle?

FOREIGN JOHNNY’S # 3

 

Feeling superior to Johnny foreigner

Is not balderdash

As I don’t wake to find my garden

Covered in volcanic ash