Poetry

For Ray and Sandy Naqvi celebrating St Eric’s day May 2012 Saint Eric A glimmer of light we see; Through the hazy mists of ages. ‘tis […]

This unfortunately continues to happen…. The Scrounger Uninvited, the scrounger strolls up for lunch dinner or tea And simpering enquires if he may join the party. […]

This poem still gives me the heeby-jeebies remembering the incident! Brush with Death ‘Are you ok?’ enquired the opposite guest With increasing dismay. The silent man […]

The world is in serious financial free fall. So many companies going to the wall. Where were our economic expert army’s? Why were they blind, to […]

Assad rules his land, with blood soaked hands. Blood spattered is Cyprus and Russia Assad’s fans. They wipe themselves clean, on the worlds inert excuses. Helping […]

Pity the sick pretty young woman from Wales Who’s weight was right off the scales. At around sixty stone, she was stuck in her home She […]

The Russian ship docked on our peaceful shores, Loaded with evil arms to do our neighbour terrible harm. The Cypriots refueled the vile vessel enabling it […]

Following new allegations of criminality eminating from the House of Lords, it reminded me of this poem that I wrote in 2010. What majesty of awesome […]

On Sunday, the third of June two thousand and twelve We see a magnificent floating flotilla; A thousand vessels on London’s river Snaking through the centre […]

Is it you standing before me? IS IT YOU Like a ghost, an apparition of my mind I thought you were gone forever from my world […]

Oh to be able to write magnificently. To make me and others gasp in delight and wonderment At the sheer beauty of words, in sentences, Enshrined […]

You began by saying you loved me; Letting me down, you thought gently. Yet again you couldn’t make our date You were sorry, you left it […]

A year to the day. The dark pall of shame Persistently smothers our vision. Just before six am eleventh of July 2011 Seized weapons on rout […]

The throng of half naked humanity Hug the shore playing volley ball. Others coquettishly posing, preening, like peacocks. To acquire admiration, I’ll be bound. I dream […]

Ministers, you were voted in to protect the people; Death resulted, reports ignored , you were feeble. Why, when we leave the theatre of war We […]

We are all human beings free to fly Freedom of spirit to say and do must never be denied. In the last seven days: Three young […]

Today the wheels of curiosity Turn on Martian sand. A mobile laboratory is on hand, To find if life ever existed on that land. Did beings […]

Yesterday, a man was murdered by the State; Twenty years ago he killed another, death was his fate. They put him to sleep by lethal injection. […]