• catapulted  from a deep sleep
• The phone blasted out on the Bedside table
• Dreary and gluey eyed I peered at the dial
• My heart leapt with trepidation
• As It read, withheld number 
• I wondered
• A stranger at an ungodly hour 
• Bad thoughts ring through your mind
• All fears return you will find
• You answer, voice trembling
• Wondering, worrying
• An unfamiliar voice resounds
• You answer stuttering stammering
• And then relief mixed with seething frustration
• A stranger, a wrong number
• Back to sleep, relaxed 
•  Awake To face another day

• there are people that I know
• Who to eating seafood will not go
• I wish to God that I  could show
• The benefits of squid shrimp and roe
• The intake of  omega 3  for eyes and brain
• Is plain to see
• It helps to eat oysters crustaceous prawns
• A healthy body it really spawns
• So let us all go spread the word
• And educate the red meat herd

•   I sit out on the balcony
•   and ponder on what I can see
•   the clouds sit still up in the sky
•   the muffled voices of passers by
•   the distant sound of children crying
•   imagining the worried
•   parents praying
•   a dog barks loud a bird takes flight
•   disturbed form the nest   with sudden fright
•   I step inside and close the door
•   and hear the sounds of night no more     

              The Baltic States

• Although History is not my forte
• I feel that I’m compelled to say
• That Russia sure has lost its way
• And Putins power is gone astray
• A dark and dangerous autocrat   
• Who in short is just a little twat
• But really having said all that
• We still consider him a threat

•                    Summer planet
• A summer full of sunshine Rays
• Of clear blue skies and warm heat haze
• Of days spent lounging by the pool
• Of summer hols. Away from school
• Of ice cream cones and buttered scones
• Of swimming trunks and sun cream.

• And then I see the great North Pole
• A top of it a great big hole 
• The Penguins and the polar bears
• They are wondering now who really cares.
• The icebergs melting moving fast
• One wonders if the dye is cast
• How long will our great planet last.

• The factories and the man made places
• Increase the effect of greenhouse gasses
• The fossil fuels whose use abounds
• Our ignorance of this astounds
• If we don’t teach energy in our classes
• The future of our world’s in crisis.

• No more we’ll see the summer haze
• A world of deserts no grass to graze 
• Let’s rethink our strategy on how we live
• And keep the world that God did give

While standing in the cemetery ,I recalled how good life used to be ,

Without the Xbox and the wii ,

We would climb upon the chestnut tree ,

And collect large fresh eggs for the tea .

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We’d run barefoot thro’ the meadow

Strolling, and laughing as we’d go.

Tilled fields in straight lines ready to sow.

Our small toes turning, the fat worms squirming

In the cold fresh clay of the brown furrow
There was always a sow and piglets

The turkey and its Christmas giblets

The cockerel crew in the morning 

The sign of a new day dawning

The cattle , the sheepdog barking

Swishing tails, large eyes blinking

From large horse flies biting, stinging

My Aunt so happy singing

To the cow that she was milking.
The butter made in the wooden churn

The dried turf ready on the Aga to burn

The new day filled with awe and wonder

A summer filled with joy and plunder.

The new baby

Your wife just had a baby

It’s a bouncing baby boy

Your chest is puffed and you are chuffed

and full of pride and joy.
Let’s celebrate the occasion

With a loud and long ovation

And wet his head it must be said , with a short and swift libation.
Congratulations to both of you

Our heartfelt felicitations

May your life ahead be full of joy
Without too many complications.

Not just bricks and mortar,But a store of great renown 

Which catered for all customers

From the country and the town.
The toy store in the basement

At Christmas was a joy

If not for the salesperson 

It was for the little boy.

The adults they had all the space 

To shop and look and buy

The ladies at cosmetics were both beautiful and

Coy,

The gentlemen in suits and ties were equally 

Endearing,

They’d treat you well and take your cash

Without being overbearing.
The staff nights out it must stated

Could never be classed as over rated.

The friends we made were there to last

Great memories of a happy past.
So now it’s sad to see it closed

With jobs destroyed and futures torn

Our thoughts are with the staff right now 

Let’s hope the future can be reborn

• The silver lining on the cloud
• Betray the sound the Suns around
• I look out and shout with glee
• Let’s don our swimsuits and go to sea
• All set and ready we make our way 
• To set about another day
• But wait, I hear a thunder clap
• It comes down upon us like a slap
• It drains us of our happy cheer
• We’ll have to wait another year