There in pairs

There in pairs

Sat by church

And It hurts

My heart works

They do flirt

But they end up dirt

I like the quirky and I like my turkey!!

A smiling emoji

A disco that’s smoky

Engraved in a tree

Flowers for me?

Paygrade

Chocolate

I’ll never be hot

Boiling on the hob

Smiley creations (business idea)

Got me new trainers

And I’m wearing them like I’’m famous!

Are they all just players?

Or do they have layers?

Green is beautiful

The grass,the trees,the leaves

A green planet is what we need

Birthday blues is already beginning

In true New Year style

I wish I was slimming Wining Singing

The underdog

The voiceless

I saw myself in a photograph

I saw myself get out of the bath

I thought to myself

I couldn’t fit onto a raft,I’m fat

I saw myself in the mirror

In the hall and at the cinema

I put one foot on the scales,wondering

Have I failed?

I’m standing in the chocolate isle

There’s the Chinese on my speed dial

I just have to diet for a lifetime!

I look into the nightclub mirror

I put on my make-up but I don’t get a glimmer

I wish I was slimmer

Happy New Year!

There’s a little Elf in your ear!

Putting you to sleep and stopping those tears

It’s the 1^st of January

I wish the Angels would smile on me

I wonder about astrology

Throwing a stone in the canal

Walking along the canal

I’m hungary,

Something low-cal

Then I could bare!

The food group

The right food group

A couple of hearts

Taking in art

Drifting apart

Two pieces of ice

A melting of husband and wife

Taste and memory

The TASTE of bread from the bakery

Always looking for a little gem

Always looking for a little gem

A Rocking Boxing day

Putting that cake away

The Buffet!

Bella and the kids had a play

It was dreamy

Christmas holidays?

I wish I was on the waves

Telling lot’s of tales

Drinking and forgetting life’s trails

I’m looking for happier times,

Happier climbs and a beautiful gaze

A job that pay’s

Friends that do not fade

Love that does’nt make me feel afraid

In a few weeks time

I will me 39

And I have prayed!

Someone will light and brighten the way

Christmas was spent festively

New Year holds my destiny

Memories that are precious

Chocolate for breakfast

Opening the presents

The dog happily wrestles

Paper everywhere

We all watch and glare

Watching the telly,again!

Wishing I had a friend

I could tell the truth to

I’m waiting for the words ‘I believe you’

I’m getting too much sleep

I try to diet but I cheat

I need to find my feet

Effect

Connect

Famegirl

Angel

What a dream

In a magazine

Imagine it,the magic

Dad’s magic on the drums

He’s certainly not past it!

He knows every song

When he crashes the cymbol

Everyone listens

He’s definitely where he belongs

Dad’s drum solo

Dad’s car polos!

Should I take a risk?

Try that foreign dish?

Or stick to English?

Tinglish?It’s been a long time

Acute anxiety

When going out is a worry

My own personal bully

Dechox (Heart Foundation)

The pink night

It was candlelight

A pretty sight

One to write

Tell the satellite

Tell the stars

I have found someone

I don’t want to fight

Campsite?Dating site?

The right words

The light search

'The tender place'

‘The tender place’-Ted Hughes

A sqeeze of joy,little boy

‘Your amber jewels’-Ted Hughes

‘A flare of aura’-Ted Hughes

‘You were a new world’-Ted Hughes

Night-owling (going out)

‘The right spirit’-Ted Hughes

‘The elvish lacework’-Ted Hughes

‘Fairy-work’-Ted Hughes

It was an ironic death

‘The afterglow of her sensations’-Ted Hughes

‘Discussion with the sea’-Ted Hughes

A local owl

‘Where the music poured’-Ted Hughes

Fly your magic in

‘Your eyes,became wet jewels’-Ted Hughes

‘In the cakes glow’-Ted Hughes

Bluebird takes a dip in the ocean

A fat picture

You know why I eat

New York is fun

A blank piece of paper

And I can’t even waiter

When your in the room

I want to fly

Take a picture,all my heart

Hold my hand as we walk

Kiss me,stay in my thoughts

Like chocolate torte

The music is playing

And your still betraying

I would like a baby doll

A picture of Barbie on my wall

I would like a train set

My own little toy pet

I would like a race car

I want to see the Christmas star!

The Red outfit

Lot’s and lot’s of cuddles

Sat on his lap

The elves are blowing bubbles

We are having a chat

Ho!Ho!Ho! What would you like for Christmas?

A big box of liquorice

And chocolate biscuits!

I would like to meet Angel Gabrielle

To breathe in that pine tree smell

The twinkling eyes of Noel

To sing like Oliver Twist

Go to a carol service and meet the organist

Or play the triangle to the percussionist

Give a round of applause to the pianist

Lot’s of smiling emojis!

Wishing you a smile and a glow

Christmas snow

The Christmas candy lane

God,

His hands are full?

Deer

Deer

I wonder if we will see a deer

Standing in sunlight like a chandelier

Drinking from a spring that’s crystal-clear

Hiding from the mountaineers

Maybe we should take a trip to Devon or

Windermere!

If we are quiet in the woods

We might hear them running away

There’s people with guns that want antlers for display

We shed a tear till next year,around May

Owl

I wonder if we will see an Owl

I dreamed it’s wings span around me

He landed on my arm

I dreamed his talons found me

And I wasn’t alarmed

The strength of his wings

The beauty of spring

I nearly fell over but he made me believe

We visited the farm

His white feathers made a psalm

My eyes followed him in the sky and I cried,

So long

I could see he had a magical heart

A light to follow before the day starts

The Fog

Creeping in,you almost stop breathing

My heart is beating loud

The car is waiting around

At least we can look for cat’s eyes

They make us rise from our seats

Dad,could you turn up the heat?

Pass us a boiled sweet?

The Fog,like a creature you can’t see more than a metre

You sit in the back and say a prayer

The thick fog is everywhere

We have the lights on,on the motorway,

Will we ever get home today?

It sits on the ground like a mysterious shadow

You have to be patient,hour by hour

World Trade Center 9/11

London 7/7

When everything went still and grey

Humanity and spirit saved many

Elf poem

I heard an Elf on the shelf,whispering

Have you seen them all kissing?!

Watching the tv,drinking,eating?

Greeting at the front door

Bringing in the white snow

Have you seen them dancing

Fancying that dessert?

Battling the elements?

Diving into their presents?

Boxes everywhere

Made into a shelter!

They are looking at the baubles

They can see their own reflection

They are touching the tinsel

And wonderful confection!

When everyone goes to bed we come to life

Have a giggle over their growing middles!

Playing the piano and piccolo,

Planning a Christmas show

Merry Merry Christmas,and of course

Hello!!

Leyland Festival

Leyland Festival

They are putting up bunting above the streets

I can hear the snare drums already

Lot’s to do and lot’s of people to meet

I hope those drums aren’t too heavy!

Children are looking up in excitement

Trying to touch the flags

Soon the streets will be crowded

With fancy dress and drag

Tarmac sticking to our feet

Marching to the brass band beat

Melting melting in the heat

I can’t wait to find a seat!

My sister and I are wearing identical dresses

Carrying a banner with God’s message

Others are carrying a cross

And it’s not just around the block!

It feels like many,many miles

Walking through the town

People watch with big,big,smiles

And the festival princess wears a crown

The sun is out and so is the ice cream van

The audience are in a trance

Watching every float go past

There’s lot’s of tents pitched on the park

You can buy pizza,burgers and hotdogs

Each float has something different

There’s businesses,cars and motorbikes

Even cartoon characters are talking on the mic!

Men are doing a Morris dance

And the church tent has a big entrance

There’s people selling helium balloons

On the street corner and street performers

The circus tent has lot’s of acts

Trapeze,clowns and acrobats

I watch in ore of tightrope walkers

And those bendy contortioners

My Grandad worked at Leyland Motors

They made buses,trucks and cars

And every time the 111 bus comes round

It's still the same

(Identity of Leyland)

Fox

I wonder if we will see a fox

Let’s touchwood and quietly watch

That shade of red flashing 

Like a sunset glow

As the wind gently blows

Sitting on some rocks

Holding your breath between the poppycocks

We are in a forest

The stars are out and being honest

I don’t want this loneliness

This cold air and frostiness

The snow has stayed white

We can see the pawprints

The moon sparkles like a clean shiny dish

While the trees move and flinch

It’s midnight and there are other animals to find

A Owl,and Deer

Birdsinging in your ear

The Fox is drinking from a pond

Maybe he will sing a song

I look into their eyes,their soul

Taking sips from my water bowl

Hunting,

The fox is running

The sound is numbing

Bang!Bang!Everyone is jumping

And then there is silence

'Flowers gossiping'

‘Flowers gossiping’-Roger McGough

‘Took to the air’-Roger McGough

‘In need of flower’-Roger McGough

Pie face advert

‘For the pure fun of it’

‘Orange,orange,there must be a rhyme

For feckin orange!’-Roger McGough

January sales!

Shop!

Shop!

Shop!

Going to the Bakery!

I can smell the bread!

Oxygen

I am the very air

You breathe

Your first and your last breath

I welcomed you at birth

Shall bid farewell at death

I am the kiss of life

It’s ebb and flow

With your last gasp

You will call my name

‘Expected to blossom’-Elizabeth Bishop

Perfect waves,I watch from a cliff

A baby is nodding on my breast

‘Scarlet sauce’-Elizabeth Bishop

The blue blue

Please come flying

The brook sings loud

Aires Rock Australia

‘The Great Rock’ story idea

A sonnet for the eyes

A sonnet of intimacy

Patience at the table

A waiting angel

God,the key of water

Getting  a tan in Florida,then

Walking down the corridor!

Bad picture

Too many bad pictures

O Breath

A shining wave

My musical needs

Has the rain stopped?

Children’s book idea ‘The Rocking Chair’

‘A magical illumination of the ordinary’-David Lehmon on

Elizabeth Bishop

I pray ,a miracle for breakfast

Picture on facebook

A cross in a rainbow

People going Walkabout

People going Talkabout

Dresses in

The Slipper and the Rose

Batteries for Xmas!

‘All warm inside’ –Charity name idea

Parties and dancing earrings

Parties and dancing earrings

Decoraters and party arrangers

An unanswered party pray

‘Dipping into that glass of wine’-Carol Ann Duffy

‘My big song,bossed it’-Carol Ann Duffy

‘A hard years winter has frozen your voice’-Carol Ann Duffy

Now a lover of cheese

‘Creamy Lancashire’!

‘The robin empties the song from its throat’-Carol Ann Duffy

Children’s book idea

‘The end of the garden’

‘Moonbathing’-Adrian Henri

‘Over-emotion’-Adrian Henri

‘Without you they’d forget to put the salt in every packet of crisps’-Adrian Henri

‘The lunar landscape’-Adrian Henri

‘Reelin an a rockin

Wishin an a hopin

Kissin an a prayin

Lovin an a layin’-Adrian Henri

Long stemmed

Mess,then tenderness!

‘Couples on the stairs’-Brian Patten

‘Peachcream complexion’-Brain Patten

The snow wolf

What we are looking for

Suns of home

‘Your manly hearts shall glow’-Thomas Campbell

‘Her face was like a light’-Alfred Noyes

I hate lyers and spiders

Fakes and snakes

My all,my soul,my waterfall

Hoping to be kissed

Glass of fizz

Lot’s of butterflies

‘Stole my heart away complete’-John Clare

‘In the glow of yes’-Brian Patten

‘Sugary,summery’-Charles Causley

‘Sapphire mail’-Alfred Lord Tennyson

‘A moderate love’-Jon Silkin

Smiled and watched

A Dream poem

A poem of survival

‘Blow the stars home,wind,Blow the stars home

Ere morning drowns them in golden foam’-Eleaner Fargeon

‘Comforting glow of a bedside lamp’-Roger Mc Gough

‘Like a grounded astronaut’-Roger McGough

Kiss inspiring

‘The orange blossom sunset’-Roger McGough

When your in the room

When your in the room

It’s like I’m back at school

Could this love be true

Up on the moon?

‘The rainbow and the rose’-Rupert Brooke

‘Of song and flower and sky and face’-Rupert Brooke

‘Courage was mine,and I had mystery

Wisdom was mine ,and I had mastery’-Wilfred Owen

‘The song of God protecting us’-Robert Graves

Two sonnets,you and I

Her hair a glory

A hand to hold in the love mist

On a cold crisp morning

Taller neighbours

Thinking of memory road

The familiar road to home

‘Quiet as bulbs not yet broken out into sunlight’-Brian Patten

A hand and a listener

Beauty and the beach –Judy Rose

‘It’s two weeks to my holiday,

The annual great escape

And I have to say,objectively,

The body’s in poor shape

The time has come to cast aside

The thermal underwear

But that which lurks beneath it,

Really fills me with despair’-Judy Rose

‘The beauty countdown to the sun’-Judy Rose

Last meal of the day

It must be

The erogenous zone

On my own!

Crème egg advert idea

‘Gooey gorgeousness’

‘Yes Christmas day is drawing nigh,

I’ve lot’s of presents still to buy’-Judy Rose

You have a sexy way

But I still want to meet Mozart!

‘Laced together’-Robert Frost 

‘God appears and God is light’-William Blake

Children’s book idea ‘The unicorn appears’

‘My breast glitter’-Hans Arp

‘A crust of bread and Liberty’-Alexander Pope

A true path onto the beach!

For a moment longer

I looked at your photo

‘The bloom of sea-life’-Ted Hughes

‘Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought’-

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Guess I’ll smuggle to my pillow

There’s no lover at my window

I’ve been scoffing Christmas Lindo

Hoping for a happy Crimbo!

There is no good morning kiss

No cup of coffee hit

There is no good morning smile

Someone to hold me ,every mile

There’s no message on the wall

A date under a waterfall

Between the clouds,there is a hole

Sunlight for us all

Honey love

Honey love

Need someone to share a song

To use their tongue and watch my lungs

Need a soul to help me over the wall

Treat me like the belle of the ball

Warts and all

Under a waterfall

Snow me the money!

I wanna take a walk on the beach

With a starry sky

I wanna go skinny dipping and

Watch the owls fly

I wanna live in a Lighthouse

And stop a baby’s cry

I wanna travel in a campervan and get high

I wanna wear diamonds for just one night

I wanna fall in love at first sight

I wanna meet the one in my dreams

Write old fashioned letters and old fashioned films

To have health

To describe everything I have ever felt

To say a prayer to the little elf

Sat in my shelf

Putting up the Christmas lights

And counting down,the nights

Red robins pausing and then taking flight

I wish the Angels would arrive

Hmmmmmm

Comforting puds!

Money

I don’t need money but I would love

Someone sunny!

I get so depressed sometimes,flicking the telly,

Filling my belly

Could I find someone funny?

I don’t mind splitting the bill

If we can’t get a taxi

I’ll walk up the hill

If he needs me to buy a drink

I don’t care,if he makes me think

I really don’t mind a bag of chips

As long as I get his lips!

As long as I can hold his hand

I don’t care missing my favourite band

If the dinner is overdone

If it’s too cold for a run

I don’t care if he is the one

I would love him to be romantic

Like I’m the only girl on the planet

I would love him to give all his time

To have courage and be kind

His kiss is the most important thing

That he supports me when I dream

Smiles at me when I sing and

Does’nt pull off my wings

Someone to share a chocolate bar

Lie with me under the stars

Walk with me on the beach

Promise that he’ll never cheat

Take me for ice cream

And watch a teary –eyed film

A date on the park

Maybe a picnic and his heart

To be serenaded with his guitar

Flowers in a jamjar

Money can buy you a flash car but

It does’nt compare to a spark

Kerry

A get well message from Age Concern

Get well soon

Take care of your wounds

We are missing you

We are wishing you good health

We hope you are looking after yourself

I made you a little Elf!

So I will say a prayer

Hope you are in good repair

Stay in bed with cheese and bread

Drink chocolate milk and curl up with Ted

We have customers waiting,

Where is Kerry?Where has she fled?

Lot’s and lot’s of kisses xxxxxxxxx

Sunset room

Sunset room

The soft light comes in

Advert Idea:

Dream,devotion,pure.com

I have a sweet tooth

Meet me in the photobooth

When will I learn the truth?

Will there ever be proof?

My youth is fading

My baby will need cradling

Need to stop self-hating and start dating!

As long as I keep creating

And do some love-making!

Faint beacon

I wish we were speaking

E.E.Cummings

‘I carry your heart (I carry it in)

The Mouse’s Banquet

Theodore loved cheese.Every kind of cheese

Cheddar,stilton,goat,Lancashire,Gloucester,

Brie and all creamy!

When the lights went out,he had an opportunity!

He sqeezed through a gap in the wall to find some tea!

He looked right,left and ran across the kitchen floor.

The family cat was asleep,for sure?!

He crawled up the table and saw a tower of cheese!

Lot’s and lot’s of crackers ,he thought,

How will I carry these?!!!

Stars in the sky

And I’m wondering why

‘A heart it hatched’-Mick Imlah

My guiding star

My answer

I stepped out of the house

A radiant star

‘The pretty strawberry’-John Skelton

Moon wise

Sunrise

Planets in motion

The pattern of life

‘I kept searching for you in the stars’

I asked the mountains for you’-Primo Levi

A tangle of monsters

I am totally trapped

The night of differences

I couldn’t sleep

‘Lace curtains gently swaying

Like a woman walking’-Roger McGough

Mum ran away to the bright lights

I too have that dream

‘Hundreds and hundreds of mouths glistening’-

Roger McGough

Because of the brave

Jesus Christ died on the cross

So we would be forgiven

Rosa Parks sat on that bus

So black people could be equal

Firemen died in 9/11 to save the lives

Of New Yorkers

Firemen help people everyday stuck

In their crushed motors

Police save people everyday from domestic abuse

Peace makers tell us to call a truce

Nurses and doctors work day and night

The postman delivers at break of light

Bakers up bright and early

Bin men getting smelly and dirty

The Wright Brothers invented the plane

And now we can holiday in Spain

Amelia Earhart flew across the Atlantic

Now we can see the world and it’s magic

People have reached the top of Everest or gone to serve in a war

People have gone up in Space or gone

Face to face with Jaw’s

'The only heaven'

‘The only heaven’-Ted Hughes

‘Song-ball’-Ted Hughes

‘As the owl becalms deeper

To stillness:

Two eyes fixed in the heart of heaven’-Ted Hughes

‘My song excites them’-Ted Hughes

‘A secret bleeding’-Ted Hughes

Life,

Sometimes there is an incline

Christmas be kind

All smiles around

New Year be shined

Image:A bird eating a pumpkin

The bright light

The star of david

The midnight sound

Hoping he’ll come around

The slow unravelling of my dressing gown

Undressing for my Cinderella gown

That he saves me from a battle ground

Childhood

Falling asleep in car and being carried to bed

Climbing a tree and choosing your branches carefully

Chocolate for my pocket Reading a sonnet

Chocolate Rock and roll it!

Fireworks in the sky

Colourful umbrellas

Sparklers light up your eyes

So glad we are together

I reach in my pocket for treacle toffee

Look around for that ‘sweet’ somebody

The fire is burning hot and everybody flocks

You hold my hand at the pizza van

Music is blasting from the fairground

There’s candy,hot dogs and burgers all round

My hat flies

As we watch the display it electrifies

My ear muffs keep me warm

There is no storm

When I walk home,I smile,another year,

Fully worth while

There’s smoke and embers in the air

Lighting up the last flare!

‘The red levelling rays’-Ted Hughes

‘Drum-song’-Ted Hughes

‘The power of the salmon’-Ted Hughes

A search for poetry

‘Spread like a flame’-Wang Yen-Shou

Magic orchid

Magic child

Bird watching

The yellow dancer

Corals and morals (Green Planet idea)

From the waist up

Beauty in tiny places

The snow drop

‘Whenever you create beauty around you,

You are restoring your soul’-Alice Walker

‘I don’t think of all the misery ,

But of the beauty that still remains’-Anne Frank