Floating

28/03/2021 – Poem a Day Compilation



Looking up at the clouds drifting overhead

Surrounded by the swell of a thousand waves

Thinking of nothing but the silence

And drifting without care or concern

Closer

27/03/2021 – Poem a Day Compilation



I long to feel closer to you

To be welcomed into the inner sanctum

To be trusted

To be loved

To be honoured as one of your own

As a friend

As a confidant

As a lover

As a member of your closest family



But I must wait for an eternity

Wait until you realise

Wait for the right time

Wait though I yearn

Wait so very long for that which I desire

For your touch

For the joy

For my heart to fill

For the softly spoken words I crave

Adam

25/03/2021 – Poem a Day Compilation



There’s something very odd

About the story of Adam and Eve

And that is the blame that is laid

Upon the shoulders of the Eve

Yet Adam seems to be

This tag along character

Beguiled by the wiles of a woman

Created to be his companion

By an omnipotent deity

Who could not foresee

The fall of his own creations.



I suppose it’s not all that odd

When you really think about it

And the people who penned

The stories of creation

Because they were all men

Wanting to rule over the land

And its people

Regardless of the consequences

That would be felt for centuries

Into the future

And all over the world



Their male deity could do no wrong

Nor their male first created

Even the saviour who would come

So many years later

Was born male

And so many of the noteworthy characters

From Noah to Abraham to Moses

They are all of the masculine description

With women playing second fiddle

Or being portrayed as evil temptresses

Not to be trusted in the least.



So let’s revisit how we see Adam

And how we look upon Eve

With the choice to eat the apple

Squarely upon both their shoulders

Placed there to tempt them

By a deity who already knew the outcome

And created the human race

As a plaything for his amusement

Or perhaps it’s all a figment of the imagination

Of ancient and long forgotten men

To keep their women underfoot

Sitting on a rock

26/03/2021 – Poem a Day Compilation



Sitting nonchalantly on a rock

While carving out a chock

I fed fish shredded hemlock

As they swam about a wok



A camel in a floral frock

Pulled in to yonder dock

Looking for a matching sock

For the hen and her cock



She asked a man called Sherlock

Who sent her round the block

To a place where she could hock

For a few dollars her stunning smock



She could not hide her shock

And thought him quite the jock

She was not the one to mock

And of his ideas he should take stock



Behind her, gathered in a flock,

Were cuckoos straight out of a clock

Carrying a case with a heavy lock

That looked like it had taken a knock



What was inside gave me a shock

And I hoped it was not a crock

It was a pair made for peacock

Emblazoned with a shamrock



The camel thanked the cuckoo flock

And took careful stock –

A sock for the hen and for the cock

In a little box with a heavy lock



And I was left upon the rock

With my fish and my wok

Wondering if I might find a sock

Emblazoned with hemlock

Pisa

24/03/2021– Poem a Day Compilation



I’d like to be like the tower

That makes its home in Pisa

Who’s slant is so iconic

And something of a teaser



I’d be the centre of attention

And beloved around the globe

Models posed in front of me

And sometimes they may disrobe



My outlook on life would be tilted

To a most precocious angle

Rapunzel’s hair would hang strangely

And get in such a tangle



Those who climbed my stairs each day

Would develop an odd kind of gait

One leg longer small price to pay

For their curiosity to sate



But here I am, mere mortal

Of no significance or worth

Compared with the leaning tower

Who’s stood since long before my birth

Surely

23/03/2021 - Poem a Day Compilation



I waited by the bus stop

Watching the traffic lights

Cycle through from red to green

And back again

Around the intersection

Letting each set of cars

Move off to their next destination

Carefully orchestrated

To supposedly allow

For the optimal flow of traffic

But you can’t please all the people

All the time

And the occasional horn blast

Would break the steady rumbling

Of engines

And tyres on roads

That are long overdue for repair

Showing potholes and cracks

Faded lines and arrows

Not needed by drivers familiar

With the area

With the way the roads met

With the predisposition of trucks

To pull out of the servo

When they think it’s clear

Not seeing the motorcyclist

Coming around the bend

And swerving to miss

The 25-ton monster

That needs all three lanes

Just to make it out of the driveway

And continue on its way

Oblivious to the shaken rider

Who saw their life flash before their eyes

And had to pause

Momentarily

To suck in deep breaths

Before pulling up to the now red light

Near where I waited patiently

For a bus that is late again

Surely, it’s not that hard

To get the buses to run on time

Family

22/03/2021 - Poem a Day Compilation



Family is meals together

Sharing stories of the day

Over a take away

Or a roast out of the oven



Family is a train trip to the city

To look at the lights at Christmas

Or wander around the harbour

Taking happy snaps with the kids



Family is sitting on the beach

Under an enormous umbrella

With ice blocks melting down hands

And burying someone in the sand



Family is packing the car

And heading off camping

In the national park

For a long weekend



Family is curled up reading

All different books and magazines

At the same time

Just enjoying the peace together



Family is what you make it

Whether you’re born into it

Or it pulls you in

And it’s what makes you complete

Each night

21/03/2021 – Poem a Day Compilation



Each night

I look up

Out the window

At stars

And the moon

And the infinite black



I see

Lost civilizations

Forgotten people

Born and gone

Before our eyes

Without our knowing



The tremor

Of a planet

It’s heart

Spewing forth

Destroying itself

From the inside



The twinkle

In the distance

Of a world

Undisturbed

And at peace

For millennia

Perfect

20/03/2021 - Poem a Day Compilation



We all strive for some perfection

Somewhere in our lives

Whether it’s something big

Or very, very small



I don’t know that anyone achieves it

Or gets anywhere close to it

But it’s the journey rather than the destination

That is the reward



Some people think they find it

And more power to them

But I think life is about the imperfections

The quirks and the questions



So, don’t be afraid to fall short of it

As long as you’ve given it your all

Because no one and nothing is perfect

And we all want somebody and something

Unnecessary

19/03/2021 - Poem a Day Compilation



This world we have created in unnecessary.

Nothing we do or say is needed

For the further development of the human race

Yet we persist in doing and saying the things.



All a person needs in this world

Is food and shelter and love

But it’s the wants and desires

That make the unnecessary necessary.