Pests

The Pest


They drive you crazy
In the summer months
The ants and flies
And snails and slugs

Them pesky birds
Eat up you seed
The moles trash your lawn
What a dirty deed

Even our friends
Our trusty hounds
End up outcast
In the lost and found

Foxes they’re by far the worst
They kill our chickens
The farmers curse

The rabbits eat up all our crops
Along with gliding hare
With big brown eyes and floppy ears
We cull without a care

Then those nasty badgers
They spread disease around
So we cull again or wipe out
Where ever the are found

Big is not a problem
We take the elephant
And turn it into key fobs
Or dusty ornaments

And if they dare to fight back
Like the tiger or the shark
Then we turn them into medicine
Or blow their brains apart

Did someone stop to ponder?
How everything above
Survives in perfect harmony
Without a pest like us

Time

Time

For the memories of the greatest times
Spent entwined within your arms
The laughter echoes daily when
I think of you

A friendship built within our lives
Of hardship and triumphant times
Without you I would have deeply missed
The reason I exist

You bring the morning when you wake
You take the sun when you must sleep
Beneath the autumns leafy piles
Our footsteps tread for mile on mile

Love is molten burning bright
But time will cool and stop its flow
But it’s then that love sets steel and true
And that’s the time I share with you

May we be joined if that be fate?
By an image flesh of ours
To share our love and spend some time
Treading again the fresh turned leaves

My valentine, my love and all
Take my heart and keep it safe
For it is brittle as your own
And by your side it makes its home

Lynmouth

Lynmouth

What a day out in the throat
Of Exmoor and fine Lyn mouth
Grey teeth smile and Bluest breath
Salved sea drips from the jowls
At another Devon feast

No foul breath instead
A cough of cooling ice runs free
Across the stubbled, chiselled chin
Of purple, yellow, green

Razor missed but for fine styled ways
Time worn wrinkles
That make old Lyn mouth smile

Summer at 6 am

Summer at six am

White crystal corridor
Wrapped in clear web
The mornings ray held fast
The spider unfed

This world, of the early shift
Who drink the morning’s breath?
While snails lay down a stardust trail
And foxes seek their bed

While man sleeps and dreams
Another world unfolds
Of tiny dew soaked footprints
Then the world explodes

To the break of gliding hare
Through the green and bending grass
Sending out a mighty galaxy
Of diamonds from his path

A moment then the silence comes
And this world returns to calm
Just a tattered crystal corridor
And a faint distant alarm

Jamaica

Jamaica

I hear you
I hear your distant call
Through the mountains it echoes

I see you and watch your mane
Twist in the sunlight
Riding on the crystal breeze

I feel you, feel the power
The great dignity
That never will be tame

I watch and see a might
Carried on limbs
That strides out with your pride

Nature is your neighbour
And the sea your tears
The white beach your place to rest
Away from passing cares

But your eyes, the people
Reflect so all can see
Your heart beats in their gaze
Exposed with soul set free

Jamaica the lion
I here your roar
But I have felt your heart beat
Jamaica in my core

Jamaican Bride

Jamaican Bride

White whiter still
The smile so clear
I remember it and
Will do so forever

As you drifted through
The garden into view
By your side your father
Smiles mingled and spread

They crossed before you
Reaching our friends
Then bouncing back to you
We waited

I nervous but so so happy
The wind whipped up the garden
Into a frenzied dance
We watched your beauty walk in
A frozen moment

Our friends looked
Ady shuffled by Nic’s side
Helen and Roop’s beamed
Kim filmed as Debbie shot
And your mum shone

By my side
Then the preacher opened his good book
We came together
As the blue rushed up the beach

Each wave scrambling up
The bleached white sand
Jostling the sea horses and star fish
For the best view

And Jesus went to Galilee
And we swore
And became one
And your deep beauty
Eclipsed all this
Out did the falling sun
Your eyes a deeper blue
Than the ocean looking on

You dazzled the tropical flowers
That watched from their stand in the garden

And you smiled
And we all laughed
And your mum shone
And we where Married

The Sun

The Sun

And when the white coat nods
That all is done
The very place that life begun
Then flickers turn to rising mist
And light is dimmed to never burn here again

All around the darkness does embrace
When solemn grey
Becomes the mask of stolen smile
And where the candle passed around its warmth
Now cool and still abound

A slight noise
A breath to help you burn
Now silent but for
A teardrop to the ground

You burned more brightly than the sun
And now our darkest days begun
And when we woke
From what we thought a dream

The hammer clattered
On the steel of truth
That you had left
Never for us to speak again

But then the curtains are turned back
And the spring sunshine pours in through
And you our son and you shine free
Fanned by the winds
Of all eternity