Roman India
Who, the new Romano-Britons ?
The Hindu, ex Raj Indians.
We have a problem with Pakistan
even typing Times New Roman.
Out at The Hub, all playing cricket.
May : never a sticky wicket.
Roman India came to The Park.
White flannel stood out on the dark.
The Regent's Park May 10th
May Day Error
Did May Day urge to The Scarlet
Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne ?
Burning Question
The Celestial Railroad :
can it cope with a heavy load ?
May 13th
Unto Slurry
The major credo in Surrey
is shopping without a worry
to worship the discount puzzle
devant planning the next guzzle
chomp chomp chomp lets go for a romp
yet never to esplanade pomp.
So Jolly Funny after W Kees
They want my every quatrain
cut up and fractured down the drain,
with I treated as a has-been
and they want somebody in to clean
their sex doll, and the limousine.
I liked running my Hornby train
near Hindhead, come in from the rain
in a county so in-between.
Augmented Reality
Of a time, stained glass in a Church
window like a divine peep-show.
A girl crying, left in the lurch
has her mobile to say no
to a stalker, to a follower.
Her imaginings can flower,
not, I may say, in the shower.
I dare type she may try porno
after instructing hey, go slow.
Short of funds : could try payola.
Nightmare, Southend
Departed to an Estuary
War Fort, like pirate radio.
( Boris Johnson was yelling at me ).
Ex. Libby's Naked Diary
in City AM
South African Pinotage : Pinot
Noir and Cinsault, Catoria
Coastal bred, great for barbecue.
May 14th
Starvation In Barking
The overspending on Welfare
must be diverted to warfare.
Few of them ever go to Church,
happy to leaves us in the lurch.
Of course, Henry bred tragedy
by destroying Barking Abbey.
Saving Poland
In a way, Churchill's end War Two
of back east coming back into view.
Operation Unthinkable
A problem : Gestapo terror,
a nation by the jugular.
Overall
The holocausts red of Stalin
worse, maybe, than the German one.
Gone : too many a grand mansion.
The red worshipped the overall.
A widow has to wear a shawl.
( Muslim women, the coverall. )
Methedology Horror
after G Hill; redactable
What, protested the Town crier ?
All of them a life denier.
Gas : or agony in starving,
dying a walking skeleton.
Which of them, the most inhumane ?
Per Nazi, Kulak in Ukraine.
Better a good train for less pain
if one can write of an ending.
The problem, our comprehending.
Barking Tremens
A Mecca youth in a white sack
striding, as if he owned the track.
The Home Guard may say : time to pack.
This, north of Eastbury Manor.
Callow, arrogant, his manner
as if marching toward Jeddah.
Albion purification
could make for a busy station,
M15 paying attention.
all written May 16th - finis
materiel beyond mention
Road Movie
You keep on driving on and on
as from Liege, to Luxembourg
taking the endless horizon
until a halting at Arlon.
You could meander to Strasbourg
after road-tripping The Ardennes.
May 17th
In The Nether Reaches
in the manner of Auden
The Holocaust unsurprising,
given demeanour, their contempt
for The Gentile, a black cap
not to mention the pigtail.
Some starved, before a Patriarch
not to mention all of the gold.
Which is never to say : deserved.
We miss their young women rising,
the Virgin Mary, Matriarch.
Bare road : Jerusalem, to Rome
without a red rag to a bull.
But beauty and genius dead.
So much happened, that went unread
and the dark fires that were fed.
On Eton Road
after incident; redactable
Provocative, the Synagogue
there, staggeringly arrogant
overbearing our Anglican.
I know I am beneath contempt.
Fortunately, I pay no rent.
How many murdered by Lehman ?
They love a killing on Main Street.
If some are criticised, they bleet
to the sound of hurrying feet.
I hardly dare sunder a tweet,
never posture in Portland, Maine.
Were they good at fixing the pain ?
Jesus went into The Temple
to upturn tables of Magog.
May 18th
Home Guard Forts (1)
In the manner of bad Belfast,
watchtower and machine-gun post
at Barking Green, Blackhorse Station
abord the Home Guard oration.
The jury is out on Romford
and what Havering can afford.
Tilbury already has one :
in Shoeburyness, big tonne.
Jerusalem on the hour
after enigmatic Elgar.
To demonstrate raw power,
recorded machine-gun fire.
Great, the populist broadcasting
after more people harvesting.
May 19th
Local Presence
As in France, an elite snatcher
squad to deal with the ranter
and monitor the unwelcome,
with vans raking the troublesome.
All must sing The National Anthem
and the Blake in Jerusalem.
Saving our Albion nation
may need some indoctrination.
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Those dull on a bench, akimber
rounded up to pick up litter.
They gorged on pommes de terre friters,
high time to give them the jitters.
In the market, futile twitters.
Certain Wildfires
after Mark Ford
Like a Molotov cocktail
or cocktails, after the pina
colada on the much-honoured
Terrace Kardashian, lurid
in a way ; and the views thereof.
Now we have a part rhyme for tov !
wondering about the arson,
drinking a writer's Bourbon.
From there : the anarchist peasant
of the uber-rich unpleasant,
a cocktail in the garden.
Dead at a front gate, their warden.
Peasant America, revenge !
until labouring a syringe.
May 20th
Teaching Model
The English of Nineteen Forty
not least for a sleek BBC.
One fine day, taught by India
not least in sunny Yorkshire.
Deep in the Nineteenth Century
a village school would teach RP.
May 21st
Clay Quandary
Is a word an object, you ask.
Or, when is a flask not a flask.
Or, is a word partly typeface ?
thereby forming the human race.
Yet those having no language
can do little but grin and binge.
Did God mutate the lingo gene ?
an age before the fader jean.
From the potter's wheel, a jar.
Do you understand where you are ?
Every star to a Galaxy
is in Latin, The Papacy.
How can you have democracy
without Franglais literacy ?
The Potter's Wheel
A jar becomes a jar from clay
and from turning into language.
May 21st/June 6th
From Tent To Fresco (Sonnet)
All that warring, endless lament
toward a second Testament.
From the sandy Abrahamic
to The Sistine, and The Vatic-
an, entering The Marian.
Here, a wintry aberration.
Rome-glorying architecture
held out a heavenly future.
There came the matter of music,
chant, enabling the ecstatic.
In Mecca, still the fanatic
threatening the apocalyptic.
Yet we honour The Pantheon
in Rome, The Gods to gaze upon.
Mar 23rd
Surrey County Council
They, who ruined eerie Surrey
to sub-enclave guzzle money.
Drawing Room Lampoon
Never be short of dry cider !
in case the war does nuclear.
May 24th
Late May Lauds
You are in the mercy of God
and deep in Gregorian chant.
An Intercession
We pray for our partner Parish
in Berlin, St Mary Virgin.
Per B.R.C.S
Where, Joan, is that ? On Lake Wannsee
near to your Schloss Bruningslinden.
Taize' (Prayer)
Singing in Latin, then a flute,
very softly, a praying mute.
May 25th by Primrose Hill Church
Bank Holiday after Montale
Drifting over the battlefield
a faint sound of choir, music.
Congestion
Why do these hot people bother ?
All that car chatter palaver.
Purgatory
From the scrambling horror therein,
vast, one hour Elysian.
The Chase
On the way, trumpet the Sylvan
and, hunting, save pure Diana.
Arboretum
Pools of light on the forest floor
ardent, hiding many a claw.
Tenebrae 2
Shadowy of the dead, wispy
in the intermittent valley.
Woodhenge, Regent's
Surviving how, a drover's track
in from the Ring, to inner grass.
Middlesex Vista
Calm sheep, out of Samuel Palmer
winding to Lake and white Villa.
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Hysteria Absurd
Merseybank football supporters :
in the south, we prefer conkers.
Your screeching drove us all bonkers.
Disaster Looming
We, still without a Government
waiting to be buried in debt.
We must only breed the select.
May 26th
Pebble Dash Valley
Sing song snarly hysteria
with many a gnome, a fixture.
Conurbation, of the horror
of a Guildford mundane growing,
no Cathedral trumpet blowing.
Far gone, the ways of the tractor.
Revenant
I return to my forest path
greenshade, wild sylvaticum,
square to how on earth I got here :
a family fluke connection,
my Renault 4 needing service,
a move to gentrification
for property beyond repair
by Camden, then Isolde Wigram,
a period as wage earner
to a brief price combination.
I despair for the young artist
dealt into the gutter, tres triste.
I, a freak in a fluke of time
yet now unable to high climb.
May 30th
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Preview of a text for June 25 Pf
GDR Britain
Prevent is preventing free speech,
leaving a killer out of reach
and the minority in breach.
June 12th
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