Ennui Friday (Sonnet)
after Montale
Immobilized by a dull heat,
a faint sky over Talacre,
the high haze so oddly Sussex
to a wisping in the far blue,
I am hit by a young terror
at being unable to start
again, a Villa there costly
with my generation, former
now barricaded from London,
the expansive brutal in charge.
So lost, The Battle of Britain
with such grotesquerie at large.
Our invaders have sent housing
to a price beyond bold scheming.
July 4th
The Party Faithful
two of them embraced
The worst nightmare imaginable :
the sound of The Party talking
with noising like a door slamming,
or a grinding on wood scraping
or even worse, rough and ready
and perpetually unsteady.
A lot of them have a big mouth,
they, barbarians in the south
so fond of giving one an earful.
Do many keep a big Teddy ?
Fitzjohn's NW3 (3) Sonnet
Super beautiful the decor
but rezidenz, horror, horror,
not one a modernist artist ;
live in spiritual squalor
in a Seventies' condo block,
bordering on an office block
not at all leaf Hampstead. Tres triste !
Does anyone play Garage rock ?
to Gin and tonic with ice-lock.
They dare praise Mansion Avenue
and lie ; a swimming pond, the view.
Or bucket of Pimms, for a mist.
Who is wearing a Party frock ?
Passing by, we cannot but mock.
July 5th pace a concern in Holland
Lyric Time after Stevens
Fast cumulus cloud, Monday morning
heading south-west, giant yet low
over the Camden Valley, blue
sky intermittent alluring,
for your departure instantly
as if for Fuerteventura,
and a somewhere out of this world
does capture ; I think of Key West,
meditating on what is best
and when, quite free, I was last there.
Lull Extrapolae
Do I worship infinitude ?
the diurnal not to intrude
on carriageway, and the camber
to sand and a sea-lit vista,
personae gone infinity
leaving a bleak chamber behind,
and such love-making had to end
for want of a grounding sanity.
*
It began at Southend-on-Sea
and gazing The Wharf, Canary
and a precognition of her.
Cf line art series 'Lull' (1997)
CT July 7th/ 22nd (the triplet)
Complaints By Jane H.
You, an extrapolator bore !
could never thrill me to the core.
Christopher : you ploughed on, stopped not
having no talent for chit-chat.
You ought to put yourself about !
In Berlin, we photographed, sure,
that our in memoriam.
Our generation was not glam
We, both good at smelling a rat.
Dolce vita in Tuscany...
Joke For Jane (MOW)
The one thing AI cannot do
is sample the best Vineyard Cru.
We went searching for Jurancon
wine, thought to be near Aquitaine.
You were an expert on Chablis
with opened for wine-tasting bliss,
the cloth on my pine table, blue.
Always in the right, always knew !
July 7th/23rd
Trop Sotto Voce (1972)
Last Tango In Paris, un film
elegant. Pour Elle, pas de Gym.
Maria, Marlon engage'
pour Generation Absurd.
Some script, difficult to be heard.
Great pausing, without a hand-held
disrupting slow time her and him.
Firm Maria did not look trim.
Paris ran poignant, desole'.
Insulting The Nation
Refusing to speak the language
in hysterical badinage.
Like Lenin, wearing camouflage
working on causing great damage.
Cote D'Azur Wealth
After sipping your breakfast gin,
you roll away the tarpaulin
wanting to swim like a dolphin
and her bikini, wafer thin
so provoking for morning sin.
Who, edgy, is going to win ?
Is your Carrara made of tin ?
The porno mags go in the bin.
Will she ever wear camp satin ?
July 8th/23rd
Proscribe As Terrorist Org.
Jeremy Corbyn, Sultana.
Not one of them Albionista.
Is M15 in a dither ?
They broke The Trotsky palaver.
What does a Sultana taste like ?
Has she ever got on her bike ?
July 9th/24th
Bonds Day Of Judgement
Destroyed by a left-wing poison,
Albion. The Day Of Reckoning.
Did it all begin with Bevan ?
The country must lose four million,
imprison for higher treason,
never to recite The Nicene.
Is there Bond Default in heaven ?
The tumbling began at seven...
what of, dice ? Or, robbing Peter
to pay Paul, never the neater.
One is reminded of Russia
and a reneging on The Tsar.
The Madness Of Boris J.
Study of Le Corbusier
is de rigeur for The Tower
Block planner, yet your free-for-all
let developer anarchy
run riot, with nothing to stall
the visual atrocity.
West of St Jude, a cement Block
far off ; a spiritual shock.
*
A pigeon fled into The Church.
I read Montale, in the lurch.
They, a plague on infinity :
I lost a purer rhapsody.
July 10th/24th
Fatigue Paradox
Too lazy to build anything,
they wonder why there is no housing
to random in, and play Pleasure
the computer game. Ape leisure.
Most have to be extradited
to protect from the living dead.
Some stagger, street-wise, infected
barely conscious of anything.
Not even of Gospel chanting.
Still No Government
I could do their work an hour
a day in my Studio, making cuts
and doing away with The Trots.
I would hire, fill pick-up trucks.
Spaniards Fields (NW)
You have your Mansion, and a Lake
with an Alsation at the Gate.
But where the twenty-something, nice
beauty, to plate you Gin on ice ?
Full Service (Sonnet)
after Visconti
Such a Barnet extravaganza
and you have to hand it to her.
You can drive to Highgate Station,
fend The City AI ration...
Once you have wealth, you want her stealth
and not to be jamming in filth.
Is this text getting out of hand ?
What did happen in Turners Wood ?
Bring on the BBQ, a slew...
and garlic brimming in her stew.
Sound of agitated laughter...
Who is raping a guest daughter ?
After line twelve, the twelfth hour
of The Leopard, all on fire.
July 10th/26th film 1963; the long Dance
No Chance
Suddenly, empty words linger
if at all, not as graffiti
or entering a megaphone
leaving the handy telephone
and you wonder at the point
of crafting protest, so unheard
though not, you may reflect, unseen
our presenting what could have been.
( This was meant for ending July
with so much wrong, but time does fly ).
July 11th/28th
Extra ! News Extra !
The Nation sad, incoherent
lost in a flat-vowel ferment,
infantile, beyond ludicrous
and generally quite clueless.
July 14th
Lingua Franca
Does Trump speak West Country English ?
Part Scotland ; the Plymouth Brethren.
Stentorian, has gravity.
July 16th
The Westphalian Speech (Sonnet)
Mertz can speak a better Anglo
than Starmer, vowel expressive
and delivering for NATO.
V. Putin wanted to detach
Germany, forgetting the batch-
raping at the end of the match.
Or, dare I say Brandenburg March.
Montgomery liked sounding arch.
He kept their arms in easy reach.
Putin craves a Crimean beach.
Is that more than Ukraine can give ?
What of the Byzantine halo ?
Russia lost badly at Marian
Mariupol : did not say hello.
Joke Crimean
Since when was a spread parasol
cover from a drone aerosol ?
July 18th/28th
AI Hubris (Sonnet)
Data Centres need energy
and cooling water, for knowing
little under a strawberry
moon, to keep lunacy flowing
as partial people eat a bit.
Economic growth is a killer.
Rather than build a new
warren to hold the infected,
better to birth the infected.
We need many a machine gun.
Revolution can be such fun,
aiming for purification
so that we can sit in the sun.
Ginger adored her currant bun.
Kibbutz Gadot (Again)
Beautiful women, danger
there from an emerging stranger,
the Disco shut for the summer.
There was longing in the anger.
Churchill Wrong
Fort Singapore, and Malaya
far more important than Stalin :
The Spitfire Supermarine
not to take on the 'Nip' terror.
July 19th/30th
St Silas, She Was
crystal clear as the Credo Cantor,
her cut glass vox high accenting ;
not for Coronation canting
in a void, for lack of fervour
and a Faith public comporting
to save Saxe-Coburg Gotha.
I need not refer to Windsor.
The Gloria : Latin singing
better here, than in Westminster.
July 20th
Going To The E-Bike
Her Wimbledon-white tennis dress
to bronzed, ripple powerful thigh
beguiling for Monday morning.
Flouncy, ravishing, dare may I.
She, leaning, and wondering why
yet pale to inner distress.
Could we talk of the Doubles,
lying back after a long sigh ?
Devotee of the coming task,
there was nothing that I could ask.
Born To Catastrophe
a Birth Sonnet
Dateline : little more than ten years
off the long Fall of Singapore,
my being born under canvas
in a British Military
Field Hospital, in North West
Malaya, my mother cursing
' white flag ' General Percival
and we, bent on recovering
from defeat and ignominy,
with a great Battleship
and her Cruiser, under water
home to fish and growing coral.
The Admiral, in his dead end
gurgling water at the second.
Obit Note The Admiral
He made it his choice to go down
with his Ship, her Cruiser first down.
Do we see him in his agony ?
or, forbidden territory.
He signalled late for air cover
which he knew, as he went under.
He, Sir Tom Phillips
How dare a text play the voyeur ?
Malaya, for tin, and rubber.
I cocktail Singapore sling
to make me think I am winning.
drowned Dec 10th 1941
source book Malaya 1941 The Fall
of a Fighting Empire Sir Andrew
Gilchrist (1992) and Joan Albums
July 21st/August 1st 2025
Churchill The Bungler
from a source
Arming up the Stalin monster,
rather than fight for Malaya.
Who sent out a chinless wonder ?
The Admiral drowned with his Ship
unable to give Japan the slip,
proving Ironside to be right.
The choice was Empire, or might.
All Germany really wanted
was Ukraine, and Stalin vaunted
after The Polish Corridor
that is, and a wanting a war
in which we would lose Singapore.
Thus ends line twelve. Was there a deal ?
For Japan, Roosevelt cut the oil.
Churchill Counterclaim
It was Cairo or Singapore
and for both, we could not do more ;
that is the dilemma he saw,
therein, though, a logical flaw.
He could not see war in the raw.
Ralph saw him as a blithering
idiot, a cigar commanding.
The Battle of the Atlantic
in the background, no less epic.
July 21st/August 4th
Grounds For A Coup
from Homeguard (1940)
A vast failure of leadership,
against the minority snip
and the punitive measure
to guard the Albion structure.
We grew in a homage to Rome
and built the Classical a home.
Africa, and Arabia
cannot appear as the major...
we have much from India.
A Division from Calcutta ?
They tend to speak the best English
educated above rubbish.
Le Deluge
Point of vulnerability :
Autumn pay round, zero to three.
Or Index-linked Gilt misery.
Seeing a pram, chant : why bother ?
born to a land full of horror
funding incremental squalor.
July 25th/August 4th
The Weather Breaking
Wearing a thick scarf, late July
incident that can make you cry.
A turgid sea, so hard to ply.
July 28th
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