| 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.
 *
 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.
 
 Consternation Shuffle
 
 Misery in Barking, Guildford
 is not something we can afford.
 Who is going to pull the rip-cord ?
 
 Ending Discord
 
 No common cultural hoard :
 from harmony, unto discord
 unable to share a record.
 
 Slick Pop Tease
 
 Her Puppet On A String, prancing
 on the sandy shore of Barking
 out of Dagenham, hard working.
 
 May 30th
 
 Le Choix Terrible
 
 Communism, or Nazism
 but for the Via Media
 of The Albion Empire.
 We may weep, daily, for Sedan.
 The Nazis, though, ran out of bran.
 The Avenger : The Lancaster
 
 May 31st
 
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 GDR Britain
 
 Prevent is preventing free speech,
 leaving a killer out of reach
 and the minority in breach.
 
 June 12th
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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