Thursday, 19 May 2011

Hey Rube!

Shout Hey Rube, rally the troops, 
Shout Hey Rube; put on your boots. 
Hit them now, 
They shout OW!. 
Shout Hey Rube to end all 
                              Public-Circus disputes!

1CorneredPoet2ManyCircusDisputes


What's this limerick all about? Well now, the term Hey Rube originated in the 19th century when circuses were rowdy affairs and "Hey Rube" was the rallying cry to call all circus people to help in a fight with townspeople. It's not clear whether Rube in this term was someone specific or simply a use of the informal term rube (shortened form of Reuben) for an unsophisticated person from a rural area. Earliest documented use: 1882. Visit: http://www.spaciousplanet.com/world/guide/hey-rube-the-circus-battle-cry


Tuesday, 10 May 2011

Poetastery: In Art Form!

Creativity
Deserts me
As I write
These Wrongs,
Whilst Righting
The World
With a Poets 
Rhythm less
Songs.

All along
Imposing this 
Need
To be
Nothing more than
An empty
Christmas Tree . . 

. . in
May . .

. . . a poetaster . . . 

I
Have Nothing
Much
To Say.

This 
Is
Poetastery
In
The Extreme,
All
I can Offer is
An
Entanglement
Of
Worms
Drowning
In
A Stream . . 

. . Of
Wordsmith Mediocrity.

But,
This Too Is
Art,
He (um, that's me) Declared
With the Bravado 
Of
A Bottomless
Fart.

1Poetaster4You2Read

Ok, well I just felt like writing something! So be it . . . 

Monday, 7 March 2011

Without A Doubt

Acceptance,
Letting go now
Of all frustrations
And their emotional
Relations,
Such as Fear, Doubt
And Anxiety,
Whom creep up on me
Surreptitiously,
Like dust
Settling on the table
Of my Life.











Wiping the slate
Clean,
With the duster of
Presence,
What does FEAR
Mean:
False Expectations Appearing Real?
Without a Doubt,
Another of life's Lessons.

Tuesday, 9 November 2010

The Wayward Yogic Poet

"Yogic Poetry?"
He asked
Aghast!

Yes I've decided
To publish some
At last.

"Hm, why have you taken
So long to take
This step?"

Because I haven't
Written any
Yet!

Well, actually I have
But it's plain
To see,
I need more time
To make
Poetic Yogi
History . . .

. . . I'll put the kettle on!

On my other blog, 1Yogi2Many, I have written plenty of poetry . . . of a sort. Although I have to say that much of my work comes to me in Aphoristic style, oops, what does that mean? I mean in the style of an Aphorism or even a Stanza . . . or some such stylization of words. Basically what writes through me, writes through me . . what happens, happens . . is there really any choice? Sometimes, I find, there are no words to write with, just as there are days when I don't have the legs to dance with ;-/ ....

... you know exactly what I mean, right? Is it a problem, no, what is . .  . Is.

Tuesday, 14 September 2010

Disquiet

Paranoid disquiet
Like some distant alarm bell
Rings, no, reverberates . . through this being
Like an automatic machination
Getting ever louder
Diminishing life’s once perfect illumination.

1ParanoidPoet2Many

Thursday, 9 September 2010

Naked Life

















Dismantled by the thought
Of a life lived without Love
Which once was shared
With the Joy of two
And now
One
Dancing alone
On the shores of life
No longer draped in her Aura
Naked once more . . .

Monday, 6 September 2010

Limerick My Hols!

Life's A ?





















Jogging in the Lanzarote Sun
Keeping fit, is lots of fun.
Life's a Beach
Blue skies within reach,
Smirking as I enter a sprinters Run!


1SprintingPoet2MuchSun