Scare

How children love to scare
You into tearing out your hair
As you watch them climbing
Into their own highchair

How children love to fright
When teetering on the edge of height
While clambering out
Of their cot at night

Future

Willing it out of the mist,
That great grey swirling in the distance.
Hope pierces.

Seeing formless shadows,
Materialise, dance and disperse.
Creating new shapes,
From thoughts and desires.

A smoky light,
Blinks into existence.

Interlaced with silvery weaving threads,
It beams with a happy eye,
Confiding the future,
It carries in its wake.

Dinosaurs

Just like the Brontosaurus
And the Apatosaurus
They are hard to tell apart
They may even be
The same

They lumber
Gently turning their heads
From side to side
Never straying far
From the centre ground
Rarely seeing
What is not right in front of them

They are living fossils
Dinosaurs in a
Broadband age
And the mammals
Are scurrying
In the undergrowth.

Hunt

They’re searching under the bushes

Beneath the roots of trees

Trying to crack a policy

For all of us to please

While hidden in the long grass

Are reforms that might bring changes

But to the ruling classes

These shells are the dangers

And now after five years

The hunt is on to find

The truth of this curates egg

Is all ideaology blind?

Joyous

The morning squeal
Is like a whining wheel
Turns at changing speeds
Constancy of a horn
Renting the air torn
Communicating needs

Or wishes, desires
Passionate fires
Of emotions inside
Explosions within
That just can’t be kept in
And you’re along for the ride

These are toddler days
And you know they’re a phase
But energy takes a hit
And despite feeling low
You just go with the flow
Since you can’t ever quit

So you give them hugs
And feel the tugs
At those inner heart strings
You love them down deep
They make you smile, make you weep
Joyous little things

Maundy

The rich really
Could do more
By taking note
Of the day
And giving
To the poor
Vulnerable
The needy
Those under threat
Of hunger
Eviction
But I'll bet
That instead
They'll ignore
These people
And hide it
In accounts
On islands
Far offshore

Only

You're only a fool if
You give in
Take it on the chin

You're only a fool if
You get used
Please don't be amused

You're only a fool if
You make no complaint
Difficult, it ain't

You're only a fool if
You lose your pride
Be on your own side