Wednesday, 31 July 2024

Spider

One day I noticed a spider in the kitchen
crawling along the tiled window sill.
Now I value spiders as predators on the flies
which often infest my indoor flower plants
and I watched with interest to see what it was doing.
But I couldn't tell where it was going or why.
It halted when it came level with the sink
and turned to face over the edge of the sill.
Motionless it seemed to be peering down
as if on a cliff above the rocks below.
Still it didn't move. Taking time to think?
Decide? Oh, my god, a suicide?
Surely there's some pleasure still to come
in life. Family somewhere? Friends? Or none !
Don't do it. You're so tiny. You'll never survive.
Or is that part of the problem? An inferiority . . .
And then it jumped. But horizontally !
Across the gap between the sill and the cloth
draped over the tall vertical water faucet.
Before it vanished in the fabric, I swear its jaws
moved. I think it said "Up yours".
Cameras could capture it;
even painting probably so;
memory re-imagine it;
words unforunately no.

Another blue sky summer sunset
sifting down to ochre glow
like winter sitting room coal fire
bedtime dying long ago.

Tweets 19

Pleasure is the here and now;
satisfaction for the future.

My constant companion in old age,
girl not boy, little joy.

Fart or faeces ?
Hard to tell
sometimes. Toilet !
(just as well).

I think there's little left in life to see.
I'm only killing time till time kills me.

Novels help to pass the time
for both readers and writers.

THE CONSOLATIONS OF OLD AGE
                  don't  exist

THAT'S MUSIC - OUT OF THIS WORLD
Special offer for one lifetime only.
The only funeral company to offer
bingo in Heaven.

Politicians are part of the narcissus genus

Poetry - so many write it but so few read it.

THE  TRAVELLING  GASTROPODS
Their relatives must go home every day
but they venture further with their campervans -
snails.

Cars are a bit like people -
the body work is sleek or battered
but the driver isn't clear.


Friday, 19 July 2024

With acknowledgement to Robert Burns

If the camera doen't lie,
then the mirror certainly does
which just confuses when we try
to see ourselves as others see us .

Wednesday, 10 July 2024

To my wife

When I certainly also die
I will have eternity
to patiently, carefully search for you
floating somewhere among the stars.