Mine, and occasionally others'.
Submitted by Janine on
A tribute to the US pilot who flew and drew a contrail cock and balls in the Washington sky ...
If you've an aerosol can
and a stairwell wall
You've a ready-made canvas
for a spray-on cock and balls
If you're sitting at your desk
and the lesson's getting boring
Then you whip out your ballpoint
and you do a bit of drawing
Submitted by Janine on
Pick up the leaflet
pick up a pen
Rate on a scale of nil to ten
how broken is your heart
how much your life is rent apart
Rate your mental state
Is it three or six or eight?
Rate on a scale of nil to ten
Where nil is
I don't give a toss about them'
And ten is
'I'll never feel intact again'
Submitted by Janine on
God save one's gracious tax
Long live one's noble sacks
God save one's tax
Send it on holiday
Make sure the proles all pay
I own the islands anyway
God save one's tax
One has to be much shrewder
Deposit some in Bermuda
And some offshore
Take all the dosh one's got
Fill up one's golden pot
And stash it on the Royal Yacht
Then get some more
Submitted by Janine on
C-charge
T-charge
Why is it OK
to congest
and pollute
London
So long as you pay?
This poem was published on the Poetry24 website on 29 October 2017.
Submitted by Janine on
Step up to the hilltop
take in the view
Look! There in the distance!
the places you played
as a child, where your journey’s
foundations were laid
And there is the path
which led you from home
Growing as you went
coming out on your own
And there in the foothills
where I joined you to walk
The soft, easy road
then the rocks, then the fork
Submitted by Janine on
I asked because I didn't know
I stayed because I couldn't go
I told because I couldn't show
I wilted when I couldn't grow
Said yes because you won't take no
I'm high because I can not cope with low
Submitted by Janine on
Written for and read at my friends' Sally and Nigel's wedding ...
Nigel and Sally, oh Nigel and Sally
Connected on Facebook and got rather pally
Commenting, messaging, poking online
They talked on the phone for five hours at a time
Submitted by Janine on
Harvey Weinstein is an addict
Harvey, he just has to have it
Harvey's checked into a clinic
Not convinced? You heartless cynic
Harvey can not help himself
Please pray for Harvey's failing health
Submitted by Janine on
Keep politics out of sport
Black lives may matter
but all that matters here
is the score
Keep politics out of football
because standing up for the national anthem
is not political
but kneeling for it is
Keep politics off the pitch
Offence and defence
are matters for the field of play
not for the field of struggle
Submitted by Janine on
It's World Mental Health Day, so ...
SNAP OUT OF IT
Snap out of taking orders
Snap out of blame
Snap out of 'disorders'
Snap out of shame
Snap out of austerity
Snap out of stressors
Snap out of poverty
Snap out of pressures
Snap out of 'raising awareness'
and start raising hell
This system's sick
It isn't well
