Tuesday 27 August 2019

Franciszka Themerson's Thoughts - A Tanka

City days endless
Talks with the bowler hatted
Businessmen who stick
Fascinating games of small
Talk issue avoidance tricks

Wednesday 21 August 2019

Thee Slone Ranger

Thee Slone Ranger

Sums it up for me
Thee Slone Ranger
Gleefully pearling their signage
Let's go W.T.O.
Best Chelsea smiles
Alright for you
Chelsea smiles
For the rest us

Do the Write Thing - A Tanka

Do the write thing hear
Listen the one before you
Leave peaved for those who
Don't listen for the second
One's the hardest to retrieve 

Insect Inspect


Fruitflies fuckin' love
Fresh French polish
Not quite wet
Appear from fuck knows
Elect to inspect
Your chiffoneer
Cabinet
Or jewellery box
With daffodil inset
Look close host
See these
Fleamarket
Marquetry gets
Perusing all over
With tiny
Fuckin' clipboards
I bet

Friday 16 August 2019

Pub Conjuror - A Tanka


Thought for a minute 
That some magic bastard had
Erased my pages
Between smoking practice and
Disappearing my wages

Preston Rules - A Tanka

She'd greet "Alright bird?" 
No matter if male or a
Rizla 'tween pref'rence
Skirt's airline or crack's hairline
All fine lines blurred "Alright bird?" 

Thursday 15 August 2019

Continuous Bar Retainer - A Tanka

Down the pub nods he
Keeps wearing glasses while I
Keep wearing glasses
Schtum starring in the crude noise
Wearing looped glasses anon.

Wednesday 14 August 2019

Plasterek (Slice) - A Right Pair of Tankas

Bored son chef cook with
Knicked hands peers out on spaces
Left by revellers
Regulars suits and suiters 
Blue plastered white fingers tap

Blue and white collared
Post-workers plastered themselves
Round the bar half not
Knowing how difficult or
Expensive plastering is

Tuesday 13 August 2019

Sap - A Tanka

The lass off the graph
Is last having a laugh 'cos
For once the ensconce
Is not the brew of the room
Or about you or your sap

Saturday 10 August 2019

Fitzrovia Byway Patrol


Massive beard
What? 
Arms out 
The
Massive window
Actual 
Massive arms tattooed
Dog unit 
Chips all round
Eh? 
V8er
Dog pound

Looking for Poets in Parks

Looking for poets in parks Looking for poets in parks What?  A prepensity?  A pretentiousness of?  Give us a clue Chuck us a bone Alls've got's me lateness Map on me phone In hat in orange top 's me Do us a lemon please Or'll write Another bloody poem ' bout logistics Not trees

Hating Trainers whilst Admitting That They Look Good on Some - A Tanka

Loose done trainers aren't 
Even fucking shoes in their
Prepensity to breath as
Clues but bequeath legacy
As jokers below the knee

Afterrogermcdarrengoghlordsprayer

Lordsat
Boatshoechino
Ruddsmile
Blazeblue
Burstbelt
Tanwalllet
Feltold
Fathertimeclock
Audesmug
Morerah
Fyasock
Stickbeef
Tieclub
Mashedn
Schooled
Slickbarnet
Runruled
Nomatter
Wicket
Whatageof
Twennytwenny
Bollingents
Scorenplenty
Members
Breeding
Identigents
Evry
Bleedinoneofem

Tuesday 6 August 2019

Framed in Manchester - A Tanka

Girls dancing window
Cocktails aloft alarmed 
Scaffolding eagles
Par the purity of their
Security shanks right rough

Melancholic Tonic (Summertime Blues)

In whithering blue
The baking wind
Bites the bitter haze
On the barley scene 
As Melancholia pours itself
In cut grass
Accent days
Green in red slides
A distant 125
Bites the bitter pill
And all that's left
Is to run
To the autumn hills

Saturday 3 August 2019

W.B. Yeats’s Wine Lodge

Gathered lads
Grope for the point these
Sloganised mads
Rhyming Hodge
With football shaped frowns &
W.C. mates
Sign ‘Podge’
Machismically rutting in
Ten past nothing rounds

Blathered sads
Rope up the joist these
Over-leaked rads
Customising sods
With Browning’s bait down
W.B. Yeats’s
Wine Lodge
Fullwittingly supping in
Ten past nothing town