Raising a Tanka for Willie IV

Past t' chippy selling

Caviar sign that takes no crêpe 

Director's boots own

In place Russian fired fish

And a liar's eyewitness

Bouyant and Av'rage Tanka

Some fair bouyant

And av'rage felt a ghost stroke

His arse today as

The sponge of the area 

Wore daft on his sole that way

The Shopbottler

The spineclimbs

The bluebuilding

Intertwined

The twofor fivewine 

The shopbottler

Took the longwalk

'Fuckoff your

Entirechest'

He said

Inanoff balance

Stabbingincident 

'And keepsmiling 

At thedogs'

Turning whitethen

Roséred

Tankas for Goalposts

His brain defined as

A deflated Casey there

'Neath a back axle

Where he stooped to find jumpleads

For the goalposts of his mind

Tanka Fever Dream

All hedgehogs are from

New York I lost a pretend

Game of baseball too

Out with the in jokes and cog

Native matching wooden toes

Modern Tanka

You scared me and I

Accident'ly liked something

Started twitting at

Lookers and swipey Googlaze

Poems like this regurged bait

A Bridget over Troubled Tanka

On people watch at

Abstract show they've scruff of line

Earblast and oblong 

Spacing time large scale they can

Vas mono I make up throw

Toothbrush Tanka

I cannot believe You electric toothbrush lot Cannot stand the sink Batt'ry powered gravity Bowers wasting on the brink

End of Burnage Fold Tanka

Slash in the woods were

Ten steps bdown bdown b

Down f't' paper round

Swaping teeth break toffee then

F't' pub selling coffee now

Tanka for Ania

What teaches us the 

Drip of must that rolls down the 

Stablished thumbed page tea 

Is parties either lust or

Bust ne'er the bastards to be trust

Village Pub Waiting on Tanka

Village pub waiting

Int'resting incedent bait

Inward fruit machine's

Curtailing screaming out with

The gob in with the hating

ManU Sausage

Hilldweller's team's
From t'meat o't' city
Armbadges o' Celt &
Instabeef
Hipdweller's
From 20 10 milesaway
Strokes capitalbeard
Pushes 2veg frame
Peddles t'same
Polishes t'turd
Cuts thewhy
Hounds4 offgonemustard
Cept 2pints 4 10
Or 3 4 3
10a penny
Who's the wurst?

West Coast Irritanka

The husky voice-ed

Irritant has trained is wreck 

Owning aloud the 

Only joke worth having's no

One's ever done this before 

Another Taproom Passing

Another taproom passing 

Does not a poem make

Solid cabbies weeping

Another vacant space

Figuring the question inn

So beery asks another devastate

   Why you so upset? 

The reply described football style

By another commentate

   He owed me hundred quid! 

(It was then remembered 

Who he was 

Gob the size of the home end

Watch the price of a car

Landlady's clock

Around the head

For singing wrong songs

A name remembered

But yours forgotten

The partisan would anthem

Without full stop)

Therefore scored 

All laughter in his wake

As community shield's are

Played for keepers' sake

Offside the grief

The thing with tethers 

Feathers all nests

In willows break

Tanka the Horrible

Levelling killing 

Fields the mourning rain photo

Framed once housed these three

Horrible kids not their fault 

The coroner's painting peels

They've got your number

Last 4 digits Retirement age is APR Door flat 4 is Speed dial to AAA Lottery is Dates of death Statistics is Kids in care Years of service is Coins in cup Minutes of sleep is Number of bus
Stop Heart rate over 8 is Ticket in queue Death or glory is % swing red to blue

Shoreditch Haiku

Yap the winter dog
Cuts through grey wisp at crisp pace
Packet overtakes

An Ill-informed Tanka

No telegram to

Day only these leaves fell in

Cutting fields of thee

Dares compare the ill and ill

Informed processed meat and swill 

Lavish Bodice Bonus

(For the striking Wallace Collection workers)

For every 10k

Lavish bodice bonus

There are striking ruffs

Not asking much

In Century 21

And the only curio on display 

Is that fair pay can't be done