Space Age Ships float up forever out Pilots who once sailed seas find new spirit Airborne crafts fill the air Children grow into machines that take them away Earth was once their only home And now the universe in endless boundaries is theirs Geared up for foreign playgrounds, gone in an instant Eternity is […]
Team Talk 2 How many shirts are you wearing, Craig – hm? It’s not that cold You look like NO, NOT ME, Marcus You look like – well, never mind Brian, brilliant header Unstoppable Now let’s see if you can do it again At their end by Allan Ahlberg (1938 – ) . . . […]
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I […]
My Uncle Percy Once Removed My Uncle Percy once removed his bobble hat, scarf, overcoat, woolly jumper string vest, flared trousers and purple Y-fronts and ran onto the pitch at Wembley during a cup final and was at once removed by six stewards and nine officers of the law. Once they’d caught him. by Paul […]
coming full circle is not about revolving. to say you’ve been here before was, I assure you, never the goal. it’s not a flash of deja vu, not a reappearance out of the blue, when we say our first hello. by Lauren Smart . . . Monday 19th May 2014 Herts Senior County League k.o.:- […]
Halfway Down Halfway down the stairs is a stair where i sit. there isn’t any other stair quite like it. i’m not at the bottom, i’m not at the top; so this is the stair where I always stop. From “Halfway Down” by A.A. Milne (1882-1956) . . . Monday 12th May 2014 Covers West […]
My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thy happiness, That thou, light wingéd dryad of the trees, […]
The time has come, the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax — Of cabbages — and kings — And why the sea is boiling hot — And whether pigs have wings.’ From ‘The Walrus and The Carpenter’ by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) . . . Monday 28th […]
They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods Before they planted the trees. It is underneath the coppice and heath And the thin anemones. Only the keeper sees That, where the ring-dove […]
Geordie was a villian. Geordie Crump was a villian Geordie Crump was really hard Geordie Crump did sliding tackles In Windy Nook school yard………ouch But I had too much skill for him Nutmegged him once or twice But for making a mug of Geordie I paid a hefty price. While waiting for a corner kick […]
