Football Poets

a poem
severe in its brevity
but the skill on the ball (point pen)
gives it some levity !

At the outset:
It’s Liverpool’s title to lose
But all that was compounded
By a crotchety display from the Blues

“Two buses parked”
Or was it a double-decker?
Destination terminus:
Anfield title-wrecker

I saw – an eyesore
my hosts saw – a dinosaur
yes, I’m set in my ways and
the surreal frieze – froze my psyche
the imaginative mural was lost on me
it’s jazzy form too souped-up
in aerosol artisanship
for me to g […]

He’s on the run
a prisoner of our plenary plight
but he must chase back
and hence, his hurried flight

He’s on the run
he must do box to box
and in doing so successfully
he holds the key, to Fort Knox

He’s on th […]

He’s still got the fire!
Still got that ire
The heart, the passion, the desire
To forage, to drive, to strive
For better

He’s never been replaced
Since he was displaced
And now he’s fit to lambaste
Every erran […]

If you can’t write
about what you’ve just seen
or emote or share
then you’ve really not rejoiced
in the fayre

if you cannot put into words
into any sort of passage
of narrative
then how could we possibly explo […]

Lithe, lissom and powerful
He was a predator in his prime
Stealthy in attack
His finishing was sublime

The Black Panther –
A nickname affectionately bestowed
And from his goal-laden boots
The shots would […]

“Hello darkness, my old friend”
I love that tune
I hum it, as I attend
To the humdrum, picking up dirty laundry
I let the song wash over me
And then, I mull over the lyrics
Letting them tumble, as I fum […]

From Prison to President
You’re an icon to the world;
We praise your great spirit
Our emotions unfurled

You taught us to love and respect
To ignore the colour of skin;
If vuvuzelas could echo our loss
You take y […]

Rectitude : Riley style –
only manages to rile
Mourinho

Clarke is cloaked
in a clique
of cloistered killjoys

José mightn’t muster
any munificent musings
from the men in luminous melon

but he sure as hell […]

When is offside not offside?
It vexes the experts
Confuses the conformists
Musters the masses
Flusters the fractious
Freaks the geeks
Demands debate
And inflames hate

Paradoxically

It sharpens the mind
Roots out […]

blank page –
needs a sage
to fill

for words to spill
and form
like a storm

an electrifying
rally crying
feast

a beast
of an ode
to discommode

the loon
the guardian
standing forlorn

his jib
not worth a […]

The resilient
Were Brazilliant!
And on the rocky road to Rio
We finally found some brio!

Phil Chevron (Phil Ryan), R.I.P. June 17th 1957 – Oct 8th 2013

Thousands are wailing
In waves of emotion
You’ve joined an ethereal community
One that we’re yet to see
Fortune prevailing
No divine notion
Your wor […]

The manager’s under pressure
The keeper’s under scrutiny
The defence are all at sea …..
When starts the mutiny?

”For a person to become a poet they must be in love, or miserable.”
Lord Byron

And so it is that each and every fan
Harbours the soul of a poet
Week in, week out, win lose or draw
Boy, don’t we know how to sh […]

Is Ashley Young
just a good boy scout?
Using legs as kindling
twisting them together at speed –
the first whiff of smoke
draws a yellow card
but then enflames
and the whistle on the lips
of upbraided a […]

If there’s a legacy to his leaving
It’s a great song resurrected
It’s not that we’re grieving
For his dignity is respected

“Time to say Goodbye”
Sing Brightman and Bocelli
If there’s a tear to the eye
It’s the […]

Like his father and grandfather
we heft with shovels and spades
but our straining rumps
only shift the stigmatised snow
or fork puddles from the pitch
to leave our friable fields,
fit for fretting
and the […]

Leigh Bowery as my mousemat!?!?
Rolling over mountains of flesh?!?
No, I’m working away from home,
and the back of a magazine (featuring Lucian Freud’s art) – suffices
and so I do a day’s shift
using route […]