Football Poets

I watched the first half live last night
then I switched off
for I guessed what would follow:
lauded team of Albion, one down to an early, fluky goal
a team unquenchable in the domestic league
but up against […]

I crossed over the road from the undertakers
walked in through the park gate
and there it was:
my old pitch, bathed in beautiful sun
still there
still marked, still in obvious use
And I remembered back
to […]

“By which a strip of land became a hole in time” – Dúrs Grunbein

The rec still holds the voices:
I pick Petie
I pick Paulie
I pick Danno
I pick Scanner…..
Or is it just compartments of my beleaguered mi […]

I know it must be winter
For the fixtures are piling high
Even though we’re lucky
And the weather’s kinda dry

I know I must be old now
For I rarely get to the games
And I’m also having troub […]

Tall and elegant of posture
With a warm, endearing smile
He’d materialize into the box
In his own enduring style

Everywhere he went
As Hammer, Spur, Canary
He was every fan’s favourite
Ghosting past the […]

And so José continues his journey
In North London clime
Subjecting with frosty demeanour
But is he well past his prime?

Certainly that’s our chary hope
Sarf of the river
But could this cussed, cranky cr […]

Why no poem?
Mojo magic’d away?
Zeitgeist scooted off?
Muse unamused?
Support spaffed up against a wall?
Or is it just
the embarrasment
of a ten year record
of non-defeat
too replete
for anapestic […]

there’s a stillness to the night –
sleep has zero’d in on the whole household
bar one
the night owl
the habitual moon-walker

and in the dying moments
afore they too join the slumber party
even the tinie […]

What a farce
I’ll have to pass – at any deep rooted analysis
Prorogation? Purely Parliamentary paralysis.
Has Bojo lost his mojo?
Leading us unto Brexit?
Surely a simple call of ”legs it!”
To over-ride the R […]

Expulsion –
Based not on lack of points
But too many points of failure

“when the pupil is ready, the teacher appears”

I watch my son
Direct the traffic around him
The rock at the back
The talisman throughout
The prophet
The driver
The one who blocks, when danger sha […]

They told me there was a man who lived on the moon
And that it was made of cheese
They also convinced that soon
We could come and go there as we please

And so we joined the countdown for take-off
Watched […]

To the tune of: Truth Hurts by Lizzo

Got myself a DNA test
Needles, jabs an’ swabs an’ bed rest

Dum da da dum, dum da da dum

Waiting for a doc to come see me
Could be driving a pick-up or a Hum […]

Thwack!
Cold, hard steel smites tightly wound rubber banded core – Fore!
The least times the better

Thwack! (grunt!)
Steely-eyed metronome smites steel-edged hi-tensile cat-gut against
Rubber-encased p […]

On a glorious mid-summer’s day
when the solar-source commands us to
do-nothing-but-sit-out-and-read
and even gets us to
skip-the-tv-grunt-grunt-baseline-chaseline-at-SW19;

instead, I watch the dogged d […]