• “I’ll be loving you always”
    4 old ladies, sleeping in the ward, I wait for mum to wake; a bored Doctor asks a nurse if Swindon Are playing today. She tells him, “Doncaster, away.” Mum wakes up and I hold her hand, Then Nora awakes and sobs as she struggles to stand, Singing “I’ll be loving you, always, With a […]
  • Life’s Rime’s Rhymes
    Up early, just after dark, Up with the dawn, Sunday morning lark; My footsteps, the first in the frost, I’m Jack, stepping out across The white hoar football pitch – And when I glance behind, such A sight you never did see, All my immediate past history Right there, indelible. But interpretation is fallible. For […]
  • RED SHIFT
    I got my first red shift moment in 1960, It was near Traitor’s Gate at the Tower of London, When sister Fliss with husband Rod helped me peek behind the veil, And I peopled my footsteps with the dead great and glorious, And I saw and heard them all, as they courteously passed me by; […]
  • From John Ball to Football and Bad Language Haiku
    We swore sacred oaths, Until base profanity Brought foul victory.
  • The Disabled and the Holocaust
    “We’ll use the wheelchairs to make new tanks” They laughed, “And the callipers Will make nice new machine guns, And your skulls will make fine footballs, And we’ll melt you morons down For tallow for candles, That’s the only way you’ll spread any light From your Untermenschen lives.” My eye lids closed as tightly As […]