• Football as a state of alienated Love Haiku
    “Trish is all I wish; She is my satellite dish, Sky, sun, moon and stars.”
  • Summer Time and the Living is easy
    Walking through the appropriately named Gunnerside, Listening to an Easter tide Arsenal victory on the radio. Watching the desultory interest in the Queen Mother’s death As the football results came in on the telly at the pub, Then shopping for shoes at an open air market in Wenseleydale, Where we could only find a right […]
  • Changed my Mind about Brazil Haiku
    When I watch Brazil, It’s just like watching Brazil. Do I not like that.
  • Philosophical Doubt Removed Haiku
    “When I watch Brazil, It’s just like watching Brazil. Life’s like that sometimes.”
  • THE RED CROSS OF ST.GEORGE
    Buy George, bye George, by George, It’s my jubilee too this year, Fifty years of hopes and fears, And while you couldn’t call my life A total exercise in active citizenship, You couldn’t call it total subjection either, I suppose. But it’s fifty years of being both English and British – An infant school pupil […]