F U N F U N F U N !
Sharon's busy
Makes me dizzy
Cyprus has a "Busy-Lizzie"
Even races on her bike
Local asking: "What yer like?"
Tuesday racing
Gentle pacing??
Hunks in front are really "ace-ing"!
Flying up the mountain roads
Cyprus has no Highway Codes!
Time for resting?
Cycles testing!
Not much time for birdie nesting!
Stopping soon for yummy lunch
Have you got some crisps to munch?
Lots of walking
Happy talking
Left at Faros Lighouse forking
Enid giggles, Jeanette's there
Not much time to stand and stare?
Sun is shining
No one wine-ing
For an orange juice they're pining! (I bet?)
Coffee with a Bailey's, please!
Then perhaps... Halloumi cheese?
Walks and riding
Life they're "pride-ing"
"Fun! Fun! Fun!" they are confiding
'Guess they have a smashing Life?
Far away from stress and strife! 18/04/2023 xx
C H R I S T M A S D R E A M
I close my eyes and start my Cyprus dreams
Polemi on our radar, Shelia waves
So far away our destination seems
Thank Goodness memories forever saves!
The Olive Tree, Halloumi pitta, please
A glass of Leon after hilly walk
Kannaviou, I feel my ageing knees
I'm grateful here for lots of Wand'rers' talk!
It's cold outside, the road so icy seems
A car is skidding, 'wonder: "What a place!"
Escape, enjoying many happy dreams
Dear Amargeti really always ACE!
Yes, March our plan beside the Pafos shore
I realise I miss it more and more! 09/12/2022 xxxx
N O S N O W !
Don't need the snow!
Six days to go
Pafos awaiting us
Please take it slow!
Walking boots wait
Sunshine, our fate!
Leon is cool and fresh
I'll have a crate!
Sharon and co.
Never walk slow'!
Enid is following
Others "in tow"!
Cleveleys is cold
Please be so bold
Ordering Twenty C
I am quite old!
Andrew O' too
Joining the crew
Wifey is smiling, Wow!
Fine happy "two"
Knees were quite sore
Fitness, no more?
Old legs are wobble-ing
Just hear me SNORE! Zzzzzzz
Jeanette still fit
Sharon a hit
Slope is so challenging
I'll have a fit!
Jet2 awaits
"Open the gates!"
No queues, it's brilliant
Happy our fates! 27/02/2023 xxxx
S A N T A B A B Y
Santa Baby
Eartha singing
I can bet my ears are ringing?
Bopping 'round the Christmas Tree
Paul is laughing: "He! He! He!"
Snow is falling
Pavements slippy
As for me? I'm rather "dippy"!
Sleigh is passing in the sky
Santa is a busy guy!
Piano playing
Old Folk smiling
All of this, of course, I'm filing
Mince pies eaten by the ton
Christmas really is such fun!
Room is rocking
"Jingle-Bell-ing"
Michelle lots of stories telling
Antlers, reindeer, mistletoe
Gosh I love the Farthings so!
Wheel-chairs rocking
Sticks are moving
Guests of Christmas songs approving
So inspiring, love it here!
Might be singing on the pier? (Really?)
Santa Baby
Happy faces
Music all the gloom it chases
Happy Christmas, Brand New Year
Toasting folk with lager beer! 10/12/2022. xxxx
T U E S D A Y S
It's freezing cold
I'm growing old
My footsteps, hardly feeling bold!
My grabber raised I venture out
To give all litter-louts a clout!
Foul plastic bag
Discarded fag
Don't tell me life can be a drag!
"Poor arteries are clogged", Don't smoke
I feel that this is just a joke!
A vaping cloud
From Eastpines' crowd
A pile of junk.."You must be proud?"
The bin is near, then use it PLEASE!
A lady launches giant sneeze!
A Costa cup
My water 'sup
My stomach full, I am "full-up!"
A nice guy passes, 'starts to chat
"All litter louts, daft as a bat?"
Fine "dog-leg place" (ginnel)
My prospects ace?
A scowl I'm wearing on my face
A Vodka session, lots of glass
Poor doggies here can never pass!
I'm walking back
With bulging sack
"Oh no!" I sigh, discarded mac'
I'm glad to have my egg and beans
And notice to the left Paul leans... Really?
Hail Tuesday Twit
A Yorkshire Nit
Our road is clear, I'll have a fit
So glad our house is safe and "hot"
I sink my precious "Whisky pot"!
06/12/2022 xxxx
H A P P Y S U N D A Y
Andrew Ollie
Gosh and Golly!
'Happy with his German "Dolly"!
'Guess not walking in the park
Always rises with the lark! (In Cyprus!)
Walk beginning
Paul soon grinning
And the NHS is winning
Walking Six K', weather fine
Company is so divine!
Registration
For this Nation
Glad we had an invitation
Paul is smiling: "He! He! He!"
Councillor then "sets us free"!
Many cheering
Tea, not "beer-ing"
Whisky later, I am fearing!!
Elves are passing, childrem smile
"We have done first "Golden Mile"!
Up-and-Downing
No one frowning
Sea looks on, no, no one's drowning!
Sylvia smiling as we pass
Gosh she is a lovely lass!
Volunteering
All are cheering
Compliments are so endearing
We are starting final lap
Soon we're ready for a nap?
Happy Sunday!
'Was a fun day
Piano playing soon this Monday
'Hope the NHS will gain
We are laughing through the pain!
A Great Day: 27/11/2022 xxxx
J O Y C E A N D G E O F F
Joyce and Geoff
'Need a ref'?
'Guess that he is "mutton-Geoff?
'Needs a trumpet, I will shout
And a beer with that, no doubt?
Dearest Joyce
Let's rejoice!
She has got a charming voice
Nina's smiling, brings her toast
We all know she is "the most"!
Hull reside
With the tide?
Talk of Humber with great pride?
Geoff still drives his Diesel car
'Wonder if they travel far?
Knaresborough walk
Not much talk?
Will they manage straight to York?
Soon they're back at Dear Nidd Hall
There we all can have a ball
Music plays
Head that sways
For a "Yorkie song" Joyce prays
Laughing when they see me dance
'Guess their smiles our lives enhance?
See you soon
On the Moon?
When that is will be a boon!
'Sending hugs from Cleveleys' coast
Geoff and Joyce, you are the most! xx 10/01/2023.
T H E W I C K E D W I T C H
The Wicked Witch is landing on the ground
She snarls and throws our bin across the drive
She never smiles, no laughter ever found
I wonder how this person will survive?
Not happy with her knitting, shakes her head
Her brother gets a "telling-off" as well
Relieved we are, she's snoring in her bed
Content to make the lives of folks a Hell!
"Bad Day!", she shouts, unfriendly she remains
And kicks our bin again, such happy days
From chuntering she never then refrains!
"Hello Dear World!", for chaos, please, she prays!
Her broom is ready, in the sky she flies
Our neighbour smiles and launches longest sighs! HELP! 13/01/2023. xxxx
C A R I B B E A N D A Y
M and L (Martyn and Louise)
Ring our bell
Cruising on the ocean's swell
Pafos seems so far away
On this Caribbean Day!
Barbados, please
Rest your knees!
"Have a Cocktail 'neath the trees!"
Snorkelling in warmest seas
From the stress of life it frees!
Widest smile
All on file
Haiti has a "Golden Mile"
Lou' relaxing on the beach
Paradise is within reach
In the gym
Just for "him"?
Exercise is just a whim?
Lifting weights to trim your frame
Martyn enjoys Cyprus fame!
On the deck
Crane your neck!
Here there is no harbour wreck (Pafos!)
Warm Bahamas, largest ship
And you both can have a dip!
Happy Days!
Liner sways
Couple give it greatest praise
See you soon, in March, we think
We'll be there before you blink! 15/01/2023. xxxx
P I N K I E ' S I S L A N D
Pinkie's Island, sun is setting
Drinking time, on that I'm betting
Wine will flow, a wistful smile
Beer for Pete, they drink in style!
Pool it sparkles, Pete is cleaning
Once a month, I think I'm meaning?
Always time to have a beer
'Hope it doesn't send you queer!
Peyia people, really happy
Unlike David with his nappy?
No, not wearing, picked it up
And a lovely Costa cup!
So relaxing football watching
Unlike me, of course I'm "Scotching"
Thinking of that Donald Fin'
Keo or a glass of Gin?
Smiggies' walk, for Jeanette, Sharon
'Gues their lives are NEVER barren?
Fitos for some fish and chips
Orangeade to pass their lips?
Back in Peyia, Pinkie's dancing
Is she one for great romancing?
Giving Pete a little.......peck
He is saying "Bloody 'eck!"
Paradise,it's so relaxing
Peyia life is hardly taxing!
See you soon, a Whisky, please
Just to rub upon my knees... I bet! 21/01/2023.
T H E F A L L !
Camus wrote about "La Chute"
Will I take the safer route?
Sandals on, I start to trip
'Guess I am a silly drip!
Knee is bruised, my wrist is throbbing
Tweeting is a little Robin
Bird is thinking: "What a Twerp!"
I am hardly Wyatt Earp!
Plaster on and anticeptic
Stupid was my "morning antic"
Gull has won, he gets the food
Need a Whisky, raise my mood? (Morning?)
Hobble! Hobble", not for walking
You can hear the neighbours talking!
Wicked Witch will be content
Sleeping in her cosy "tent"!!
On the sofa, Chopin reading
Never mind, my knee is bleeding
Aled Jones, his ducet tone
'Least not singing, then I'd moan!!
Eyes are closing, Cyprus dreaming
Brandy Sour my wife is "theme-ing"
'Won't be long, the aircraft waits
I can't think of better fates! Amen. 12/02/2023. xx
I N M E M O R Y O F G E O R G E !
Remembering Dear Georgie Bates
He's looking down from Heaven's Gates
Ann and Steve to wave him off
Happy Wand'rers' cap they doff!
Dusting off his walking boots
Checking always newest routes
Fyti for a Summer Walk
Keo and hear hum of talk!
Empty is his "Kisso' Den"
Not a fan of Tony Benn?
Heinz and Karin there to please
Even rub his aching knees?
Ian, Dave and: "Morning yous!"
Longest walk he'd always choose
"Don't go that way, use this path!"
"No thanks, George!", he'd start to laugh!
Kato Pyrgos overnight
In his gear a wondrous sight?
Baildon was so far away
"Pafos first!", I'd hear him say
'Missing Pat, he's joined her now
Smiling through a cloud somehow
Now a duo in the sky
Can you hear the poet sigh?
Happy Days, I launch a hug
Yorkshire grin my heart-strings tug
'Won't forget you, Leon raise
We are sending endless praise! 16/02/2023. xxxx
T H I S C R A Z Y W O R L D
This Crazy World, all push and shove
"Excuse me, please, Don't call me love!"
Girl passes, sporting evil scowl
Her make-up, put on with a trowel!
Impressed.... I'm not by pouting lips
Her mobile to the ground it slips
Fine eye-brows gleaming, painted black
Of tattoos 'guess there is no lack! (He! He! He!)
I cross the road, a racer speeds
Preparing for some "evil deeds"
"You drive like Louis Hamilton!"
"Well, thank you, sir, You are a one!!"
A mobile scooter on the road
Electric scooter... Highway Code?
Not safe upon this crossing-place
Then one car stops... it's really ace! (Unbelievable?)
My mind to Cyprus quickly slips
As at my 'Grouse I take some sips
Imagine: Leon, Brandy Sour
We're grateful for their Happy Hour!
Our plane takes off, Jet2 to cheer
Too early for a cooling beer?
We'll soon be landing...Paradise
Compared with England?... Twice as nice!! 05/03/2023. xx
"A M O D E R N F O L D!
A barmy youngster, covered in tattoos
And smoking like a chimney, never mind!
Designs quite suitable for zoos?
He even sports an ape on his behind
The sun is blazing, bald and red his head
His toes are tapping, "rock musique" we hear
And on a lounger, it's his cosy bed
I guess it's time to down a Keo beer?
Some girls race past, they giggle, strange the sight
Dear Thetis Bar inviting.... Get a drink!
Girls vaping gently, Yell, I get a fright!
The hotel bows its head before I blink!
"Need Tolerance", I guess I'm feeling old
With little chance of ent'ring "Modern Fold" 07/03/2023 xxx
L A T S I, P O L I S, A R K G A K A
Aunty Doris
'Loved fine Polis
Used to drive an Austin Morris
'Liked to take an "ocean dip"
Then a Keo...just a sip! (I bet!)
Proud Argaka
Walk then "snack-a"
Dear Last Castle, it's a cracker!
Leon pouring, friendly chat
I remember George and Pat (The Bates-duo!)
Polis calling
Walks recalling
Lots of sunshine... so appalling? (Really?)
Happy Wand'rers, Smiyies 'park
Steep then climbing... for a lark!
Ocean viewing
Doubts eschewing
Love the happy "walking-crewing"
Gosh, I miss it, tears that fall
Then Dear Latsi I recall!
Boats admiring
Zingers "choir-ing"
Great imaination 'firing
Faros for a tasty dish
Guess we're eating lots of fish?
March we're coming
Rufus humming (A bear!)
Lovely thoughts my senses numbing
Paradise is within reach
Strolling on a pretty beach! 04/01/2023. xxxx
A N O T H E R W O R L D !
Another World, I'm lounging in the sun
Two "ladies", taking selfies, screams of joy
'Guess writing verse, for me, is much more fun?
Another Whisky, just a crafty ploy!
Tall palm trees swaying, giggles from the bar
The pool still empty, two try, it's too cold!
At least it's peaceful, here no swerving car!
Next time, when driving, 'need to be"more bold"
I view the sign, The Cypria Maris wins
Another lady, peaceful, still and calm
The order's in, a couple buying Gin
What e'er you sip, it is a healing balm!
So grateful for this world, two birds fly past
We're hoping days like this forever last! 07/03/2023. xxx
A L L "H A I L!"
Cyprus hailing
No one whale-ing?
On the Med' not many sailing!
Rain is lashing down UK
For a little Spring we pray! (Amen!)
Holiday-ing
I'm "Hooray-ing"
Scotland soon, "Och-ay" we're saying
Coach is heading... Inverness
We can't wait, I must confess!
Sunday musing
Sister cruising
G and Ts, they all are boozing
Not for us, "A water, please!"
Rub some Brandy on your knees?
Garden blooming
Cars pass... Booming!
Fifty K', I am assuming?
Play a little minuet
Ludwig B', in G, I bet?
Calmer, dancing
Birds "romancing"
Blackbirds all our lives enhancing!
Blow a kiss to Nature, Cheer!
Pour yourself a Leon beer! (Yiamas, Pete, Peyia!) 30.04.2023. xx
A N T I C I P A T I O N
Anticipation
For the nation
Monarchy: Not my creation!
We escape to North of Wales
Puffin Island, boat that sails!
Many starving
No meat carving
Daily intake they are "Half-ing"
Never mind, just stand and cheer
Champers?..'Can't afford a beer!
Early morning
"Hunger warning"
Plight of many should be "dawning"
Sleeping in a doorway..Help!
Listen to the seagulls yelp! (They get more!)
Many cheering
Wine-and-beering
Young guy dies, no food I'm fearing?
Get yourself a royal flag
"Queen" is smoking Marlborough fag!
I'm not smiling
Wealth reviling
All of this the Nation's filing
Buy a sandwich for a guy
Listen to him heave a sigh!!
London's rocking
Royal ship docking
Many to the "palace" flocking
Young guy buried in a hole
Refuge for me: The North Pole! 23/04/2023. xx
"Y O U M A D E O U R D A Y !
Tala Walking
Happy Talking
To Kamares we are forking
Do not mind occasional hill
We're about to get a thrill!
Peugeot stopping
Vision..."Topping!"
'Got a hug that's really whopping!
Gosh it is young Rod and Jo....
How we love these walkers so!
Warmest greeting
Old friends meeting
English blues we are defeating!
Only Rickerby's not there
Compensation?...Lovely pair!
Wand'rers happy?
Prospects...crappy?
Not too young to wear a nappy?
Lovely memories we share
Georgie Bates... no longer there?
Hornsby, Hurley
Hair not curly??
We enjoyed the hurly-burly!
"Spring of Life" for Keo beer
Amargeti walks so dear!
"See you next time!"
Poet's daft rhyme
USA, Jo spends her ten dime'
Waving as they drive away
What a perfect Pafos Day! 14/03/2023. xx
A P A F O S D A Y
I contemplate another Pafos Day
The waves roll in, the sky an azure blue
Dear ginger cat just purrs, the cutest way
As walkers pass, they all go two-by-two
The sky, now clouds, in Queensbury there's snow
It's nineteen C' and that is in the shade
For once relaxing, life is really slow
Small birds, they tweet, I'm sipping "lemonade"!
Just peace and love, the UK's far away
But, Pafos roads 'avoiding... Maniacs!!
So beautiful, for World Peace I do pray
All cars avoiding, num'rous holes and cracks!
I close my eyes and sigh, 'got peace at last
Fine memories of Pafos from the past! 13/03/2023 x
M A N D R I A
'Love resting by the sea, I close my eyes
We've walked a while, I need a rest
So quiet here, just walkers, hear my sighs
We only have a foul Graffiti pest!
A couple wave, they've driven in their car
"Four K', too much!", we're on a holiday
We laugh just saying: "That's not very far!"
A joke or three will never spoil our day!
Small Wagtail flits around and makes us smile
A lizard disappears behind a wall
This view I'll always keep with me "on file"
So many walks from here I can recall
Mandria, nice to be here, just once more
The sun comes out and soon my sprits soar! So relaxed!
16/03/2023. xxxx
T E A F O R T W O
Tea For Two
Problems few
Come and join the hungry crew
English breakfast with your toast
"Tea For Two", you are the most!
Cypria Maris (Hotel)
Far from Paris?
Walk or rent a nippy Yaris!
Friendly folk, we're sitting down
Soon remove your "Brexit Frown"!
Coffee time
Poet's rhyme
'Have another, not a crime!
Fish and chips and lots of peas
Should I rub them on my knees?
Aubergine
It's my "scene"
Veggie food is not so mean!
Atmosphere relaxed and calm
Far away from "car-alarm"!
Lots of choice
Happy voice!
Yummy food, let's all rejoice!
Burgers, sorry, not for me....
Have another cup of tea!
We'll be back
'Got the knack!
Variety, there is no lack!
Thank you for delicious food
Guaranteed to "raise your mood"!
18/03/2023 xxxx
D E A R C Y P R U S
Dear Cyprus, you're my second home
Through hills and dales I love to roam
The Faros lighthouse bows its head
It feels as if from Heaven fed!
"Our" villa empty, sacred place
Our time up there was really ace (Kamares Village)
When hot, we're swimming in the pool
It's clean, of course, nobody's fool!
The sun is shining, Koili Hill
Mere view of this gives me a thrill!
Then monast'ry for coffee drink
Dear cats are there before I blink
We walk along to harbour...Great
So many times, it is my fate
In "Tea For Two", it's coffee time
No Whisky here, it's not a crime!
See Sharon, Enid, Jeanette too
Not going to the Pafos Zoo?
'Choose Lysos for a special walk
Kannaviou, with lively talk!
We will be back at Christmas time
It will enhance the poet's rhyme!
Goodbye to Sharon and the team
I guess it is my Cyprus Dream! 28/03/2023 xx
O N L E A V I N G C Y P R U S !
Leaving Cyprus, shed a tear
Melts into my Leon beer
Goodbye Glenn and Carol too
You're around and problems few!
Cypria Maris take a bow
Lovely time, we're sighing "Wow!"
Waiting for departing bus
Carol smiles, we don't like fuss!
Missing Sharon, Enid smiles
Jeanette too, those folk "on files"
Dancing to an Abba tune
'Guess we're really "Over t' Moon!"
Driving 'long Tomb of The Kings
Whizzing cars, my heart it zings!
Peyia bowing, Tala too
Waving to Dear Mario's "crew"
Sun is shining, hotel pool
Rather cold, nobody's fool?
Tattoo guy has reddish head
'Got to keep his fine street cred'!
We'll be back at Christmas time
Jumbo's, always in my rhyme
Fine tavernas, "Tea For Two"
Drives away the "Brexit Blue"!!
Plane takes off, I wave and sigh
Back to LaLaLand we fly
Bailey's, just to calm my head
Pafos is by Heaven fed! 19/03/2023 xx
D E A R H E T T Y
Hetty! Hetty!
Aunty Betty
Georgie Bates he was the Yeti
Sadness, he's no longer here
I will drink his Keo beer!
Hedgie! Hedgie
We are veggie
Tavern owner, not called Reggie?
Not for us their "veggie goat"
'Feel it sticking in my throat!
Pinkie! Pinkie!
Tinky Winky
Walking lots, what do you "thinkie?"
'Hope you legs are working now
'Get to "Grande", I know... somehow!
Rafe is racing
Fast his pacing
Cypriot his bike is chasing
'Loves the hills, he's eighty-three
High atop the cycling tree!
Hetty watching
I am "Scotching"
'Guess my rhymes are not worth watching?
Time to have another walk
Neighbour likes our friendly talk!
Time for sleeping
Hetty peeping
Georgie Bates, I still am weeping
Raise a glass to Pafos friend
Now is life is at an end! 05/04
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G
Georgie
S P R I N G I S H E R E !
Sun is shining, Whisky cooling...
Far too early: "Who you're fooling?"
Lawn is mowed, now Spring is here
Neighbour drinking Guinness beer!
Blackbird feeding, Gulls are watching
It's enough to start me "Scotching"!!
Blue Tit in our apple tree
Feeding time, it's half past three!
Four o' clock and now I'm "Grouse-ing"
'Glad that we are no more mouse-ing
Hedgehog home is empty..Shame?
Noisy pigeons are to blame!
Neighbour busy, washing hanging
'Fore too long we here him banging
'Likes to keep us all awake
I can hear Dear Colin quake!
"Place In Sun", with Cyprus calling
Many walks we are recalling
Salamiou for Dougie's walk
Listen to those hikers talk!
Meanwhile Mr' Blackbird feeding
Mrs too, it's time for breeding!
Magpies chatter on the roof
Neighbour utters words "uncouth"!!
Peaceful scene, the sun is setting
Second Whisky, all are betting?
Warrington 'gainst Cat'lans play
Just another lovely day! 09/04/2023 xx
L I E B E K A R I N
Dear Karin, sleeping soundly in her bed
Her head is hurting, 'wonder what is wrong?
Her birthday too, much better by the Med'?
I'm playing for her, it's a Beatles' song!
Her brain is spinning, what a worry, sir
She needs your love, a hug or two will do
Warm greetings we are sending, just for her
Let's hope it's nothing worse tahn Winter flu!
We're thinking of those walks and Karin smiles
A hill or two to cure all Winter blues
Ten kilometers, never walk in miles!
You're never lonely with those walking "crews"!
We hope you're feeling better, sending love
For Karin H', her partner's turtle dove! 04/03/2023 xxx
A W I N T E R' S D A Y
Neighbour, grinning in her coven
Is she ready for the the oven?
Adding to our daily woes
On her broom and: Off she goes!
Happy Times, with chaos growing
Lots of junk in skip is going
'Gues we're used to loads of crap?
Like to give the witch a ZAP!
Builders busy, Bricks and mortar
'Guess I'm doing what I "ought'a"
Smiling bravely through the pain
LaLaLand, we're all insane!
Jet is landing, Rishi busy
Europe soon and "Izzy-Wizzy"
Rather have Dear Sooty there....
And, perhaps, Dear Rufus bear?
We've got peace, the witch is flying
Over Cleveleys, no one dying
Safer, high up in the sky
Pavement cyclists, 'wonder why?
Junk arriving, mattress stinking
Witch above, I see her winking
It's quite peaceful, she's away
Just another Winter's Day!
Pigeons cooing, Blackbird waiting
Mealworm snack he is debating
Mrs. Blackbird joins him too
Happy is our "Birdie Crew"!
Winter's Day with no one freezing
As for me, of course I'm wheezing
And tomorrow, seventy plus!
'Not inviting Lizzie Truss! He! He! He! xx
19/02/2023. xxxx
T A N G L E D L I F E
Tangled is my mind
'Wonder what you'll find
Lots of tangled musings
Come on: "Look inside!"
Now I'm seventy-three
Sparrows in our tree
Mister Blackbird waiting
Meal-worms...twenty-three!
Four a.m. awake
Little Folks will quake
Heading straight for Pafos
Rufus we will take!
Sunak flying 'round
Crashing is "our" Pound
Rees-Mogg keeps his fortune
Corbyn starts to frown! (Why not?)
Early morning blues
Fastening my shoes
Not another tumble
For a while I muse!
Nothing I find easy
Cold, I am quite wheezy
Power-washer I must "solve"
Fingers really "freezy"!
Whisky-time is healing
Better I am feeling
Famagusta calling us
Town is so appealing
Telly off, I'm dreaming
Cyprus walks I'm "theme-ing"
Hernia still slows me down
Yet, at least face beaming! 21/02/2023. xx
O N Y E R B I K E!
"On Yer Bike!", Glenn Froome is biking
Easier than hilly hiking?
Bike arrives and 'dons his gear
I am grinning ear-to-ear!
Meanwhile, Carol is declining
"Not for me, I'm one for wine-ing!"
"Careful biker, Cyprus roads!"
Residents: no Highway Codes!
Helmet on, the hotel leaving
Lots of waves he is "receiving
Not long 'till Le Tour de France
Glenn our lives he does enhance!
Tombs of Kings: all traffic whizzing
Pretty soon G's head is fizzing
Heading for an open road
Cycling is Dear Glenn's "abode"
So relaxing, legs are working
Are there any drivers lurking?
What a view to "Meddy Sea"
Cycling really sets you free!
Raise a glass to Scottish hero
Hinault is reduced to zero
Sorry Armstrong, Glenn has won
Scottish guy has lots more fun.... No drugs! 26/03/2023 xx
T E N E R I F E A H O Y
Joyce and Geoff in hotel posh
'Must have got a pile of dosh?
Soaking up the Spanish sun
Far from Hull, it's much more fun
Early morn, they take a bath
Joycie soon, she starts to laugh
Luxury: not Yorkshire thing?
Geoffrey's heart begins to zing!
Veggie diet? "Bacon, please!"
Rub some honey on your knees!
As in Cyprus: "veggie goat"
Meat will stick in precious throat!
Climb volcano, classy beach
Paradise is within reach
Carnaval de Santa Cruz
Music, dancing, not uncouth!
Never mind the dicky hip
San Miguel you have to sip
Hoping that injection helps
Listen to the "Humber Yelps"!
Playa, then a watery dip
Then perhaps a cocktail sip?
Hope you have a smashing time
And enjoy old poet's rhyme!
Life is all about: ENJOY!
Pleasure for a girl and boy
"Pardon!", Yes, he's mutton Geoff
Whistle blowing, Spanish ref'?
Many more, Pafos soon
Underneath a Cyprus moon
"Yiamas!", Joycie, travel wins
'Wonder why Dear Geoffrey grins! 22/02/2023. XX
E V E L Y N R'
Evelyn R'
"Pushed me far!"
Beating time: Four in a bar
Harry Dexter, Ballet piece
Stress of school I soon release!
Pullan A' (Avenue)
Wintry day
Eccleshill, I start to play
Dvorak or Beethoven "King"
I can hear piano sing!
Soldier "print"
'Start to squint
"Please don't eat a chewy mint!"
Discipline to make me play
Mozart on a Summer's day!
'Eighty-Four
Life no more!
Heart is broken, 'plays no more
War had killed her husband dear
Chopin Prelude I can hear! (E Minor key!)
Thank You, E'
Set me free
High upon the teacher's tree!
Still I'm playing, 'Twenty-Three! (2023)
Reverence, on bended knee!
Evelyn R'
Above par
Much emotion in each bar
Requiem to "teacher queen"
'Glad she was on David's scene! 26/01/2023 xx
N E V E R M A N I C?
Never manic?
Please: "Don't panic!"
I've gone down with the Titanic!!
Pigeons cooing, Blackbird feeds
Meeting Nature's many needs!
Knees are aching
Ageing, quaking!
I am NOT a fan of baking
Writing nonsense, no one cares?
Stroking calmly greying hairs!
"Jerry Vine-ing"
He's not wine-ing
On is bike, he is "white-lining"!
Cars are honking: "Disappear"
J' is grinning ear-to-ear!
Leeds, we're winning!
I am grinning
Manager we all are "bin-ing"!
Resurrecting Revie King
Listen to the "cop-end" sing!
"Royal-Crowning"
I am frowning
I am never, never clowning!
In the loft, 'won't celebrate
Happy is my "secret fate"!
Brain is spinning
Rufus grinning
'Guess with Pafos we are twinning?
'Won't be long: My brain is calm
Never manic: ALWAYS CALM! 09/02/2023 XX
J U S T S K I P !
J U S T S K I P !
We're lucky: 'Got a skip upon our drive
With better news, it's really full of crap
Ten days have passed, our spirits can't revive!
We'd like to give our neighbour Giant Zap!
View piles of dirt and bricks, Oh Lucky Day
No builders working, waiting for the start
So happy now, our car begings to sway
And we just think: They do not give a fart!
A car is passing, launching Costa cup
And now I'm smiling, 'least not on the road
I calm my nerves, a glass of 'Grouse I sup
Remember folks, we have a Highway Code (Really?)
I close my eyes, great skip just flies away
Perhaps I'm dreaming, happy is our day!! 13/02/2023 x
S N O W! S N O W !
Snow! Snow! Quick, Quick, Snow!
Blackpool's going under
Only takes two tiny flakes
Rips the Town asunder!
Green Team, Galley's Dream
They are resting... Safer?
As for me, my grabber raised
Picking up a "wafer"!
Slip! Slide, Where to hide!
Lots of litter waiting
Vodka bottles on the ground
I am "pigeon-baiting?
Coo! Coo! Garden loo
Doggies: "Take your mess home!"
I am such a happy guy
'Won't be using that comb!
Cold! Cold! I am bold
You won't see me shiver
Whistle-ing a Beach Boys' song
Pass an "icy river"
Snow! Snow! Winter Glow
Sun, it now is shining
I am quickly "Nibbles-bound"
'Guess I won't ne wine-ing?
Updated from 1999! 17/01/2023 xx
C U P O F T E A
Nice Cup of Tea
Rub it on my knee
Aching stops, I start to smile
Blackbird on our tree!
Yorkshire Tea, of course
Stops me going hoarse
Tingle-ing, my gullet smiles
It's a special "course"!
"Get the kettle on!"
It's a famous song
Aunty had nine cups per day
Happy life went on!
"Corrie", beer and tea
"Rovers", NOT for free!
Swilling pints, yes, ev'ry day
Paul says: "He! He! He!"
Workers want a drink
Lager: "What d'y think?"
Settle for a pot of tea
Down it 'fore I blink!
Tea, yes, with your meal
"Tell me how you feel?"
"Rather have a brandy Sour?"
Cyprus, great appeal!
Kettle busy soon
Yorkshire Tea a boon!
'Least I'm sober, standing up!"
Drinking 'neath the moon! Amen, 10/02/2023.
HAPPY DAYS
Dropped masks and poo
Plastic gloves too
Fag packets all around
Problems are few!
Luton Road race
Smiles on their face'
Poo-bag comes flying out
Prospects are ace!
Duck pond quite full
Sky is so dull
Costa cups floating past
Want thugs to cull!
Alleyway glass
Dropped by an ass
Sniffing-tubes empty
Life is a "gas"!
Mattress for rest
Dumped here I guess
Scooter without a wheel
Tip please is BEST!
Phone in her hand
Our Promised Land?
Female walks straight through some poo
Brainless "Phone-Band!"
Cafe for rest
Vick is the best
Beans with my scrambled eggs
Thumping my chest!
Litter-pick done
Endless the fun
Whisky to calm my soul
From pavements 'run!
23/11/2022 xx
HEARTBREAK TIME !
It's Heartbreak Time, our hedgie friend has died
We rescued him and thought that he was safe
But now I sit here, Rufus too has cried
Like Tony, friend, at death of Maureen Rafe!
His little corpse I bury in the ground
The tears roll down, it seems to us unfair
We thought a friend in garden we had found
We cradled him whilst sitting in a chair
From pavement safe, we put him in his house
Some food to nibble, soon he's fast asleep
We hope he's safe from passing hungry mouse
He looked, to us, to have a slumber deep!
He's safe at last, he has a little grave
Great memories of him we warmly save!
Amen. 01/12/2022 xxxx
C H R I S T M A S T I M E
Christmas Time
Poet's rhyme
Smiling's really not a crime!
Decorations brighten 'room
Wipe away the "heating gloom"!
Cleveleys place
Prospects ace
Not for long a smiling face?
Mobile scooters, racing bike
Scowling soon.... this Yorkshire Tyke!
Shopping queue
Prospects few!
Large price rises we have too!
Buy some presents for your kids
Christmas list for highest bids!
Dancing dolls
"Pineapple Polls" (G and S?)
Lots of stuff for "Darling Molls"!
Useful things, a snowman rocks
Bank accounts take "dreadful knocks"?
Lights will flash
Lorries dash
Cyclist takes an awful bash! (Local!)
Never mind, soon Twenty-Three
Fairy on the Christmas Tree!
08/12/2022 xxxxx
N E W Y E A R S O O N
Tuesday, on my own I'm walking
To the segulls I am talking!
Watch out, something on my cap
"Could it be a load of crap?"
Cynical, some knickers picking
Dog, it's master's leg is licking
Test for ovulation ' find
And I whisper "something kind"?
Kindly face, a lady smiling
This, of course, I'm swiftly filing
'Thanks me for the litter round
Slipping on the icy ground!
Buffalo, where nothing's working (USA!)
Horrid storm I know is lurking
Grateful that "Up North" it's mild
Glad to live upon the Fylde!
Luton Road, it's still for racing
Cars a lorry "manic-chasing"
Roundabout: "Be careful, please!"
Rub some ointment on my knees? (Ouch!)
Turn the corner, birds are tweeting
All my malaise they are beating
Jerry Corbyn sends a text
'Guess I am no longer vexed!
Sending all a New Year Greeting
From my mid-point "comfy seating"! (A bench)
Never mind we're all on strike....
Time to get on to a bike?
Back at home the warmth is calming
Switching off all news alarming
'Listen to "Beethoven-play" (Concerto Number One)
Just another late year day! 28/12/2022. Poem 600! xxxx
IT'S A "PHONE-LIFE" ! (Sonnet)
I spend my life upon my sacred phone
And cannot find the time to read or write
'Relieved, I cannot hear the poet's GROAN
('Convinced this lady's hardly very bright!)
My food's arrived but still I hold my "toy"
A burger full of crap is what I need!
So soundly sleeping is my little boy
Awakening, I guess he''ll need a feed?
Another text and then I "snap" my food
Dear Facebook loves to see a tasty dish! (I bet!)
The poet's scowling, not a peaceful mood!
Now Tik-Tok, this, of course, my fav'rite dish"
A Life of Phones: it must be paradise?
I won't object if this "the only vice"! xxxx 29/12/2022.
C H R I S T M A S G A R D E N
Christmas Neighbour
Garden labour
See him holding child's light-sabre?
Garden is a pure delight
Gosh, It is a wondrous sight!
Chatty fellow.....
Plays a cello
We will say a friendly"Hello!"
Elves and gnomes in flower-pots
Smiling: passing tine tots!
Chistmas Fairy
Santa...hairy?
Of his hoe we are quite wary!
Always busy, garden king
Hallelujah we all sing!
Hanging Santa
Spain's Infanta
He enjoys our friendly Banter
Lights switch on, it's paradise
Garden Life is twice as nice!
"Ho-Ho-Ho-ing!"
Santa's going...
Present Time, he's to-and-fro-ing
Landing on the chimney pot
Timid man? I guess he's not!
Posting presents
Lanes and crescents
Are there some for Yorkshire peasants? (Mainly myself!)
Waves Goodbye and off he flies
See his sleigh high in the skies!
Christmas Garden
"Noisy"?..Pardon!
Beating this would be a "ard un"!
He salutes as we go by
Can you hear an envious sigh?
31/12/2022 xxx
N E W Y E A R A R R I V E S
Tweet and Tweet and Aussie bird is singing
Fine Greetings sent from Melbourne, far away
Blackbird happy, to his food he's winging
Yet rain is falling on this New Year's Day!
No matter, friends, Dear Anchorsholme, it smiles
Paul Galley's busy, on the park he waits
He's clocking up a lot of early miles
I'd like to say: "So happy are our fates!"
John Lennon plays: "Imagine he's still here!"
The music calming, smiles come to my face
Dear Rufus watching, 'thinks of Blackpool pier (North?)
We're shouting loud' that Blackpool is "so ace"!
We're wishing all a peaceful time this year
The Golden Eagle, sipping at my beer! Cheers! xxxx
01/01/2023 xxxx
P A R A D I S E
It warms my soul
View Enid on a bike
Fitness her goal
I'm shouting: "What y'er like?"
Sharon and Jeanette
They're strolling on the prom'
Both fit, you can bet?
I wonder: "Where's this from?"
Latchi is the place
It's peaceful and it's calm
Smiles on ev'ry face
No danger of alarm!
Laughter and broad smiles
Send greetings Blackpool-way!
Kilos' never miles?
Another sunny day
Fishy is their lunch
Taverna for a wine?
Lots of crisps to munch
It's sounding so divine!
Friendship always wins
I guess we cannot wait
Paphos for our "sins"
How awful is our fate?
March will soon arrive
With walking and great food
Will we then survive?
Already splendid mood!
Anticipation: 03/01/2023
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C H A N G E L E G S !
My grandad had a special leg
He kept it hanging on a peg....
At night, no need for it in bed
When "legless", he might lose street-cred'!
"Come look, you cannot see the scar..
Without it, I'm not going far!"
"Dear" grandma's moaning: "Where's my tea?"
"Get up, you're lazy.. He! He! He!" (Poor Joseph!)
A smoker, Joseph, all his life
Aged seventy-five, he got more strife
An ev'ning walk, his toes turned black
With lots of pain, a mighty Whack!"
Dear Fanny's moaning: "Hurry up!..
It's time to have my supper cup!"
"I'm used to having service swift
I'm struggling too , I need a lift!"
In hospital, a hero he
A brand new "limb" to set him free!
"Just strap it on, and off I go..
I even manage Winter's snow!"
It's early morning, tray on knee
"Cos grandma needs her morning tea!"
He shuffled up upon his bum
And late!, "Dear" wifey's looking glum!
More holidays, a magic leg
"I never thought I'd need a peg!"
Then, Izzy-Whizzy, off I go
To Jersey, though I'm walking slow'"
I view the leg, now Joe has gone
I'm whistle-ing the saddest song
And "Underneath the Arches go!" (His favourite song)
His life is o'er, I must... "Leg-O"! 22/09/2020 xx
T H E B R I D A L F A L L S
Visiting Dear Bridal Falls
Walking here in Nature's Halls
Birds are tweeting, falls ahead
Peaceful is my Yorkshire head! (Normal?)
Soon ascending, groves of trees
Caterpillars, honey bees
Sun, it kisses cedars high
Only glimpses of the sky
Water sounds as we descend
Ferns and tree logs 'round the bend
Looking at Dear Nature's Force
Paradise lives here, of course!
Far from Bradford's grimy skies
Lady my ensignia spies
'Cannot be a Bradford Bull?
All from Wibsey, life's not dull (Where I used to live!)
Happy voices, children play
Water splashing, warm the day
Ladies taking selfies.... Pose!...
Ladybird just has a doze!
Mother wants a fam'ly pic'
Child is fighting with a stick!
Now descending, trees and moss
Photo-taker... at a loss!
"Paradise".. so easy 'say
Heady times, for peace, I pray
Pope, he wants a Pale' State (A Palestine state)
Israel to meet its fate?
Bridal Falls, my heart beats on
Chris, he whistles Beatles' song (Mr Colvin)
Grateful for this place of peace
From my cold I seek release! From June 2015 xxxx
W A L K I N G D A Y S
Where are those ghosts, ghosts of the past?
'Cos life on earth can't ever last
One final walk, Dear Douggie gone (Mr Fenton)
To Salamiou, his saddest song?
Dear Barb'ra Rich, her last walk done
No more Letymbou in the sun
The Short Walk Queen, salute her name....
Short walks will never be the same!
Up in the North, one walker died
A day when many walkers cried
And Joan, dear wife, in Emba sad
For friends' support... forever glad!
Viola Robson, "Tsada Girl"
The German flag for her unfurl
Too young to die, yet such is life
Remember peace instead of strife!
Dear Theatre Friend, Lance Corp'ral Jones
An actor aches, but never moans
I sit and contemplate his life
So missed by friends and darling wife!
A lovely headstone, with L's face (Les' Arnold)
Dear theatre life, at gentle pace
A shiver running down my spine
Not even eased by Status wine!
I miss those walks, a planning day
"Too steep to climb!", 'hear Ian say (Ian Morson)
"Goodbye to Cyprus!", walkers leave
E'en Ian H'... hard to believe? (Ian Herley)
Dear Karin, Heinz, in Berlin live
For walks they had a lot to give
No "Spring of Life" for Keo beer
The walk is done, the loudest cheer!
"Walk on, You Wand'rers, scale those hills!"
A life of fun and many thrills
I sit, a glass of Whisky 'drink
Of Walking Days forever 'think! Amen, from March 2018 xx
A P H R O D I T E ' S W A L K
Nothing changes, nasty Pafos drivers
Indicating rarely, mobile-phoning
Heading for the hills like great survivors
Sunshine, walking, end of all my moaning!
Aphrodite's Baths for Wednesday Walking
Smiling faces, Georgie Bates is joking
John says Helen's not for happy talking (Many ailments!) (+)
"On the walks we don't need hikers croaking!"
Climbing hills with little time for water
Happy though with friends, 'hear joyful banter
"Leader needs to stop.. Do what you ought'a!" (Comfort stop)
Heading down we break into a canter!
So far from Pafos roads, we've Heaven found
Taverna, clinking glasses, happy sound! From December 2016
24/06/2020 (+) The Croftons xx
A T R A G I C E N D
I pass the place where Graham took his life
Four storeys high, poor head was in a spin
He tried to make his friend his legal wife...
But couldn't be her "man", he'd never win!
He parked his car, 'twas early, grey the sky
And walked up to the roof, resolve was made
No thoughts of personal harm, he heaved a sigh
I wonder, Graham, then, were you afraid?
Nose-dived direct, life ends with awful smash
A postman passes, yells and with despair
Poor face no more, he'd given it a bash!
One wonders if this life... Can it be fair?
I hear Dear Mahler Fourth and see his face (4th symphony)
Fond memories of him I can't efface! 10/06/2020, written 2011
"You were a special friend, Graham!" Your sonnet, Amen xx
T H E D E N T I S T ' S N I G H T M A R E
Yawning, scratching, sniffing too
Eyes on television glue
Children whisper, waiting 'fate
Run out before it's too late!
Arms now folded, gentle fart
Put the victims in a cart (tumbril)
Drill is ready, needle.. Aim!
Make that cavity quite lame!
Hand aquiver, missed and "Hell"
Sound the giant, panic bell
Blood is spurting, what a mess
"Little accident", 'confess!
Staunch the bleeding with a bung
'Fore the requiem is sung
Blood upon the floor, great pool
Trouble for this hapless fool?
Screaming helper, others flee
Leave that tumbril... up a tree
Watch the gory, bloody sight
Give the customers a fright!
"Who is next?", my hands they shake
Grab him with a garden rake
Tie him down, stick needles in
Sign the cheque, the dentist win'!
Evil chuckle.. Pull all teeth
Panic there beyond belief
"Anaesthetic...What is that?
Hit the squealer with a bat!"
Clients all sit down and grin
Empty mouths, "No one can win!"
"Crowns I'll fit for thousand pound'
Suffer there without a sound!"
Paddy panics, "Justice, please!"
Dentist by the neck he seize'
Takes some pliers, pulling's done
He's enjoyed his "bit of fun!"
Dentist speechless, bloody sight
Gives old ladies 'dreadful fright
Drills and needles laid to rest
"Man, you really failed the test!" Written in 2001, going mad! xx
We heard that a local dentist had been struck off! xx
G R E E N L A N D S H I G H S C H O O L
'Like to be by Pafos Harbour?
P'rhaps out there I'd find a barber?
Wind is howling, Norbreck C' (Castle)
"Wonder when we're "Covid-free"?
Walk to Bispham, school is "missing"
'Feeling sad, old photos kissing
Memories of happy times
Not so hard to find my rhymes!
Greelands calling, pupils writing
"Gib mir deine Hand reciting"
Happy days, with lots of fun
School was then my Number One
Christmas Time... we're pantomime-ing
All the words, of course, were rhyming
'Got my scimitar in hand
Lots of laughter, super "band"
Languages we were "enthusing"
Cafe dialogues... amusing?
Graded Tests with great success
Super times, I must confess!
Ferry time, Dear Dover leaving
In the power of speech believing
Ordering a "framboise ice"
Croque-monsieur was twice as nice!
Normandie, Asnelles is calling
Swimming in the sea 'recalling
Ev'ning with a cooling beer
"Not for you, to young, my dear!"
Happy Times with Lodge and Winter
Stallard was our Harold Pinter!
Miss O,D', a special friend
Later 90s... fun would end!
Brian Glover, Science magic?
Graham Brown, oh how so tragic!
All our staff, I miss them all (Almost all?)
'Guess we really had a ball!
Thank you all, the mem'ries cheering
Raise a glass of wine, no beering!
Lynn and Julie, Pat, Elaine
Lin', Maria, SUN, no rain! Amen 06/06/2020 xx
T O T H E S U N
On this cool, yet sunny day
Far from England's frosty shore
'Contemplate sun's warming ray
Ageing limbs cry out for more!
Eve approaching, falling sun...
Bathes the ocean with its light
Wagtails playing, having fun
Feast my eyes, a wondrous sight!
Like a glowing football shine..
Warms the pool, with leaves so full!
England, rains, yet here still fine
Night falls fast, my heart-strings pull!
As dear orb melts in' the sea
Shadows falling on the pool...
Add an air of "mysteree"
To this ev'ning calm and cool
Final splash of clour bright
Sea extinguishes the flame
Sky it yields to ghostly night
Whispering Creator's name!
Sun....Return to warm my bones!
Soothe me with your fingers' balm
Lead me to world's peaceful zone
Far away from stress and harm
N E X T D A Y
Sipping Leon with our friends
Fine taverna, mirth and food
Sunshine here, it rarely ends
So relaxed... my Cyprus mood
Sending greetings, see you soon?
Weather here is warm and bright (June)
Virus gone would be a boon!!
Koili Hill 'more pleasant sight! (Fingers crossed!)
Updated from December 2016 xx
T H E B E N N I T E C U P P A
The perfect cuppa, Orwell claimed
Soft water, please, was always "named"
And warm that pot, then add the milk
The tea will go down, just like silk!
Dear Rosie Lea, a lifelong need
The master's brain would always feed
The pipe is lit.. and all is well
Without the cuppa, life is Hell!
The connoisseur, proud Labour man
Will drink his tea, whene'er he can
A tea-obsessive, pints he drink'
He says it helps to make him think!
Relaxing, stir that famous brew
No longer part of Front Bench Crew
The ideal drink, delicious taste
It helps to calm the Human Race
A man of great humanitee
Is NEVER seen without his tea
The pipe perhaps.. he'd that forego?
When sipping tea his mind would glow
Great Master of the Rosie Lea
Enjoy your many mugs of tea
More knowing than the scientist
Who always on research insist!
Just watch his smile, the tea goes down
To smooth away his furrowed brow
To Bennite-way I do subscribe
A Yorkshire brew I do imbibe!
A life with tea, no alcohol...
That leads to anger, nasty blow?
A recipe for calm and peace
From stress of life, a sweet release.. Updated from 2003! xx
Tony Benn always replied to my poems.. Amen! xx
T A K E A D I P !
Geoff is swimming
Pool is "brimming"
Here in Cleveleys, light is dimming!
What a shame: Olympics.... Off!
With a splutter and a cough!
"Gin-o'clocking"
I'm not mocking..
Whisky large is rather shocking? (Myself!)
Envy you... your lovely life
With your "water-drinking -wife"!! (Really?)
Theatre closing
Geoff now dozing?
On the stage 'was rarely posing!
Memories for me so sweet
Fingers play and tapping feet!
Pantomime-ing
"Poet" rhyming
Music play... with perfect timing?
Leslie Arnold, take a bow!
Kept on acting, 'don't know how!
Emba leaving
Geoof is "Greave-ing"
In the Power of Art believeing?
Ian Morson, better soon?
Underneath an Eastborne moon!
Geoff now smiling
Swims.... "five mile-ing"?
All of this in verse I'm filing
Happy memories remain
As I view the Cleveleys' rain.. 17/05/2002.. For Geoff Greavey xx
B R A F O R D I N C Y P R U S
"Brewery" with.... Bradford Bulls
Life in Cyprus never dulls
Owners....never,...They're from Wrose
Yorkshire folk from head to toes!
Stroumbi venue, after walk
Lots of noise and happy talk
Just my luck, I'm next to Rod' (Mr. Mayor)
I'm a salmon, he's a cod!
Odsal talk, yet Stroumbi view
'Hearing, chatty "walking crew"
World Cup Winners on the wall
Great success I do recall
Big Joe V' and tough "Baloo" (Prop forward)
Jimmy Lowes 'part of the "crew"
Micky Withers scoring tries
'Loved those times, just heaving sighs!
Serious, we're eating now
Rod has got a "slice of cow"
Fishy pie and steak with ale
Pizza or enormous "whale"
Lots of laughter, Alan's speech
Paradise is within reach!
'Value Happy Wand'rers' fare
For all country walks they care!
Kannaviou for next week's walk
As for us?.. more likely York?
Ouse is bursting, water there!
Cyprus' reservoirs are bare!
Leaving, "Ilkley Moor Baht 'at"!
Little, purring pussy cat
Greatful for this "Bradford Team"
Super League is Odsal dream!!!! Updates: 13/05/2020 xx
S N A K E S A L I V E !
Keep all snakes out of the house!
"Only looking for a mouse!"
Giant spider on your bed
All of these by "Heaven" bred?
Lizard on your window sill....
Time to down a calming pill?
Have a Keo, Brandy Cy'
Underneath a Tala sky
Nutcase on a one-way street
Come on, Have a Whisky neat!
Wrong way 'round a roundabout..
Give this idiot a clout!
Sofa left across a path
Just ignore it, have a laugh?
Here: "NO SMOKING", 'start to choke!
Strangle lawless Kisso' bloke? (In Kissonerga?)
Scooter, driving on the right
Snake to give guy's rear a bite?
Seat-belts dangling in a car? (Never!)
'Left their brains home in a jar?
Colander on biker's head (Great helmet?)
'Think perhaps his lights are dead?
Grandson holding torch instead (In Emba!)
Really dark, I shake my head!
U.K.?
Hang a poo-bag from a tree?
Fill beer bottles with your wee?
Scatch-cards, packets on the street
Racing drivers ALWAYS meet?
BACK IN CYPRUS
Try Letymbou, lots of peace
From all virus fears release?
Have a meze... "Olive Tree" (One day?)
Then you're feeling really free!
TOLERANCE and learn to smile
Play piano for a while? (Chopin?)
Swimming in your Cyprus pool
Windy here, now who's the fool? xx Updated, 11/05/2020 xx
U N S E R K E O M A N N !
All Hail, Dear German friend, now Seventy-Five
Those Pafos days now firmly in the past
Sweet memories I'm anxious to revive
Admitting though, that All Good Things can't last!
No more those lovely Amargeti walks
You're walking up a hill, with lunch in mind
It's sandwich time, with cheerful happy talks
Exciting when we "brand-new" tracks can find!
"The Spring of Life", large Keo there for you
A chat with Karin," set the world "to right"?"
No thoughts of deadly virus, problems few!
With Georgie, special friends soon within sight!
We "Yiamas" cry, to toast Dear Heinz, our friend
Such times so precious, Birthday Wish we send! 05/05/2020 xxxx
"H E C H O S E T O C L I M B" (*)
Mountain climbing: awe inspiring
Even greater heights 'aspiring
Annapurna, Everest
When not climbing, 'cannot rest?
Journey starts, it's london calling
Office-work.. he finds appalling!
Sandhurst glories, Snowdon, Wales
Fine achievements...'never fails!
Atlas open, countries 'scanning
Expeditions he's soon planning
Eiger as the Number One
'Finds it challenging and fun!
Himalayas, Nepal beckons
On the help of Sherpas 'reckons
Ice and snow, all men of steel?
Danger has a real appeal!
Changatong, Mont Blanc 'appealing
On the Top of 'World he's feeling
Home at last among the lakes
Reputation soon he makes
Restless spirit, Greenland calling
For an "isle of ice" he's falling
Writing, clicking photos too
Climbing with "committed crew"
Rise Sir Knight, your work rewarded
For your courage 'was awarded
Lancaster for gentler life?
Even time to see your wife?
Keswick, weather is relenting?
Lancaster you're representing
Thanks for 'talk, Alumni guest
Climbing World, You are the Best! xxxx Updated 28/04/2020
Chris Bonnington was Chancellor of the University of Lancaster
I wrote this for him, having read his book (*) May 2006
I received my MA there in 1985.
P I A N O M A N
Piano Man is back
Music in his "sack"
Farthings' for some Christmas Cheer
Fun? There is no lack!
Michelle at the door
Hear the old folk roar!
Music ready, start to sing
'Love this more and more!
Abba for a dad....
Sharon's really sad
Pafos quiet now he's gone
For his spirit 'glad!
'Need some Christmas Cheer
Tea here, never beer!
"Walking In The Air" I play
'Love these folk so dear!
"Alfie", then I sing
Stille Nacht's "the thing"
German words to stir the soul
Music just takes wing!
"Magic Moments" 'play
Watch those heads, they sway
"Rock around the Christmas Tree"
What a smashing Day!
Time for me to go
No, without the snow
Blowing kisses, happy heart
What a lovely show! 16/12/2022 xxxx
H A V E A N I B B L E!
Feeling cold, I need a "Nibble"
Cafe, not the freezing Ribble
Ellie's greeting rather strange
I feel I am within range!
Vick is serving, eggs are cooking
For my beans I soon am looking
Tasty toast, a Chocolate Hot
Paradise is what we've got!
Paul is texting, crips he's munching
I can hear his happy crunching
Sylvia is looking on
Singing soon a Council Song?
Irene, talking 'bout the Villa
Not for me a "footie thriller"?
Leeds United is my team
Eddie has a Tottenham dream!
All now eating, Green Team cheering
Latte, no one here is "beering"
P'raps a Whisky later on?
I will sing a Famous Song! (Grouse?)
Christmas party, Green Team smiling
All of this, of course, I'm filing
'Guess we are a Happy Band
Welcome to the promised land? Eastpines! 13/12/2022 xxxx
GREEN TEAM RETURN?
It's clear to me The Green Team will be back
I view our photos, Robert starts to smile
I seize my grabber, litter in my sack
Communicate with fag-ends for a while!
A happy bunch, all busy: "Hoe! Hoe! Hoe!"
With Paul in charge, he's thinking of his lunch!
Our Norman's "storming", tackles "weedy foe"
Dear Paul then sighs: he's got no crisps to munch!
Dear Luton Road, the "tanks" go whizzing past
A Costa Cup "rejected": "Pick it up!"
Soon heading for the cafe, really fast
A nice Hot Choc'late there for me to sup
A friendly group, great warmth surrounding me
My one regret?.. No Rufus on my knee!
26/12/2022 xxx
I (N) C(HARGE) C(RAP) !!
I. C . C
All for FREE!
Paul is laughing: "He! He! He!"
I am starting, grabber raised
All my efforts widely praised!
What today?
Wintry day
I will grab it, "come what may!"
Far too cold for teenage pranks!
Cars are passing: large as tanks!
Screeching brakes....
Corner takes
Pavement hitting, 'left man "snakes"
And he was upon the phone
Listen to the "grabber" moan!
Grass is wet
Soaked, I bet?
By two doogies I am "met"!
Owner has the barest knees
Not surprised, he starts to sneeze!
Bottles... three
Full of... wee!
Poo-bags hanging from a tree!
Glad to leave this alleyway
Can of beer... "Hip-Hip-Hooray!"
Cafe-view
Problems few?
Ellie's waiting, 'start to queue
Beans and yummy scrambled eggs
Theses are for my "aching pegs"!
I. C. C.
"Happy, see!"
Paul still smiling: "He! He! He!!"
'Love relaxing atmosphere
Bit too early for a beer? 18/01/2023. xx
P E A C E F U L T I M E S?
Barry playing
My head's swaying
Peace-Ukraine we all are praying!
"Out of Africa" to soothe
Music beating hearts to move!
German tanks
Europe thanks
Lots of money in all banks?
Chopin, then I can escape
Barry takes me to the Cape! (Hope!)
"Classic sound" (FM)
All around
Russian music they have found
Hoping for a peaceful day
No more killing, come what may?
Liszt and Brahms
Ban all arms!
Music every life it calms
Mozart and I'm breating free
Blackbird singing in our tree!
Bombs, please cease
We want peace
From all danger world release!
"Swan" is playing straight from France
Music all lives will enhance!
News avoid
Peaceful "void"
Fighting and we're all annoyed!
"Moonlight piece", I'm really calm
End to all this world's alarm!
25/01/2023. xxxx
M A U R E E N M A G E E
I think of Maureen many years' ago
She's busy working, David A' "in tow"!
It's Ninety-Eight, just look at Greenland's snow! (1998)
Her pupils counting, thirty in a row
She's entertaining, no one seems to mind
Allgebra always on her teaching list
Girls understanding, Maureen's very kind
Now that she's gone, she really will be missed!
Her son in tears, "Dear Mum was always there!"
We bow our heads and can't hold back the tears
"Humane" the service, warmth and love is there
Fine "Euro Contests", these were happy years!
"Adieu, Dear Maureen, 'glad you were a friend!"
So sad we feel that life is at an end! 26/01/2023. RIP MJG. xxxx
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T H E L I T T L E F O L K
Dear Little Folk, with many tales to tell
Fine Super Ted is watching, please behave!
And Thumper smiles, he likes to "ring our bell"
Great memories, so many they do save
My mother's bear, he's looking rather grey
He chats to Hetty, Peggy Sue looks on
For Worldly Peace and love they soon will pray
They soon are singing, it's a peaceful song
Proud Rufus enters, waves to all his friends
Preparing for another visit soon?
To all the little folk he greetings sends
And dreams of sleeping under Pafos moon!
The bears, our saviours, never cause alarm
I close my eyes and feel a healing calm! Amen xx30/01/2023.
C Y P R U S
Dark outside
Be so kind...
Way to Pafos I must find!
Rufus smiling, cannot wait
Fine hotel, it is our fate!
Rain still falls
Neighbour's walls!
Her behaviour "load of b+++s!"
Bat cave building, hide her there
Lots of time to "laugh and stare!"
Aircraft waits
Luggage, crates
We have got fine "walking dates"
Fine Lemona, Sharon friend
Rubbish waiting 'round the bend!
Kannaviou
Problems.....Few!
David Lewis is there too
Only missing Georgie Bates
He has only "Heaven-dates"!
Swimming pool
I'm no fool
March perhaps is rather cool?
"Fitos" for some fish and chips
See the smile upon my lips!
Here no sun
Not much fun
Searching for that "currant bun"
Twenty C' at Coral Bay
Pinkie will have lots to say!
"See you soon!"
Winter boon
Dreaming of a Pafos moon
Faros Lighthouse bows its head
'Guess this route for walking bred?
Yiamas! 03/02/2023 xx
D E A R M A R J O R I E
SeaSaw Marjorie Daw
Andrew has got a new master (Driver)
'Guess lots of patience he always needs?
Talking can be a disaster!
SeaSaw Marjorie talks
"Slaver and you're never crazy!"
Repeats her nonsense dozens of times
My brain is turning quite hazy!
SeaSaw 'going quite mad
Same story over and over
Knickers she's waving oft' in the air
'Wish we were all far in Dover?
SeaSaw, grabbing my arm
Listen, another fine story
Locking myself in the toilet (On the coach!)
'Least stories never are gory!
SeaSaw Marjorie sleeps
Peaceful the coach is, we're singing
Careful we don't want to wake her right up!
My brain, it really was "ringing"!!
SeaSaw Marjorie Daw
'Miss her like holes in my forehead?
Waving to her for the very last time
Wanting to rescue my street cred'? 23/12/2022.