Micropoetry No 3

A selection of short poems...

Frustration (1985)

AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUU

URRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!

!!!!!!!

Mirror (1986)

This morning

I looked into the mirror

only to find this ugly bloke

staring at me

so I walked away and left him

Cynical Poem (1986)

I haven’t brushed my teeth today

still, I don’t expect I’ll be kissing anyone

in the next few years

  

Web (2016)

Desensitised

Words on a screen

Play nice

The person who wrote them is real

 

Train

A poem from 2016

Note: to get the most from this, watch me perform it on YouTube...

*I was cheated by you and I think you know when

Do do do do do, la la la la la*

Oh, I love this song

So very jolly

Bouncy

*Mamma Mia! Here I go again!!

La la, do do do resist ya!*

(All aboard! Woo-oo woo!)

Oh that email!

Stupid woman

What’s wrong with her?

I try to be nice

and helpful and all

I get in return

is abuse! She gets on

my nerves when I

see her name in

my inbox I

Freeze and delay

Opening it

Dragging me down

To her level

Criticising

All that I do

Nasty words and

Crap attitude

How I wish I

Didn't have to

Deal with her pettiness

She should get her

Self sorted out

(Chug chug chug chug

Woo-oo woo!

Tccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

End station! Everybody out, please!

We hope you hated your journey

And now feel grumpy and irritated!

Please jump onto this thought train in future

Whenever you're feeling happy!)

Oh no, I missed the rest of the song….

That's my day ruined!

The Power of Paranoia

A poem from 1992

It’s the thing that paranoia is made of

Strange,

but it’s true

that sideward glance that life casts

at me

Unloved at first sight

We find everything

but that which we want

I want her

but how could I find the way

into her heart?

In more menial example

this creeps upon me

and this poem achieves nothing

it is not worth the paper it is written on