Two minutes seven inches of Heaven

"Black PVC and a sliver of diamond resurrect singular first-time memories"

I remember everything single thing about it. The squealing windscreen wipers on the bus, slightly out of sync, one completing seven cycles to the other's six. Condensation streaking down my window, collecting in the rubber seal then sloshing out whenever...

Ecstasee-saw

"The ups and downs of love and life and yin and yang and see and saw and yo and yo and come and go"

Ride my ecstasee-saw Cutting teeth on ripping  Tips and dipping valleys See so many seasons Rise and fall and winter Springs to summer's sailing Sunny climes sublimely Climbing falling swirling Down through seven circles To the darkest depths An apocheir...

Parodies of paradise

"Do you ever look at respectable people and wonder where their fingers and mouths have been? No? Oh!"

A teacher is a trade with requisites So pure, and chaste, a taste for Staid perfectionism in my  Measured tones. Beyond reproach * Are eyes that shine with kindness, skin that Glows and gently comforts with a  Caring touch and...

Master and sub

"A poem exploring how the terms 'master' and 'sub' have been subjected to a masterful subversion..."

If you were my Master I'd offer you head And christen you Bates With old masterful traits By degrees and at-arms My craftsman, my captain Of dark martial arts Master all my miss-parts * If I were your sub Your...

A rose by any other…

"I can't think of a one liner. Perhaps if I could, I would have spared us all the 66 liner below."

Big ears! he shouted and ran away Stuck out his tongue, pulled my hair all day And made me cry * Hey, is your Ellie playing out, Mrs Jones? We broke a window throwing stones And never got found out...

101 wasted words

"A Roman said it in 2 words; someone else in 3: seize the day! We know it, yet still run out of ti..."

We have tonight, my lover said, To write a poem A poem to write Without a wasted word? said I Said I, said I, said I * Precisely so, my lover said,  A hundred words And one besides 'Tis not...

Day of reckoning

"In love as in life, what goes up must come down"

One chance Two souls Three times Forewarned Five kisses Sixth sense Seven leaven Ate all Nine and sixty Tentatively Nine tails Eight strokes Seven wonders Six kisses Five tears Forgo Three words Too late One

Soulless story; pointless poem

"A story about fucking? A lover who only fucks? What's the fucking point?"

You fuck me using all your skill but it's A soulless story. Where's the slick denouement?  Where's the clever ploy? You leave me full of  Empty joy; a salad feast replete with Colour, crispness, salty mayonnaise These weighty days of...