NORMALLY

NORMALLY

Normally... At this time of year I would traipse far and wide To see the curlew I hear With limited time In this climate of fear I must be contented Simply to hear As they warble and cry In fields far away I must not do what I would On an early spring day Normally


MAWH, 280320

PRISONS

PRISONS

In our lives we all build prisons

To entangle us and snare

The house

The job

The wedding band

Kids for which we have to care

Then life puts up some new ones

Tells us to stay right there

The house

Becomes

Our total world

Because of a health scare

The life we know is changing

There’s nowhere else to be

The house

The lawn

The family

A spring trap you can’t flee

Although you know you can’t escape

That place that you call home

Your life

Your home

Your family

At least you’re not alone

Those prisons we make ourselves

Now shut into by the state

Have life

And hope

And family

Let’s try to enjoy our fate

Real prisons are far worse you know

Few outside will feel so trapped

You’re free

To be

With those you love

In a velvet castle you mapped

In our lives we all build prisons

To make something we can share

Your home

Your folks

Are your cellmates

You need to be right there

MAWH, 240320

SAFETY POEM 220320

SAFETY POEM 220320

Such a lovely

day outside

After that winter

made us run & hide

You may be tempted

to go out there

Where invisible foes

lurk please beware

So if you want

to show you care

Sit down in a chair

& stay right there

Or God knows what harm

You may quietly do

To someone who

you never knew

MAWH

B*G M*C

B*G M*C

I've never desired a B*g M*c

Not once in twenty years

I'd rather be eating plated food

When munching with my peers

Though others think differently

Saying whether you like it or not

You have to if you've got kids

Who's the boss amongst that lot

Some may have another view

Craving a peaceful life

Seek small nuggets of family joy

Amongst life’s many strifes

Let’s go to McD*n*lds

Amongst the ballyhoo

What else are B*g M*c eaters

Going to find to do

Sunday’s queues were endless

It’s replaced the family roast

Those in need of one hot meal

Will possibly miss it most

So now the doors are closing

The fryers and grills gone cold

It’s one more effort to save the lives

Of those who won’t be told

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LAST SPLASH

LAST SPLASH

B*gger...

The last splash of milk 

Squeezed from the carton

Means I will have to go

Out shopping again 

Which was seldom a joy

A means to an end

Now turned into a dread

Just to get bread

(@MAW_H, 210320)

STAY AT HOME

STAY AT HOME

"Stay at home!"

Newspapers shout

But we didn't read it

Because we're not going out

"Stay at home!"

The headlines scream

We're all still in bed

Hanging on to our dreams

"Stay at home!"

Filthy rags shout

Please buy a newspaper

If you happen to go out

JUST BEFORE DAWN, 220320

JUST BEFORE DAWN, 220320

Tempted outdoors First time in a some days By the already fading Colourful light Didn't go far Not one soul did I see Whilst admiring the splendour Of Nature's art

@MAW_H

RIPPING UP TREES

RIPPING UP TREES

Not exactly

Ripping up trees is it?

That may be so

But great oaks as you know

If you'll let them

From tiny acorns grow

Who'd want to be

Ripping up trees anyway

Few phrases more

Show us the difference

Between the needs

Of business over nature

(MAWH, 220320)

WE, THE REDUNDANT HAIKU POEM

WE, THE REDUNDANT

We, the redundant

Who made a choice not to claim

Wonder about work

It’s not a great time

To build a new working life

Amidst this carnage

Yet keep plodding on

Building our portfolios

Inside our cocoons

@MAW_H (190320)

(Written on the occasion of it being four months since the axe fell on what i used to think of as my career)

BROCCOLI RESPONSE

SHORT POEM IN RESPONSE TO:

“You. Are. Bonkers. To give broccoli the shun

When it comes to health and flavour it's deffo the best one” 
(@DrWhoBritish on Twitter)

You’re right, absolutely

I really cannot disagree

So why did people in our shop

Clear shelves of all but broccoli

Is it a vegetable too far

Does it bring bad memories

As every other box was emptied

Except for lonely broccoli

I couldn’t find one lemon 

Not an onion could I see

Yet they left so much broccoli

I thought “That’s all the more for me!”

Why did swarms of shoppers

Desperate for some veg to buy

Ignore this brassical delight

Learn to love your broccoli

@MAW_H (200320)

POEMS THURSDAY 190320 NEWS & SHOPPING & TV

I DON'T WATCH THE NEWS

I don’t watch the news I won’t watch the news I’ll never watch the news It comes as news to me That assumption I will know What everyone else now knows All those things they claim to know All those facts they think they know Because they choose to watch the news

@MAW_H (190320)


SHOPPING RUN

Now feeling unclean For having been On a shopping run Before day’s truly begun Little veg could I see Except for broccoli (!) Not a lemon to be had Has the world gone gin mad? Much delayed from Sunday Thought we should go today But to avoid hurly-burly Maybe we went too early

@MAW_H (190320)


HAIKU

Room with the TV Lost to a makeshift workplace My madness begins

@MAW_H (190320)