You Drive Me Crazy

you drive me crazy
i'm going out of my brain

things are now sorted
all has been explained

paranoid Goose Girl's
imagination shelved away

and  stark reality surfaces
in the cold plain light of day

something she's unused to
tis a long time she's been free

so she's heading back to la la land
completely out of her tree


curiouser and curiouser

dverse

I don't care if
it's politically incorrect
I am not going to bed
with seven dwarves

Firefly..

Haiku Heights and Sunday Scribblings


we dined
in a country garden
on that summer's night
all those years ago

the fire flies
lit up the evening

it was the first time
they had appeared for years
and then
you left with them
to find yourself

i changed the locks
vowing to be rid of you
broke every bond between us
to ensure you would never return

And - every time
every time you knocked
i let you back in again

i could never say no to you
it did not seem to matter
how much you wounded me
i could never let you go


fireflies have gone
they no longer light the night
my love for you does

still

For The Weekend

Anyone For Tennis?

Theme Thursday and Poetry Jam

a smooth operator
is the knickerbocker glory
of the male homo sapiens species

one tends to over indulge
resulting in heart burn
and feeling unwell

he is visually tempting
an exotica of sensory sensations
rich  and a bit too sweet

in spite of  Jenny Craig
and Weight Watchers
most women
cannot resist the allure

reoffenders are multiple

a smooth operator
is never insecure

so
if you think this poem
is about you

then you are not
a smooth operator

and certainly not in
the knickerbocker glory class
(scrumptious)

Musical Chairs Huzzah!

3 WW


yoo hoo
i'm back!

the rumours
that moi  (Kevin Rudd )is
yesterday's man pfft
just propaganda- garbage

it is imperative that
you the Australian people
vote for me

and you know what-
pass me a hanky Mr Albanese



i promise - no more
smart arse women
wearing short jackets



this idea has some traction
with the fashion industry

they go back to serving
in the tea rooms
where they belong



you know you can trust
what i say
(chortles sniggers and guffaws)

if you don't vote for me

you will  get Tony Abbot as a leader



the labor government  promises
that every gay will receive a boat
as a wedding present
when i introduce the same sex marriage bill


so vote for Kev
Queensland's Golden Boy
Made Good (now and then)




Cartoons- Mark Knight Cartoonist

Crescendo...Haiku Heights

he has a problem
with crescendo passages
not bad for a dog








if you continue
to be disruptive, you
leave me no choice-suffer



transfixed by his flute
they crescendo'd into their
cups and rag curlers

you look stunning George
do give me the name of your
hairdresser munchkin



a clash of cymbals
a crash tackle crescendo
brain dead reverie

Lynne Smoko

dverse


Strewth
Stone the crows
She's as rough as guts

Lives out past the Black Stump
A head like a robber's dog
Can talk under wet cement

A connoisseur
of the Ridgey Didge meat pie
Loves her goldfish
And above all
A night at the Pokies

A straight up
Little Aussie Battle-Axe

Haiku Heights

Roa Dart

he paints road potholes
council think he's out to lunch
he saves many lives




she is out to lunch
hibernating for winter
please do not disturb




things have changed a lot
the days of the boozy lunch
a thing of the past

Jeffrey Smart

Australian Painter Jeffrey Smart died at 91 today.



An artistic genius who captured the brutality of Australian urban development



and of course he lived in Italy at a safe distance. Vale Jeffrey.

Kununurra WA

Soft Porn Phantom

Poetry Jam.. 3WW ..Dverse


Rictameter

              flaccid
           symptom of age
          no longer still agile
    fantasising about rock chicks
desperately trying to keep things erect
    give it up grandpa it's too late
       accept your advanced age
             it's part of life
                 flaccid
       

Haiku Heights...Enigma

best leave roses be
if you want to smell the blooms
handle with great care

my mother found me
under a rose bush - not in
a cold cabbage patch




variations on
a theme by Elgar -who is
a smarty pants then




he's an enigma
our silly squidgy sancho
with his oddball friends



it's impossible
to kiss an elephant his
trunk gets in the way

The Ancient Plains

dverse

wash on monday
iron on tuesday
bake on wednesday
brew on thursday
churn on friday
mend on saturday
church on sunday



there's something
very moving
about t towels
on  a line

flapping like sails
in the breeze
set against the sadness
of the ancient plains

the wind
whistling its whine
through the dry grass
whirling the grey green
of the olive trees

you feel the loneliness
the terrible loneliness
of all who were here before

in this beautiful
yet unsettling place

Haiku Heights

the rippling effect
from culture and example
they're worse things to be

For The Weekend

Cooks Hill Chunder

Dverse
Rondolet  - AbAabbA



wtf

no one can cook
sitting here in a small bistro
no one can cook
eating expensive crap just crooks
charging for this awful sludge oh
i'm going to be sick oh no
no one can cook

Where Have All The Flowers Gone?

POETRY JAM and 3WW

i thought i should bring flowers
but i've been at sea too long
i seem to have lost my manners
doing everything that's wrong
so i've brought you some little fishies
wrapped up in a big red box
this could fix things between us
even though i don't really give a toss

he gave an evil chuckle
through his shark serrated teeth
knocked upon her door
shifting nervously on his feet
she took the big red box
said thank you very much
now come inside rhinoceros hide
i'll serve them up for lunch

Haiku Heights

i could never live
with a man who did not bring
me long stemmed roses





chivalrous he was
a husband planning his wife's
demise- good movie

" Notorious"
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains














i'm so bored with this
cheapskate and his measly rose
stolen from a bush

chicks dig chivalry
pay attention doddle duck
i'm dropping some hints


chivalry - what's that?
non existent down under
reason gals travel

no point dropping hints
find an import from os
all the smart gals do

Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf

Dverse


two little wet hens
sitting on a fence
one said do
the other said dont
one said leave
the other said stay

oh my oh my
deliberate or die
is this what it's like to be
a gemini

dillying and dallying
to -ing and fro -ing
like the crazed libran
he loves me
he loves me not
pie in the sky
doing her balancing act
until an aries comes along

dragon breath and fire balled
cutting swathes and rumbled foot
huffing and puffing
i will blow your house down
said the big bad wolf

then it's easy
everyone outta here
run for your life

For The Long Weekend

Haibun for Haiku Heights


it is the long weekend
i am sitting by the fire
in a blue lounge room
with  black douglas
under a fur rug
in the bush playing this


try as i might i
cannot stop thinking of you
i know it is wrong

Three Word Wednesday



a big ego
damaging to onlookers
but somehow legitimate

Haiku Heights


i see you sweetie
i spy with my little eye
a surreal starfish




my wife has great arms
all the better to strangle
me within marriage




Gala and Dali
go swimming with a Vermeer
for the heck of it




an eccentric man
could quite likely use his wife
as a table top

what a great talent
Dali eccentric and odd
made some strange paintings




time shrinks and expands
according to one's mood state
tick tock Dali clocks

Rictameter for Rinkly Rimes

         




Brenda Bryant



image from rinklyrimes.blogspot.com


                so sad
       when someone leaves
    who's been around for years
 Rinkly Rimes has closed down her blog
  no comments at all for her ' au revoir '
 she may have closed the comment box
          i hope this is the case
           she has been sick
                  so sad


               her work
             is a treasure
       so have a look sometime
  at a poet's dreams, humour and long life
        experience  of times gone by
       Rinkly Rimes good fun times
              don't miss out on
                   her work

The Family That Bathes Together Stays Together

Claudia's bathroom prompt at dverse

Sunday

it's raining
it's pouring
the old man is snoring
6 o clock in the morning

open the blinds
make the tea
snuggle up in bed
all day
and puss makes three



bathing together
was fun in the past
when we were young
adventurous and
much more lithe
now the bathtub would
need to be double its size




tis now a ritual
taken alone with bubbles
candles montrachet
and vogue

muscles all soaked in
radox and foam
lemon verbena and thyme
and a nice glass of wine