Poetry

Bus-olitics

Tories on Twitter
are all in the shit
now split assunder
over #Brexit ..

Cut

Here the grass cuttings rise
against the graveyard wall

that sloped mound
which will cover us all..

I Heard the News Today

Woke to the news, quite the same: #Iran, #abuse, #Brexit again. None of it changes day-to-day, even the weather is the same. Mike Bell Poetry Mike Bell aims to write 10,000 poems, stick them up here one at a time, and then take a nap. By then he should be about 85 years old and...

Brex-git

Just bought
a coffee
off a #Brexit git...

The Lodger

He lay flat on his back,
jacket off, the worn soles
of his buffed brogues
almost rudely exposed..

Mass Observation

I wake late, again,
seven-forty AM:

I learn a new word
(of the day):
'Imprimatur..'

Rees-Mogg, Again

Good grief we're
in a national state
about #Brexit
& the #NHS..

Reunited

This is Twitter, it doesn’t do love, 140 characters is not enough: I’m going back to Friends Reunited – to hear more from folk I’ve always hated.   Mike Bell Poetry Mike Bell aims to write 10,000 poems, stick them up here one at a time, and then take a nap. By then he should...

I am the man

I sit empty,
drained,
syphoned off,

weighted,
strapped,
I have
had enough.

Cable St.

Cable Street,
October '36,
dignity remained
for those that stood..