MOST VIEWED 7 DAYS TO 06.10.12

Here are the links to the most viewed poetry posts on this blog in the past 7 days - just click to read:

SELF-APPRAISAL
REALITY TV NEWS
PASSPORT PHOTO
WORLD LEADER - THE MUSICAL (PANTS ON FIRE)
MOST VIEWED 7 DAYS TO 30.09.2012
WHO WHIPS THE WHIP?
CAPTAIN IN MY DREAMS
NATIONAL POETRY DAY POEM
MOST VIEWED POETRY POSTS 7 DAYS TO 01.09.2012
SUN (HAIKU)

CAPTAIN IN MY DREAMS

I grew up loving 
the shipping forecast,
the rhythm of the words,
the strange and exotic names,
easing out of the wireless
into my imagination.......

....Viking...North Utsire...South Utsire...Forties...
Cromarty...Forth...Tyne...Dogger...
Fisher...German Bight...Humber...Thames...
Dover...Wight...Portland...Plymouth...
Biscay...Trafalgar...Finisterre...Sole...
Lundy...Fastnet...Irish Sea...Shannon...
Rockall...Malin...Hebrides...Bailey...
Fair Isle...Faeroes...Southeast Iceland...

"Attention all shipping. There are gale warnings........"

At home, secure in bed, 
captain in my dreams,
adventurer in my head,
no risk, no danger for me,
unlike the crews out there
sailing an unpredictable sea.

REALITY TV NEWS

Give me a big, fat, ugly woman

and a big, fat, ugly man

in normal everyday clothes

to read the news on TV.

Give me faces with shaving cuts,

freckles, acne and scars,

hairy nostrils and yellow teeth

to report what's happening.

Give me real people who fart

and belch on air, scratch,

sniff, snort and sneeze,

using their sleeves as hankies.

Give me flesh and blood,

give me ums and errs,

give me the plain-Jane passer-by,

give me Mr and Mrs Ordinary from the shop queue.

To hell with robocaster,

to hell with autocue,

to hell with lip gloss,

to hell with style and stylists,

to hell with the rush to airbrush.

Just tell me what’s going on in the world!

WORLD LEADER - THE MUSICAL (PANTS ON FIRE)

Leader:

"Of course we don’t torture

(tee hee)

Of course we don’t bully

(tee he)

Of course we don’t lie

(tee hee)

Of course we don’t  bluff

(tee hee)

Of course we don’t murder

(tee hee)

Of course we don’t violate rights

(tee hee)

Of course we are honourable

(tee hee)

Of course we follow the law

(tee hee)

Of course we listen to the people

(tee hee)

Of course we have integrity

(tee hee)

Of course we have values

(tee hee)

Of course, of course, of course

(cough, splutter)"

People chorus:

"Liar, liar, pants on fire......."

PASSPORT PHOTO

I found an old passport photograph,
had a laugh,
my how I've changed,
back then looked sinister,
a bit deranged,
on the basis on that stare,
in the airport departures hall
it was a wonder that scary face
was allowed to travel at all.

SELF-APPRAISAL

Self-appraisal,
motivational fuel,
if you're brutally honest,
can be very cruel,
weight it all up,
life and career,
some stuff to regret,
some stuff to cheer,
sometimes a failure,
sometimes success,
somethings to relish,
somethings a mess,
look through clear glass,
not rose-tinted gauze
and know the older I get,
the better I was.........

MOST VIEWED 7 DAYS TO 30.09.2012

Here are the links to the most viewed poetry posts in the past 7 days - just click and read:

SO IS......
WHO WHIPS THE WHIP?
THE SEASONS
WRITE AND WRONG
SUN (HAIKU)
GROWLERS (VAN MORRISON & BOB DYLAN)
RETIRED LIGHTHOUSE
WATCHING MY ONOMATOPOEIAS AND QUOEIAS
MOST VIEWED POETRY POSTS 7 DAYS TO 01.09.2012
WE HAVE A CHOICE