Category Archives: Self compositions

Trying to do everything right

I took my fiancé up for a flight

I asked her the question down on one knee

and the ungrateful cow said to me

No but the pilot’s a bit of alright

Top down and cruisin’

in my little red corvette

American dreams

Sadly nowadays I find that it seems

in the many journals that I read

their writers in trying to seem eloquent

are prone to sound magniloquent

Everybody laughed at me

when I said the wood store is the place to be

but they saw that you could do a lot

with all those pallets broken or not

with imagination and joinery

As God so commanded Moses obeyed

whilst alone on the mountain he prayed

and when he came down two stone tablets were spied

and on this fine granite our creed was inscribed

Ten Commandments were written, five on each one

instructions on how our lives should be done

and by following these rules on how we should live

then God to his people his blessing would give

but Moses was enraged by the statues he found

and dashed the two rocks onto the ground

The early morning, the time when

fishermen go out to sea again

gone are thoughts of nice warm bed

but think of tide and wind instead,

for now the sea is calm and flat

but before too long they might find that

the calm waters of the estuary

have become a foaming raging sea

and with a silent prayer to God

they can start to hunt the elusive cod

Beware of satire

where praise can be full of barbs

cleverly hidden