Authorz: tony jolley

There’s this old guy, you see, And he’s sitting in his back garden with his back against the wall. He’s basking between radiated and reflected…

Winter 1963 – You know, The one that makes you think Of that line from the carol: “Earth as hard as iron … Water like…

After a life lived lying down on the job, (Mostly with an uninterrupted view of the sky Save for the occasional blinding blur of bogies…

‘Determined’ came out of the supermarket, Strode as manfully as a woman can do Towards the red car parked next to mine Sporting a bright…

He lined-up to pot the black in the top-right pocket, Looking down his cue as a sniper-rifle sight, Fixing his target dead in the cross-hairs.…

No, not a clever title for a poem or screenplay Recounting the tragic tale of two eastern European lovers Torn apart by blitzkrieg greed and…

At One o’clock The steeple clock Struck Ten. Not quite Orwell’s Thirteen, But at least his followed Twelve In the not-quite-natural order of things And…

Full surgery – caseload queue surging out of the waiting room door And curling down the corridor Like some sick snake Swallowing a cocktail of…

Size matters – Doesn’t it just… Not the hoary old joke About how many inches of English oak A man’s member must be to make…

Don’t understand deliberate hurt. Just don’t. Never did. Can’t conceive of the calculation: The clinical cut to dead centre; The surgeon’s pinpoint precision; The coup-de-grâce,…

Dad was on ASDIC Aboard his wartime MTB Sending sound deep down into that Indian sea Listening for faint echoes of the enemy To hunt…

Bruebach –> Brunstatt –> Didenheim; And back again, Every day, without fail, rain or shine. Stick-thin – and a thin stick at that – No…

Awkward silence Darkened room Drapes drawn Hearse soon Sombre suits Best plates Small talk All wait Limo leaving Glad to go Bentley black Stately, slow…

Rooted, by pride restored, In the rich, Rhine-wrought soil of Bruebach The very day the Bosche were booted out (The second time, that is); Now…

No foregone conclusions No faits-accomplis No ducking of decisions No get-out-of-jail-frees; No rocks or even hard places No devils or deep blue seas No copper-bottomed…

Sometimes, Sprawled in bed, When we’ve tumbled Into a tired tangle of arms and legs, We stumble Upon an entwining par excellence Devoid of the…

Will I go singing: looking ahead? Will I go mourning: looking back instead? Looking back at the mays and the might have beens; Looking back…

Girls don’t always have fun When you stop to think about it. If you stop to think about it. And if you’re male, I guess…

Disconnected ……………………Dislocated …………………………………………….Angular ………………………………………………………………..Attenuated ………………………………………………………………..Apart …………………………………………….Away ……………………Derailed Detached Disparate ……………………Distant …………………………………………….Aimless ………………………………………………………………..Absent ……………………………………………………………………………..Deconstructed ……………………………………………………………………………..Decomposed …………………………………………………………………Aside . .. … …. ….. ………………… .Adrift.

I love you – No matter what. I love you. I’m your Dad, I’m made to; No matter what But ‘no matter what’ Is a…