Submissions by Ammonite
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I have written and published quite a lot in a working lifetime. Serious technical stuff. Now let me see if my doggerel verses are of any interest...
DARK POEM
Published
16th Jul 2019 3:46pm
16th Jul 2019 3:46pm
When and how?
Thinking of death again
And wondering how 'twill come.
Will it be from illness
Or will it be a gun?
Will it come with violence
At hands of thugs with knives?
Who gain a few possessions
By taking others' lives.
Will it be an easy death,
Like going to sleep again,
Or will it be an awful one
In blood and fear and pain?
It cannot be a far-off thing
As it seemed when young,
For now I'm almost certain
That it has in fact begun.
And wondering how 'twill come.
Will it be from illness
Or will it be a gun?
Will it come with violence
At hands of thugs with knives?
Who gain a few possessions
By taking others' lives.
Will it be an easy death,
Like going to sleep again,
Or will it be an awful one
In blood and fear and pain?
It cannot be a far-off thing
As it seemed when young,
For now I'm almost certain
That it has in fact begun.
#anxiety
#dark
#death
365 reads
2 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
15th Jun 2019 6:28pm
15th Jun 2019 6:28pm
British politics
A lady MP called Theresa
Had scores of supporters to praise her,
So they made her PM,
But only pro-tem
And after three years they erased her.
Had scores of supporters to praise her,
So they made her PM,
But only pro-tem
And after three years they erased her.
#tragedy
#hypocrisy
353 reads
0 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
13th Apr 2019 3:33pm
13th Apr 2019 3:33pm
Our Song Thrush
When we put out crumbs for birds
The gentle thrush comes down to feed
Until some bully blackbird thug
Drives it off with spiteful greed.
Browning's 'wise thrush' waits nearby
Until the angry blackbird's gone.
It then returns to feed again
And later thanks us with a song.
In bubbling fountains of clear trills
One bird alone calls down the dusk.
As others settle down to sleep
The curfew notes are sung by thrush.
The gentle thrush comes down to feed
Until some bully blackbird thug
Drives it off with spiteful greed.
Browning's 'wise thrush' waits nearby
Until the angry blackbird's gone.
It then returns to feed again
And later thanks us with a song.
In bubbling fountains of clear trills
One bird alone calls down the dusk.
As others settle down to sleep
The curfew notes are sung by thrush.
#birds
#nature
#music
397 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
30th Mar 2019 10:17pm
30th Mar 2019 10:17pm
Horatio Hornblower
#limerick
#dirty
445 reads
5 Comments
DRUGS POEM
Published
15th Mar 2019 5:41pm
15th Mar 2019 5:41pm
Aunty-Social Behaviour
Our neighbours express much disfavour
Of aunty's social behaviour
When she runs down the road
Wearing nothing but woad
Shouting "Hash is my only true saviour!"
Of aunty's social behaviour
When she runs down the road
Wearing nothing but woad
Shouting "Hash is my only true saviour!"
#marijuana
#limerick
#culture
546 reads
10 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
12th Mar 2019 11:36am
12th Mar 2019 11:36am
Lord Pym's Limerick
A debutante said to Lord Pym:
"Does your wife keep champagne in her quim?"
He replied: "No such luck,"
"Do you fart when you fuck?"
And he thought that was ten points to him.
"Does your wife keep champagne in her quim?"
He replied: "No such luck,"
"Do you fart when you fuck?"
And he thought that was ten points to him.
#limerick
#dirty
651 reads
6 Comments
SELF POEM
Published
10th Mar 2019 2:35pm
10th Mar 2019 2:35pm
Cruel Lethe
You passed me in the street today
Without a look or smile,
You did the same thing yesterday
In a supermarket aisle.
In a bar you stood beside me
As he poured your G and T.
You thanked him, turned and walked away
Without a glance at me.
Why should you ever look at me?
Old white-haired wrinkled fool
With silly gap-toothed grin
And flabby useless tool.
I see many pretty women:
Firm bums in well-cut jeans,
Nice breasts, red lips
That I only kiss in dreams.
But now I have to look away
In...
Without a look or smile,
You did the same thing yesterday
In a supermarket aisle.
In a bar you stood beside me
As he poured your G and T.
You thanked him, turned and walked away
Without a glance at me.
Why should you ever look at me?
Old white-haired wrinkled fool
With silly gap-toothed grin
And flabby useless tool.
I see many pretty women:
Firm bums in well-cut jeans,
Nice breasts, red lips
That I only kiss in dreams.
But now I have to look away
In...
#love
#dreams
#rhyming #memories
#rhyming #memories
373 reads
6 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
6th Mar 2019 2:51pm
6th Mar 2019 2:51pm
Frustration
I met a girl with curly hair,
Lusted for her everywhere.
One night I groped her pubic mound
But little slit I never found
In the tangled mat of curly hair.
Lusted for her everywhere.
One night I groped her pubic mound
But little slit I never found
In the tangled mat of curly hair.
#rhyming
#limerick
#funny
442 reads
2 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
5th Mar 2019 1:31pm
5th Mar 2019 1:31pm
Oxbridge
A Don, who seemed rather snooty,
Had leanings disgracefully fruity.
He'd seek out some fresher
When under some pressure
To perform a Proctorial Duty.
Had leanings disgracefully fruity.
He'd seek out some fresher
When under some pressure
To perform a Proctorial Duty.
#limerick
375 reads
3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Mar 2019 3:06pm
3rd Mar 2019 3:06pm
Lucy - memories of an old friend
We brought you here afraid, distressed,
To hospital your mistress gone.
You cried all night until the dawn.
Sleep well, poor dog, sleep well.
We gave you care and gave you love,
You learned to trust and how to play,
And then you knew that here you'd stay.
Sleep well, dear dog, sleep well.
In our home you slowly settled.
We bought you toys you had not known
That squeaked when bitten or when thrown.
Sleep well, fun dog, sleep well.
Slowly you came to love us too.
You'd curl and snooze beside my chair
Or in...
To hospital your mistress gone.
You cried all night until the dawn.
Sleep well, poor dog, sleep well.
We gave you care and gave you love,
You learned to trust and how to play,
And then you knew that here you'd stay.
Sleep well, dear dog, sleep well.
In our home you slowly settled.
We bought you toys you had not known
That squeaked when bitten or when thrown.
Sleep well, fun dog, sleep well.
Slowly you came to love us too.
You'd curl and snooze beside my chair
Or in...
#sadness
#animals
#rhyming #memories
#rhyming #memories
395 reads
4 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
28th Feb 2019 3:09pm
28th Feb 2019 3:09pm
Old Fossil
I am not some holy apostle;
I'm just a nasty old fossil.
I leer at young women
and wish I was in 'em
while having a jolly good jostle.
I'm just a nasty old fossil.
I leer at young women
and wish I was in 'em
while having a jolly good jostle.
#limerick
#funny
#aging
456 reads
2 Comments
EROTIC POEM
Published
25th Feb 2019 10:56pm
25th Feb 2019 10:56pm
Love in the dunes
We walked down the beach in the twilight
A rug and our basket in hand,
Walking right down to the far end
Where the wind piled dunes from the sand.
We found a sheltered hollow
Not yet taken by lovers like we.
We sat and drank wine from the bottle
As the moon rose out of the sea.
We lay and made love and then rested
Before having sex just once more,
Much like all the other young couples
In the dunes on that summer shore.
Some people climax in silence,
A few make like a Bronx cheer
But some of the sounds from...
A rug and our basket in hand,
Walking right down to the far end
Where the wind piled dunes from the sand.
We found a sheltered hollow
Not yet taken by lovers like we.
We sat and drank wine from the bottle
As the moon rose out of the sea.
We lay and made love and then rested
Before having sex just once more,
Much like all the other young couples
In the dunes on that summer shore.
Some people climax in silence,
A few make like a Bronx cheer
But some of the sounds from...
#love
#sex
#beach #night
#beach #night
541 reads
12 Comments
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