Reverend Jenks
I know you’re in there Reverend Jenks
I saw you go inside.
I’ve just a few questions to ask of you
What have you got to hide?
You owe it to your parishioners
To tell me what you know
About the things it’s said you did
All those years ago
Surely as a man of God
You know it would be best
To come outside and talk to me
And get it off your chest
You have to come out sometime
What are you waiting for?
Come on man, I’m imploring you
Please open the door
Mike O’Brien
See the drug receptor?
Embedded. Protected.
Within a cell membrane.
A drug will latch on soon.
Stephen Paul Wren
Bios and links
Stephen Paul Wren
is a poet-chemist and chemist-poet.
stargazy
we kept lockets of our hair
in Davy Jones locker.
our nights were always wet.
salt was our tongue,
and vinegar kisses.
on cobbled lanes
we walked home slow,
woozy, slowly, now,
boozily. sang full
fathomed. misquoted Dylan,
Ariel, The Mousehole Cat.
those were the pearl nights.
your eyes stargazy.
Ivor Daniel
Milky Wood
Woody was a milkman
Down our way
Come rain or shine
Delivered every day
Cheery whistle
Bottles clink
Sometimes a nod
And sometimes a wink
How are you doing
Milky Wood?
I’m not too bad
And not too good
I’m feeling my age
A bit of of back pain
But other than that
I can’t complain.
Mike O’Brien
Bios and Links
Ivor Daniel
lives in Gloucestershire, UK. His poems have appeared in @litscihub, Steel Jackdaw, iamb, Fevers of the Mind, Roi Fainéant, Ice Floe Press, The Dawntreader, After…, Alien Buddha, @TopTweetTuesday, Wombwell Rainbow, Black Nore Review, Lit.202, Sidhe Press, Black Bough Poems…
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