Thank God

Thank God that life’s such a terrible thing.
I’m not one to moan
But he created it, after all
It’s down to him alone

All things dull and ugly
Each short and painful life
All unthinking brutality
All the fruitless strife

Than you God that I am here
Living day by day
Whilst you are up in heaven
A long long way away

Mike O’Brien

 

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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