Bedtime Story

Richard thought he ought to buy

A spare room brand new bed

To offer comfort to his visitors

A place to rest a weary head

The bed a spread to be admired

A slumber-land of snooze delight

A dream boat most luxuriously

A close-together pleasant night

His outlay maybe squeezed his cash

Groaning visitors moaned distress

As he’d dressed this bed of roses

With a crumbly battered old mattress

The moral of this nightmare story

When inviting folk to sleep

All that glitters matters not a peep
If mattress quality’s on the cheap

Beware

A number one survivor

With ample bright ideas

A built in stayer slayer

Who above all perseveres

Lurking in the shadows

Softly stepping on its way

A walking stalking plunderer

Wild side striding eye on prey

Foremost in the game of life

Supreme outside the box

Artistic disappearing act

Outstanding craft a cunning fox

Symmetry

 

Pleasing ways of being things

Proportions as expected

Perfect structures harmonised

Precisely so connected

Potency a strength desired

Power plays the clever game

Potential driving rules anew

Presence emanates its claim

Perseverance is a weighing scale

Patterns elegantly primed

Passion strikes a casual glance

Prudently sublimed

Simplicity

Led on by plain directedness

Straightforward humble routes

Unclothed no shields no cover ups

Hardened skins in leather boots

Offset by freedom’s two way street

Where standing still remains forbidden

Sow stronger seeds to feed our needs

All selfish claims get overridden

Progress slowed by ‘Ball and Chains’

Harking back to long lost days

Where something dead forever gone
Darkens outlook in the haze

Morriña

 Water bucket brimming

A thirsty weight to carry home

Loping back on rocky track

A dripping rhythmic metronome

The waft of homestead calling

Almost done not far to go

Tired hands protest in agony

Why is arduous so slow

Sounds of laughter in the air

Sing out in fleeting pleasure

Curtain calls as night descends

Harmonised in sundown leisure

The Inventor

It begins with making gizmo’s

Thingamajigs and doodads

Widget jiggers and doohickeys

Drawn skillfully on notepads

Initially you’d never guess

How this peculiar stuff was made

Yet there it is magnificent

Impressivenesss displayed

We begged implored do tell us

How one aspires to formulate

Do we start out with an end result

Working back to foremost state

That is the way to make devices

She laid out ways and means

Collect the missing bits and pieces

But! Don’t forget to count the beans