It’s the last day of that foolish month
Let’s feel the bounce of spring
Dance about to a twangy tune
Set free your reckless thing
Uncovering how new hopes are born
In the ‘Likely’ neighbourhood
How the warmth of the sun can cook up fun
In Erysimum groves of mauve
Strident sounds heard far and wide
Encompassing four points
Bringing change and innovation
Four-headed monster smoking joints
Tempo tantrums spreading harmony
Causing crazy howling screams
Deafening tropes abandoned hopes
Floating up and into dreams
Four-headed bugs have gripped our lugs
A blackbird singing ‘Any time at all’
Things we said about ‘Blue Jay Way’
Fixing a hole for the fool in the hall
The sleepy hour descending
A transporting tinted hoop
Emerald green and glimmering
As dreaming eyelids droop
A magic carpet window gap
Bids the traveller to enter
On a drifting stream of dusky mist
Made by the fantasy inventor
On a trip to new discovery
A secret mission to complete
Ancient bells that swing in song
Where every elsewhere meets
They want to turn the sunshine down
Reduce the radiant hour
Regenerate the melting caps
Re-grow the ice pole tower
They want to saturate the firmament
By adding density to clouds
Engineering novel air-sprays
Swamping sunblock solar shrouds
They want to make the warming cooler
Take the rise out of the sky
Introducing new impurities
Conjunctive prophylactics upon high
They want to redirect the ways and means
Allowing two-way heat depletion
Keep the carbon cloak at bay
Through dissipation inundation
The Consistent Constituent
It’s fair to announce
With ingredients outlined essential
Are constantly kept
In a kitchen nearby
So central their place reverential
The importance of taste is vital
Reduction is never an option
The Consistent Constituent
It’s fair to announce
Is essential for pleasant consumption
It was way back in the Seventies
In the deep sleep of the night
A bandit dreamt of chocolate swag
And calmly hatched a plan of sleight
Tempted by a State of shellshock
Of the chocolatey suffuse
Sneaking down to implement a crime
His Egghead plan a perfect ruse
Mindful of the woozy snoozers
Slumbering off their evening wine
The Eggman robbing scallywag
Took full control of plot design
Eggs were laid in perfect rows
Farly shared to be well-served
Thrilling fillings of sweet lavishness
In fine packaging preserved
Unwrapping them too obvious
Could bring on instant retribution
A better plan demanded covertness
Avoiding easy prosecution
Approaching egg-filled boxes
With incisions at the back
Allowing unseen access
To a monumental chocolate snack
Deceptively, he left the scene
Now sated and replete
Leaving any clue from frontal view
In a pristine state of neat deceit
Sickness now enveloped him
As he headed back to bed
Regretfully ad nauseum
Hoping nothing would be said
Until the morning ceremonies
Amid the Easter Bunny chat
Brought warning chimes of choccy crimes
And a finger-pointing spat
Fait accompli brought the perp to book
Hands up he did confess
Nowhere to go but seek a pardon
For the mess of his transgress
Within the way of worldly things
Beginnings must reach ends
How every day will lose its way
To the darkness that descends
Ruination will cease everything
And in that time will flood with pain
In a stretch where weak opinions
Must drain away all previous gains
Having burned the books and libraries
Discarded all scholastic lessons
Ridiculed the common sense of law
Now presided by assassins
In the melee trudge forthcoming
History’s chapters beckoning
A piper waits for payment
As a consequential reckoning
The ocean of commotion
A disordered, muddy flow
Infected by despotic rants
Inflicts their sordid way to go
Agitation in the nation
Subverts the upright cause
Where blatant lies are showered
And human decency withdraws
It's that notching time of year again
When one is blamed for getting older
The younger folk are checking wrinkles
Plus, grey hair surrounds the shoulder
Yesterday, you were a 'one thing'
Today, you are 'another'
But now the time has marched along
You've caught up with your mother
So happy birthday, older chap
May wisdom now descend
Maybe it's time for reminiscences
That peacefulness shall gently lend.
Numpties lacking ways and means
To clarify solutions
Stuck in doubt with no way out
In a mire of thought, pollution
Giving up with much resentment
Caused by pointing out their errors
A trail of chaos in the wake
Bringing on the midnight terrors
So much so descriptions changing
To reimagine well-used numpties
Giving energy to meaningful
By describing fools as trumpties
Off to the elsewhere
Where something else resides
Fresh fields of novelties
To be where else abides
Something other than whatever
Like not ever seen before
Somewhat never imitated
Or carbon copied to be sure
Wherever I might look to be
In search of creativity
A brand new never seen before
The way of ingenuity
When opposites take centre stage
Underlining weak mistakes
From the hazy, futile, insane plans
Out of those pathological quakes
Lonely tyrants in their ivory towers
Take in the end at hand
Slipping slowly into infamy
As strongholds sink into the sand
Exaggerations overstatements
Stacked up against the sludge
Causing blanket desecration
Where details blatantly get fudged
Latin used Ad nauseum
Has me stumped and mystified
Pointless use of clever speak
Like ‘Ergo’ leaves less than fortified
On a point of ipso facto
I feel left out in the cold
No longer in the status quo
Exempli gratia oversold
Why use caveat emptor
To warn a buyer to beware
When the warning isn’t understood
Pro rata difficult to bear
Once again, that April day
Initially sounds cool
Look out for jokes and early pokes
In case you are the April fool
Not a day for gullibility
Be watchful for that folly
That lulls you into dumb acceptance
Where all seriousness is jolly
A prankster coax, a silly hoax
Designed for taking in
The easy kind of simple mind
With a Cheshire Cat-like grin
AI Version
Once again, that April day
A time for laughter
light, and play.
But watch for pranks
A sly surprise,
Disguised in innocent guise
Beware the fool
The simple jest,
That tests your wit
Puts you to test.
Don't fall for tricks
Or silly scheme,
Wake from this laughter-filled dream.
A prankster's coax
A playful hoax,
A Cheshire grin
A hidden crooks.
To catch the unwary
Kind and mild,
With laughter bright
A charming style.
