Poems

Poems, don't sit by river

Aren't there to be picked up by poets who pass

To find them on bank

And I'm

Not built to deliver

When stepping stone love is in need

Of a bridge or a plank

And youth

The stream so much wider

Thought you could slow down the flow

If you drank and you drank

Middle age

Still unable to find her

The words on the stone that you skipped, so heavy it sank

The ripple

Hesitation creates

The unposted poem with message so clear, yet so blank

Love will come (Love will come)

Not to he who just waits

For mouthing from bank side seems safer than living in tank

Thoughts

We understood were preserved

They rotted and quickly moved on to a less cluttered bed

And rust

Some thoughts never deserved

But treated no different to ones you kept in your head

Couldn't master me a classical piece

Brain's well oiled but it's never been greased

Popular but not fighting for seats

Pays the rent but never the lease

Never been classed as a work of art

Unlikely with the slowest of starts

Good progress if he ever took part

School days when you lived by your heart

When you lived by your heart

And those strong and able survive (Strong and able survive)

And do so at the expense of fiction and art

Dissolve

Unnoticed to see (Unnoticed to see)

As time eats the evidence left that we even took part

Poems (Poems) don't sit by river