Things That Make Me Feel Happy E-Book

Bernard Morris

• Herausgeber: Bernard Morris
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

Trees locked in a lover's embrace; onions sizzling in a frying pan; traffic lights changing on an empty road, an abandoned baby finding its mother...and over a thousand other Things That Make Me Feel Happy in this epic poem.

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THINGS THAT MAKE ME FEEL HAPPY

a poem

Bernard Morris

© 2021 Bernard Morris

First Edition

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Of a very long poem the very first line

Gutenberg Castle in Liechtenstein

Japanese Umbrella Pine

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Power cuts and three day weeks

A farmer’s wife with rosy cheeks

Scary monsters and ghoulish freaks

The Dark Ages, the Ancient Greeks

The deepest corners of my crazy mind

Seeing strangers being kind

Passing me by two lovers entwined

Fast Forward, Stop and Rewind

Yesterday, today, tomorrow, next week

Laughing children giving cheek

Taking the bins out once a week

Standing on the bottom stair and hearing it go creak

Opening and sniffing a brand new shiny mag

Putting lots of make-up on and going out in drag

Dancing and waving a rainbow-coloured flag

Going on a hen do, going on a stag

Finding lots of money I didn’t even lose

Wearing baggy trousers and shiny shoes

Going to the pub and spilling lots of booze

Doing a crossword and getting all the clues

A hissing sea scraping stones

Comic capers with Vinnie Bones

Teenage Kicks with The Undertones

Between bass and tenor with baritones

Lashing oceans spitting out grit

Tuning up in the orchestra pit

Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt

The All-American Banana Split

Trees locked in a lover’s embrace

A 400 metre obstacle race

In a desert a welcoming water place

Lady Gaga’s Poker Face

Rekindling romances many years later

A falling asteroid leaving a crater

The inventor of the calculator

All the food in my refrigerator

Playing bingo at Playfair and Link

Reddish blue and yellowish pink

Standing at the kitchen sink

Shopping in the precinct

London Bridge and Big Ben

Writing with a biro pen

L S Lowrie’s Matchstick Men

I’ll Never Fall In Love Again

Putting smiles on people’s faces

Wheelbarrow and three-legged races

White marble surrounding fireplaces

Saying “Twist” and chasing the aces

Destination Moon and Fiend Without A Face

The saviour of the human race

Loaf of Bread and Boat Race

Dallas, Dynasty and Peyton Place

Paul Gambaccini and John Peel

Getting stuck on the Ferris Wheel

Mario Andretti at the steering wheel

The heavily-armoured Batmobile

Tony Wilson and Tony Hart

When You’re Young, In The City and Start

The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte

Anything that is the state of the art

Bernard Wrigley’s Plastic Pies

Harry Hill on Stars In Their Eyes

Lots of money and all that it buys

Sparing feelings with little white lies

Taking a dog for a walk

Hearing a baby learn how to talk

Fairytale Of New York

Mike Joyce and Andy Rourke

Filling up my glass in restaurants for free

Showing off and winning at my local Spelling Bee

Staying out in town till half past three

Thinking I am locked outside and then I find my key

Crossing off items from a long and boring list

Thinking about all the girls I’ve never ever kissed

Rummy, Snap and Poker and Knockout Whist

Sitting in a sauna, hiding in the mist

Having a wee in a steaming hot shower

Standing on top of Blackpool Tower

Saying I love you with a bright red flower

Lamb Rogan Josh, Chicken Sweet & Sour

Canada, France, Italy and Spain

Standing outside in the pouring rain

Taking paracetamol to ease away the pain

Lots of happy people in a daisy chain

Onions sizzling in a frying pan

Going on holiday in a caravan

Not being scared of the bogeyman

A Golden Eagle’s wingspan

First Dates and Gogglebox

The Three Bears And Goldilocks

Avoiding anything orthodox

Records in a jukebox

Traffic lights changing on an empty road

A Goliath Frog and a Natterjack Toad

Action videos many times slowed

Linguistic, visual and spacial mode

Driving to the house where I lived as a kid

Chilli Calamari with Risotto Squid

Saying to my enemies, “Good rid!”

Pogo Dancing with Johnny and Sid

An iceberg floating like a white skyscraper

School exercise books backed with wallpaper

Having a little playful caper

Black cherry flavoured vapour