Sonnet

LEAR WROTE NONSENSE WHICH TURNED OUT THE BEST,
ENOUGH TO FLUMMOX AND PUT THE IRISH TO THE TEST,...

I was on a roller coaster in Paris, no side bars,
we were on tiny cars going halfway to the stars,...

My babies grew up but I wasn't really there,
wish I could have been like Charles, he care,
...

'Otherwise' springs to mind or maybe one kind,
do you get the feeling you're being left behind?...

The house had flying beams made of many dreams,
you stood there, where nothing was as it seems,...

That's what they told me but actually it's you,
you find partner with someone else - what do you do...

My mind transported to peace,
Conjure famed lost, golden fleece!
Change canvass; into sacred...

Some people just show lovely baby pictures,
they even ask who it was who wrote the scriptures;...

Storm was brewin', wondered what you were doing,
pulled the cellar shutter down, bolt was missing,...

You wondered what it would be like to make love,
perhaps check the coast is clear - send out a dove...

I am a man for all seasons,
the same as Da Vinci used green for reasons;
in spring, I...

I thought I'd bring a chocolate ice cream around,
watched you eat every single drop without a sound...

Let me try again, let me try once more,
let me try again, think of all we had before,
we can...

Do you deserve them - expect some credit,
perhaps with us and all, you don't even fit,
best...

We have automatic blinds, up and down according to sun,
some whirring but manual control if and when...

Fire; requires heat, oxygen and fuel;
To burn like flickering; beautiful jewel!
For every...

We have them, sometimes it's us, sometimes it's you,
swat all away like flies to the back of the...