Sonnet

'Hi Telboy - so how is your twenty first century?'
'It's u'p to shit, we have a pandemic worse than...

I am surrounded by experts, knowledge till it hurts,
it's never long before some cleverclogs asserts...

Politicians seeking the top post; are the last that should rule!
They end up being tyrants; and...

We made sandcastles, the tide washed my dreams away,
my dad said: 'Ne'er mind son, we had a good...

There's so much you can take, wouldn't you agree,
just too much engineered, contrived sentimentality...

When I was in Bali they walked on the beach with logo poles,
the dancers had their beads, coloured...

From Adam to Bill Clinton, no one is guilty,
the law is a an ass or maybe a horse in USA;
I...

I spend some time in the cemetery
sounds strange but I know where I want to be buried
and...

Beautiful glowing yellow cactus flower!
Do you posses some terse eternal power?
Must we...

There was a complaint from a devolved nation,
a faded cricket bat from someone called Ranganathan,...

Yes we are, as dark clouds loomed on the horizon,
the things we get ourselves into as we go along;...

SOLITUDE

Greet the gentle enchanting wilderness,
Aide of the astute and honourable.
...

Gaugin went in search of the of the pure white light,
he found his ideal in France and a Tahiti...

Get your artefacts right, the snooty curator said;
my friend worked at The British Museum,...

My art included you which was beyond me,
soft curves provided incredible transient mystery;
...

They came to the marshes where the wind blew the reeds,
where the dragonflies skimmed and the heron...

Since I came down from Oxford, it was literature
and architecture which provided the adventure;...