roses - carnations - bread

and we're definitely not blue - we're us

our thirty minutes perfect for the three

we're roses - carnations  - bread (we don't fuss)

five years we are - we answer back you see

our thirty minutes perfect for the three

we are spice girls and turquois - quips and cats

our question goes - how happy then are we?

the husbands take the brunt - - so that is that

we're roses - carnations  - bread (we don't fuss)

we're whisky - gardening - crafts and puzzles too
we're like the river witham - that's because
we babble - laugh and joke - - we're in our youth

five years we are - we answer back you see

our thirty minutes perfect for the three

dave wood

no title

although i live next door

i love you still

i'm saved because you're near -

the healing process starts

as soon as i sense your beeswax and the lavender

and how you fill our hearts -

i knw you're sleeping - ringed by churchyard yews

if you were human - how i'd love to talk

although you're famous - one of only six

i feel such peaceful comfort near your bricks

lynn parker

wendy the great

if you want to know the answer -
ask my mum
i am her biggest fan - sir!
- ask my mum
she always knows what to say
when you've had a rubbish day
she'll make it feel o.k
- ask my mum

if you want to knit a dream,
ask my mum
make cakes with good fresh cream
- ask my mum
she's always bright and calm
cinnamon candles are her balm
she'll sort things out without a
qualm...
that's my mum

lynn parker

this sporting life

whatever this poem is - 
it's not as perfect as you
ten out of ten for all your d.i.y
for caring when the shelf's about to fall
and when the j.c.b is crashing through
it's time you drove yourself towards
a new direction -
culture - say - or sculpting - try
to press the red instead of always green

dear squirrel - when you climb the next high tree
make sure the one who shares your branch is me


lynn parker 

raspberries for scarborough

time for the sea
that's you and me
there's gran - grandad and twice
and freya here - we've packed the gear
we hope the weather's ever nice

time to snooze
o freya cat
then time to hit the sea
an ice cream dream 
the scarborough scene
that's him and you and me

so me and grans and grandads
and cousin elsie too
we'll squeeze into the caravan
and practise raspberries...
           tttttthhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrppppppppp!


dave wood

sparrows tomorrow

who know what will happen to-sparrow?
who know what will happen to-marrow?
who know what will happen to-barrow?
what matters' what matters today

are you sure what your future will bring?
the birds in the woodlands all sing
(see - they all fly on the wing)
what matters' what matters today

you're rabbit - cat - leopard - but caring 
a happy life - love made for sharing
some fast food - in boxes of squaring
what matters' what matters today


dave wood

a calming kiss

where's my tea?
he says to me 
that's forty years of wedded bliss

he's calm - you see
(but specs he'll need)
o dearest you - i'd like a calming kiss

the smell of grass
(allotment tasks)
i think of lemon shower gel
my dear - ha ha
i won't get far
perhaps you'll fix the car as well

so glasses on - we've theatre sped
we're green and silver - cultured up
then home at ten and off to bed
and what about a nice cup...?
         noooooooo!!!!!!!!



dave wood