Friend's Friend's Friend

(Try this at home. Use a FB friend, click on one of their friends who's unknown to you
and take a line from their page. Repeat 10 times and then arrange into a poem). 

Doesn't get much cuter than 3 Hawaiian mermaids
what a gig that must have been!
so many people are going live
I thought I'd do my version.
You crack me up Kathy
only you would see and say something like that
no encouragement needed.
I'm in the Alfred once again,
oh too far for us, would have loved to see you
it's very quiet here in Marsworth!

© Graham Sherwood 12/2016

Organic

(Wintry garden observations)

Spade cracks heavy blue grey clay
each piercing quake
a baleful squealing squelch,
life force evacuated
cleaved, lifted, turned over bare
a submissive corpse,
the plot sports a cadaverous battlefield
anointed with my sweat.

Remorseless
resurrection now begins
with horseshit salve
a potent potion
the victor’s gift
for ease of future skirmishes
and the chance of roses.

© Graham Sherwood 12/2016