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How to choose a selection of poems for your website?
Well here are just a handful for now - nothing serious, yet... just a light sprinkling. There are more at poetry to order...
Anybody Here Sean Kelly?
(Everyone pronounced it "Seen" when I was a kid, OK?)
J
At
school they called me Smelly - it rhymed and kids
are cruel
at Uni it was Belly cos lager was my fuel
but no-one called me Welly
perhaps they feared the boot
or Telly or Delhi or Jelly
which is good,
as none are cute
If they’d called
me Machiavelli
I guess I’d have
been philosophical
though I’m happy to be
Sean Kelly
my lot
is not
catas trophical
Different World
Accountants wearing PINK?
Accountants in LIME GREEN?
Accountants at the CUTTING EDGE
of every FASHION scene?
Accountants telling JOKES?
Accountants getting LAUGHS?
Accountants being POPULAR
and signing AUTOGRAPHS?
Accountant BOY and GIRL BANDS
in at NUMBER ONE?
Accountants on BIG BROTHER
providing all the FUN?
Accountants chased by GROUPIES
who will get down on their KNEES?
Accountants in a different world –
a world without JOHN CLEESE!
Is this love?
you write me letterstake pleasure in the sending
your feelings
are deep, pure and never ending
you think it’s love
I see it in your eyes
but I’m afraid
you’re in for a surprise
your devotion is
undoubtedly unbending
but…
see…
me…
I’m just pretending
Penguin with Attitude
I’m a Penguin
God loves me
dressed me
in tuxedo
blessed me
with grace and speed
oh… in water
I swish and I glide
take fish in my stride...
in water
If you could see me
in water
there'd be no ifs, buts or maybes
I'd marry your daughter
and we'd make penguinny babies...
in water
but I'm on flipping land!!!
on land...
I waddle
clumsily
with a low
centre of
gravity and
cold
feet ooh aah yes go
on
laugh
as my friends trip
me up and
I fall you
scruffy
scruffy
bastards
I hope you choke
on your silver-foil wrapped, dodgily branded chocolate
biscuit
Speeding To Save Rhyme
Got done speeding
you’ll have heard
not done grieving
not deserved!
camera never lies?
it did this time
doing seventy
honest guv
cops said ninety
they got proof
I went crazy
no chance matey
can’t be arsed with
cruise control
blast out amps
and rule the road
no angel on dash
saying “going too fast”
take your rules
cos I’m not scared
points? you fools!
shove ‘em you know where!
maintain my speed
with a false ID
poems (c) Sean Kelly 2006
