Parrots

Canary Wharf

The Baltic Jungle

Cold are the charts

That wind through the skyline

The daily grind

Living on timeline

Parrots and the Polly’s

Acting like Dollys’

Try break the system

But eco encryption

Keeps the primitives in place

Bad taste

Political correctness

Stiff upper lips

Distinct indirectness

Property management

Leadership skills

Let’s talk all day

About our empty thrills

Champs over lobster

Comradery finessed

Let’s brag about property

Debate and detest

Let’s add up our tallies

Still don’t have much

But tell the world it’s your oyster

Over your Michelin brunch.

Systematic Symptoms

I’m at risk

Of being too precious

Of what’s most precious

To me

Forget me!

Stop the me

And just see

That the only place you can only be

Is creating an affinity

With the infinity

Of your own creativity

Frog & Lily

My dear,

The dreary, nondescript blurring of my days

For now form into a formidably warm summer haze.

Somehow you have set ablaze my tactless meander,

Rendered my ponder with an anchor bold answer.

As I flit from every lily pad I’ve crept upon so slightly,

The ripple of my crash was a shaking I felt fortnightly.

I could never catch my balance, but have I landed on a flower?

Resting, testing, and so tempting to stay…

Why should I give you that power?

I should be leaving anyway...

But why?

My cynicism now as flighty as my smiling;

Floral and delicate, I find myself unwinding…

I’m slowing now - taking each moment in.

I feel too softly for you; soft against my skin.

And still while I’m riddled with dissecting my sins,

When I land on his base, my weary theories fall thin.

Slimline I swim in such an easy emotion,

Feel I mustn't try too hard,

You've got an intoxicating potion.

And as I swell and bathe in this new landscape,

I don’t wish to leap, but not only for your sake.

My flighty tendencies will never be understood…

Yet I'm rather fed up of getting stuck in the mud.

Must we kiss a few toads before finding a prince?

Well, I landed on a lily and haven’t looked back since.