Vast Blue Sky

I feel am nothing 
sat as I am under this vast 
blue 
sky 
complete with giant 
white 
fluffy 
clouds
everything runs slowly 

huge planes and their trails
and the moon 
are nothing compared to these giants which stride above me
giant 
clouds 
forming ever changing shapes
a fish 
a pigs head
a smiling dog
drift across this vast 
blue 
canvas 

aeroplanes flee their tread
birds run and hide
all come
and then are gone
like the clouds themselves 
pass on

(Haiku)

Old man chases arm
of jacket attempting, in 
vein, to put it on!

Has The World Always Been Like This?

Has the world always been like this?

The war in Ukraine 
The covid pandemic

Extinction rebellion 
Dinghys on beaches

Global warming
Becker in jail

Deforestation 
Angela Rayner

Nightingale hospitals
Westminster scandals

Russian war crimes
Maternity hospitals

Flammable cladding
Lockdowns and party gate

Increasing prices
Porn in our parliament 

The high price of fuels
NHS waiting times

Vaccinations 
Generation rent

Social care issues 
Musk buys Twitter  

Heating or eating
Contactless payments

Tesla
Meta
Amazon
Facebook

Apple Apple Apple Apple

Apple watch
Apple pay 
Apple TV
Everything Apple!

...or did I just miss something?

Everything Changes

when I visit the city I grew up in
it takes me back
it was the place I took my first real steps in life
the place I made my first mistakes
the place I discovered girls and smoked my first 
and my last 
cigarette
things where different then
things change

I made and lost some good mates
we played football in the school playground
and went fishing in the mill leet behind the bakery
street names now have special meanings to me
the street where I used to live
the street to my primary school
streets where my mates used to live
and the streets where we used to play
things I don't do know
things change

the primary school which taught me many things
including subjects not on the curriculum 
has now been knock down 
as has the big tree which celebrated our arrival home 
to what was 
but is no longer 
number 28
our house
houses have been built on fields I once played in
things look so different now
things change

houses full of people I once knew 
now homes to strangers
shop names have changed
some buildings aren't even shops anymore
the post office is now a chip shop
the streets that once were full of people who knew me 
are full of strangers
or 
maybe I do know some of these people  
only
in the 50 years since I lived here
things have changed
I've changed
we've all changed
everything changes

Raindrops

raindrops fall
and rainwater collects
making puddles which over-flow
forming streams which get trapped 
forming puddles which over-flow once again

as the clouds then depart
and the rain finally stops
all the puddles finally dry
and the streams disappear 
as the sun 
once again 
dries the land

Confusion

Dying.
You mean that which occurs 
or is occurring at 
or connected with 
the time that someone dies
or do you mean the seed-bearing part of a plant
consisting of the reproductive organs that are typically surrounded by brightly coloured petals?

A novel.
You mean a fictitious prose narrative 
of book length
typically representing character and action with some degree of realism
or do you mean a secret word or phrase that must be used to gain admission to a file 
a place 
or a location?

Music.
Do you mean a vocal and instrumental blend 
combined in such a way as to produce beauty in the form of harmonies 
as an expression of emotion
or do you mean a free-swimming marine invertebrate 
with a gelatinous bell or saucer-shaped body that is typically transparent and which can have stinging tentacles around the edge?

An affair.
Do you mean a sexual relationship between two people 
one or both of whom are either married or in a relationship with someone else
or do you mean a long curved fruit which grows in clusters and has soft pulpy flesh and yellow skin when ripe?

Confusion.
Do you mean an inability to think as clearly or as quickly as you normally would
or do you mean being given the definition of something completely different to that which you were asking for?