Frost

It really was Breakfast with Frost!

No Richard Nixon this time,

Just a careful driver lost!

Stuck on an ungritted hill!

Enough to test my fledgling will!

I got help from a fellow driver!

One I knew from School!

He gave me advice to negotiate the jam!

I was no longer a fool!

The frost was unbearable!

On the way to chapel!

The accelerator would make it harum scarum!

It makes me curse like a Rapper!

After Communion, it was to the Shop!

The ice on the Car Park was fierce!

If I go hard I'd slide and flop!

Getting the paper and a few odds and ends!

Then no negotiate the frosty bends!

If I crashed, Gran would be in Tears!

Later in the foreboding day!

I had to take my Brother out to Subway!

The roads were still like a skating rink!

The traction was often on the brink!

But I found a SuperValu Bay!

Then he went for his Sub!

I was waiting Half an Hour!

Eventually he got his grub!

But the way home was still laid with peril!

Luckily no Boy Racers acting feral!

Chatting to Friends on Facebook!

Talking about the chance on the road I took!

It felt really bad today!

The people were mad that way!

I found a niche for exposing crooks!

So that's another Manic Sunday!

Not so serene for just this one day!

But some divine intervention!

With help you don't have to mention!

Tomorrow's roads will be gritted, for it'll be Monday!

The Car

Lord, I don't want a Mercedes Benz!

I'm happy with a Ford!

It's what I can afford!

I somehow have to meet my ends!

Finding a Job isn't Heaven Sent!

I just want an ordinary life!

With the hope of finding a Wife!

Something has caused strife!

In the process of being a Man!

I can't do what other Men can!

On the M1 today with my Brother!

Negotiating the frosty roads, that was a real bother!

The fear of an accident compounds!

Dealing with drivers that have done the rounds!

Arrive in a Diner on the A4!

Parking Bays full of Snow!

They would have no chance to thaw!

The worry was their portion sizes!

And Coca-Cola offering Christmas Prizes!

Arriving home it was Brass Monkeys!

But we do have Bananas!

And we have the Shed's Lock's Key!

Groceries bought throughout the Day!

But it's getting harder and harder to pay!

Minus 4 Degrees!

In Celsius, with snow on the Trees!

Feeling warm inside!

Recovering some wounded pride!

Avoiding the great big freeze!

35 Lines of Poetry!

Two and a Half Sonnets!

TV talks about Winter Payments!

Gran is entitled!

But finding work?

I'm on to it!

The Roads

Our Road is like a Skating Rink!

The Financial situation is on the brink!

November really is ending harsh!

Frosty Roads and a Frozen Marsh!

If kids go there, they'd sink!

It's the 21st Anniversary!

Dad's death due to mercenaries!

The Midwinter then was really bleak!

It was in the Middle of the Week!

No longer with a Farming Bursary!

31 Years of terrible Choices!

Can I make things change?

I hear conflicting voices!

I sealed my fate, so it seems!

By being too early to work in a Team!

My Lord hasn't forsaken me!

My history hasn't mistaken me!

Look forward, just for Today!

For it is the only known way!

My recovery is making me!

Show me a Child of 7!

I'll tell you if he's a man from Heaven!

But when I was 11!

I was in secondary School!

A whole new level!

What can I do when I drive?

Even when I take it easy, it will still slip and slide!

But I maintained a level of personal pride!

I haven't shunted myself onto the side!

Today the Road is slippy!

When it thaws, the street will be dripping!

Nothing done in the Town!

To go there would make me a clown!

The rural roads need some gritting!

Wealth

Your Health is your Wealth!

But when you're trying to pay the Bills,

You're taxed through stealth!

What on earth is going wrong?

Three Years Ago the Economy was so strong!

Some one is after us!

A lower Power!

A Financial Monster!

That seeks to grab and devour!

I was for a while rich!

But finding work at this time?

It left me in the ditch!

Hoping for a better life was what I seek!

But my Credit Card left me fiscally Weak!

Seeking a new salvation!

From outside manipulation!

Could we ever hope and pray,

About what we can change Today?

Can't believe what's happened the Nation!

Hopes of European Peace Dashed!

Through control of Public Savings Cash!

Now there could be war!

One like which has never been seen before!

The Power Brokers that be!

Have set a Monster Free!

Can no longer seek the Death Penalty!

What happened to you and me?

King flopped on Double 4!

But Money earned like never before!

That could've been my Dad!

What a life we could've had!

Money Talks!

Which was why MJ walked!

Before his Death!

He took Iron Lung Breaths!

His Estate Earnings no longer baulks!

Save my money!

Because the effect isn't funny!

Look forward to Christmas while you can!

Then wait for the Easter Bunny!

Electric

The electric's off.

You're thrown off course.

But the inclemency outside?

That's 100 times worse.

Gran demands the torch.

Over in her Bedroom.

The Laptop is still on.

Thanks to the battery.

Shut it down, or it will go 'boom'.

Your Brother entertains you.

Without the electricity mains.

Old Shadow Puppets.

From a world before Muppets.

Should we switch on the generator?

Gran says no.

The electric will come on later.

Then we phoned friends.

Thank God for Mobiles.

But not the iPhone trend.

Their electric's okay.

But they weren't round our way.

Gran phoned a Neighbour.

About NIE's Labour.

She's still waiting so patient,

My Brother's agitation's blatant.

We rang our own handy man.

To switch on the generator.

To drive then takes a hardy man.

But we didn't have the key.

To switch on the generator.

I felt less manly.

But then the light went back on.

The black out was 90 Minutes long.

So every thing's now fine and dandy.

Thanks to the NIE repair.

It seemed so handy.

This was a night to remember.

Thursday 11th November.

Bed

A bed, for sleepy heads!

But a severe case of insomnia says,

"There's something wrong with ya!"

What a Day I had!

About Gran's bed making her sad!

Fixing it is a common chore!

There's always something wrong once more!

Find the answer within!

During the Morning of collecting the bin!

A song by the Boo Radleys!

The country's wrong financially!

A day of Murphy's law again!

The sow is without a boar again!

Pig Farmers yesterday!

The smell of muck won't go away!

Bed is where I need to be!

But a good night's sleep doesn't seem for me!

Too much on my chest!

To worry about the rest!

Is what life seems for me!

Memories of University Nights!

Staying up with room mates!

After a coursework blight!

Didn't get to bed until 6!

Or get the Friday Morning Bus at Half 5!

It did the trick!

One of those all-nighters!

But not for drunken fighters!

Let's try to go back to bed!

Time to rest the sleepy head!

Down

What goes up must come down!

Sam Maguire is no longer in your town!

County Down didn't do it for Ulster!

Mouths left with ulcers!

Cork full of beans and pulses!

Tyrone feels your pain!

It seemed like our 1995 Final over again!

Better squad won!

The fall short brigade lost by one!

Employment level's down too!

Governments' hands tied!

Envelopes are brown too!

One can't be servant to God and Money!

Suicide ain't funny!

Things no longer seem sunny!

Feel the pain of a nation!

Bushel lowered, Shekel raised!

By some clandestine Corporation!

All Roads no longer lead to Rome!

They lead to New York!

Where so many call home!

Wall Street still on a downer!

Way down, like 'Death at a Funeral'!

Not for a faint hearted frowner!

Find a Northern Comfort!

When you seek your future!

Too late for visiting the Port!

So try to keep the chin up!

You may not be a pin-up!

But you may win up!

The Library Internet

At the moment it's 7 O'clock!
An Hour before the Library shuts up shop!
Now the Internet Access is unusually quick!
Usually as slow as a cruise liner Ship!

Guy beside me playing music I hate!
Overheard through his Headphones!
My God, his Youtube isn't stalling!
The Dawgs are seeking their Bones!

Killing time at this moment!
Thanks to my NI Libraries enrolment!
A Tina Cousins hit from 1999!
Like Prince looking to Party!
It's a sign of the times!

Thinking of my times in Coleraine!
The World was my Oyster!
Then I experienced a lot of Pain!
Dirty Minded TV guy said he needed Mental Floss!
I guess back then I was my own Boss!

Internet Explorer!
So often in the Library it's a crawler!
The system going down at peak time on Saturday!
To be positive then is an act of flattery!

Youtube was a bane to me!
During my Brother's time there!
I experienced much adversity!
No one seemed to care!

Now most of it is knocked on the head!
Several issues need to be put to bed!
Chicken Sandwiches for Lunch now!
Make sure it's Wholemeal bread!

Struggling for things to say!
Can leave you in a peculiar way!
One day like this according to Elbow!
But I didn't feel the need to seek to bellow!

Getting frustrated on Facebook!
Doesn't leave your mates with a good Face Look!
I need to learn to relax and digress!
Rather than thinking of Women who wish to undress!

The Library Internet!
Having an experience there is a sure-fire bet!
It gets you out of the Pressure Cooker House!
But please be as quiet as a Church Mouse!

Holy God!

Miley in Glenroe!

Always said, "Holy God!"

On Sundays after a Fish Supper!

Thick fried Potato and Battered Cod!

Sundays in the early Nineties!

Enjoying Grunge and Old School Rave!

Listening to the UK Chart in those days!

Afternoon visiting your Father's Grave!

The heady days of 1992!

Single European market was coming through!

Talk about a Bishop having an affair!

Which lead to a Love child exposed On Air!

It was a summer never to forget!

Highland Radio's reception!

It came and went!

Championship games in Donegal and Tyrone!

We were in Carrickmore!

But were eventually beaten and Home!

Now Cassettes bought in the Lama's Fair!

Copied illegally!

Those days I didn't care!

Listening to Prince and Carter USM!

Musical gigs!

I wish I was there!

August time 18 Years past!

13 Years Old!

But time travels fast!

Thinking of Girls was platonic!

Boys talked about Mario and Sonic!

Little did I know what was to occur!

Girls soon took a different perception!

Watching 'The Good Sex Guide' late at night!

Talking about protection!

U2 were 'Even better than the real thing!'

If only I could act and sing!

18 Years of Sexual anorexia!

'Birds and the Bees'?

I felt like I had dyslexia!

Boys would brag!

About the Girls they wanna shag!

But we were still Children!

Our School was run by ardent Christians!

But those days I'll never forget!

The Kids Show remixes!

Video Games too!

Before the glow sticks!

Girls were enjoying their 'Million Love Songs'!

I was enjoying the Lemonheads' 'Mrs Robinson'!

1992!

Holy God!

How the time has passed through!

I'm glad I'm not that age now!

How the kids cope?

I'll never know how!

Now I'm 31 Years-Old!

Here is a story!

Prior to then, I had never told!

Enjoying myself better Today!

I have become stronger in every single way!

Sunday

Sunday Lunchtimes!

No longer at home!

In the Bar!

Listening to the Dubliners and Wolfe Tones!

Lunch now for sale in the Shops!

Turkey, Ham, Roasties!

Plus Gravy Slops!

Making sure it doesn't spill on the Seat!

Bringing it home for me and my Brother to eat!

Heading to the Bar afterwards!

Usual Suspects drinking!

Hoping for Financial rewards!

At the Races and Racing UK on!

SkySports at the back!

No hope of shouting 'Play On'!

The Publican's Daughter watches T4 beforehand!

Watching ads for Direct Line, LV and MoreThan.

Watching repeats of Hollyoaks and Glee!

Then turning over to Dance Music from MTV!

Typical Sunday Afternoon in rural Ireland!

The fields outside the Village are on Dry Land!

The Championship Seasons is delayed!

Because the County Teams' Championship is being played!

I have to keep myself busy on this Holy Day!

Mass was on last night!

Now I have more time to play!

I must keep myself occupied!

So I won't get swallowed up by a false sense of Pride!

My Brothers at home with the Wii!

But the gaming world never appealed to me!

He also has the Play Station 3!

Almost forgot, the XBox 360!

The shops are opened from 1 to 6!

Enough time to buy a CD!

For my ever increasing list!

Every little helps in Tesco!

M&S sells fancy stuff!

Like Posh Food and Pesto!

I see my Super Friends in Armagh!

Motivating me to lose extra flab!

Heading home!

Listening to Today FM!

Days like these before?

I can't remember when!

So Sundays in our area are special!

It's a totally different level!

The day isn't so lazy!

For we think doing nothing is Crazy!

Help is at hand

I eat because I'm unhappy!
I don't aspire to dress like Dappy!
I'm unhappy because I eat!
I'm not like those on the Street!

I have an adverse effect!
Part of the Food Craving Sect!
Think of eating as an escape!
From life's unwinding Red Tape!

Don't miss life's Boat!

Just because you have a Sore Throat!

You have an outlet to go to tonight!

Don't get looped because you've had a fright!

Don't believe in diet pills!

They will never cure your eating ills!

Pressure from friends Online!

Means I have to work it this time!

Don't puts 3 Months down the drain!

Just because you've too much spare time!

What is yours may soon be mine!

I want to ride my Bicycle again!

You've come too far to go back!

When driving your Car don't get slack!

What is messed up in your mind of food!

Your Soul can heal with a serene mood!

Don't let it go now!

For it shows how!

Everyone says, "You're good!"

But it's not how it should!

For I have to progress and march!

Amidst all the haze of Sugar and Starch!

To Costcutter at your local rival's!

Your no longer in a downward Spiral!

Legs used to chafe!

Now walking is Safe!

Make plenty of haste!

Whatever your taste!

To your super friends, like in 'The Simpsons'!

Don't crumble like Gypsum!

Preacher in the Car Park

The worlds of the Holy Bible!

Words some consider Bile!

The Preacher in the Car Park!

Warns about the ways of the vile!

Every Saturday he comes!

Preaching of the Lord Above!

Last Sunday was Pentecost!

When the Holy Spirit became a Dove!

The story of Adam and Eve is told!

About a Paradise foretold!

The Adam's Apple was eaten Whole!

Man and Woman left Naked and Cold!

With the forthcoming Plagues!

About Banking Disasters and lost Jobs!

Is the Preacher in the Car Park right?

When he says we're worshipping False Gods!

Foretold in stories from days of Yore!

About a Lord that loves and forgives Ex-Whores!

The Gospel was told in Books of Four!

Salvation proves the winning Score!

The Faithful demand liberation!

From a deceitful and mischievous Satan!

Some are seeking another Salvation!

In a world run by Corporations!

The Preacher in the Car Park again!

Tells stories of love and hurt and pain!

If you slay with the Sword, he says!

Lest you with the Sword be slain!

I turn to Proverbs 23!

Which speaks of my former gluttony!

Warns what a person does when they eat!

He faces a Heart Attack Mercy Seat.

So other ignore him when they Shop!

Others deride him on the way!

But the Preacher in the Car Park!

Tells us to keep guard and pray!

Lest be told of your fate!

When facing the foretold Pearly Gates!

It's not about who God hates!

It's about those who have nothing to state!

Digital

Digital TV!

The buzzword on it is HD!

Radio Stars are coming back!

But the chief outlet of talent is under attack!

The Year's absence from this Blog!

Is due to rediscovering myself!

Losing weight and stopping Chinese!

Has made me impish like an Elf!

The digital economy!

Is destroying hopes of being free!

Governments are forcing an agenda!

And brains have been messed like a blender!

30 Years since Ian died!

Has left a legacy of musical pride!

His first main song was 'Digital'!

The pinnacle of a Post-Punk pedestal!

My Brother is in need of help!

Americans have short-changed him!

Gran was heartbroken!

Youtube rearranged him!

It doesn't matter about Black or White!

About Straight or Gay!

Some people have to Fight!

About what is precious Today!

I am in need of a Job!

Today they're like Hen's Teeth!

It tests a Man's belief!

In the chances of financial relief!

Money makes the World go around!

Music makes the Moon go around!

So let's all make a resonant Sound!

Regardless of the Euro or the Pound!

And hope that feet are still on the ground!