Poems by Barry Tebb
You
... aching till you retiredThen Victim Support: wheres that sharp mind, that laughter and that passion ...
Summer Fever
... before his comingWhen once you fell I felt his body scrambleIn terror round the waters of your womb ...
Smile, You Are On Cctv
... a hundred times a dayTo provide unending footage for reality TVBut in a decade where will we all be ...
Plea For A History Of Working-class Leeds
... tory of family outingsTo Temple Newsam where I saw an assEating straw from the steel mangerOf Christ ...
My Only Valentine
... cture your faceNo photograph, no keepsake,No letters scented with your smile,No ring or marriage bed ...
The Old Straight Track
... Runs to no compass pointBut starts within the human heartWhere travellers in twos may goAs for a while it winds besideA man-made road then veers aside We met at a cross-roads once and journeyedTogether for a while across a moorAnd then on horseback sadly you waved adieu. ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 1
... ficeWith penis and tongueWe tried to heal and swealAway our pain, as it cameAgain and againAnd again ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 2
... s, forty yearsOn I ran to meet you inYour worn-out flower-Patterned frock andBlack, laceless runners ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 3
... st I failed, keeping me andMargaret apart was like the AztecsTearing the heart from the living flesh ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 4
... meI who have seen ExcaliburPulled from the living treeI who have drunk the wineOf Margarets memory ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 5
... new mauve blazer andI loved her deep, violet eyes and her mamHad such a knowing look all summer long ...
Bridge Over The Aire Book 6
... botson, the FlahertyTwins spilling over the pavements, holdingA skipping rope, whirling and twirling ...
