Top Gunge

Lt Pete Mitchell
No Tom Tom Cruise control
Took Call Sign 'MAVERICK'
Coz taken already was 'TOTAL DICK'

Up with a lark

Dawn Twitter Chorus
Bonds renewed distance no bar
Face new day with friends

The Scottish Bank

Stephen Hester
makes a grand Board Jester.
As taxpayers grow madder,
he shakes his bells and empties his bladder.

Winter playground

...no, not Davos. Larkhall.

Forlorn in Winter

bereft of carefree laughter.

Come soon Spring's offspring!

The photograph that inspired this Haiku

Night sounds

Through open windows

night sounds darken the writers'

imaginations

or

Through open windows

night sounds infiltrate writers'

creative musings

Which do you like better?

...and garnish with Basil

Basil Fawlty

baulked at a Balti,

cried fowl at Chicken Kiev and three dips,

settled for Siberian hamster, egg and chips.

Memories fade as does the light...

The world's grey again
Pain and pleasure enliven
Memories remind


Though if the weather was bad on Saturday, 7th May last year, it's certainly no picnic this week...

Turing testy

He dreamt he'd tweeted 
"I am a Turing Machine" 
"We'd guessed" they'd replied

Woah horse!

Steven Spielberg

ist keiner Kinozwerg

whether mining or mountin'

Morpurgo's horse play, kerching!

Have I Got Nudes for You...

Well, it would be if the BBC's Have I Got News For You focused on the contents of the Red Top tabloids only. 


And talking of celeb-wenches:

Louise Bagshawe

wrote Chick-Literature.

Her Starbucks quip as MP Louise Mensch

caused Hislop to start with a wrench


or do you prefer

Louise Bagshawe

thought Chick-Lit a chore.

Her Starbucks quip as MP Louise Mensch

caused Hislop to start with a wrench

Gelding the gift horse

Michael Morpurgo
Family Motto: "Incognito sum ergo"
Told he Spielberg "No horse play,
or no Best Director Oscar day"?

The Rhyme of the Ancient Rimmer

Arnold J. Rimmer
thought white dwarfs dimmer.
With H for Hologram on his face
he longed to be called 'Ace'.

The former Prime Minister

Sans office trappings
Frail humanity restored
The Iron Lady


Composed after viewing the film at the Little Theatre, Bath. Excellent performance by Olivia Colman; good screenplay by Abi Morgan.

Haiku Noir

He threw her a look;
'The Butcher' of Gothic Town?
She threw him a glans.

The price of everything; the value of...

Margaret Roberts
knew the price of butter hurts
as a grocer's daughter;
Grocer Heath should've oughta.




On seeing The Iron Lady at the Little Theatre, Bath.

Oook aye! Haiku

Palindromic date
twelve hyphen one hyphen twelve
date Palindromic

Winter draws on...

Freezing half dreaming
A black dog's snout lain on chest
Chill wells from the heart

Earthflight Afric

Caustic Afric lake
Florid flamingos feeding
Fish-eyed fish eagle


On first viewing of the incredible BBC natural history series viewing the world almost through the eyes of birds.

Chizz Chizz

Ronald Searle's
girls are black pearls.
Any fule kno ●
Molesworth's not.


or


Ronald Searle's
girls are black pearls.
Any fule kno BLOT
Molesworth's not.






On the death of that superb cartoonist who gave us St Trinian's and Nigel Molesworth. 
Which version do you prefer?

Of great Welshmen...

Under milk would it
curdle; hear Dylan's hurdle
D.T. spoke no Welsh




On re-reading (the preface to) a certain Play for Voices from 1956.

Lambridge too far

Where once children play'd
Bonsai Niagara falls
gentle Lambrook roars




looking out on the wild torrents replacing the normally placid Lam brook as it carries the rain from the Cotswolds to the Avon. Happy New Year, 2012, from Lambridge.