Delusions of Grand Ewer

Public Houses are
Where I do my best work or
Drink persuades me so

"Rivers of Blood"

Enoch Powell,
If handed a trowel,
Could never have laid foundations
Like migrant Africans and Asians

Classic Christmas BBC Repeats

The Two Ronnies
Drank copious draughts of Kolon-Eze.
The wind snuffed out four candles
But never toppled fork handles.

Yuletide thoughts

I miss her so much
"It's not going anywhere"
Why does it have to?

Prints of Wales

Edward Longshanks
For castles gave thanks.
They kept the Welsh contained
And the Scots distrained.

By Cadw | Herbert Ortner 

Is he writing poetry?

In the Saloon bar
A poser writing poems?
No - Christmas cards list

Reform Follows Dysfunction

Eric Pickles

Would hate Prime Minister's Tickles;

Questions to the Prime Minister may be nugatory,

But Masosadism is altogether too gory. 

Scales from your eyes

Other people's needs
Do not outweigh your own drives
A balancing act

Brief Encounter

Harrison Ford
Tied his jim-jams with detonator cord;
His y-fronts bore the powder burns
For which an action hero yearns.

© Spreadshirt

Nation-defining events

"Before the Last War"
Funny how we Brits forget
Wars since '45

Would an English Rose smell as sweet?

Billy Twelvetrees
Declined sponsorship from Febreze
They don't do an odour trap
That'll civilise a rugby forward's jockstrap

© Sodacan

Bleak Friday

Black Friday discounts
The marketers' siren call
Reaching Psyche's depths

or do you prefer (comments welcome):

Black Friday discounts
Supermarkets cut prices,
eyes, lips and knuckles

A career gone downhill

Vanessa Mae
Lost her way
Her Giant Slalom poor to middling
A violinist caught fiddling

Transatlantic Confusion

TV Basketball
Michigan St v Rider
State not Street I guess?

Enigma's Variations

Alan Turing

Undecided if he was out or in,

Axiomatically an Entscheidungsproblem,

He named it the Irritation Game.

© CIA

Not Salad Days - Claret Days!

Oranges and Wines
Sweet-tasting colours falling
To Autumnal Earth