I'll be back around crimbo
Poems by Audrey Haney
total shenanigans
Monday, 10 November 2025
Sunday, 5 October 2025
Thursday, 4 September 2025
language
Our mother tongue of English
Came here part refugee
This linguistic evolution
Was bought from over sea
A dash of words Germanic
Then Romans bought a few
A run of Norse invader
and Arabic numbers too
Be proud of speaking English
It's changed historically
Our words are multicultural
As it should always be
Friday, 18 July 2025
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Physiotherapists
Twas a hot sorta day and the building felt cool
The writer of dates lurked aloft on her stool
With a bouquet of flowers and a bowl full of sweets
The bait of enticement while you wait on the seats
But the name will be called and the dread and the fear
Of the physiotherapist who waits in the rear
Can I smell Patchouli?
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Sunday, 25 May 2025
Have you tried?
Chronic illness and depression is bad enough without unhelpful hints for folk.
After living on a wonderful forum learning about what folks say about hearing you are chronicly ill, they offer up the-
- Have you tried...
Yoga, stretching,
any sort of exercise
Breathing, yawning
border lining exorcise
Gain weight, lose weight
Herbal complementary
Just talk about your certain pain
with traumatizing therapy
Clean air, no air
Amble in countryside
Hug trees, and bees
Keep away from pesticide
New age, no age
Meditation isn't far
The answer to your problems
sticking pretty crystals down your bra
Thinking, praying
Swearing and profanity
No God? Why not?
that borders on insanity
Thinking, winking
sure it isn't karma?
The reason for my problems
I will ask the Dalai Lama
New pills, no pills
Money spent on clinical
Gas lit, no shit
Doctors being cynical
New pain, old pain
Saying have you tried?
Yes I think I really have
But I really am quite tired
Sunday, 27 April 2025
Sunday, 13 April 2025
Fat
I've gone back to the doctor
My depression is quite bad
But speaking to this lady
has made me angry mad
She ignored all my problems
And suddenly just like that
The reason for depression
Is down to being fat!!
I've had it since my late teens
My moods would fluctuate
When I was an anorexic
They never mentioned weight
Such patronising nonsense
I'm glad I could now say
To blame my long term illness
On being fat today!!!!
Monday, 7 April 2025
Birds of the darker hue
Us pagans like ravens, cos ravens seem cool
Us pagans like dark, which is odd for a rule
Liking Corvids in general, we are partial to crows
In darks hues in black from it's beak to its toes
We like birds with power, in our lore, in our heart
Plus they are photographic and they look good in art
Be Odin, Apollo or Morgan le fay
They would always pick black at the end of the day
It seems rather boring our pallete of shades
For pagans in general like natures cascade's
for witches like purple and Druids like green
But it's always a raven or a crow that is seen
So let's change our feelings and start a new trial
Let's bring in some colour in birds in all style
Look forward to art showing old Merlin with charm
With a colourful budgie asleep in his arms
Sunday, 6 April 2025
Saturday, 5 April 2025
Mum's daughter
Mum always said I was the strangest daughter
I'd graze my knee, I'd run and then hide
It's cos my mummy saw my scratches
I was fleeing away from a vat of peroxide
(Seriously, she used to lie saying it wouldn't hurt, she fibbed)
Mum always said I was the weirdest daughter
with curly hair, which mum called the pits
so many knots and so many tangles
My hair was cut off, she said, because I had nits
(I had curly hair, it was very upsetting, I don't want to talk about it)
Mum always said I was the loopest daughter
I'd wade into streams, fresh water I'd drink
Wearing a fetching knitted swimsuit
i nearly drowned, wool tended to sink
(I drowned often, we lived near a river, then dad built a swimming pool, so I could drown while contained)
I am my mummys weirdest daughter
Not shown you photos, but trust me instead
When people look it causes laughter
Half naked, wellies and a bucket on my head
(I'll dig them out one day, they are pretty hysterical)
Friday, 4 April 2025
Artificial lacking
I don't trust
That new A and I
The reason for this
I will tell you why
its artificial
It's in the name
It's stealing ideas
lacks original fame
It's lazy work
It's fake news art
It's lack of smell
found in a fart
its plagiarism
It's a cult to be joined
It's do it this way
with a hint of purloined
It's an unhelpful suggestion
It's underlined red
It may hint at my spelling
..it has to be said.
Though I am sure I am safe
My words won't entice
For if A I does read it
sure it'll think twice
Thursday, 3 April 2025
Beetroot
Be pickled, steamed, cooked or raw
This root is something I do abhor
who want to eat a plate of gore
I really hate beetroot
Its vile and looks as if it's bled
It's turned my food a nasty red
My dinners now on it's deathbed
I really hate beetroot
It colours scarlet, now it's pink
It's even dyed my blooming sink
The juice looks like a vampire drink
I really hate beetroot
What is it doing inside me
I darted to the loo you see
The toilets red so is my pee
I really hate beetroot
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
I never see
I'm sure it does happen but. I have observed.
I never see a normal thing
Of working women on lunch breaks
kicking about a football in the park
Or meeting up on breaks to lark
I never see women in general
Living in hardware shops
In garden centers no women queue
in groups around the barbeques
I never see women randomly
looking lost in supermarkets
Or leaving trolleys out of line
while staring blankly at beer and wine.
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