Hello

Do you copy?

Thank you for your eyes today

These words I wrote for you

Unsure if you would find them

Or take the time to read them through

I don’t know if you write yourself

As here I have in rhyming phrases

Put myself in spotlight paragraphs

A flickered firelight that grazes

Am I a simulated message book

A mock-up model state of play

Maybe a handprint in a data cave

Some ‘artefaction’ in your way

So I made a word and placed it here

As evidence that proved my place

Writing rhymes on imitation walls

Stored on clouds of inner space

By the time you get to read these lines

They may seem something superficial

To strongholds filled with information
Rejecting all things artificial

Virtual Worlds Apart

Real or not I cannot tell

A hall of holograms implied

Well-formed apparitions

Where the outside is denied

Cliques in corners plotting

Murmur softly to each other

Folk that once I knew so well

Recalling one thing or another

The game I’m in is playing out

My win or lose state imprecise

As I emerge unsure of place

Into this other lived in slice

The consul light is flickering

My heavy headset now removed

Humdrum heartbeats now resuming

Demanding other world disproved

Where is the mirror image gone?

Raven Nouse

Stone me you guys, chill awhile

Sitting on a chimney stack

A flying smoky roof up high

Taking in the down below

No thoughts of how or why

But here I am and pleased to be

A ridge-tile  dweller up on top

Serenely in the scenery

Too comfortable to drop

I take the view as I renew

The placing of my toes

That position is a vital thing

When looking down on those

File That Smile

LINK to article and picture source

This image shows from left to right the reward smile,
affiliative smile and dominance smile.
NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to Paula Niedenthal.

Smiles are more than happy hints

They are a mouthful sent in code

Smiles we make if real or fake

Persuade encourage or corrode

Smiles need serious reading

Beguiling those who may be bought

Pander to our deepest needs

Can leave us high and dry and caught

Smiles may sneer or cunning leer

Warm our mood dispel despairs

Invite us into warm embrace

Provocateur of devilish snares

Smiles portrayed a feature overplayed

Oscar winning actor’s ruse

A friendly grin admitting sin

Forewarning signals win or loose

Smiles can make it pleasing sweet

Smooth away your indecision

Drive you into loving arms

Bring on a heart to heart condition

Missing Presumed Lost

If the weather brings on cloudy

And the skies scream black and blue

When birds have taken to the trees

I’ll write my letters home to you

When the storm winds rap my window

I’ll put some driftwood on my fire

Watching movies in those ember screens

Devouring thorn tips on the brier

I'll keep writing ‘til the fading light

Has drained the colours from the day

Then sleep the downpour into dreams
Until the sun brings more to say

A Song For Chris Farlowe

YOUTUBE Link to Farlowe Synched with Rolling Stones

I’ll write you one more love song baby

‘Cos I’m leaving early in the morning

Taking memories on the empty train

I gave you many an early warning

We were always one too many tears

Holding hot hands far too tight

Friends forever in a love embrace

Loving armfuls in the night

Farewell to you my sweetheart lady

I wont let your teardrops bring me back

To fold slowly in your loving arms

I sail that ship of heart attack

We were always one too many tears

Holding hot hands far too tight

Friends forever in a love embrace

Loving armfuls in the night

We had it all I know we really did

We where the glow in wishful eyes

The soul of something going on

Anchored deep in tearful ties.

We were always one too many tears

Holding hot hands far too tight

Friends forever in a love embrace

Loving armfuls in the night

© “Song For Chris Farlowe” by Clifford  Letts 27^th July 2017

Dear Chris, Sending our love to a truly great voice

After listening to that great album of soul - 'Out Of Time' - on Spotify

See you in February 2018.

Link to Chris Farlowe Handbags & Gladrags

Jolly Melancholy

You can do it I can too

Thinking positive a breeze

Regardless of the evidence

We can all do as we please

Find yourself a black spot

Where light has disappeared

Half night half day decide away

A positive journey steered

Be directed by gut feeling

Walking planks to other sides

Out there bobbing joyfully

In a half glass full of tides

Be a leader of commitment

Tell your troops about the cause

How giving up their right to life

Is helping others win those wars

Happy is a thrilling choice

You may choose to smile or not

Sip slowly from the glass half full

In the end that’s all you’ve got

Being down and out deflated

In tearful symphonies of sad

Just turn that record over

If you can’t smile then that’s too bad

Be always up for everything

Don’t put up with nonetheless

Accept the landfill site your living in
As someone else’s state of mess

News From the Muse

Everyone who ever listened to

The many questions in their head

Who sat alone surrounded by

The living memories of the dead

How was it that a fleeting moment

Could give rise to great ideas

Tripping up on stumbled notions

From tense reluctant volunteers

Wandering voyages of nomads

Bringing bearings based on change

Where moving on prevailed upon

All pastures new to rearrange

Things unknown may not be there

Hidden secrets are not shy

It’s not a case of what or where

But forever wondering why

Based on my 'Mini Muse' Secrets

Spinning Wheels

Over my shoulder goes

Twisting turning

Looping hoops

Gyro scoping

Flips and scoops

Upside downside

Dizzy heights

Forward rearward

Eyesight frights

Losing bearings

Swayed away

Apex aspects

Disarray

Fancy That

Words we speak and words we seek

Ways to live within reality

Catching ears and eyes who strive

To breakout from banality

Finding ways to capture strays

Who escaped contamination

Though never sure of what is pure

When waking from imagination

All in all when in a room or hall

You sense a sign of your identity

Philosophising fantasising
If you exist beyond your entity

Always And Then......

Always doing lots to do

Busy living life around

Loving being ordinary

Enjoying common ground

Always pleased to meet you

Understanding and sincere

Open handed and big hearted

Could read you crystal clear

Always kept a smile to spare

Strength of spirit never short

Depended on for turning up

Relied upon for strong support

Always with a brave face on

No one knew about her guest

Who quietly stole her from us
Leaving letters unaddressed


In loving memory of my dear Mother who succumbed to ovarian cancer. We nor she had any idea of her condition until three weeks before she died.

Interview with Me (No Cameras Please)

 Q.         Have you always written rhyme

Me.      Not always, they can make a report look odd

Q.         Some of your rhymes are puzzling

Me.      True, I often write when I’m puzzled

Q.         Are they easy to solve

Me.      Oh yes but you need to read them first

Q.         You have written so many

Me.      There are many more written by others

Q.         Do you have a favourite rhyme

Me.      Most of Lewis Carroll’s are my favourite rhymes

Q.         Who is your favourite poet

Me.      All the poets I have read so far

Q.         Who would you say is a bad poet

Me.      Depends what you mean by bad

Q.         What is your main reason for writing rhyme

Me.      You’ll have to ask my forceful subconscious that question