Flowers With Peckles

An extract from my book People Come and Flowers Grow, available from my website.

In the summer I see flowers
Growing and I think of the
Gnomes in my garden and how
They fish. The birds sing

In the trees and I thank God
For the blessing of my patio
Only £3,675 on special offer
From Patios R Us. And I bless

My water feature from the garden
Centre, open on Sundays. My cat
Lies in the sun and I am very
Happy except nobody will buy

My book and they should because
It's got poems with cats and
patios and gnomes and gardens
And other things everybody likes.

Maybe it's because my poems don't
Rhyme but that's the way you do
It these days. I could think of
A rhyme, given enough time, but

I want to write about my cat
(Rhymes with hat) because she is
So sweet (rhymes with tweet) and
Kills birds (rhymes with turnips)

So why don't they buy my book
Which is all put away in a big
Pile in my shed last time I look
Ed, a shed I need for my pig.

I haven't really got one I just
Put it in for the rhyme. I can
Also write about knitting and shoes
If I could only lay off the booze.