The Tooth Fairy

The pain it hurts my entire head
I cannot eat my slice of bread
The tooth swings this way and that
But isn't funny from where I'm sat

Mum just smiles and says to me
But tonight will come the Tooth Fairy
And she'll bring you money for your tooth
If only mum really knew the truth

I know, but I must not tell
For then I'll be the subject of that spell
From the witch who sits in the dripping cave
And waits for children who don't behave

That crone she sends her wing-ed flies
Out across the moonlit skies
To fetch the tooth 'neath cushioned head
And take it back to a place of dread

Into boiling pot it goes
Along with hair and nails from toes
And if that child has not been good
The witch will smile 'neath darkened hood

She'll whisper words so dark and sad
That you'll wish you'd never ever been bad
For those who choose to walk that road
Will turn to slimy croaking toad

So next time a tooth falls out
Can you be sure without a doubt
That you've been completely good and true
When you take it up to bed with you

If not then you must be wary
Of that cute and pretty fairy
For if you have really been naughty
You too could end up green and warty

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The monster under my bed

Dad please leave the light on tonight
It’ll stop me having such a fright
But why he says and scratches his head
Because of the monster under my bed!

He laughs and bends to take a peep
There’s nothing there now go to sleep
But he can’t see it though he tries
His vision clouded by grown-up eyes

It spends the day beneath the stair
My parents completely unaware
And when I head up the wooden hill
I know it hears me through the still

Toothbrush in hand I hear the claws
Of those scary monster paws
That terrible pattering sound of doom
As it sneaks into my room

So only the glow from my bedside light
Can keep me safe from that monster tonight
I leap onto my bed with a stifled yawn
And keep my feet off the floor ‘til dawn.

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Dreams

An old man sits upon the bench
As autumn fades away
He stares unblinking with misty eyes
Remembering his dreams of yesterday

Back then his life had yawned ahead
A never-ending spring
When anything was possible
All the things his dreams could bring

Life rolled down its relentless path
And summer blazed with flare
But while youth prevailed it mattered not
If he drifted by without a care

Now today it hits him hard
Autumn's reality stands bare
And his precious dreams lie unfulfilled
A wasted life that went nowhere
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The wind

The wind she is a playful child
Around the city she wanders wild
Bowling paper cups along
And rustling leaves to her own song

Beneath loose tiles she likes to peek
And through an open window sneak
Down the chimney and through a bin
Or in the corner in a spin

She'll travel miles across the land
Toying with anything at hand
Twisting twirling with such zest
Then in the calm she'll lie and rest

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Love

It might seem to one from outer space
That the entire Human Race
Has spent all that's gone before
In constant and relentless war

But before you flee with tales of woe
From all the hatred down below
Please pause a while and not depart
And look instead within our heart

For there oh watchers from above
Lies the thing that we call love
The most powerful thing upon this earth
It shows us what we're truly worth

And whilst it's true our heart it hides
Deep within our fleshed insides
When it finds the one its love's meant for
The ache tells us it's ours no more

So whilst history leaves a sorry trail
War and hate will not prevail
It's love that drives the world around
And keeps our future onward bound.

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Faerie Ring

A grassy meadow 'neath virgin moon
Mist softens and blurs this secret place
A magical sight for those in tune
To Elfish tricks that folklore trace

Ancient is the faerie road
Hidden by time and tangled hedge
Laughing maidens from their abode
Skip to dance a joyful pledge

Bare feet skip through waving stems
Dresses flap round smooth pale thigh
Dew drops shine upon their hems
As pollen flicks into the sky

Bats pour out from darkened tower
As bells stir from their sleepy trance
Midnight calls up all its power
The circle of Faeries begin their dance

Can beauty be more greater seen
Than this such veiled clandestine show
Those graceful figures so tall and lean
That dance beneath the moonbeam's glow

Their fingers linked, the ring complete
They frolic in a silvery whirl
The witching hour brings music sweet
Such magic that doth now unfurl

Dawn brings mornings golden crown
As daytime's creatures wake to sing
Bare feet leave a circle brown
The mysterious enchanted faerie ring

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The abbey graveyard

I sit amongst the gravestones
Hidden from the world
Some might think a sombre place
But their eyes should be unfurled


For though the dead lie buried
In their eternal tomb
There's no other place for miles around
Where life is so in bloom

Ground elder dwarf the ancient stones
Where lichen's alliance thrives
And whilst yew trees keep the devil out
Their branches teem with lives

But although nature rushes around
To spring's so urgent blows
When my life gets too much for me
This place it brings repose

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