You ask me are we scared of heightsSuffer vertigo?It’s all to do what’s in your mindTo both the answer’s no…. Don MatthewsMarch 2022
Author Archives: donmatthewspoetry
From the FCS Book of Little-Known Facts – (tyre)
From the FCS Book of Useful Proverbs
If your surname is Pipedon’t call the baby Dwayne
Fandango’s One Word Challenge – Beguiled
Write something incorporating the word ‘beguiled’. Should you accept, go forth. Show your creative juices I accept.Here goes…. ODE TO BEGUILED He said he was beguiledEnchanted with my bodI gave him slap and tickleAnd showed him where I’m flawed Which he thought was odd…… DM
FCS Daily Music Video – ‘All Right Now’ Free (1970)
Free were an English rock band formed in London in 1968, best known for their hit songs “All Right Now” and “Wishing Well“. They disbanded in 1973; lead singer Paul Rodgers went on to become the frontman of the more successful rock band Bad Company, which also featured his Free bandmate Simon Kirke on drums. Lead guitarist Paul Kossoff formed Back Street Crawler in 1973, but died from a pulmonary embolism at theContinue reading “FCS Daily Music Video – ‘All Right Now’ Free (1970)”
Middle of the Track
Got a little problemHappened don’t know why?Middle of the track I keptHappened don’t know why?…. Don MatthewsMarch 2022
The Dividing Power of Catholic and Protestantism
When we died they buried usBoth in a different graveThey built a wall between us, butWe still hold hands and wave…. Don MatthewsMarch 2022
Destitute and Broken
Destitute and brokenWhy has this thing happened?Decision made she hides her shame(And waits to see what happens)…. Don MatthewsMarch 2022
From the FCS Book of Little-Known Facts – (reindeer antlers)
Putin Posturing as a Siberian Schwarzenegger
-but he’s just a gutless coward If you take this out of the realm of geopoliticsand into the sphere of male behaviourPutin is the political version of the drunkensteroid-abusing, he-man, out on a night on the townwho coward-punches another bloke when he’s not looking to show off in front of his mates
Flippant, Comic, and Serious 