You have a problem madam?Your sink/drain not in line?There now, I’ve just fixed itA specialty of mine Oh thankyou Mr Stan. You have done a wonderful job……. Stan is a registered plumber and fully paid-up member of the Plumbers Union. Call Stan for your next plumbing job Slight design fail?…. Don MatthewsDecember 2020 (Category DESIGNContinue reading “Stan Attends Another Plumbing Emergency”
Author Archives: donmatthewspoetry
Poet Don Reporting on 8760
Using my new abacusFull tilt and in top gearI worked out eight-seven-six-o wasThe hours in a year Good to know…. Thankyou…. Don MatthewsDecember 2020 (Category ‘Poet Don reporting’ for further reports of interest or no interest by FCS news anchor PD)
Do Not Sit Here
Had to make a sign upTell people not a seatThey thought nice place to park their bodGot more than just wet feet Slight design fail?…. Don MatthewsDecember 2020
Signwriter Stan at Work
Was asked to make a sign forA forest they called ‘CUT’Spent a lot of time in preparationMade this sign for it Had a few complaints son……. What ?…… Don MatthewsDecember 2020
Do a Kind Deed for Santa this Christmas
It’s time now to think of poor SantaIt’s hell of a long way from his caveBe naughty (hence kind to dear Santa)A trip for poor Santa you’ll save Don MatthewsDecember 2020
Growth at all Cost
Where have all our trees goneIn 10 years of infill?We have to pack the people inSo trees we have to killTrees and green surroundingsClimate change combat?We need them for well-beingMentally, all that Wholesale destruction of our treesMust stop, must not go onPremier and MinisterAre you listening?…. No?…. Our ‘growth-at-all-costs’ policy is more important Addended poemContinue reading “Growth at all Cost”
Poet Don on English for Beginners
I took a longish bandageThe bandage I then woundRound and round and round I didWound it round the wound Don MatthewsDecember 2020
What a Shit Tap
Why won’t the water come on out?I’m turning tap so shouldIt just keeps spinning round and roundThis tap is shit, no good Slight design fail?…. Don MatthewsDecember 2020
Josh Billings
“Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place” Josh Billings
Sigh
My poetry is differentDifferent from the restWill it stand the timeWill it stand the test? Dunno?…. My poetry’s not differentThe same as all the restDon’t wanna get out comfort zoneJust wanna stand time, test Sigh…. “As long as we allow convention to govern us we will never make progress” (DM) Don MatthewsDecember 2020
Flippant, Comic, and Serious 