A Poem a Day Rip-Offs

'Sitting at a laptop creates an image that I carry back.' (Jay Cool) A neck with a thousand folds. A bump harboured by an anxious nose. A line, puckered into peaks and troughs, of 48 years near gone. A thought. It is not me. Just an image. An image of another me in another time. Not me now. Now, I write myself into being - smoothing out the lines and carrying them over and back. Copyright owned by Jay Cool January 2019 Inspired by the line  'Sitting in a room creates a room that we carry with us.' (From  'Feel Piece 4' by Hannah Ensor and Laura Wetherington.)

'Egg' courtesy of Pixabay.com Yoked by a runny egg at its core a lost eye a beak blunted by your desire for happiness. Copyright owned by Jay Cool , January 2019 Inspired by Ada Limon's poem,  'Publicity' .

'Cucumber' courtesy of Pixabay.com If I sliced it into twenty slivers and sliced each sliver into a sluice of a slush I would no longer have a cucumber Just a soup that once consumed would slither through my inners and slip out into the sewers sloppy Copyright owned by Jay Cool, January 2019 Inspired by the 'last cucumber from the garden' by Giovanni Singleton.

'Bubbles' courtesy of Pixabay.com The conception of bubbles Mango masses for ever Forever bubbles that pop and disappear into old age One-off bubbles momentary Did I dream them up? Copyright owned by Jay Cool, January 2019 Inspired by the poem 'Hair', by Franciso Aragon

'Sleepy Sitter' by Jay Cool How 'tis to be - by soft brush swiped with chocolate shades of Christmas; to feel one's cheeks, once so milk-white, wiped out - by melted orange? Copyright owned by Jay Cool, December 2018 Inspired by the poem 'False but Beautiful' by John Rolin Ridge.

'Poppy on East Hill, Sudbury' by Jay Cool Poppy is a blood-red word, No pulse, now lost No heartbeat, hampered Called out for World War's cost. Yet poppies, red and proud, Sit high atop Linen suits in crowds Giving life to men's non-stop Legs that march to beat of drum As sockets swing Arms, punching right, fist and thumb For them, no wars, impending Today, I wear my poppy Proud, and Uncles, great Remember. Copyright owned by Jay Cool, Sunday 11th November, 2018 Inspired by  'On Receiving the First News of the War' by Issac Rosenberg, 1890-1918. Composed in remembrance of my many Great-Great Uncles, from Myddle, Shropshire and Wolverhampton & Birmingham, in the West Midlands, who gave their lives in the First World War. Roll of Honour, St Peter's Church, Myddle