My given name is
Edward Teach, high sea sailor;
but to you, Blackbeard!
Tag Archives: Haiku
Avon Vale School
Before I could read,
I attended Avon vale School.
]It’s not there any more!
Walkabout – Bristol No.2
It used to be that
Nails outside the Corn Exchange
Is where debts were paid
Walkabout -Bristol Afoot No.1
walking up Park Street,
you pass St George’s tower.
Its bell rings e flat.
Where did my Neighbours Go?
Spring came slow and sure
my neighbours went from my view
Fall caused their return.
Bristol Afoot No.4
Walk about Welsh back
Imagine sailing ships docked
readied for high seas
An Old Dead Tree
There is a dead tree
still standing in my garden.
Woodpeckers find grubs.
Bristol’s burbs
house on Windmill Hill
It’s part of Bedminster
My Aunt Skrine lived there
The Tax Man Came (but left emptyhanded)
Red hat man paid not
Escaped down a tax loop-hole
Red-Hat Ladies mad!
The Man Who would be King
Rudyard Kipling Wrote
of a man who would be king
Red hats make not crowns


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