BENYBONT
Poetry
Content of the Books
page numbers refer to the paperback versions
Scenes from Seasons
(but not that sort of Season)
A Prayer 9
The Father of My Uncle 10
Poem to Spring 12
Scenes from a Season of Pop Festivals
[I] Isle of Wight Pop Festival 13
[II] Blondie at Glastonbury 14
Girl on a Train 15
The Perseids at 3am 16
Y Perseids am Dri o’r Gloch y Bore 16
In the National Gallery 17
Seventeen and Twenty-one 18
Somewhere Near Merthyr 19
Scenes from Fishing Seasons
[I] January Pike 21
[II] Early Morning Fishing 22
In the Particular Circumstances 23
Stones 24
Body Language 25
Echoes Through Milk Wood 26
Heritage Park 27
Life on Lock’s Common 28
The Seven Lies of Man 29
London Welsh 31
Scenes from a Season of War Graves
[I] My Uncle Charles, 1894-1915 33
[II] Rifleman 47041 35
[III] Edmund Baton, 1931-1945 36
Mr Jaksó, Instant Brit 37
Digging for Peace 38
Letter from Chile 39
Carta de Chile 39
The Shadow in the Corner 40
Herman Melville 42
Poem for the Cider Bench 43
Scenes from a Season of Artwork
[I] The Worth of a Lowry 44
[II] John Drewe and the Meaning of Art 45
[III] The Garden of Hieronymous Bosch 45
Sugarcandy Mountain 46
Stormtroopers Repelled 47
Causeway of the Legion 48
1952: The Year of Yellow Frankie 49
Prayer Requests at St Saviour’s 51
The Royal Pavilion, Brighton 52
The Secret Society 54
Scenes from a Season of Madness
[I] Idyll Above the Rhondda Fach, 1922 55
[II] Diagnosis Cephalalgia 55
[III] Old Bedlam 55
[IV] New Bedlam 56
[V] Tightrope 56
Michael Maine and the Demon of Youth 57
Alchemy 59
Alchimie 59
Summer on the Planet Mars 60
Nun on the National Health 61
Scenes from a Season of Foxhunting
[I] Freedom 62
[II] Fox Free 62
[III] D’ye Ken? 62
[IV] Seeing off the Llangeinor Hunt 63
[V] Blessed be the Lawmakers 63
[VI] Freedom Revisited 63
Milwaukee Lady Makes Number Thirty-eight 64
Meeting the East Hill Mob 65
The Bottle Factory 66
Gawain the Goude 67
The Fat Lady’s Victory 68
Eleven-liner 69
Let Them Eat Cake 70
Charley Bates 71
Windowscape 72
Scenes from a Season in Malaysia
[I] Fireflies, River Selangor 73
[II] Central Bus Station, Kuala Lumpur 73
[III] Mudskippers 74
Twilight Owl 75
Blue Treen Blues 76
Farmer on a Scooter 77
Brynhyfryd 78
Crow 79
Lunch in Bosnia 80
Conger 82
Special Relationship Blues 83
Charge of the Light Verse Brigade
The Charge of The Light Verse Brigade 8
Two-minute Feedback 10
Statistics 11
Gothic Romance 12
Zing-Zor, Glorious War 13
Politics 14
Christmas Limericks 15
Fred Fastbuck’s School of Writing 16
Trials of Wife 17
This be the Tribute 18
Myfanwy in the Pleasure Dome 19
2002: A Space Fantasy 20
The Danielle Steele Guide to Infidelity 22
Is Rhyme a Crime? 23
With Apologies 25
Notes on Contributors 26
Antivegetarianism 28
Chromosome Dancing 29
Evening Star 30
Motorway Monster 31
Rough and Ready Roundel 32
Question 33
Intercity Blues 34
In the Market of Old Aswan 35
Not Gullible, but Grasping 36
Regime Change: Spot the Difference 37
The Philosopher’s Hate Song 38
Grade ‘C’ for Geography 39
Up With the Seagulls 40
Superman Returns 41
Not Sonnet 23 43
Three Glasses of Sangiovese 44
All the Talents 45
The Great God Pan in Declining Years 46
Something Else 47
The Serious Drinking Song 48
An Ironic Sonnet 49
Bankthink 50
It’s Only a Game 51
Single Entendre 53
Lines on the British Summer 54
Humpty Nursery Rhymes 55
Magic Words 56
Sexually Shared Diseases 57
The Greatest Story Ever Filmed 58
Giving Up 59
How to Survive Junk Calls 60
Shower Sharing Spider 61
Piccadilly 62
Wind Folly Farm 63
The Three Sons 64
Alternative Exit Strategies 65
Food Processors 66
Clichés are the New Clichés 67
Climate Change Poem 68
Air Travellin’ Man 69
Personal Ads 70
Shattered 71
The Wangledongler 72
Ode to The Doggerel Bank 73
At the Court of Queen Camilla 74
Alphabet Group 75
Noms de Plume 78
Lyrics, Polemics and Poetics
The Apple-Apple Pie Song 9
Sandcastles 11
The Sworn-at Policemen 12
Condoleezza 13
Twenty-nine is Here Again 14
Decameron’s Legacy 15
Y Blodyn Pinc 17
The Deficit Deceivers 18
Portaloo’s Sunset 19
The Battle Hymn of the Republicans 20
The Ballad of Robbin’ Hoodie 21
Baghdad 22
Pre-war, Post-war Blues 23
The ID of it 24
Not the ‘T’ Word 25
No Accounting for Expenses 26
Speech Therapy Part One 27
Speech Therapy Part Two 29
Nietzsche’s Children 31
Butterfly Haiku 32
The Cwmwysg Poacher 33
Churchwarden 37
Lust in the Arctic 38
North Downs 39
Dalí 40
Ashes to Warm Blood 41
Lenin’s Tomb 42
Pavement Triolet 43
NFR 44
Prayers at Sinaia Monastery 45
Sacrilege 46
Dobermann at Cwm Tudu 47
Two After DH Lawrence 48
Worm
Moth
Dr Johnson’s Wet Dream 49
New Maps of Life 50
The Long Walk Gets Shorter 51
The Baby’s Eyes 52
Watching the Moon 53
In the Church at San Vicente de las Barqueras 54
Stanley Milgram and Obedience to Authority 55
Tinkinswood 58
Comparative Religious Studies at Capel Pen-rhiw 59
San Rocco in the Rain 60
Who is Dic Penderyn? 61
Tip-toeing Past Life 62
Counting the Nights 63
Neons in a Glass 64
Forty Percent 65
The Forgotten War 66
The Arab Spring 67
Among the Believers 68
Portuguese Square 69
Boy on a Trampoline 70
1066 – A Lesson from History 71
The Scream 72
Insomnia 73
Silent Jane 74
Going to a Stranger’s Funeral 75
Annals of the Poor 76
Country Comforts 77
Sitighuol 78
Elder Statesman 79
The Tyburn Tree 80
Legally High 81
Llan Illtud 82
Eschatological Poem Number Two 83
The Thief of Time 84
The First Time I Saw Paris 85
Ferlinghetti-worship 86
Jew’s Row, SW18 87
Magpie 88
Small World 89
Memory 90
Corris 91
Ovid in Exile 92
Mannikin 93
Kwik-Fit Fitter 94