What Lies Beneath

[Johntee]

Muscle Car
Yellow
Two to one
Hit ratio

Is there
really no
Morning Glory
to cap
your Muscle Car...

[Johntee]

What vice is nice?
Nice rhyme
Nice story
Laconically told.
"Hey Man! No worries"

[Johntee]

What Lies Beneath 27^th July 2017



Red-Gold and Lapis Lazuli

burnished for eternity,

serpent browed...

[Johntee]

Acknowledgement 27^th July 2017



The Red-Gold I took from you

and twined it with the serpent too

and...

[Johntee]

Second thoughts
No ownership
First generic
then specific.
Tut Tut Tut.

[Johntee]

Policing Poetical Correctness 25^th July 2017



Siren fading, pulled over,

a cat clouder herder

fights...

[Johntee]

MK Dons (for U.S. eyes, The Soccer Team)



I realised late,

in his MK eulogy

DB owes a debt
...

[Johntee]

Not even my cup of coffee. I'm no fan of any sport but TV's repetition of any publicly acclaimed moment is better than Korean brainwashing (See the Manchurian...

[Johntee]

Is this a tongue-in-cheek?
God-fearing never did go well,
and while it's waited
where is hell?

[Johntee]

Takes something away
from Groundhog day

[Johntee]

Mellow Yellow?
Hot Dancing?
Maybe not.
Brahms for cello.
Cool for feet.

[Johntee]

And yet the concrete
cows, the O.U. and
now Wimbledon F.C.
poached away, find
it a Home Goal

[Johntee]

How well wove.
The serpents tongue
scents scented air
in enskulled pits,
On the pharonic
brow it sits, past-part
the...

[Johntee]

Your lobbed stone
is still raising ripples
in the pond
of my mind

[Johntee]

Right on. . . Brother!

[Johntee]

Appreciated.
Camouflaged,
history's cut from a mordant cloth,
burns still when handled up close.

[Johntee]

Going the Distance 25^th July 2017



In the entertaining messaging blizzard that surrounded Grant's "Touch" I used a...

[Johntee]

No defence of MHenry necessary. The boy done good.

[Johntee]

You've correctly positioned my tongue.
I've now stuck it firmly in the other cheek
with a further nod to both you and Grant.

[Johntee]

A great
tail-biter
from a great
word-tailor