My children are grown up.

They’re gone and I’m bereft.

They went out in the world.

Now I’m the only child left.

 

© Copyright Philip Barton, April 28th, 2026, All rights reserved

The big picture is important,

Not nitty-pick detail.

Look up, not down,

Top end of town.

Be strong of mind, not frail.

Look to the far horizon,

See all the world’s far span.

Toughen up,

Young buttercup,

You are tomorrow’s man.

Best foot forward go,

You’re now, not some has-been.

Scan near and far,

No, not the bar.

Somewhere there’s caffeine.

 

© Copyright Philip Barton, July 18th, 2025, All rights reserved

There are scary sights all around us.

Ditty demons for every age.

But the worst sight of all,

Is the lack of a scrawl,

On a totally empty page.

 

© Copyright Philip Barton 28th May 2021. All rights reserved.

If laws are constantly changing

Then laws must be constantly wrong.

If the laws are astray,

Then who is to say

That the crooked weren’t right all along?

 

© Copyright Philip Barton 3rd July 2018. All rights reserved.

Well-bred English gentleman

With a most attractive knee,

Seeks Continental woman,

With legs and cups of tea.

Ironing and cooking

Would be a splendid plus.

Thrills and spills and other skills

Are matters to discuss.

 

 

© Copyright Philip Barton, January 30th, 2026  All rights reserved

And so another day has gone,

I know not where it went.

I sometimes find things in the fridge,

But never the time that’s spent.

 

© Copyright Philip Barton 3rd May 2023. All rights reserved.

They were drinking Veuve Clicquot,

And driving Mercedes Benzes.

They were seeing the world,

With flag full unfurled,

Through rose-tinted, star-spangled lenses.

 

© Copyright Philip Barton 9th September, 2018. All rights reserved.

My nose is really rather large,

My ears flap in the breeze.

My tongue pops out to be in charge

And tumbles to my knees.

But legs march stably to a beat

That guides me on life’s track.

But only ever trust your feet,

When bottom’s got your back.

 

© Copyright Philip Barton 5th March 2017. All rights reserved.

Many moments

Moving mountains

Make my mind more muddled.

Back beyond

Before bedtimes,

Bewildered blurred befuddled.

 

 

©  Copyright Philip Barton, July 14th, 2025. All rights reserved