Birdbath #quadrille.

made by grandpa
Birdbath War.
#quadrille, #reworkedoldy.


Sparrow’s splash and play,
Starling’s shout squark and torment,
Bullied into taking wing.

Starlings puddle bath, mud included,
Red Kite overhead whistles threat,
Frightened travellers taking wing.

Jackdaws seized chance
Splashing in birdbath till dry
Will humans refill?
The dammed concrete puddle after spillage.

1st © rogleach 8/7/2021
2nd © rog leach 09/03/2026





thanks to De for a fun word @ #dversepoetspub favourite form the quadrille.
loved all your song choices to accompany the prompt.




Awesome Arsonists.

good evening world. Tonight Punam has asked us @#dversepoetspub to pick an opening line from a list of poems to use as a closing line.

A.A. Awesome arsonists.
#dversepoetspub


Outrageously Depraved individuals,
Only beyond this point,
Burn baby, burn,
Barbeque politicians’ assets.

Why?
politicians are Wicked,
Wicked fire starters,
Burning the poor to feed,
their own egotistical needs.

A.A. Awesome arsonists awake,
Come fry its Friday,
Do you have a light boy,
Goodbye dear friends,
It was a pleasure to burn.



Last line was the opening line to Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451.
A book which is still on, my to read list.
Two songs also came to mind while writing this.
The crazy world of Arthur brown’s Fire.
Firestarter by the Prodigy.
The book Firestarter by Stephen King is well worth a read.

24/02/2026 rog leach

lonely hunger.

Photo by Travis Rupert on Pexels.com
A Lonely hunger.
#quadrille, #dversepoetspub

I hunger for sunsets,
Beach sunsets fire lit.

The gnawing emptiness,
Of beach sunrise alone and cold,
Grey and hollowed out.

Good companionship missing,
As sunsets again,
Over the remains of my heart.

I hunger to walk hand in hand,
Into the setting sun.

© 23/02/2026 rog leach

welcome to my favourite prompt at the #dversepoetrypub quadrille night. what do we hunger for tonight. What a great chose of word for this evening.

SKEDADDLE 2

Photo by Mao Won on Pexels.com
Skedaddle!
(original)
(This was written after my first visit to a greyhound race meeting. Some of the words used are Loosely based on the names of the dogs’ names.)

Vacant tote skedaddles away with loot,
Westfield Eleanor going like a bullet,
Wreck it Rolo ruins his run,
Splaattt.
Winners for your two slippery rascals,
A golden wind blowing for totes.
Bombay puzzle tree felled,
By waste of space on race card 115,
Whoosh,
Romeo Wolfe beating oh so sluggish,
Wiping out the tote’s banter,
Their personal service defunct.
Race course sponsors still believe,
Fabulous glamour still lives on,
Biesterfield Bullet taken out at last,
Kerblamy
Lemming forced rioting in the stands,
Future unsure fun memories made.
© 27/05/2024 rog leach

thanks to Merrill @#dversepoetspub we are writing cascade poems this evening. As you can see i have transformed an old poem into this form. i thought it would suit this poem.

Skedaddle!
(In Cascade form)


Vacant tote skedaddles away with loot,
Westfield Eleanor going like a bullet,
Wreck it Rolo ruins his run,
Splaattt.

Winners for your two slippery rascals,
A golden wind blowing for totes.
Vacant tote skedaddles away with loot.

Race course sponsors still believe,
Fabulous glamour still lives on with,
Westfield Eleanor going like a bullet.

Bombay puzzle tree felled,
By waste of space on race card 115,
Whoosh,
Wreck it Rolo ruins his run.

Biesterfield Bullet taken out at last Kerblamy
Lemming forced rioting in the stands,
Splaattt.
© 05/02/2026 rog leach

city challenge.

Hello all this got me going tonight so here is my attempt at the simile prompt.

City challenge.
#simile, #dversepoetrypub.

The buildings rise like ant hills,
From the concrete desert,
Sodium orange glow welcoming you.

Pigeons swirl around rooftops,
Like teenagers around rock gods,
Neon lights calling, calling.

City challenging me to enter,
My teenage whims caught up,
In the bright neon’s.

My heart beating to the rhythm,
Of rock and roll, like lava
Through my parent’s icy fear.

First concert opens my ears,
To a live supported by my first love,
MUSIC.

© 03/02/2026 rog leach

The first band I ever got to see in concert in the big smoke was an Aussie group called Midnight Oil and this is the song that persuaded me to .