Pick this #quadrille

Quadrille #245 – Writing Down the Bones

Pick this!
#quadrille, #anti-war,

I have a bone to pick,
One huge bone,
To pick with all you,
F£$*&^g war-mongers!


Killing innocence,
Lining you pockets with,
BLOOD MONEY!
Murdering,
Not in my name.



Love and peace accepted,
To be spread around thickly, 
Harmony, goodwill and  friendships,
PICK THIS!

© rog leach 06/04/2026.

#quadrille time again @ #dversepoetrypub. tonight’s word bone went straight to how I am feeling today.

the Banksy Tank painted in the Leake street Tunnels under waterloo — no more war. a Banksy painting.

Pivot #endofanera.

Pivot

Goodbye hobgoblin!

Going out with a bang was his plan,

But now he is oh so quiet.

Here lays the hobgoblin poet,

@ Glade valentine church yard,

My life now blank and peaceful,

Killed watching rainbows and missiles,

Which touched earth with beauty and destruction,

Indifferent to the suffering.

As war rages around him.

The Hobgoblin poet,

Without a bang he went out,

Died voice unheard.

But his written words,

Will be eternal,

Ready for future generations.

Who have learnt to get along.

Pivoting away from fear into self acceptance,

Leaving war to the history books.

No going out with a bang required.

hello #dversepoetspub how are we this evening. tonight we are discussing pivotal moments in our lives. At the beginning of my journey into sharing my poetry I would hide behind a construct called the hobgoblin poet. when I grew in confidence with my sharing i decided to kill him off. this poem is how i did so standing forward to accept my own words.

glazed #quadrille231

Quadrille #231: Making Much of Poems

to much, ooh too much — What’s too much?

Glazed.
#quadrille, #poetryrules, #dversepoetrypub.

Grainy conscience with Bullshit hangover,
Mind glazed over.
.
Aftermath of ignorance,
Kicking common sense

Am I too much?

Glazed eyes reflect,
Back communication.

Aftermath of ignorance,
Kicking common sense

Grainy with Bullshit hangover,
Mind glazed over with ignorance.

Glazed eyes reflect,
Back communication.

© 08/09/2025 rog leach

thanks to the wonderful quadrille form i have managed to release some of the pressure that is building around me at the moment . Thanks De for tonight’s prompt @ #dversepoetrypub.

Penny-washer 🌸 blossoms.

Quadrille #220 – Engrave your name across my heart

Penny-washer Blossoms.
#engineringbeauty, #quadrille,

Penny-washer blossoms,
Engraved into my memory.

Sharing delicacy of thought,
Within a ring of shimmering steel.

Tiny art works of steel etched,
With the splendour of nature.

Sharing delicacy of thought,
Within a ring of gleaming steel.

Penny-washer blossoms,
Engraved into my memory.

Perpetually ♾.

© rog leach 24/03/2025

Thank you Kim for a really enjoyable #quadrill prompt this evening @ #dversepoetrypub.

Feathered

Poetics – Monopoly with a Twist

 the feathers in the picture reminded me of this poem I wrote back in January https://pyscopoet.home.blog/2025/01/07/dance-of-feathers/  

Then the Ezra Pound poem " in a station of the metro" inspired this one. with a hint of The Jam down in the tube station at midnight.


Feathered.

Grey feathered vermin’s two-fold existence.
Fed by tourists, despised by locals.

©Rog leach 18/03/2025


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPuf0T668tE&pp=ygUrdGhlIGphbSBkb3duIGluIHRoZSB0dWJlc3RhdGlvbiBhdCBtaWRuaWdodA%3D%3D

Thank  you Sanaa for a challenging Prompt this evening here @ #dversepoetrypub. Where we are monopoly a poetry twist.