Guernsey Poets

Measured by medications The wheel of the pill dispenser  Goes inexorably round And is filled each week in a ritual After breakfast and...

I've been advised to walk backwards, and sideways in order to improve my balance, and gait I always avoided PEOPLE watching me walk ...

It’s always raining in my head Sometimes there are cross-winds And often interminable white noise, Static that comes before and after s...

As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning … ...

The dinosaurs never watched TV But they knew they’d die eventually Just something in the air they sensed Wasn’t right, it was no coinci...

Well, first of all I woke up late I’m usually out by half past eight The thought of work depressed me so I decided that I would not go T...

I caught a little virus at the local shopping Mall It just jumped into my basket, wasn't chasing it at all It's knocked me sort ...

He wasn’t supposed to be born that way But it wasn’t something he could choose You see, his mother was a party girl And really liked the ...

As he gazed up from his buggy with wondrous eyes, A plume of mushroom shaped smoke Hovered darkly above his head, Poisonous fumes from th...

Once I lay on A hospital bed Coughing and hacking And feeling half dead I'd gone to the ward Called "Emergency" But had...

Today's poem is a "Golden Oldie" and was originally published here in August 2012 Is it a sin or a guilty pleasure to chea...

I thought I’d pen a poem All about a “bunion,” But t’would be easier To versify “onion.” They’ve something in common Though, and I’ll t...

Ten is now the magic number I’ve become a statistic, Ten years of survival If I’d blinked hard I could’ve missed it, Why ten should be ...

So deep, I sink Deep breath, inhale Exhale, relax Letting thoughts be still, No sound inside my head Let outside clamour, Muffled nois...

Aindre added this note to his poem which is why it has been put on an 'adult page'; "Please note this is not for the faint of h...

This sad ode has a bit of a sting as I recall when I used to be thin. The memory’s clearer than I’d like it to be since my hour-glass fig...

5 a day is what they say We need to keep ourselves healthy By hard as I try I cannot lie I can never eat more than three The vitamins ...

Is it a sin or a guilty pleasure to cheat on a diet you seem to have been on forever? Deprived of the foods we believe we deserve is it...