Three Thousand

Three thousand poems published
since Jemverse came to be
on WordPress as a daily blog
in two thousand and fourteen
Just over eight years, April last
I started sharing wide
the poems I had written
for in others to confide
and since then it's grown to passion
something that's a part of me
which, with Jemverse as the outlet
I can let you people see

In The Silent Cafe

This body sits alone in silent recall,

the voices, the activity, the monstrous sound

of espresso being ground,

for the hurried and swaggered consumer.

Down With Freshly Pressed

Down with Freshly Pressed!
The dreaded popularity test
Bloody barons
Masked in blue
Judging me; judging you
Keeping everyone a fool
Dancing, pleasing, jesting too
Never known to be so cruel
Controlling gods of likes and follows

The Blogger’s Prayer

Our Bloggers who art on WordPress
Hallowed be thy sites
Thy Followers come
Thy posts be done
As in ‘draft’
So it is in ‘published’