OUCH!! little tortoise

Ouch little tortoise

What did you do?

I’m sat in the sunshine feeding you.

You have no teeth so you can’t chew,

I’m holding out the food for you.

You don’t want the lettuce

I’m beginning to regret it.

I can see the hunger rising in you.

Then you sniff out a red grape or two.

So I sit and hold them out for you.

You stretch you neck

And tilt your head.

Beak out stretched.

Open and chomp

Open and chomp you pull it down

And come back twice.

And bite, bite, bite.

You get a finger, grape, a finger

But that third bites worse.

Your sharp beaks’ a stinger.

Ouch little tortoise what did you do?

Do you have to bite me every time I am feeding you?

Dream Wake

Sleep is good.

Sleep is great.

In my dreams,

My alarm did wake.

Eyes half closed

I slumber-wake.

Pull out of bed

-lets try getting dressed.

Too much

Too late

My body aches.

Look up-

Look back

The sky’s still black.

You dreamed of waking

And wake you did.

That time of day

 That you so dread.

It spins around and numbs your head.

You toss over and snooze again.

The sound so loud you thought it real.

But don’t worry,

 Don’t hate

 You have hours till that alarm is real.

nightlight

Looking at the light
through the shadow of the night.

A piece of mind

Like a dripping tap
of mind.

It can't close off
or decide.

What words to drop
and let make rhyme.

What words let through
and aren't- unkind.

Twinkle phone

Twinkle, twinkle
mobile phone.

Your flashing, like your far from home.

But don't you understand
nobody will phone.

So sing your rings, your too alone