Author: Stuart Miller-Osborne

  • The Mathematics of Coincidence

    Maude do you realise that Ingmar Bergman Died on the same day as Michelangelo Antonioni July 30th 2007 Both were famous film directors And that Natalie Wood and Diana Rigg Were born on the same date July 20th 1938 Both were famous actresses You have not been doing much lately Have you Ralph The Mathematics […]

  • Sleeping in Bath

    Dreaming in a place of drowning A hazardous occupation Uncomfortable A wizard of fair perfumes Volcano City What silly notes are these As I have just arrived With a heavy case on tiny wheels Book in and then write clearly Jesse Jo

  • X

    Josie I am a little X with ewe Why Because you told Rosie About the Manchester incident I did not think that you would mind It came up in conversation As we were chatting about the state of the country The attacks on free speech and everything else I did not think that it would […]

  • Is this true Joe

    Joe I have just run into Josie and her beautiful girlfriend What a lovely couple they are You must be so proud I am very happy for them Are they visiting your mother Yes Where are you In Richmond planning the revolution But I will be down this weekend It will be lovely to see […]

  • Blue

    When I was a schoolboy I would study the interiors Of railway carriages I liked the publicity photographs One photograph really fascinated me It showed my aunt at a northern station She was dressed in blue and holding a dove

  • Trees I Have Loved

    You were sitting on a beach Wearing a white shirt White shorts Both cotton Sketching trees

  • Meet the Milky Way

    Xavier Xavier loved above a cafe In a rural town in South Western France He lived with a teacher named Mercedes A Who he initially employed to water his planta Qhilst he was travelling in Ebglans and Norway She was a thin attractive dirl who was very shy Abd dressed badly as nut ti attract […]

  • A Jam Festival

    Whilst on a winding summer road Jane and I stumbled upon a Festival of Jam We thought it might be jazz based But we were wrong As it was a Jam Festival With hundreds of jars of jam Made from all fruits and even concrete I purchased a jar of Concrete Jam Which was rather […]

  • Et tu Batman

    I had always fought evil My reasons are simple But I soon began to question evil What was good and what was evil It is not that clear cut I was on vacation When I met the daughter of a terrorist Her mother had been in jail for over thirty years Not for what she […]

  • On the Riverbank

    I normally rested in the same place Sometimes I would read But usually I just watched the clouds This was a special place My refuge from the world I have never forgotten it