Stuart Miller-Osborne

The church was closed for over sixty years It had been made redundant by a much larger church During this time is had been used as a place to store hope It missed the nineteenth century improvements And when it was finally reopened between the wars Time had stood still nothing had changed It is […]

Jesus I love Jesus It is as simple as that Nothing else matters

I had been kidnapped by some bad guys Because my father owned a London bank At first I thought they might kill me After Daddy coughed up the dosh But the opposite happened As I was taken out on deck And told to look out to sea Whales my friend Can you see whales I […]

Your poem spoke directly to me It discussed the loneliness Of warm desert nights The universe night trains And my thoughts about travelling alone

Whenever you visit the city You stay in my flat Next to railway lines The freight trains are noisy and frequent And you find it very hardtosleep So we slowly get drunk on cheap wine And crash out in eachothersarms Sharing my cotton pyjamas I wear the blue trousers and you theredjacket

As we walk into the garden I will be waiting for you Wearing a silk ribbon Yet no lipstick or blush During the thirteenth hour I will drown in a gentle stream My hair will be matted The thick mud will alter my features And it will be hard to distinguish me From the debris […]

The main attraction are their perfumed bells Crimson in colour and velvet to the touch For nearly two hundred years they have been pulped And mixed with cinnamon to create c4q53 This is a very popular beauty paste Which we sell in our little shop It is named Venice Montenegro after my wife We grow […]

Josie there have been a number of movies about love Many are overblown and rather dramatic Imagine if you are in Milan Which movie would you favour Le stagioni del nostro amore I think that this movie looks into the soul And the considerable pain of being in love A journalist is split between his […]

Joe there have been a number of movies about poets Many are overblown and rather dramatic Imagine if you are in Milan Which movie would you favour Storie di ordinaria fillia I think that movie looks into the soul And the considerable pain of being a poet I am going to ask Josephine the same […]

What are you watching Joe Our movie We played a Spanish couple Who are double booked in error It is a comedy of matters With an uptight English couple Mixing with a liberal poet and his son The other reason that we got the parts Was that the movie was almost bankrupt And you had […]