Stuart Miller-Osborne

I had chosen a wet misty night  To film the brutal stfreight trains  As they passed through my local station  The actual filming took me just over an hour  As I was getting ready to leave  A woman slipped on a nearby ramp  I helped her to her feet as she was a little dazed She…

Why do you sit alone my friend Because that is the way you made me  I wanted to be gregarious and social  But you left me in this darkened room  With limited views over the city 

Yes I am lying in the ground  But my lips are moving  Who said that Joe  The poet Osip Mandelstam  He was one of the first Russian poets I read after Pushkin  Like many other writers he incurred the wrath of Stalin  It did not help that he wrote  His cockroach moustache laughs  Perching on his…

You are sometimes known  As the Oak Moon or the Cold Moon  This is your final visit before you  Fade into deep winter

The colour grey is a neutral colour that falls between black and white                                                                                     …

The river is high  It has risen Since the storms The city is busy  But seems quiet  Under the flat skies Colours although bright  Are rather dull  I move without passion 

The Landscape Changes  I lost a Dear Friend  A man so dishonest  That I doubted myself  But he is now gone  I chopped him into pieces  Each of are clean The green fields have returned  They are no longer under threat  And will grow unpolluted  Away from disease and false songs  I am painting with my rifle butt…

You are sometimes known  As the Oak Moon or the Cold Moon  This is your final visit before you  Fade into deep winter I wrote this poem  In the hour before I retired  Little did I know  That our troublesome cat  Would wake me up  Some hours later  And that I would find myself  Freezing in the Night Garden …

You are all legitimate targets  You know who you are  Resign now  Enjoy your cornflakes 

I have a rather scatty flatmate  Her name is Winter Erotic  She is the type of person  Who makes coffee  And forgets to drink it  Last Tuesday I returned from work  And found her in the bathroom  Washing her hair over the sink  Dressed only in my track bottoms  She apologised for her state of…