Stuart Miller-Osborne

It was an almost poetical day Warm rain was pouring out of the heated clouds And rivers steamed like spa’s A lorry driver had been killed on the motorway He had skidded in the heavy rain And his lorry had blocked all four lanes The city had fallen into gridlock Lucy felt strangely excited by […]

A Cop a Girl and a Gun The girl in the yellow dress Was jealous of the sun So she had it arrested On a charge of voyeurism The hunky cop Who attended the crime scene Told her to get dressed As the sun had friends in high places   Geese Watching Trains   Three […]

My father was a window cleaner He cleaned windows in my home town and the surrounding villages for over forty years During the war he was stationed in India and when on leave visited the Taj Mahal The visit changed him as a man For when he returned from his war All he could speak […]

On May Month Manor Lane Each paddock had a wooden shed Not used by the cows But by young lovers Related by birth I was on the drunken bus Which fainted As it passed through The stone circle This obvious inconvenience Was tempered By a spectacular storm And our shared love of cricket  

Just before you arrive at a railway station at Midgham in West Berkshire you will witness on a small hill  a number of wooden stakes arranged in rough circles Although mysterious they look innocent enough but their function is to guide spaceships towards Earth Really Julie looked at her feet which were submerged in a […]

Kim Kim Terry Tim was strolling anonymously in a park in Seville when she noticed a poet weeping in the shade of a creeping tree She placed her hand on the poets shoulder and enquired of his grief He handed her his black notebook It contained a poem About his afterlife Wallpaper It was called […]

Striped clouds with candy stars Hot air balloons in the channel sky Coffee ice cream on my camera case Dozens of pigeons flying by   Two cars came together In a nearby street I cannot see any damage But I think we should exchange telephone numbers just in case   The coast of France is […]

The deaf girl was signing on her phone To a friend who lived in another town Hail the pink blossom It decorates the trees Spring is here The deaf girl was called Antonia And she came from a small farm Lost on the great plains At the age of seven The long silence had caused […]

Antonia Alice Was visiting St Vincent’s Bay When a summer storm suddenly broke The skies darkened and began to rumble And lightning flashed here and there Oh Happy England She said Oh Happy England See the seats of the kindled fires The trees have lost their breath you know She sheltered in a church with […]

Adam was sitting on a wooden seat at St Margaret’s Bay with his wife Flora Fairfax The day was warm but a brisk wind was whipping the sea up and the waves were pounding the beach as it they believed it was early autumn and not a summer’s day There were a number of small […]