If we had a Kombi © 1998 & 2009 Paul J Penton If we could just get out of town Feel the sun with the windows down Hit high gear and catch a swirling breeze Breathe in all those fresh green fields Head out for the purple hills And leave behind these city wannabes the [...]

Just One More    © 2008 Paul J Penton Just one more drink, Then I’m gonna hit the road Gonna Hitch it up,  get hauling this heavy load. To a destination that I’ve never seen Just one more drink, And I’ll be movin’ on There’s just one kiss, resting like a butterfly here on my cheek, [...]

Mary Celeste                             © Paul J Penton March 2008 She hides everything in a  dark swirling mist and lives in a ghostly halo,     this girl is cloaked in mystery  her spider-web wheel spins round and around she drifts on a dead calm sea her sails await a friendly wind but none ever comes blowing Mary Celeste [...]

Buried and Dead                                © Paul J Penton 2009 Friday night and I’m out driving the same old streets the stores arrive in the same old way I remember that they did when I was a kid behind those doors they won’t know me Nothing’s changed since I left here under the bridge a lot of [...]

Sunset over the bay © 2008 Paul J Penton Sunset Over the Bay-Update 15July > I want to sit back and gaze in wonder, At shades of purple and grey Be sittin’ on our own front porch, With you sitting next to me I could hand you a glass of fresh chilled wine, The finest [...]

The only time we used to use a table cloth was either at Christmas or when the family came to visit for a special weekend. Normally it was Sunday lunch off a medium blue lump of laminate that dad installed on all the tables in our cafe/take away/Deli. On the special occasions the shop would [...]

Nothing like the smell of a freshly baked photocopy. That mad mix of printing chemicals that have been sucked out of the toner, that thing that inevitably goes wrong, or so you think. There’s a medical procedure you need to go through to fix it- just as soon as that little red roller signal starts [...]

Smelling Greville Street I walk home determined to focus on smell On Chatham Street there’s a row of wheelie bins In camouflage green I smell them and the remainder of something that needs washing out it’s pure rot Along side the Coles car park I smell a sausage sizzle Somebody raising donations for some charity [...]

Breakfast – Sat May 16 Light rain this morning Just mist And the occasional big bits Full drops But I can duck for cover at any moment So I’m not too worried I sprint past a Greek grandmother Bent over double Moving along at a slow slow shuffle Even I am not going at a [...]

Wolf-Parkinson-White Thinking about the implications For the diagnosis Being one of the privileged 1 to 3 percent Dose it mean lifestyle change Behaviors No more alcohol No more ‘energy drinks’ I am a bit disturbed By the Wikipedia description That it may in some cases Result in ‘sudden cardiac arrest’