Mid-Summer Writing, by Alan Ewing (2026)

Mid-Summer Writing

by Alan Ewing

SOLSTICE

A Midsummer's Love once came to me,
Then I knew her not
She felt like a breeze in the sunshine
That was her lot

I waited for the longest day to tell me,
How to win her back
Sad to say that it was all over for sure
Oh what did I lack?

I searched the earth for my summer love,
I wrestled with my heart
I got down on my knees and prayed to God
For her to play her part

I went from sunrise to sunset in my search,
For that lovely woman
I cried into a bumble bee's heart
For that beautiful loving

I'll wait until Winter Solstice and cry out loud,
I shall have no pride
I shall scream out on the shortest day
Maybe she'll be mine

Lost Star

So another new PM (Prime Minister)

What about about AM (anti-Minister)

All to do with BREXIT

A much lamented exit

We miss our European friends

Always ours till the end

Always preferred straight bananas

As I ate them in my pyjamas

Just a love of European culture

Because USA has become a vulture

No longer our friend done insane

As she betrays Ukraine

So let's have another glass of wine

And get rid of Farage's whine

Put division to bed

Let it be dead

So, another European Red

Better than BREXIT beer dread

Oh what a huge mistake

Let's have another take!

 

An Ode to Marilyn Monroe

100 years my dear
Star still so bright
Number 1 blonde
No fear
Of any other one

Your comedic ways
Oh for the age
A true woman
A feminine sage
Just Number 1

Always my gerl
In your humour
Always alone
Could never atone
For husbands

Oh my Marilyn
My lonely girl
I would give you
The world
To come live
With me

Marilyn World
All that it gave
Truly I knew
Your Love
As an old sage
I truly gave
All you meant to me

Division In The UK, 

a lyric blog by Alan Ewing

Division In The UK

Oh my Lord

Can it be?

Such hatred

On the streets

As we see

A nation divided

Some try to

Hide it

When it is

Plain to see

Exploitative evil

Channels minds

Into violence

Carnage, hatred

Lowest denominator

Channel the sword

Take on armour

Needs as must

Challenge this way

Of a nightmare

Give us daily love

As we see minds

Fooled into discontent

Help us not to hold

Our minds for rent

 Kitchen Sink

 by Alan Ewing

It was said

Everything bar the kitchen sink

I don't want it

Because it is blocked up

 Has been said
Don't forget the hoover
I will
It does not pick up anymore

So is said
Remember the ironing board
I shall
It is too full of steam

Has been said
Remember your books
I might
They've all been read

As for myself
I may just forget it all
As I await
The page to turn

An Old Friend

An Old Friend

An old friend dropped in
Oh he always wanted to win
Never quite could in his game
Now I see he’s still the same

Do people change I ask you now?
Can a leopard change spots – how?
We look for traits that may have gone
All in disguise – so much a con

The ones who always let us down
Always point scoring for a crown
Take the knife behind your back
It is common empathy that they lack

So say hello and goodbye again
Trust long ago gone in the main
You see as they are now arriving
It is you they are undermining

People may not change much
Though times sure do have ways
To turn someone you once knew
Into a figment of the past, so true

An old friend in life
Or perhaps it wasn’t so?
Perhaps always an enemy
Who tried to play me

Dear Marilyn ...

Dear Marilyn,
I forgot to say
Adoration
All astray

Caught in celebrity
Oh what a day
When I forget
To say

I love you, I love you
Now it's been said
Some things forgotten
Through the day
Though never your way

Through it all
I always call you hun
Feel your caresses
When day is done

Dear Marilyn,
All my dreams true
When I adore you
In eternity

My Lost Phone

My lost phone
Turned up again
Oh it was seen
By the washing
machine

By kitchen table
Leg
Looking like
An old lost
Peg

Replacement
Affronted
Relegated
To drawer
For sure

Not very
Happy
On
sub-bench
A wrench

Make my calls
Like old again
My number
The
Same

Path

Path

Should I walk the path alone?
I would have a quiet tone
No responsibilities
Just myself

Maybe I'll be awake at night
Oh, fancy, my own little flight
Just me
Alone

Hey! Should I now talk to God
And hear about the grand plan
A friend
In the end

For Jesus is one and all to me
Always my friend can't you see
I am
Never alone

So please look around and see
People so alone just like me
Together
We shall be

Status Rhyme

Imagine if we wrote in rhyme
Social media status each time
What great fun that would be
To say I'm having a cup of tea

I might be having a bit of cake
Out over the door for I am late
They make awful tea at my works
Save on teabags using them twice

So politics is it or just creative fun
A blocked sink and dishes not done
We thus make our bed and lie in it
Hoping next update will be a hit

Did I forget to tell you about Aunty
She quit Mars Bars; went to Bounty
Loves her little lovely chocolate dip
Always on her little yummy sugar trip

It's been said that it is the little things
Matter because of the joy they bring
I can honestly say that, that is true
For where would I be, without
A Cup Of Tea

copyright dewyswriter 2026

Cross-section of lyrics for Landican Village, by Alan Ewing

 Cross-section of lyrics for Landican Village, 

by Alan Ewing

 

 Angels Wait

a lyric by Alan Ewing

 

 

I never really knew your ways

As you hid within a maze

Looking for transcendent glow

For the answer I would know

Keeping in my heart special days

Figure out what angel says

Twist and turn, all back to front

Keeping on as I must

Is the space so empty now?

With no heir to the throne?

Just shadows from the past

Am I so all alone?

For what is life without the soul

The one who makes you whole

The garden gate opens wide

And there she is, my bride-child

It's So Political (Sexual Tension) 

a lyric by Alan Ewing

 

 

 

 

 

It's so political

So analytical

When you move right
My left is my word

Put it to a vote
Float my boat
For you in my life
To mean trouble & strife

Here's the new manifesto
So quick hey presto!
It’s no longer self-rule
A showdown duel

It’s so political
The way you talk
So propositional
Hand-in-hand we walk

 

 

Sad Day

a lyric by Alan Ewing

Sad, sad sad day
When you went away
Wish there was another way
So you could have stayed

It seemed we'd always be together
The years and years like forever
Taking the times in our stride
Now those years have gone to hide

Sad, sad day ...

And in the end you'll pay the price
For losing love, not once, but twice
The arrow of love drives into you
And there ain't nothing you can do

Sad, sad day ...

 Kirsty Jo

lyrics by Alan Ewing

 

 

 

You've been down, around the town

Never smiling, with a frown 

Such bad days and all their ways

Come the hour, there's girl power

Pretty ribbons in your hair

Make me dance without a care

I don't need to confer

[Chorus]

Hey Kirsty Jo, you've got a long way to go

Hey Kirsty Jo, play some records that you'll know

So lift your heart - a new start

Give your best - and pass the test

It's alright - give all your might

It's your need - to succeed

 

[Repeat Chorus] 

  TRIP

a song lyric by Alan Ewing

 

 

 

All of the people that you use

Emotionally abuse

You etch out lies as the truth

As you blow another fuse

 

Chorus

I don't wannabe part of your trip

I can't fit in to be hip

I don't wannabe, don't wannbe.

Part of your trip

 

How you like to play your game

Psychologically frame

Looking at the mirror on wall

We all wait to see your fall

 

Repeat Chorus

 

Middle Eight

I was never going to be part of your crowd

The years have proved it, oh so loud

I guess that my mentor is myself

Why would I listen to anyone else?

 

Repeat Chorus

SOMEBODY

a lyric by Alan Ewing

 

 

Chorus

And if somebody

Brought love back to you

And that somebody

Always would be true

And can somebody

Really come through

Not like somebody

Who leaves you cold and blue

Verse 1

There was a time I lived in need

When it seemed to me

I needed a hand

From someone who believed

Repeat Chorus

Verse 2

Then came a place

When it seemed to me

That I had a gift

To go out there and set others free

Repeat Chorus

 THE DEVIL YOU DON'T

a lyric by Alan Ewing

 

 

 

 

 

 

Never knew that in you

The devil may care

So that's the way you go 

Jealousy stares

Always tried to reach you

In God's Way

You just could not be true

In your ways

Attack on my spirituality

From the bottomless pit

Vile is your functionality

I find that rather sick

 

What is friendship if not true

A grand charade

So take your exit, you fool

With a pathetic parade

 

For love, it conquers all 

This you will find

For those who take the other side

Will lose God within mankind

Listen, if those ears can hear

May the sound resound

See with eyes that can truly see

Divine Presence within a cloud

 Carry On
a lyric by Alan Ewing

I pitch this looking for a new start
Because hereafter we must part
When you gave yourself to him
Threw away what could have been

And so you have had your little fling

Leaving me to exist as a forlorn being

People give out lots of general advice

Fool me once then I’ll know when twice

Carry On: as you like
Carry On: out of sight

You are not the person that I thought to be
Seeking to inflict pain and hurt on me
Treating me as a fool rather than a friend
It got so bad that I brought it to an end

Yours always if you had seen and believed
Too busy with gratification for you to see
And so we part no longer even friends
A sad tale has been brought to an end


Carry on: in your way
Carry on: on another day

 

 

EARTH

by Alan Ewing

 

 

 

 

 

Is this the garden of Eden

In its fallen form? 

So many troubles grown

So much is torn

 

The fall of Angels bespoken

Such an awful crime 

To go against Almighty God

Such an awful time

 

Do we live this out now?

In our daily life

Cry out for the answers

In our daily strife

 

Are Angels inside of us?

As we fight the fight

Giving all that we have

With our daily might

 

Shall we walk to eternity?

Within our daily stroll

Wake up and then see

What exactly is the toll?

  

  Conspiracy Theorist
a lyric by Alan Ewing

I’m a conspiracy theorist
If you get my gist
Spend my days spreading memes
If you get my drift

Don’t believe the news
Just believe in me
I’ll fill your mind
With some conspiracy

Get all my facts straight
Within my own world

Gonna give you the whole truth
The best you’ve heard

I have worked it all out
What they’re gonna do
I’ll tell you right now
Then it’s up to you

Entity

a lyric by Alan Ewing

Deep within your heart

Comes the call of your Creator

Far within your soul

The essence of your Maker

Lonely in a troubled night

It is God who hears your call

Troubled at the approaching dawn

Such Entity shines a Light

The Kingdom is never far away

For it lives in you here and now

Heaven reveals its gateway

As in the seeds you plough

The search for an answer

Is here for you to see

All is revealed in time

When you just exist and be

 

THE STONE REJECTED

a lyric by Alan Ewing

 

 

(with reference to Mark 12 1-11; Psalm 118:22)

Sorrows never will be drowned

No one will push you to the ground

Love will rise again I promise you that

We’ll never bow upon their mat

Time is the factor that heals the wounds

Evil has no victory it is doomed

So don’t give in to it’s ways

For The Good Lord shall have His Day

The stone rejected

Has now become a rock

Truly strong and majestic

They shall no longer mock

Sit and wait for the Omega factor

While working out the meaning of Alpha

Start the fight with spiritual prowl

For you know the time is now

Put your trust in God above

If they push then give a shove

Like Job persist all the way

Never allow your faith to sway

The stone rejected

Has now become a rock

Truly strong and majestic

They shall no longer mock

Take on your arm a shield

And to their toll you must not yield

Hold in your hand a sword

And in your soul obey Natural Law

It’s over it’s falling and that’s The Truth

No longer will they pervert the youth

In days of old The Prophets did see

That God’s People would be free

 

Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing

a lyric by Alan Ewing

Here you come in imitation of Jesus’ walk

Like a prophet from Hell with your lying talk

Your political lies reveal your true intentions

Sickly hypocrisy with the poor not mentioned

Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing

Consider all of the rot

Life of your own choosing

Within the devil’s lot

Vile nature pours out from your turgid soul

The triumph of evil lauded as your goal

Venomous hatred from your every pore

Gates of Hell open as you walk through the door

Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing

Consider all of the rot

Life of your own choosing

Within the devil’s lot

Your satanic presence leaves stench and rot

Spite, jealousy, maliciousness being your lot

Foul demonic rage is the fruit of your tree

The roots of evil are so evident to see

Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing

Consider all of the rot

Life of your own choosing

Within the devil’s lot

 

 

Mid -State

a lyric by Alan Ewing

 

Well, there she was

A knocking on my door

I couldn’t believe my eyes

As my ears hit the floor

She came from Mid-State

Lived on the west coast

She wore her hair straight

Champagne was her toast

Then she stepped into the room

Her presence would shake your boots

Rock n’ Roll all night long

Because music was in her roots

Well, you listen to her all night long

And your senses are all over the place

You really are stuck on her

‘Cause she moves with such grace

 

  

BROKEN GEM

a lyric by Alan Ewing

 

 

I’ve been thinking it over

But I’ve not yet come to terms

My feelings are like a Supernova

I feel them turn and turn

You took a ride at my expense

And dropped the ticket in my lap

Then you say in your defence

That you read me like a map

Did you have to take it and break it

The gem that we had found

Now you’ll have to fake it and make it

The false love that will abound

Is it me who takes the blame

For what you can’t achieve

It could now never be the same

Because I am not so naive

So who is going to play the fool

Who’s going to provide the laughter

Who will smile and keep their cool

From this moment hereafter

Did you have to take it and break it

The gem that we had found

Now you’ll have to fake it and make it

The false love that will abound

I’ll take on new horizons

And make some new plans

It’s a new horse that I’m ridin'

A new beach with its sands

So keep looking over your shoulder

For what might be in reserve

You just got colder and colder

You really have a nerve

Did you have to take it and break it

The gem that we had found

Now you’ll have to fake it and make it

The false love that will abound

 

 

CHASING THE DRAGON AWAY
(a lyric for a lost friend in life}

 by Alan Ewing

 

 

 

You never really wanted the help that I gave
Blank reversion to the pattern of your ways
I offered love and friendship as a basic cure
All that you wanted were the familiar days

You said you felt that you had lost yourself

Out of mind and body with highs

I tried to reach out and bring you back to yourself

Because when the hit goes then your heart dies

I tried all I could to bring you back to your soul
But the never ending addiction proved stronger
The years of slavery enhanced the dragon's goal
It came to a point where I could help no longer

And so I hope that all turns out well for you
That seeds of impression planted find a way
For sometimes we pass through, that's true
To hold a light that emerges on another day

I could have taken you on the stage to sing
I could have given you all and everything
I could have made your voice oh so loud
If only you had not gone back to the crowd

Guiding Light

a lyric by Alan Ewing

 

Looking for inspiration – day after day

In this world – clear thinking today

Seeking the spirit within - in mountain streams

Turning nightmares around into wonderful dreams

No icons for sure – you see what you get

That is The Way – that things are set

Feel Spirit’s influence – each and every day

We listen for Your Words – and all that they say

Born for all ages – in your rightful place

Saving us all – with such loving Grace

Life lived with Love – You taught The Way

Caring for others – listen to what they say

Guiding Light – there for all to see