Safe Word – 3rd October 2025

Cheekily shared with dVerse – Tuesday Poetics. Always considering a different angle on a prompt, my mind took me to a place that I’ve only heard about (honest, guv!), guided by the Cambridge Dictionary entry for ‘paddle’, which gave me ‘We provide a variety of toys, such as floggers, paddles, cuffs, and ropes.’ I didn’t really get a ‘song’ into the poem but the sounds are clear and obvious.

We provide a variety of toys,
for adventurous girls and boys;

Whack! Whack! 


A sharp crack

lands across a welcoming back.




With floggers and paddles,

over the sub the mistress straddles;

Zzip! Zzip!


A consenting courtship

at the whims of her loving whip.





A kink of ropes, clips and cuffs,
or a silken bondage tied with trust;

Squeal! Squeal!


The trussed and bound reveal

the boundaries of this fetishistic deal.



Blindfolded and restrained,

the traditional roles clearly reframed;


Swish! Swish!


A safe word so devilish,

“No sex, please, we’re English!”