THE COUNTRY TOWN
Round the country town I walk to see the sights of drunks under statues of long dead once famous men who killed for empire and personal gain The drunks lean […]
FUCK YOU!
Trapped in a jar this table is huge its receeding toward a light far off am I drugged? on drugs? About to shoot? but missed the vein? Those hands are […]
THEN YOU WILL CRY FOR ME
Else Lasker-Schuler was one of the great German poets, and an artist of distinctive style. Her mother Jeannette, wife of the banker and builder Aron Schuler, gave birth to her […]
THE OLD FENCE
I sit on an old fence and feel the western wind stroking my face like a lover’s gentle kiss Don’t take feelings lightly they live for a reason love and […]
TIMES PAST
I sailed the silver sea the sun held the horizon a charmed smiling breeze touched slender thoughts. Slumbering eyes saw times of endless pleasure the bow cleaved the waves […]
TEMPUS FUGIT
Something a bit different from the usual stuff I post. The UK National Health Service began today in 1948. Before that date, the sick needed to pay for medical help. […]
AND ANGELS SANG
The Innocents loved me they laid flowers at my feet cut my hair and kissed me and cooled me in the heat Gifts came in abundance spread on carpets of […]
EDEN FROM SAND
There’s a wreath on the world placed there by God for all the what ifs and might have beens A planet run by Cain killer instead of grower given air […]
KICK THE FUCKERS
The Coronavirus lockdown has been heaven sent for people who fucking hate other people or anything else with a pulse. No need to be falsely friendly stroke the cat or […]
TICK TOCK
The pain of loss never goes you live with it as the seconds tick tock into a seeable future that never approaches but stealthily recedes with the years of days […]
THE NIGHT WIND
I can safely say that Emily Bronte is my favourite poet by a country mile of great poets. Her words and emotions possess extreme muscularity and vigour. She never, ever […]
CLOUD MESSENGER
Kalidasa is THE great poet of the Indian sub-continent. Virtually nothing is known for certain about this elusive figure other than he was probably active in the late 4th- early […]
OVER THE LINE!
The Big Lebowski is a film released by the Coen brothers in May 1998, and follows the eponymous Dude through his semi-comatose, skunk infested lifestyle in search of the rug […]
THIS IS HOW IT IS
This is how it is a metal tube full of rocket propellant lands on a body that once was a body I knew and spreads mortal remains across the landscape […]
ZION’S TOPPLED TOWERS
Legend has it that the great opera composer, Giuseppe Verdi, was still mourning the death of Margherita his first wife in 1840, when a libretto by Temistocle Solera was given […]
STONE TO BONE
From stone to bone tread the feet of wasted time that hollow sound of faded dreams clattered echoes along dusty halls empty of wisdom now doors are closed against sightless […]
