Category: Non-Fiction

Just a thought…or two.(when you still have your tie-dye tee shirt)

  I am wandering light floating… The world is the sky I have one moon, one sun In my eyes The guides rotate and change places At ease I choose the sun of dawn And the dreamy moon Even in the loud afternoons And stark moonless nights My eyes radiate the aurora Of dawns and moonbeams In the powerful vivid seat […]

A Rewrite of a poem lurking in my dusty recesses. This was loosely inspired by a gorgeous  neighbour who loves her pets – her family – I would not dream of treating her as this pome might indicate  🙂     Sadie was eighty when she stopped counting. Eighty suited her nicely so she got there and stayed. I was […]

I’ll keep this raw – unedited – as the events are raw, precipitate, unfinished.     Outside in the corridor Staring at my trainers And the soup drip stain On the thigh of my jeans Wishing I had change for the vending machine.   Porters wheel stretcher beds Bearing bulging bellies Grunting in discomfort Cursing the pain They won’t go […]

reworked tanka I said, “Don’t love me, ‘we’ can never ever be”. I said another held my heart, my hopes, my dreams. She heard, but Caz did not…’hear’.   We had days of fun. Romping nights of lusting too. Overshadowed by that other lover lurking, behind doors of memory.   Caz wanted to ask if my, “Darling I love you” […]

Eating Cheese just before retiring to bed is inviting strange dreams in the night my mother always said. I loved ignoring mother’s advice. This is just a bit of daftness that came upon me whilst my wife was talking (And talking)     Blackbirds chased me around the room Until I hit ‘em with a broom Then they flew straight […]

Intro:  I really liked seeing the “cowboy” walking about the city centre when I was young. I’ve always loved eccentrics so this is a poem on one of my favourites.

Recently saw while on a walk a kingfisher by a riverbank. Only the third time I’ve been lucky enough to see this beautiful bird. This inspired me to write this.