Category: Poetry
Sugar and Spice
RAIN AFTER DROUGHT
A poem in memory of a friend who also loved rain. Reposting it as all the rest of my earlier poems seem to have vanished, along with most episodes of soviet union journey.
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Public Order and Private Dicks
Distances (restored to mostly original)
I’ve learned about distances like this distance and the how of their lengthening, come to know every signpost every exit road along the way – and where each happens around those unexpected curves. Learned, too, how the highway opens up and spaces change until flat land stretches out ahead fallow brown on every side; how
» Read moreCalling in the Crows
Written years ago on my relocation to the city from the sanctuary of my country retreat in Aberdeenshire and missing my crows. Hear my voice in your cold dark dawn frosty branches and purple streaked sky. Awake! rouse yourselves! heads removed from covering wing. Come now, to this small city dwelling. Fly above the cliffs and the barren cornfields, majestic
» Read moreThe Widow’s Mite
When there is nothing left to give…grief becomes the order of the day. There are times that stifle words. Choke the warmth, smother the need, so great the deeds, so deep the damage, to try to verbalise is futile. One can only pray seasons, contributions and deep introspection will earn rewards not yet apparent from this vantage. Were our differences
» Read moreTime 2020
Intro: up to 50 words (delete this text and enter your own) I have written so little in the last 18 months or so, to be back to writing is a relief. It seems somehow appropriate that inspiration should dawn on the same day that I discover this (old) new version of UKA.
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