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Written for a The Global Cafe Poetry Slam final with the theme of "Idioms and Idiots".

Old crow Sits on a fence It has no opinion Waiting for a friend Who’s flying late Probably the fog The bark of a dog Has no fear When you have wings...

Robert Vaughn's demise is something that billions of people deplore. If he had lived just eleven days longer, he would've turned eighty-four. Vaughn...

When she came back she said I looked like a marble tomb covered in ash hiding the skeletal remains – post apocalypse everything about me was muted;...

I was waiting for her in front of the station. As always, she was late. she’d told me once that punctuality was the shameful confession of a profound...

Rule: Every number that is added to a sum must be subtracted from some other sum. Argument in defence of this rule: In real life, whenever you add...

To Whom it may concern, I have spent most of my life trying to make people happy, at the expense of my own personal happiness. I realise nobody asked...

This is a story about a young farmer who takes in a destitute girl at the time of the abdication of Edward the VIII and the realisation that war might be imminent. It deals with attitudes to war and the morality of the times.

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Jesus, Jesus, I’m not worthy of your kindness or your pity, yet you left your realm of glory, all for me...