Poetry

Random Poems

Childhood Sweethearts

Sickly sweet

Monster poem

Woven deeply with mud and rain The mossy flesh monster howls Dug from the rotten, tight-wound roots With axes and picks and trowels In a halo of steam he reaches and wails

Library Serenade

Love and books

Night Thoughts

1st Love
Cherry

Musically Ungifted

Love amongst the ivories
Cherry

Love returns

It was your love that rattled his teeth like small stones, shifting in the sea.

Missing

Looking for yourself in someone else
Cherry

Message to McQueen

Dear Alexander I never thought to write, Never knew much about you Until you slipped into your wardrobe and out of your life. What did you hope to find in there? But for a wintry death.
Cherry

Newborn

For those who have recently had a baby this may ring true.

Photons

When the sun hits the ground There's the feintest sound There are photons splashing carelessley Through the trees And over everyone and me. The birds in the sky Don't wonder why Just fly

To live, to write, to strive... for cherries

A few well placed words And the cherries will come They said. Some grit, a touch, a twist Just follow the rule of thumb They said. So I pulled it out the bag I worked it hard, too hard,

Writer's block

Words is words is words is words Words is hurdles and wing-clipped, poor birds Words is a field with a ramshackle fence Running barbed-wire rings...