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An insomniac looks at the stars

Just think, without their blissful light how dark this restless night would be.

T.S. Eliot and the Dissociative Sensibility 2

Now there are many definitions of love and love is where our feelings come from. But I think that C.S.

Babylon?

Roadside encounter.

T.S. Eliot and the Dissociative Sensibility 1

T.S. Eliot was one of the few poets concerned with cultural coherency, that is, Western cultural coherency.

Embrace that never was.

I tried to paint, honest, i did. I wanted to paint the world for you, but the end result was pathetic and sad, nothing but bloody smears on a dirty window.
Cherry

Broken Stones

Veronica was never a bad seed. She was once a teenage beauty queen from St Lucia who dreamt of having children
Cherry

The Tampax Lady (1984)

"Fallen off your bike!" "On the rag!" "Got the painters in!" Encouraged by Trisha, the visiting Tampax lady, the girls were shouting out menstruation related phrases as an icebreaker.

Minnis Downhome Pharmacy

Four shootings took place just five minutes after I left Minnis Downhome Pharmacy. If I had been there for another five minutes, one of the victims would've been me.

Roll Up! Roll Up!

Written to my daughter's artwork: http://jessicamccallum.blogspot.com.au/p/exhibit.html

Reserved

I'm currently the Cafe Poet in residence at Burns Beach Cafe on the Sunset Coast of Australia. This is one of the poems written during a coffee break :o))

Coffee Cinquain

Don't Mistake my froth for sweetness - your long

VACATIONS IN PANAMA

remind- me hace recordar through- atraves buildings-edificaciones warm- clima templado clouds- nubes unforgettable- inolvidable

Squandered

Waste of my time.
Cherry

Ruined

Somebody's put Baby in a corner...
Cherry

Alchemy

What do people need to create? Money, food, love, bad luck, happiness?
Cherry

A bit of a cliché

'A bit of a cliché', written on 19 May 2013

Love Is A Burp

Love comes in strange places.

To Glimpse a Butterfly

I nicknamed her ‘Papillon’, from that very first day I saw her...

Ambushed

amid the ruin of crisis – families desperate for life caught in the swamp of despair

Toadstool

Toadstool

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