Read
APPLE OF MY EYE
Fruity, light-hearted poem.
- Read more about APPLE OF MY EYE
- Log in to post comments
- 1320 reads
THE ROSES HAVE DIED
I look into your eyes, I see they disagree with mine. Our love was a gemstone, Now it's lost its last bit of shine. The candle has burnt down. We...
- Read more about THE ROSES HAVE DIED
- Log in to post comments
- 1025 reads
a letter to a friend
Note: As a teenager, I wrote a column for the city newspaper. Matt Hall, a reporter, managed my work and gave me guidance. We also played some fierce...
- Read more about a letter to a friend
- Log in to post comments
- 2087 reads
Downstairs
"The axe boy lived downstairs" - Jonathan Carroll The axe boy lived downstairs, where his body flowered like a liana, pink as a yawning sore. He was...
- Read more about Downstairs
- Log in to post comments
- 721 reads
I've found I can breathe water...
I've found I can breath water? I've found I can breath water, with the mouth of air a jellyfish (unnoticeably dead) left on the shore at Durdle Door...
- Read more about I've found I can breathe water...
- Log in to post comments
- 515 reads
Crocus
Crocus Laid down on the mat Like greeting cards. If the truth be told (and it so often isn't) This must be the last goodbye. Crocus Laid down on the...
- Read more about Crocus
- Log in to post comments
- 805 reads
EMERALD EYES
Short, light-hearted poem about fictitious Ruby living in Ireland.
- Read more about EMERALD EYES
- Log in to post comments
- 937 reads
WELL HE LOVES IT
He can't get enough of it. He adores it when it's out.
- Read more about WELL HE LOVES IT
- Log in to post comments
- 1067 reads
I CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU
Can't live without you, For it feels too hard; Like a fallen fridge, Upon softened lard. Can't eat without you, For I feel put off; Like trying to...
- Read more about I CAN'T DO IT WITHOUT YOU
- Log in to post comments
- 1065 reads
OUR LOVE
I feel that our love is such a thing, That no other couple can possess. Yes; our love is just the type of thing, That will never be reduced to less...
- Read more about OUR LOVE
- Log in to post comments
- 1007 reads
Hailing Maddy
The heavy clunk of metal locking into metal is a sudden staccato exclamation splintering through the low, rhythmic patter of the sodding torrential...
- Read more about Hailing Maddy
- Log in to post comments
- 648 reads
kises Darling
GIRL SUFFERS CHILD ABBUSE
- Read more about kises Darling
- Log in to post comments
- 408 reads
Crazy Frog
Dark and comic I suppose, expressing a moment of horror at how we live today. The first poem I have written for a long time. 27th May 2005.
- Read more about Crazy Frog
- Log in to post comments
- 754 reads
The First Appointment
for Velia (and thank you)
- Read more about The First Appointment
- Log in to post comments
- 730 reads
Sea Poem
Cowrie shells like gnocchi on the shore Are sloshing saline mouthwash with each wave. And waves are white-tipped fingernails that claw At starfish...
- Read more about Sea Poem
- Log in to post comments
- 683 reads
Influenza
Dances in snuffly sleep-breath, spritely in grey robes, jostling air. She paints you geisha-white and punts your bloodstream, a Boadicea battling...
- Read more about Influenza
- Log in to post comments
- 630 reads