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'Go'

You belong to the normal generation. Everything clear-cut and solvable. Climate change stabilised. No more poverty. Hunger eradicated. The gap...

The Causes of Poverty

Neither human nature nor the order of divinity tends toward a utopia in which all are equal, and wherein there is no class hungry for even temporary...
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Condoms for Cornwall - a short monologue

Here’s the list. Now what do I need? Well not me. My gallumping son Dan, who's just passed his GCSEs. Him and the rest of his year are heading for...

Waiting For The Flash

I wasn't sure if a photo could express Ekphrastic poetry, but decided to have a go and see if it worked. Childhood is such a mystery to me,...

The Cricklewood Times, Sunday 25th June 2017

NB: for Jack, no, Tarquin doesn't exist and I don't have these kind of connections. Image is author's own.
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Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth (Ekphrastic IP)

Buildings, far - off and grey seen across a vast field like a yellow ocean waiting to be sailed and, lying on the shore, Christina.

Pictures of Grenfell tower (Ekphrastic IP)

Pictures of Grenfell tower; a black and blazing tower of horror; of hopeless people and trapped screams like the worst tragedy of terror in...

invitation to the storm

hear tidings of the dance as whispers hushed lightning begins the song from far proclaims wind is bringer of news afar of the storm announce the...

Mack and the Loch Boggart

There was once a boy named Mack and his mother was always telling him, "Now, Mack. Remember not to go near the edge of the lake. You might fall in or...

My Poetry

When writing poetry I just think I don't talk I just write. I breathe but no sound comes out Quiet is all I crave My thoughts they just flow They are...

The Mirrored Niche

Inspired by Philosophy in the Bedroom by the Marquis de Sade this one is not for the faint-hearted or prudish. A thin line between erotica and pornography???

Present Grace, Future Perfect

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Christ had compassion, not contempt upon a leper, ill, unkempt, He touched him – no infection passed, but for the leper, joy at last: … First, Jesus pardoned him, some sneered, ‘That’s blasphemy!’, their thinking jeered – he then healed this paralysis (– one day he’ll right all that’s amiss):
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I'm Trying to Live and Let Live

I’m trying to live and let live People in Boden fun print clothes Fast-moving black spiders, ants In my cupboards outwitting me with Their highly...

One Day at a Time

For years I groomed my children To be sensitive Well-behaved, To be like the kind of person I'd love to be. When they graduated, Hidden joys...

For the Love of Death

Built by my father now falling all around me This wooden house erected in time of peace I live in solitude on this windswept hill; I'm sat Watching...

Summer Thrills.

The first Lark sings, a Clematis, crimson, unravels from it’s florid bon-bon bud, as lanky-stalked, lemon-yellow Lupins stretch their spines with...

Boatman's dream 29

Taking a turn
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Evening Song

Rich, deep trilling, chuckles, gurgles twirling …
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Winter Memories

Stay with me summer. I cannot face the winter mist. Reminding me of when we met and I could not resist. Keep shining sun, I cannot stand the winter...

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