Starting Out
My first collection of poems that I am trying to get published. This is a set of poetry in three sections reflecting on journeys, physical and emotional.
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Sunshine - poem 1 (Home)
Sorry taste of mornings makes the words choose shade
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Almost Fixed - poem 3 (Full circle)
You went back together easily. You startle me.
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Angel with no religion - poem 1 (abroad, at sea)
Her sweet half smile through wetted lips And sighs cannot disguise Her fierce deep love and honeyed logic Stare softly through Inuit eyes.
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Burying the other - final poem from the final section.
A bunch of close knit flowers, Every stem a different regret
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By the mouth of the river - poem 3 (Home)
3000 used up watts, flat silhouettes of the moon’s truth
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Crash - poem 7 (home)
Hurled further through this isle I put my foot down Not an inch
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World Service Bulletin - poem 2 (Home)
Redemption has been sung and Marconi died
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Sun Life - Poem 4 (Home)
I wish I had died a century ago, It was much easier then.
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Life in a brown plastic bottle - Poem 5 (Home)
(I Won’t Give In To The Vera Lynns)
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Scythe Swag Side Stalk - Poem 6 (Home)
Señores Guardias Civiles, Aquí Pasó Lo De Siempre. Aquí Han Muerto Cuatro Romanes Y Cinco Cartagineses.
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Indistinguishable - poem 2 (abroad, at sea)
You are distilled through it leaving only hair in the plughole and a breeze of perfume.
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Now that you're gone, I can't quite remember which one you were - poem 3 (abroad, at sea)
I discipline the blood across my face and look for the one who makes me the one I want to be.
Please, Sir - poem 4 (abroad, at sea)
I know she'll forgive all those guilty sins and the ridges of my fingertips leaving long prints on soft skin.
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Sonnet - poem 5 (abroad, at sea)
The lake that was once a pond to us is Opening the sweet flowers of its earth Mirror ripples reflect one face as us And rivulets to my core fire their growth
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I want to be that man who takes those chances - poem 6 (abroad, at sea)
Soft corners mix and float through memory Like the spires that scrape the sky,
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Full Circle - poem 1 (Full circle)
You black birds, Nestling on my branches Won't escape. To roll away the stone. Shackle the morning beauty.
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