Autobiography

Every Step of the Way

The shower felt comforting and warm on my skin, I sighed, another day. As I walked downstairs my legs felt heavy every step seemed an effort.

sisters of mercy

oh bitter the day oh bitter the dream beated cheated defeated it’s so sweet it’s so sweet the sisters of mercy washing my feet ain’t it sweet ain’t it sweet

Silent departure.

For anna, because I am always here for you. No matter the situation.

Legacy

I want to carry you my mother-baby and rock you softly to sleep. Gently back to life. My scars are becoming visible as you speak. Dissolving as you tell.
Cherry

Dock Leaf

Burns, stings they're ay' the same

Married

Married. My friends they used to be married Now they are divorced Two happy free lovers Who both fell off the horse It was an uncomfortable sight At the parting of their ways

My Hero

A Truly Wonderful Man
Cherry

Housework

IRONING

Feet

my legs get tired

Touched by you

poem about fire n lonely peopel
Cherry

Oslo in the sun

As the sun rose
Story of the week

Mint Sauce in the Beans

“Five minutes,” I promise and my brother asks me if that’s all I can say, and I tell him, no, that isn’t all I can say, I can say dickhead as well. Dickhead.

A ZEN CUP OF COFFEE

(dedicated to my friend Nick Mason) At 18, my parents took me to Kona, Hawaii where (surrounded by miles and miles of black, barren volcanic tranquillity) we visited a coffee plantation:
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Miss Carstairs Receives News From The Front

Her garden is scented with the colours of the Lord: the purples and ochres and flaming reds of salvation. At her feet a shiny beetle skittles through the cut grass,
Cherry

You Are

You are the word that never rhymes with anything. You are the clumsy simile that sits and grins.

Denial

You avoid all our problems Bury your head in the sand..............
Cherry

A Soft Caress of Welcome and the Scent of Old High Places.

These were her words. These were the notes musical that tried to convince me of the strangely impossible.

Jelly Beans and Epicurus

These jelly-bellies I'm eating (stoned) too fast and too many as I did as a kid eloquently persuade me that Epicurus was right, not in that pleasure is "the meaning of life"

Jambled Ramblings In Thailand

(author's note: this poem was written about real events as they happened, with only minor later changes) "I woke up in the morning and I got myself a beer," free calls Orpheus Jim

Someone said

that a bomb had hit our building. her face was about to crumble. i was about to move, but my back hurt so much. i did not know what to do. someone banged opened the door, asked

Tough of the Track

This weeks I.P....My Hero!

No Judge in the Courthouse

the bankers rob the world and wander free to do it again.

The Great unfinished Poem of self discovery.

The Great unfinished Poem of self discovery. I am . . . the source of the love that nourishes me. The source of, my own Spring.

Its called Democracy

Try not to get your nickers in a twist :)
Cherry

Inventor

Inventor I was thinking of things I could invent Something for people to use I came up with a thing called shatnav Helping drivers to find nearest loos I developed a robot doll called lazy

Army

Army I don’t want to join the army I like my hair long I already keep myself fit And killing strangers is shit I have no desire to be angry I cannot be taught to hate

Grow up

I used to think fuckin' up was cool. Loved ditchin' class, Didn't pass high school. My Mamma always said, easier to keep up than catch up. Come to think about it, all I did was mess up.

Abomination

You are the poem that will never see daylight.
Cherry

The Final Oasis

How many generations will toast your memory?

Encounters in the nighttime

It's years later, I'm meeting you still, in dreams, where only there will I make you come. You're so far away and above me, years and marriages and money stand arm in arm, blocking
Cherry

All Gods

All Gods All gods are made of chocolate That’s how they keep disciples sweet Their hypocrisy is under the carpet The false morals lined up neat All gods are made with electricity
Cherry

A Promise Kept

A Promise Kept
Cherry

Perpendicular

Flickr IP. I am the room's fifth corner. You stretch yourself along my back - I am perpendicular.

Moments

A chubby toddle beams at me His face full of life Girls a decade wiser Accept me like they never did That boy from my past Has a consolation for my every fear I jump with friends of old

Mantra

I wish to live life unrestrained By love, nor mind, nor page A life of untold worth It's glory increasing from birth My mind wanders free And I observe, one step back, from me

So what

"You can't do that your too small." "You don't look strong enough." "You havn't got the right build." "You won't be able to do it." Enough!!! So what if im small you don't have to be tall

Charlevoix - A trip into the hills of quebec

Charlevoix The old man St Lawrence snakes silently, heading north Teasing the roads that follow its scent Which it loses occasionally when blown off course

my will

I don't have money, etc., for a lawyer. A similar document is with my parents. To show that this is indeed me, I'll share a few facts. I was born in Ashland, Oregon by Dr.

Celebrity Squares

so bored of tin pot empty heads desperate to stay in the news.

How I am Living Now

I am still very happy.

Back to School

Am I the only one? I need a job - so that I can get out of this one!

"The Mangle Mess" Some 0f Life's Experiences now updated.

"Cinderella" never went to the ball?** but how lucky late in life to have hired beautiful wig ballgown and parasol,umm late mum's 80th hired fancy dress. Dreams come true! Updated now and added.
Cherry

Invention

Written to a theme of 'Invention' for the WA Spring Poetry Festival 2008.

How I am Living

My life is happy.

The Replica Wedding Dress!

Do we ever get what we really want in life! and when we do let it go.What was the point of keeping it someone look beautiful in it even if it had to be altered? Give something away to-day.Feel good

The Need To Change

I stand here a bleak and empty figure, Heavy and weightless both at the same time, The relentless draught that torments my body and brittle bones, Never able to feel warm for even a second,

More Care For Our Nurses

The health care system needs to care more for our nurses .

Humanity Lost. Chapter Two. Part Two

Coventry 1999 (or ‘When I Was King’)… Please check out my random website at http://www.uponahill.com/

Humble Pie.

I was wrong. I admit it.
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Miss

Some flowers there. White. Indian white. White from a hedgerow, tight twined, snapped out. I thought “Yes, better wild” as I ‘saw’ her - sat beside the fire in her box room; the glow

Humanity Lost. Chapter Two. Part One

Coventry 1999 (or ‘When I Was King’)… Please check out my random website at http://www.uponahill.com/

A Big Man in a Little Town.

I often think about this chap, wonder if he's still there?
Cherry

Essex versus the rest of the world

Seemed like a good idea, last week, meeting Christine, to catch up on everything seeing as thelast time was in 1993 and she was sick in the bin at Burger King.
Cherry

Looking at buildings

You - Walking a little briskly ahead, looking at buildings thin lipped

An Ode to Courtney Silverman

People don't understand... say she did me under-hand... maybe from their point of view it's true... maybe it was something I had to do... See, she's like a child... so free and wild...

Listed Room

A loose description of my room
Cherry

Driven

IP small poem