Friday, September 5, 2025

Bog

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  Bog Sinking into the soft mire, spagnum sponge; ooze rising inches above my feet: beer brown, freezing cold. I take a handful a...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

August Hedgerow Momentarily

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Photograph by Josef Koudelka   Thin as splinters, butterflies borne on white wings like flags, flitting over the hedgerow like scraps...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Beneath the Trees

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  A gentle breeze, the mottles of light and shade continuously shifting, pleasing the eye as asymmetry does, but continuously, exciti...
Monday, August 25, 2025

What Young Should Be

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This is written in the context of the ugliness of modern warfare, where population are slaughtered. What Young Should Be It should be a sta...
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Back Gardens

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  I’m on the train, heading out of town, passing yards and back gardens with that unkemptness that would never be seen on the street si...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

A New Level of Madness

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  The 21 st century: a new level of madness: men, I would not leave to baby-sit my child, with the shadows of their fingers stirring a...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Droplets of Water

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 (a rewrite of a poem from 2022) Droplets  along the sharp edge of a stone like a chain of headlights in December traffic, sidling onto moss...
Saturday, August 9, 2025

Summer Downpour

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  on asphalt, concrete, glass and slate; drumming steel, aluminium wood, copper, tin; slapping tarpaulin and canvas, polyester and po...
Sunday, August 3, 2025

Distance

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  Distance A train tunnelling through the night-time lights briefly before the sound, self-weaving, eventually becomes another thread...
Friday, July 25, 2025

Still Those Conversations

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  Faraway it seems and yet all around and close; time like snow has fallen on your memory. Those conversations sluicing through an a...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Palestine

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  A woman standing in the blown rubble and twisted steel of her house, sees no sense in war. Asks the collapsed walls what strategic ...
Saturday, July 19, 2025

A problem today

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  There is no ‘one view’; all that happens is forged differently in every mind and, from the same viewpoint, all differs with turni...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

The Kiss

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The Kiss a poetic take on Klimt's 'The Kiss'  If there is a moment that is complete, it is this moment; the world outside, the l...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Reading at Boyle Arts Festival

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  I'm looking forward to being back at Boyle Arts Festival this year. I'm giving a reading at 3pm in Frybrook House on Tuesday 22nd....
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Miners for Minerals

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  Miners for Minerals First it was that, miners for minerals; disposable lives for valuable ores; their clogging lungs for the silv...