Fear
The nature of the sickness found Ulysses What is the answer …? Does Fear hold the world in balance, Intelligence inform the will? Do we...
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Please enjoy the poetry I have written throughout my life. Just click on a theme or browse the full collection below.
Bedside Companion
A painting by Klee hangs over my bed, Man, rake and sphere frame a sinister head. A cornered pilgrim digs into the clay, Hello Mr Death,...
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Midsummer Moon
Mortar powders the floor, the wall leaves a chink, and a water pipe to clink on to the neighbour cell. Or should I turn to watch the sky,...
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Tapping the Root
Digging in clogged earth, after rain, Mud clings, roots cling, Unlike the mandrake, shriek not, Ribes, ten years in the ground, Beauty...
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Iconophobia
Thou shalt not make unto thyself any graven image ... Ten Commandments in the chapel, in the apse or on the crossing, are whitewashed or...
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The Empty Bench
With Tess when she was small Down into grassy ditches The soft path tipped us, And hid for a moment the view Of the crown of the hill,...
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Petrarch
Pensive and alone I tread the empty strand, Measuring my slow and heavy paces, Searching while intent on human traces In footprints left...
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Lowry Poems
Windows Three faces face outwards, surprised by their master who renders them timeless as they pursue business (no business of ours)....
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Integrity
Today I heard a Quaker say That God reveals Himself. In every avenue of nature. Why, at wide or narrow Meeting roads (where Sons slay...
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Cambes Sur Plaine
Below the old church tower Where masons, time and weather Repair the scars of war, Centuries of flaking slabs Huddle, lean and whisper....
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La Fête des Filets Bleus
Concarneau - August A young woman, a man much older, Both dressed for everyday, He holds her round the shoulder, She him around the waist...
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Marchers
The chanting drowned the city noise, Challenged the busy town. The marchers stopped, formed lines, But the busy town rolled on. They held...
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Dufy in Bouville
Dredgers churn the seabed, A sunlit lighthouse gleams On the sea-front where he strolled, After painting some French interior In...
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Time Check
When the Beagle went to sea Fitzroy fixed the route by GMT With John Harrison’s marvellous clock In a box which stemmed the roll The...
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Telescope
Objects carry their history and our own - A drum let’s say, which traversed the Atlantic Or a telescope longue vue, Piercing the...
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Experts on the Universe
Quite intentionally made Sense-armoured by their mental trade They view the heavens with aplomb In their high probing towers from Which a...
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Habsburg Nef
Sailors from the crow's nest peering In Hans Schlottheim's Golden Galleon Where chimes the time at every quarter And trumpeters announce...
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