Waiting
I’ve been watching a video on dancing the Flamenco,tidied out my drawers and refolded all my pants,been and had a cocktail down at the Fuzzy Flamingo,counted every single one of a line of tiny ants. I’ve placed all my penny…
Category My Poems
Trafalgar Square
Trafalgar Square Early morning start, long walkto catch first train to the ‘smoke’,steam locomotive at the head,join the throngs from Aldermaston. Boys in blue, keeping pace with human tide,Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids ya kill today.Home-made banners, proclaim, protest,Ban…
Poetry book
Weekly Poem Or Poem of the week, if you will.
Poetry book, a love of the pages and of the ages..........
A bookcase in the afternoon,
the space I moved you from,
bedfellows either side
Summer blues
Summer blues - One of my latest poems - publishing publicly July 2023
Summer sunshine turns to grey
weather gods will make you pay
not your turn to have a say.......
Remembering Glastonbury
Poem of The Month (July 2023) - Remembering Glastonbury
Memories of time gone by, when a music festival was an authentic experience!
Dominism
My Poem: Dominism, an erasure poem taken from the transcript of a Laura Kuensberg interview was published today within the International Times. Men of experience will have different styles,whilst citizens think of everything together.Culture saves some ability to expecthigh standards.…
Baby Boomers
Following several open mic gigs where I have shared this prose poem and the interest from several parties in it, I have decided to upload it to my website. Enjoy Baby Boomers My generation were at the Isle of Wight…
Tuesday Afternoons: CHATKA
Pleased to announce that the Poetry Pamphlet, TUESDAY AFTERNOONS, featuring 6 poems from five poets, including myself is now available via Amazon. Click on the link below to read one of my poems that features in the book. CHATKA Nestling…
Headlining at Poetry on The Moor ’22
Thrilled to be asked to headline the first anniversary PotM event today and to be able to promote my books. I chose to share amongst other things a poem inspired by the Spanish poet Leon Fillipe, who was one of…
WINTER
Winter;
A time for birds, my poem on two feathered friends
A Father’s Hands & Red Tie: My Poems Published by Hybriddreich for the Family Too Anthology
A Father’s HandsPETER KAY A grip that made your eyes water.A fist that floored many an opponentwith a straight jab or an uppercut.You shook the hand of Paul Robeson,survived a torpedo blast,clinging for hours to a boat splinter,reached into the…
Poetry Event Excerpt From Freedom and Anxiety: Featured Poetry written & read by Peter Kay
An Online Poetry Event Excerpt From Freedom and Anxiety Showcasing the best of MK’s poets. Recorded live on 21st July 2021 – introduced by Sharenà Lee (Poet) Featured Poetry written & read by Peter Kay –
First Mayor of Richmond
Delighted to announce that my poem First Mayor of Richmond, will feature in the 4th August online edition of Spilling Cocoa over Martin Amis FIRST MAYOR OF RICHMOND T’was sixteen hundred and six,for legend has it so,when, whilst out hunting…
NORTHERN ECHOES
A poem from earlier in the year, reflecting that whilst we in the North may have had our historic differences, we have so much more in common than those down in the ‘south’ espoused by certain politicians. Northern Echoes Somewhere…
Enchufe
A poem after Denise Levertov. Her classic question and answer poem about Vietnam was a start point. My subject however, was a reflection on my walking from Seville to Santiago and my writing of that experience, in Show Me The…
AGAR
This poem takes me back to Winter Sunday evenings in my mid-teens. My mother seemed to have a love affair with health food and natural ingredients and used seaweed based agar agar as a setting agent. I was the eldest…
The Empire Strides Forwards
The Empire Strides Forward
Everything has become
silent................
Wild Blue Angel
50 years ago on the 31st August, I was one of around 600,000 people who spent a glorious weekend on the Isle of Wight in the company of such legends as; Free, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Judy Collins, Leonard Cohen,…
Love Story – a black out poem
I created a black out poem as part of an exercise within a Writing Group I am involved in.I used Page 184 from SHOW ME THE WAY TO SANTIAGO and managed to create a Love Poem.Here are the words that…
Saltaire Poetry Competition – My entry will be included!
I have just heard that my entry for the competition will be included in the Anthology that will be available before Christmas The River In February you raged,cut a widening swathethrough watery green fields,carved intricate patterns in sludge left behind,unearthed…