Category My Poems

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…

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

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…

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…

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,…