- 05 Jul 2013View
Buried
Our family had some trepidation
Burying my grandmother, Nina,
With her mother, Jean,
in the - 23 Jul 20133View
I'm No Man
There just are some intricate pieces of my skin,
That bring me to loathe my flesh.
Some days I - 12 Aug 2013View
Elegy for My Grandpa
6∙18∙13
When I see the heavy equipment machines,
A dozer, a digger, a graceful backhoe,
Then my - 12 Aug 2013View
The Hue of Hope
05∙30∙13
His bones poke through his cotton gown.
His skin is scarred and bruised.
But those - 12 Aug 2013View
Remembering Grandma Morris
02∙03∙09
With skin as thin as sewing pins
and eyes as black as Oreos,
but smiling with a fiery - 21 Aug 20131View
Behind enemy lines
I live under guard and watch and key
As I must exist under a false face
Death comes with the - 21 Aug 20131View
I have very low self esteem
My stomach is twisted, knotted, deformed and evil.
I want it to hide, I want it to leave my brain - 01 Sep 2013View
The Next Big Problem
You would think I’d figured it out,
But I still don’t know what I want,
Or what I want to - 02 Sep 201362View
The Shortcomings of a Fool
So far in life and death,
With my woes, my dreams, my breath,
These, the shortcomings of a fool. - 16 Oct 20132View
Home
A home is where the
tears still flow
flowing down the house we
know, a home would
weep into our - 23 Oct 20132View
Bonfire Night
Sparks jettisoning into the crisp blackness,
A vivid orange against the backdrop of ebony - 04 Nov 201311View
The Family Crest
Crests they write in icon,
a silence we see, a history
we assume as it stamps heritage
into - - 11 Nov 20135View
Ralph
He is y garddwr.
His children ended up as wild
uncultured brambles but
his fuchsias are - 26 Nov 201342View
Today
Is not the first
nor the lastjust somewhere
I am
between all
the others.That's OK
I - 29 Nov 20131View
Sunday Roath
Rose gold on a gossip wind.
Carrow family,
trawling lightly on the spin,
duck-feathered
pillows - 01 Dec 201311View
Altered States
Dry sand running through small fingers
Breakers drumming and sea kelp that lingers
Sea breeze - 01 Dec 20132View
A Marble Mantelpiece
The hard intransigent surface
Resolved itself to form
In some primordial age
Crystallizing - 09 Dec 20132View
The Poetry of Laundry.
Here they hang, side by side,
filling my heart with joy and pride
- trousers, shirts and socks - 12 Dec 20131View
Christmas Away from Home
In Belize the dark night is warm, women sway against palms.
Their lovers croon along with the disco - 23 Dec 201322View
AIRPORT POEM
morning’s midnight cold
to Gatwick’s gate
If I get there early you
won’t escape me
and every - 31 Dec 2013View
F + M + E = C (The Sum of the Father, the Mother, and the Environment)
What does it matter,
Who we take after?
As long as we do better
Than what you weathered?What
- 17 Jan 2014View
We're Going on a Night Hunt
Kids, Winter's night is taking us for a walk!
Flurried in excitement, my explorers don't - 21 Jan 2014View
Family Dinner. (18)
Great food, and smiling faces
shadows dance in candle flame
holding hands before our - 22 Jan 201422View
Cat On The Bed.
On my bed she lies, shadowy ball of fur,
she serenely licks her paw,
corrects me with her claw
or - 22 Feb 20143View
'Tommy'
I remember you, did I,
When you beckoned me
Back then so young was I,
Frail you seemed to be,
A - 23 Mar 201484View
Father's Son
In your leaving of that morning, we were the ones that you forgot,
Discarded in your quiet rush to - 24 Mar 2014View
God Works So Wonderfully
Do you know what you do
the reason she is broke in two?
Words they sting like acid
running down - 01 May 2014View
Passive Aggressive Tendencies lead to Outlash Poems. Lots of Outlash Poems.
What scares me the most is
that there is nothing inherently wrong with me.
Just some craziness - 29 May 201464View
Day Dreaming
Small hands holding puppies;
smiling to camera, innocent,
sweet little girls unaware of
life's - 30 May 20142View
Abhorrence
How was I wrong?
You came, confiding us to the limits of our boundary.
Being overly keen on my - 15 Jun 201485View
Old Father in the Garden
My old father’s bald summer head is French-polished
by slick sun, brilliant oil.
A glossy - 16 Jun 201411View
We Are The Those That Make Us
The hand that feeds
Is the hand that bleeds
And the hand that needs
You the most. -----
When - 08 Sep 201421View
SPIRIT SUITE Étude N° 2
That young Spirit died
no longer able to live
in the machine
of the material world
His - 27 Oct 2014View
TRIANGULAR PULL
He positions his sight
With suspicious malachite.
Fighting for her approval,
Justifying his - 27 Nov 201422View
My story
I feel like having a go
At whoever set my lifes path.
You've given me so much hurt
And left in - 20 Apr 2015View
Wherever you are
Wherever you are
I know
that you'll be making trouble
you have a knack for that
but wherever you - 24 Apr 2015View
Proud old man
He sits here thinking, and waits
mind travelling distant shores
outwardly a prisoner
yet inside - 13 Jun 20151View
Healing Angel
In the cold, harsh light of day
after the last beat is heard
and the pain has ended for some
a - 24 Jul 20152View
Innocence
Journalists beheaded
Hard workers laid off
Racism prevails
And Discrimination rises
While my - 16 Aug 2015View
Sunday
The sun rises, the sun sets,
Days follow days in succession
We try to make a real difference
in - 01 Jan 20163View
People coming and going
Standing near a train stop
Looking for the person I’m trying to spot
They could be anywhere within - 15 Mar 201652View
My Precious Girl
My precious girl is sixteen,
And she is everything to this weak man.
God but I love her and it’s - 17 May 2016View
LUDLOW
LUDLOW
(for Charmian)
House of colours and images,
wooden walls and antiques,
photographs - 11 Nov 20161View
A Child Alone
Born into a world of deception,
Embraced in a life of abuse,
Tormented by a state of - 24 Dec 2016View
Magic Of An Snowflake
Snow flakes fell peacefully from the sky
The sound of the snow falling as my best friend sat by my - 11 Apr 2017View
VOIDS
VOIDS
—a multivoice poemThe clocks tick
filling the quiet void
Time passes in this - 18 Aug 2017View
Summer Day
We wait, expectantly, and then she arrives,
The golden sun comes out from behind the clouds
And - 25 Aug 2017View
THE FAMILY KNIGHT
'THE FAMILY KNIGHT'
The root of a giant tree
Branches depend on
A rock to stand on
The king of