- 05 Jul 201312View
What is Lost
Lost time doesn't come back,
Like keys or loose change,
The children that grow up
won’t hold - 10 Jul 201313View
Villanelle for a lost father
His love I lost upon this day
Two dozen years ago my friend.
A breath no more, he cannot - 22 Jul 20131View
A Living Echo
Fingertips dancing along the broken ivory.
Lying neatly playing a sullen melody
Interlaced with a - 23 Jul 20131View
That's How it Ended
I guess you can say it’s come to mind
From time to time.
How the world tangles up and - 15 Aug 20131View
untitled beach poem
The nibbling waves
steal secrets etched
into damp sand.
Barnacles wait
on their rocks, - 05 Sep 20133View
Hold My Hand (Goodbye Child)
"Father, I am weary this day,
And the night closes in on me,
Father, I hope and pray,
That - 11 Sep 20131View
Father
You are my true ideal,
You are my best friend
You are so very real,
You are the beginning, the - 18 Sep 201377View
Bashall Eaves
After the war that took the fathers,
But before the next
Had taken their sons,A man was
- 18 Sep 201321View
IX.
It's just a song.
If you just lay here
And realize that.
It holds a lot less power
It conjures - 02 Oct 20132View
Moles in the War Cemetery, November 11th
The mist blanket
Tucked round the graves
Relents only slowly
To the wan autumn sun.The
- 02 Oct 20131View
The History Thief
Stair-climbing
Nosferatu shadowSoak-staining
Bleeding black
Into the very
Memory of - 11 Oct 20131View
Matters.
Everything that went wrong -
it matters not
since you are gone.Everytime we went astray,
it's - 12 Oct 201332View
Grief.
Grief knocked on my door
and accompanies me now -
the uninvited guest.
Lost in what was
and what - 17 Oct 20131View
Houdini Socks
a tip for those socks
that vanish like magic
between the laundry box
and the irony basket.
Buy - 18 Oct 20131View
Lament
Let my joy become as the ruins of Babylon Ahmed Souja
Walked when daylight disappeared finally into - 21 Oct 20133View
The knotted tree
the false face of rage
sets the setting upon the stage
for the ills of wind
of change and all it - 22 Oct 201322View
The clock swam to shore
The primordial instinct to survive
drips from me to form an estuary toward the river of life,
in - 30 Oct 20131View
Television Centre, W12
This building was the factory
Where television made the glue
That stuck our nation - 02 Nov 20132View
In Gratitude for "Bunty"
This is the first year alone
and as mothers day approaches
you are no longer here to spoil,
and - 02 Nov 20132View
Death Claims Beauty
Pale as a white rose
a little face on the pillow,
your blond curly hair,
foliage of the rose. - 03 Nov 20132View
Maria Einsiedel Bad
Straight from a river
Straight from mountains,
The water is
Too icy for me.Baby and
- 06 Nov 20131View
Gone
Someone I only just knew
Decided the poems & paints & love wouldn't do,
And he put a full stop. - 13 Nov 201311View
silver moon
shining silver strands of moon beamweb the pink of a shut eye
in a flickering room, under
- 21 Nov 20131View
41 Days
It was so cold
The wind was so strong
I guess I don't notice
With you on my armI guess that's
- 21 Nov 20131View
979 Hours
I reluctantly sat in silence
At one time, I was you
I listened to her speak, or try
Because they - 23 Nov 201313View
Passing My Old Home
It’s winter
But I smell
Lilac blossom:The scent of
A past spring
When I left her.I
- 27 Nov 20131View
49669 Minutes
Speak.
What are you waiting for,
I'm going to love you
No matter what you say.Seek.
What are - 28 Nov 20131View
Memories of You
Nothing has been the same
Since the day you had to leave
For every moment that I smile
I have - 28 Nov 20131View
Love is an Ocean
Love is an ocean, while I seek high ground,
Holding a shell to my ear to hear the sound-
Of your - 12 Dec 201325View
That Summer
That summer saw me four foot high;
A desert ratbag caked in grime.
Ten years of rain-less pale - 23 Dec 2013View
Pain
Why do I feel this pain?
When it was me who messed up in Spain,
I’ll never do that again, - 23 Dec 20131View
Running from my nightmares
tonight i nearly did it,
tonight i nearly ran,
into the car,
and end my lifespan,i am a
- 29 Dec 201311View
Nothing
The breeze now wind, bitter cold
Cutting through all day long
like shrapnel through skin pores - 29 Dec 2013View
Uniquely Her
The hay doesn't eat it's self,
But I can hear her teeth at the grind,
I can feel her breath upon - 31 Dec 20134View
Berkeley Square
My long-dead mother's horror
Of rat-filled bomb-shelters,
Her claustrophobia, her chilblains,
Hit - 02 Jan 20142View
Upon the Death of a Very Dear Friend. (2)
No words just yet,
just pain and grief,
no shelter yet,
and no reprieve.
Give it half a year or - 03 Jan 201412View
I need to keep you happy
I need
to keep you.
Happy
to keep you.
I need.
You, happy
to keep the need. - 03 Jan 201422View
The Grieving Manual
I sat for a moment on the bed
Phone in hand.
Contact gone.
A dog howled
in the neighbourhood. - 05 Jan 20143View
A mirror fibonacci
Grief.
this
mind
enters
sunlit hues
brushed by memories
of you at play at work, your - 11 Jan 2014View
The Shift
Loss
and pain,
ice coldtransformed
made
endurable
by love
as a - 28 Jan 20142View
Your Memory
I take a walk
down by the lake
where we once made love
under a honey tree.
The tree itself did - 28 Jan 201475View
Love and Whimsy
I want to hold your hand
and skip along the beaches of my mind
just to see what we find
in the - 02 Feb 2014View
Candice
She came from nowhere
Came into a bar from somewhere
And now she is my friend
And maybe we - 03 Feb 2014104View
Heart of Longing
Through passing years, the numbing recollection never dims,
There I, so cauterised to love’s - 09 Feb 20142View
Haiku 016
dead gum tree
heron perches
lost - 04 Mar 2014134View
Frame
Above that helter-skelter shrill, of children’s yelp,
Outside, somewhere, down the street a bit,
I - 22 Mar 201484View
The Tunnel
I can barely remember how it was back then.
Even the sound of noise seems such a distant memory. - 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