- 21 Jul 20131View
For the moments that were
Once monuments, and moments of euphoric majesty,
Momentum gained, and we lost much in its speed, - 16 Aug 20131View
Burning out
Fangs of addiction, marked by pangs and affliction
When reality seems so strange, it takes fans
- 17 Aug 20132View
Nostalgia on this rainy day
Nostalgia on this rainy day
Accessory to forced smiles, the fans where
essences smudged in - 21 Aug 201346View
Christmas Pudding
You have to know a good recipe,
But also what can be added
And what can be left out;
You - 21 Sep 201312View
Red Clay and White Clay
I heard her finger
scrape the chalk board,
jarring me from impending sleep.Phantom
- 24 Oct 201314View
Pennies
The shape and size
Of the toffees
That came in gold paper,One would be pressed
Big and - 31 Dec 20134View
Berkeley Square
My long-dead mother's horror
Of rat-filled bomb-shelters,
Her claustrophobia, her chilblains,
Hit - 02 Nov 2013View
All M's
Decades and decisions between us
You still step out of time,
Long since the 11C allowed me to ride - 05 Apr 201413View
The Town
It's always there -
the town where I grew up -
in the mind's eye -
like a speck of dust on - 20 Apr 2014View
The Boardwalk
I saw you
on the boardwalk -
tight-roping along the wooden slats
or gliding with gulls
above - 01 May 201411View
The art of back and forth haibun
The art of back and forth.
Just another ordinary day; sitting all alone on the porch swing.
- 08 Jun 201412View
Lads' Love
A love with a stifled voice,
Belittled by those of ill-formed choice,
I share a grá for another - 01 Jul 20141View
Pluto(remember you) A written rendition by Oarabile Mashigo
I feel like a lost soul without you on this planet
on this world I have nothing much to talk about - 15 Jul 20141View
The King
Sun Wukong
was my first
superhero.No journalist jesus
with his undies
on the outside.No
- 25 Aug 201422View
Longing
Longing for small, curvy roads,
taking me to breathtaking lochs.
Fragrance, colour, beauty - 27 Nov 201411View
The Parts That Stopped Working/ Something You Can't Cure
My paper throat tears
And I hate the sound it makes when it does.
An English cold
Is Winters gift - 26 Mar 201564View
Wake Up Yesterday
I want to wake up yesterday
When the sun seemed warmer
When snowflakes were falling stars
When - 31 Mar 2015View
Esteem
Saw an old picture
Of myself
I didn’t recognize
I thought flirts
And undressed him
With my - 31 Mar 2015View
Smile
I wait
Anxiously
For that
First tremor
Of muscle
Around lips
Of eyes
Brightening
And - 31 Mar 2015View
Untitled 21
I am so very
Alone
At night
Jealously
Watching you
Dream
Without me - 31 Mar 20151View
Untitled 22
The brightest part
Of my wary days
Is waking in the dark
To the serene smile
On your sleeping - 31 Mar 2015View
Untitled 24
I hope,
And I pray
That if I wake
Without you
I wake without
Memories of you
Else
I - 31 Mar 2015View
Isherwood & Bachardy
I want a love like that of
Isherwood and Bachardy
Not because one is great
And the other - 31 Mar 2015View
scars
let the scars beneath
your skin surface
let them radiate
your grand tragedy
and polished - 18 Apr 20152View
Spitfire
A buzzard, belonging, circles
sun in blue heaven,
covering comfortable green
white with blossom. - 12 Jun 20151View
I REMEMBER
I remember innocence and warm September rain,
I remember Batman when he was just Bruce Wayne.
I - 12 Apr 2016View
A Calf Love Crisis
I couldn't be more sure
Of all the nostalgia I'd endure,
If I were to explore
A calf love - 13 Apr 2016View
A Cambridge Lamentation
This place is always a little lonely
At the weekends...no noise and life;
I like solitude,
But - 12 Jun 2017View
Napoleon's Nostalgia
Corsica, oh my Corsica,
Corsica of a thousand charms,
Corsica of whose fragrance
I can - 06 Aug 2017View
Mi Pueblito Perdido
O how
Ruefully I pine
For mi pueblito perdido,
What I wouldn’t give,
To be young again,
And - 18 Feb 20191View
Lost In An Anxiety Dream
The dream,
An early morning awakening.
Past and present merge.
I’m in an unfamiliar
- 15 Oct 2019View
Autumn Chill
A blast seeps in from the east
Restless, cold and bitingThe sky darkens
Night
No moon in - 27 Jul 2020View
Time Travel (Got a Hook in Me)
Time travel, baby,
Set me free,
Time travel got a hook in me,In disguise as a young man in the