The Dark Threads
The dark threads Of a different track Lead to questions We can’t answer. Fingers find the wrong touch And wake with guilt made bare In the tangled sheets of…
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Saint Gertrude
She is startled by reflectionsHer one eye doesn’t understand,By the light travelling along the wall,The spectre of full sight eluding her. In the dark, she sees figmentsThat aren’t a part…
Saint Theresa
I saw you coming out of church on SundayClutching your handbag and husbandAnd leaning against the wind and the countryWith a smile painted painfully on your empty faceStiff amidst those…
#InternationalWomensDay
For all the women on this planet, this poem is the most popular that I’ve performed in public. Grab the equality you should have with both hands.Numbers Often,You make yourself…
RIP Gordon Banks – the goalkeepers’ union
Goalkeepers It’s always like this.The last line of defence,The final cliché.We are the ones who suffer. Even in victory,Each weakness, misjudgement,Is sentenced a callous on our selves,And in defeatOurs is…