Dread
I give the finger to the fighter jet And the dark cloud it’s flying through. I’m lucky. I’m not either side of The Gaza border filled with dread At bombs… Continue Reading
Browsing Category: Life
carve
progress has made fools of us when we have shaped software into the hardness of learning by rote and carved our own demise into the code of the machines with… Continue Reading
Silence
Time bends around this silence, Heavy with the absence of light. The stillness is absolute, halted history, Lasting paralysis, stasis. We had hoped for better. We hope every time. What… Continue Reading
Brittle
Fragile, meaning. It shatters the morning after, When passion dissipates, when The daylight adds the sharp edges To everything, the sharp edges All things already have, The knowledge that nothing… Continue Reading
Combine
There is a ripeness about the scent of sweat Which suggests a physical task well done, A night of loving, a day of sporting chances, The completion of a longed-for… Continue Reading
Extinguish
Neither love nor loss are stilled By the passing years and youth, Nor the edges of that memory Extinguished when the light fades At the end of one cycle beginning… Continue Reading
Taste
When I walk into Norwich on the Road I choose when I want the world’s company, It reminds me of Green Lanes in my 1980s Harringay, a bustle of shops… Continue Reading
Tomorrow
Two different but similar poems today. I must admit that I prefer the second one, which is #MastoPrompt length. Where has this fear come from in my later years? This… Continue Reading
Grudge
The biggest mistake was Giving us consciousness along with Sentience, that variable awareness Which comes with thinking, Where thought can be a labyrinth Of our own choice, And light and… Continue Reading
Formulate
The cusp of weathers Curls around the centre of These days, turns calm Into a storm of consequences We feel for what is left Of our lives. We should have… Continue Reading