15/2023
His hand stills, The loss of words complete, Language gone, and feeling. In this void, everything is silent, And he drifts away into the Darkness of space where All is… Continue Reading
Richard Pierce – author, poet, painter
His hand stills, The loss of words complete, Language gone, and feeling. In this void, everything is silent, And he drifts away into the Darkness of space where All is… Continue Reading
She folds him neatly into her handbag, Torso first, then legs and arms tightly Wrapped around that main part of his, And lastly his head, tidily compressed To fit into… Continue Reading
I am not cursed with an organised mind; Instead, it’s all tangents without a circle In sight, tripping from one thing to Another, and skirting the boundaries Of credulity when… Continue Reading
She had nothing on her legs but skin, Right up to just below the point of interest Where her skirt began and the skin Smoothed its way beyond. She stood… Continue Reading
It may have been sleepwalking that brought me To this place, pockets heavy and holed with keys From every house I’ve dreamed myself in, And scars across the backs of… Continue Reading
An accident of birth, this High status in a crumbling Institution which robs the people Of their self-esteem and money. Misplaced faith in a system Which values class over takent,… Continue Reading
#FASTIDIOUS Is not a word to be used about me Nor in modern poetry. If I were TSE I might Try to find a convoluted counterpoint To it, or if… Continue Reading
THE KNOWING There is no certainty in the knowing, Always that small nook of doubt, The crick in your neck asking if you can Really be sure of anthing. And… Continue Reading
TAILSPIN So far down the whirlpool, That infinite spiral, I can’t See the top of it any longer, On this interminable swift And terrible fall, I remember The definition of… Continue Reading
England’s borders were never open, Not since the days when all peoples Mixed across geography and its boundaries, And before Anglo-Saxon was even An idea in historians’ minds. Populated by… Continue Reading