Poetry

Shadow drawn in ink and dreams

  • A Love Revealed

    One Two Three, One Two Three One Two Three, One Skeletons dance Long after the Sun.

  • Now I Understand

    As we say our first goodbye, I beg, please let me be clear, I’ll carry you through all my days, My loving mother dear.

  • She Endures

    If he’s not raging mad, For small mercies she’s glad. He whips her hard on both cheeks.

  • Taken By Dreams

    She drifts like a dream in the night, ‘Cross eerie forests and barren moors, Whispers on the edge of awareness, Madness seeps through each door.

  • When Fools Obey

    Commandeering the free will of men, With her slow and slinky striptease, Enslaving both the strong and the weak

  • The Alien

    The alien bored in her brain, Nesting deep round her pituitary. Her glands now thrum to alien reign,

  • Questionable Proverbs

    A stitch in time will save you nine, A gnomic and worn-out old trope, All very fine if you have twine, And not at the end of your rope.

  • Ruins of a Dead Civilisation

    Creepers choke the stumps of spires, Hiding heaps of ancient rust, Mighty arrows of hubris and desire

  • Survivor’s Guilt

    The old sergeant cleans, His rusty old Glock, A fine old war trophy, His knees start to knock,

  • Lady Luck

    High above dark stormy clouds, The Lady Luck, she circles and waits, The strike formation, begins to form; All hoping none are too late,