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Gathering round the fire 11 Dec 2009 | 12:39 pm
This year I’ve had the real pleasure of uniting some of my deepest interests – music, poetry and my humanist outlook on life – to write some songs for the British Humanist Association. Here’s a song w...
Pause 14 May 2009 | 07:15 am
I have hung my lute on the wall And tied it with a green ribbon I don’t sing my songs any more; my heart is so full that I can’t find the words. Once my longing and loneliness poured out … Continue re...
Invitation 31 Mar 2009 | 06:15 am
The path to intimacy Is not through caressing But through the mind Overcoming hesitancy Through confessing, Letting stories unwind Daring to abandon secrecy Optimistically guessing The hearer will be ...
A tribute 29 Mar 2009 | 07:00 am
For your willingness to open a window into your lives The clumsy humour of your personal descriptions Recieve my thanks For the places you led me I had never seen before The jokes and stories you shar...
Love and friendship 10 Mar 2009 | 07:34 am
Last night I had to tell someone who was clearly falling in love with me that I was interested in being his friend, but didn’t think it was going to develop into anything more. And he, obviously hurt,...
meaning is optional 6 Mar 2009 | 08:08 am
Below a synaesthete’s numeric rainbow Daffodils thunder along the roads Petulant stoats skittle sharply Past a tigress, smoothing on suncream And drooling lackadaisically into the dust I jettison my h...
Mad grin 28 Feb 2009 | 06:52 am
I’m feeling a bit under pressure at work at present. I start a new job next week. Well, technically I start next week but over the last two days I’ve begun to be hit by some of the new challenges … Co...
Spring in the air? 27 Feb 2009 | 04:30 am
I’ve just signed up to contribute to the Spring Haiku 2009 blog, and have a haiku up there… do check out the site as something interesting seems to be stirring in the garden!
cold flame, dry potion 24 Feb 2009 | 09:59 pm
This is a follow-up to alchemy of flame: … … coals of the firewalk red with paint glass empty as the dry pool below the diving board labyrinth that’s just a paper set, for a play with no audience all...
Hope 24 Feb 2009 | 01:34 am
head heavy on the soft void of my pillows I think about hope, as my tired mind tries to construct pleasant futures out of the broken fragments of old dreams yet staring me in the face, (interrupting d...
