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Death in mourning

Morning disturbs deathI survived nightmaresHer opened soulHer waking smileMy tired psycheMy crumpled ageNightmares depleted meCoffee restored meDeath in mourning *** This poem came about by responding to a Twitter request for a 3 word poem.I tweeted the first line, made a coffee and the rest of the poem followed 🙂

Patience

Tree of liferich with incensewaitsto release peaceupon this world

our other

we only need to love one personwe can only love one personone other our other

It’s here! Proof copy, cover reveal.

The proof copy of my latest book has just arrived. The cover is more or less how I wanted it with it being a tad off focus, so I’m happy with it, although the grey could be a bit more grey, bit darker perhaps but screen grey and book grey do differ. Overall I like … More It’s here! Proof copy, cover reveal.

Crow like a banshee

Sleep is but a dreamwhere poetry festersto scratch the mind awakerevealing, not a vision of beautybut a desireto sit upon that morning starand crow like a banshee

Avenues of intensity

Your soul speaks to mewith such wondrous avenues of intensitycasuing trees to sway within the deep of meand so I sleep upon a leaf of your heart

The silence of today

The silence of todaybreathes life into tomorrow~:~Fragment from my new book Fingers crossed it will be out soon but looking more likely to be next year!It’s a spiritual elemental love storySpiritual awakening

from a far distant minus point

What if mathematics began it allif some equationsome logical construct What if mathematics began from a far distant minus pointif it reached 0 reached and stepped What if mathematics began to breathe its own Iif this intelligence grewgrew to inherit What if mathematics began it allif this reality is nothing but math trying to understand … More from a far distant minus point

Naked as a petal

Dawn’s moon, cold lightnaked up there throughout the morningbarely visible, barely movingsilentpalest blue, palest grey Dawn’s moon, meadow skynaked as a petal

Updated list of books

I noticed I had a visit to my page Books I like and saw I hadn’t updated it in years! Well I’ve put that right and it’s now in sections of Poetry, Books, Writing & Writers, Fiction and Non Fiction. Hope you enjoy your visit and maybe find something intersting to read