Poetry

What Most Needs To Be Said

Is true but rarely spoken A silence never broken Where noise is commonplace Disrupting the infinite, receptive depth of grace Into myriad shouty pixels of incoherence Each contending for monopoly of interference To hold the sway of light and dark …

What’s the Point?

We ask When all seems futile A wasteland of emptied prospect Where the only gain is pain . That’s the point Where our minds need to turn To the point that dwells within The heart and soul of every body …

When Thought Divorces Feeling
Reason for Hope in Desperate Times

When thought divorces feeling Self divorces neighbourhood Mind divorces matter Matter divorces space Light divorces darkness Fear divorces love Anger rules the roost No reason makes a difference No care can heal the split Each goes its own way Without …

Who’s Wrong, What’s Wrong?

When you hear someone call out in pain Do you assume there’s something wrong with them That needs to be put right? . A lack of resilience A screw loose somewhere A basic design fault A deficient sense of humour …

Wreckage

What now, What next, Is this the end of the line Where the weight of a lifetime’s endeavour Sinks without trace Amidst the rocky fragments of fortress walls Built to protect who knows what? Is this the last time I …

You Are On Your Own

I hear being said By those walls of silence As I struggle to raise my head And get out of bed To face another day Trying to make my way To make my contribution To life’s continuance Through festoons of …

Your Constant Companion
[The Carer Self]

I am always with you Do you hear me As I seek To find a way To guide you? . Do I call you softly?

Your Peace is My Disquiet

Your Peace is my disquiet That Bliss you find in self-denial Where pain is a thing of the past Conveniently forgotten In clouded memory Your Peace leaves me abandoned As I strive to make life better Than this Careless State …

Permafrost & Fertile Ground

Time is Frozen Energy Distance is Frozen Space Measured Out in Lumps Reality is Neither/Nor But Both/And After Thaw The Natural Flow of Life in Love That Feeds Our Inner Core Unless We Cut It Out And Dwell in Contradiction …