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Water (part two)

Watching carbon’s cycle and sediments from a shore, hearing the marine showers of detritus like gravitas These everlasting teeth,...

Long walks to school

Long walks when all weather was moderate Dreams that state and retract confederate memories, the lollipop lady and children who sang...

Errors

Trauma tarmac with no margin, unyielding Two feet in a tired mangle, one head fogs with sad presences because of selfishness Selfishness...

Belief

At the summit of cat bells I saw your soul and essence It was generous patience and supportive dignity Your help was sovereign; and...

Triangles

In gaps between days, groups of triangles form diagrammatic shows in my mind and parts of the universe are defined Fatuity cut through,...

Kindness is a warm sense

Kindness is a warm sense One of the many faces of Christ, saviour This countenance ever so gently adjudicates Each kind act leaves Satan...

Life in speech parts

Life is the noun, cartwheeling abandon The laughing girl running Running to her future Breathing the present, playing and missing May’s...

Acts of service

Poems are written for others Tiny acts of service It’s important that others are moved by the words New drugs are discovered for us...

A flower's stem

With church stonework close to my left, I sit Soft musical notes arrest my thinkings Verities drift in to speak, I befit, from near and...

Companions (part two)

St Augustine indicates with shaping Fidelity is our inheritance Theism, at the very least, provides meaning to life. Conviction of...

Orange moons

Music replicated after single listens It’s the simplest reflex action for you In front Patients sit sick They need your upper thoughts...

Leaking drips of learning

Here is a poem I wrote for the Ledbury (Festival) Poetry of The Woods. You can find it here: https://www.poetry-festival.co.uk/poet-of-th...

Auburn light casting

We have both walked somewhere. Our progressions twinkling with purpose or startling in their haphazardness Darling, you showed the way...

Inflamed

You have the sun in your head An imbalanced sun with spots, shooting corruption These solar thresholds of pain are bisected, bites Not...

Demerara and our time

Spoonfuls of brown sugar grain escape in your Saturday hot tea Sweetness in seconds a quarter of an hour is ours For...

Meeting for the first time

New hungers dressed and entered my stage of sparse decoration I had just said ‘goodbye’ to the star of England, the real Broadway Earlier...

Eleutherobia

Here is a short poem based on a molecule that I worked on in Texas. Eleutherobia A genus of soft, red coral. Motionless resident in deep...

Kinship (part one)

The Son of Man writes harmonious words with ease With quills that replicate spirals on the grandest scale His galaxies can reside in our...

Thoroughbred

I A blood cell, fine controller with a curve that shouldn’t be Thirst for oxygen and iron I could store II My host’s sensitivities are...

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