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The Last Breath

The Gate

Now

Savage Knowledge

The Hero’s Death

For When I Am Old Time

Inspired by Pen and Watercolour at Work

A Single Magpie 

Butterfly Landing On Flower

They Scream Their Song

The Sharp-Sweet Star

Beauty

Hands

Revenge

Doubt

A Craven’s Courage

Reflection

The Commencement

I Racked My Brains

Punched

Assessment

​​Who to Fight​

Chains

The Stage

The Hunt

Unto Dawn

Unrequited

The Unforgotten

Meditations of Our Mistakes

The Cut

Grown Back Garden

Sir Dinadan, Percival and Gawain

What Holds Sway

Progress

Constructive Possibilities

Group Grinning and Social Smiling

Black Dog at Night​

The Boss Dog

Weather Lessons

Osugi

Easier, or Better?

Bone

Galapagos Hunting

​Solitary Labour

Pretty Pointers

Old and Grey

While Reading Wordsworth

‘Methinks the reaper hunches’

You are the Hand

Sharper and Smaller

Written off the cuff, for Someone

The Few

Combe Down

Two Evils

The Artist

Thumos​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Miura Music

Awakening

Our Virtues and Vices

Spring Affirmation

Small Victories

The Fall of Finrod’s Song

Achievement

Battle Born

The Dragon

The Meditative Space

Back in the Fire

Beat the Mob

Death to Envy

Who is ‘We’?

Hold

Smile, Don’t Weep

Listen

Melancholia Matters

The Jeweller’s Art

Heart and Stone

Change

Singularity’s Heart

George’s Fight

Leonine Purpose

In Progress

Not This Time

We Are The Storm

Close

Skeleton

Fear Not

The Comfort of Context

Living

Have You Walked Among The Rain

When Gone

No Beast Has Claws

Poem On The Pavement

Pavement Poems, Second Part

Pavement Poems Three

“Old” Places

Goodness

Lives

“What breaks you makes you”

Vices and Choices

Deed?

Tear and Share

Count

Leap From The Flaws

Lose Not Your Ventures

Meal

Ghan and Krishna

I Pray It Haunts Hereafter

Acquaintance

No One and None​

Nervepaths

The Forest Leaves

Ivy's Grip

Magpie Couple Climbing

Yesterday's

When it rains

Chuck-It-Down Weather

Faces Change Little

Far Away Life

One Mouth, Two Arms, Two Eyes

Life is

Dopamine Seed

Leaders

Poems are People

The Soiled Snail

The Rolling Worm

A Forest Island

Human

Just So

Go On

About the Rains

Nevermarked

Search

Battle Born

In water, a bed or home they lie As far can be from mortal rest Death will be faced here The flesh exposed Still but not silent And For...

Achievement

In the stands In the grounds At Three AM or Nine PM Hot from the feet that walk across them In windswept light Or black of night For the...

The Fall of Finrod’s Song

Where sand and seas are swept Warmth dies And shade lies The quiet before the swell The rise of his voice Ensnared in one’s own trap...

Small Victories

Alike in thought and form They are all alike and the same Wrought well, and forward.   Make struggle serve you Make pain your consort...

Spring Affirmation

One way forward Clear and cold Like the light flakes Spiralling drops of snow Shutting out the spring sun Building a bed of challenge For...

Our Virtues and Vices

Any fairness or foul Habit or exercise Done from your will Any spirit of fairness you hold Your own Hold it in your hands Sculpt it and...

Awakening

To see the world differently Isn’t like a photograph Everything changes And nothing Chop wood Before and after Enlightenment Our muscles...

Miura Music

What Gods And Souls there are In quiet contemplation   No rest A pace turned to horror from beauty and frigid desire once more   Humanity...

The Artist

Airless Mouth pulled Down And I would be Unable to Say Speak And hardly with words Will never articulate The rawness of honesty Such as...

Two Evils

The two evils: to drink poisoned milk And bemoan those who drink while swallowing it.     By J.W.H. Hobbs.

Combe Down

A beautiful painting Then and now to recall Without context But no amount of bitterness dries the colour No sound can sap the shade And...

The Few

General faithlessness The casual or swaying nature of those reluctant to join eager to believe the worst and dismiss the best the rest...

You are the Hand

Stop feeding The people Who insult you While you pay for their service     By J.W.H Hobbs.   I got the idea from a Chris Eubanks...

While Reading Wordsworth

Traveling through all the night A path before indigo valleys Of mind, memory and the soul And in this writer’s words I feel kinship And...

They Scream Their Song

Long dust ingenues Figment languages Promises of what May be with sacrifice All scream their song In my ears All pre-dawn And ink-night...

Old and Grey

That is a life Old and grey With those we love Whether we call it that Shown In how they live For were we ever alive If When set to die...

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