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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

Pretty Pointers

When the look of someone Makes you consider your ugliness Vow to be beautiful And put old flames in your blood   Every Adonis is an...

Solitary Labour

Three desks Three minds By deeds alone are we known.   The knowing is one thing And walking the path A more terrible, yet more ethereal...

Beauty

Beauty Beauty everywhere In pain and euphoria Such chilling, blistering, blinding Beauty bleeding throughout the world.   By J.W.H....

Now

I will endure this.  Or not.   Regardless,    I live right now and that is everything.         I hope you like it, have a good Tuesday....

The Gate

If you know you die here Or don’t Why not give it everything Against all comers When the deed is done All actions written At the line and...

Bone

Every soul carries a skeleton Waiting to rest But where?   Every bone can be polished Tapped, set, or scratched But why?   Every life has...

Easier, or Better?

Much easier to call yourself a God    In these times     Than aspire to be Good.   Much simpler to say things are not simple    And chant...

Osugi

Evil never sees until it is too late It weeps when safe And the broken body The snapped dreams Beat down psyches And harm Has already...

Weather Lessons

The warmth and splendour of wind and lighting can be appreciated from the window like the happy neighbour sitting out in summer sun or my...

Black Dog at Night

Thunk thunk thunk A spot of black in the gloom Rustle of movement at night   But I smile and snort Calling out For the little Dachshund...

Constructive Possibilities

Prowess Like conversation Is never And will never be Words alone   No theory Half-shrouded superiority Of the introvert scholar The youth...

Progress

Lacquered paint Layer upon layer Brick dust and grey cement powder Small bumps, for one hundred cramps Human form shaping stone Breaking...

What Holds Sway

The Father of Souls The Lady of Hearts And the Temple of the World Lay claim upon us   But only in the words we write A few of the...

Sir Dinadan, Percival and Gawain

No knight shines. Smoke, steel, and salt Ashen earth and littered lines Hour to hour, and only time to time   The knight rests And such a...

Grown Back Garden

The sound of running rain Set tufts of gold and green Unruly as my own hair And beckoning To be mowed and tidied Consistently Like the...

The Cut

Abrupt   It severs   Indecision   Forever hated   And yet it   Pulls and calls   Those who conceive   What it is to do   What is hard and...

Meditations of Our Mistakes

A man can change from what he is judged to be the mixture of his own failings and enemy rumour.   In the sun of our resolutions Skin...

The Unforgotten

A pregnant space An empty chair All the signs Of what lay there   No scent in the air Nor presence of heat Save in the mind And memories...

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