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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

Unrequited

Rather than the missing The disdainful or unwanting Consider those who respect Desire and admire you Unseen or you forgot.   By J.W.H....

Unto Dawn

Become a monument to ideals To your Dreams Your families Your deities The gifts given to you The joy you create The sunsets you witness...

The Hunt

Chest tight Hot on the heels Of the prize   Elusive and unguarded Leaving only tracks Broken leaves or marked trees   The scent and sight...

The Stage

Where lights blind the sights And the stage is afire It’s time to speak and shout and send Yourself across to them.   You can’t see or...

Chains

To see your bindings Ask who knows you Best of all; yourself   Take a seat and think Name, and write In the privacy of your room   What...

Who to Fight

Test your self Beat at the walls Attack your own mind Instead of another’s   Chewing your sickness Ending your own spite Rather than...

Butterfly Landing On Flower

Not for a lens It flits away quickly To prove a point The beauty is Hers and mine alone To see, if not to read.   Look at the beauty with...

A Single Magpie

It skirts past the sky with the wind in my eyes; And habit and count makes me scan But its brother or lover are not to be found; Just a...

Assessment

Sick of the sight of it So many jagged red lines Or unchanging blue The spaces, line and font   So many trimmings to force the count  ...

Punched

The shock Spark set into bone The spin in brain and eye Steps taken back Warm flow from nose Grin Grind your teeth And strike back.  ...

The Commencement

The battle Even a drop of effort Lead me to finishing what was set The words upon my tongue Rather a stream of sentences Much to ponder...

Reflection

What one has to say about a thing Differs as when they are there To when they are gone With all the knotted complexion Bent to anger in...

A Craven’s Courage

The power of a direct decision is that it carves up cowardice. Don’t worry about being brave, being bold is a short-term scare Far more...

Doubt

What is doubt And all negativity But a river’s sediment?   A weighing down Dirt in the river Flowing sure   And like all things Down at...

Revenge

To have them see you And what you have become Free of their touch.   By J.W.H. Hobbs.

Hands

In no applause did I find them Hung by my sides or laid in bed Holding food or steepled Patted, pointing, or reaching Kept still or...

The Hero’s Death

A great brass roar, to the choir of heaven To be pulled to hearth and rest For blood to flow beside one’s foes And the nether gap of the...

Galapagos Hunting

Barbaric I thought, And brilliant.   Shooting from a helicopter Typical humans Primates with advanced technology Not afraid to fly Too...

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