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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

Leap From The Flaws

Leap from the flaws Of your unquesting mind   Pull at your chains And set your rights to right   Call forth your wants Dance your heart...

Count

Count By those unthought Minds unsaid And the looming light In this Hell’s dark.   By J.W.H. Hobbs.

Tear and Share

Yeah, me to me I share a call Little buttons with sensors Mimicking, vibrating To feel good, where once People may have held pens No one...

Deed?

Scream or silent The work of weeks Each passing kindness Greed unanswered Rage called And biting jape unsaid   By J.W.H. Hobbs.

Vices and Choices

The gleam in the dark And soul-sucking Scrape and hollow A little weaker Eyes widened to life’s potential nightmare   Or grit in a bloody...

“What breaks you makes you”

Wisdom, you find in a book Hope, you find almost nowhere Drive, you only find silently in yourself Compassion; that’s only spoken.   By...

The Sharp-Sweet Star

The sharpest, sweetest star in life Makes you ask What am I doing When not in the same room   Sugary Sundays Salted tears Monotonous...

Lives

Are we not leaves Watered then drying Configurations of deeper trees?   By J.W.H. Hobbs.

Goodness

A good person Does not regard oneself so. In the days and momentary acts Not thought is noble virtue known.   By J.W.H. Hobbs.

“Old” Places

How old we think The architecture and stone Older than us And our words, for certain Elongated and changed Canterbury’s common pavements...

Pavement Poems Three

Triplets of these Are my couplets Those rhythmless patterns I weave through walking Between streams of places and mind.   By J.W.H. Hobbs.

Pavement Poems, Second Part

One follows another A little snip of contemplation Slice of afternoon sun Scattered conversation Leaving residue of recollection.   By...

Poem On The Pavement

Seeking ideas Word streams Directions Or, more like Explorations Like the paving stones The people A story, thought-form Is rarely Truly...

No Beast Has Claws

No beast has claws Compared to yours Nor fright equal To clear eyes.   Through smoking skies When good words die Your legs will run.  ...

When Gone

When Gone   We are   Collected sayings Time smoothed items   Mournful hearts Unsmoothed soil   A lingering roar And plucked strings in...

Have You Walked Among The Rain

Have you walked among the rain While bleeding hot within the day Skies are bright, with clouded light Though hourless, one cannot say...

Living

Life rules nothing If we do not appreciate it Equal to looming Death.   By J.W.H. Hobbs.

The Comfort of Context

The comfort of context Looking back to when one felt further It offers warmth and then Both a little more And less When we know a thing...

Fear Not

Worry less about the hellfire And prognostications The objective facts And speakers to follow But breathe your life All its artistry,...

Skeleton

That is what we will be And everything we are not Loving tissue near gone? Living crystalised cells Well watered with blood Healing as...

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