Immerse the mind in all things And watch them feed each other Growing knowledge Ideas forming crystal structures Spreading out from many cores Little tresses growing together Branches and roots entwined Art feeds the science And the science feeds the art Seperate entities that touch As distinct as the sexes Spawning either or with traces […]
Sadly I did not make any of my November or December poetry readings and performances – this has been due to an emergency stay in hospital which I obviously did not foresee – I am very sorry to those who were expecting me but I think we managed to message all the organisers and let […]
They are controversial in an unconventional way By thinking original thoughts In a world where ideas are prescribed And deviation from the norm is social kamakasi Sweet radical Isolated through their own violation of law Bewildered by antagonism Over innovation Their beautiful minds Connecting what is obvious Only after their engineering stoke They fail to […]
They sat side by side Each longing and craving the other Locked behind their own miasma of grief Mourning the lose of the other Silence deafened and voices that wished to scream Flew away as nothing Hated sylibals said to hurt to maim To cover each of their shame Twisting with cruelty They whithered in […]
The Mask of History Is thick and sweet Sugar coated massacre Covering up injustice Offering the simplistic stylised view It is a mask of deception A mask of power and lies It is the war cry Remember And the Amnestist pledge The Mask of History Is carved from human pain Formed by arrogance And the […]
The sky bloomed a pregnant pause Sickly in its gestation As the world shuddered beneath Fear clung Choking populations In their own effluent The stars pin wheeled around Obscuring the clouds As the world waited Crimes of history Lay as grimy stains On Mother Natures pinafor A mushroom enveloped the weather And the pause was […]
Urban project misalined Pavements cracked That guy smacked Of no good Full of shoulds A few broke coulds Into the woulds Dreams crashed The get away car Wrecked Stolen stash Thoughts mash Meshed Left behind Small and scrawny Stowaway Fire engine rides Skate boards fine Up the concrete ramp Into the night Wet shimmer of […]
Within the cities lay the lost poems waiting to be found, within the edges and corners and hide aways.
Sooth Sayers Ides of March Delphic Oracle Prophet Clairvoyant Witch Apocalypse Date Change Dooms Day Play Armageddon Bedlam Nostradamus Nemesis sky Mayan Astrology Numerology Age dies Scientists cry Politician says Cassandra lie The end is nigh Are we about to die? Beware Self fulfulling Trance dance glance chance End of the World? Or the end […]
You saw the potential and set the stage Nurtured the roots for our new age Like your father a bright star Your infamy has gone far Like Byron full of charm and grace You his duaghter Ada Lovelace Leave a legacy huge and yet untold Of maths and machine and fashions bold