Turquoise Monster

Anger at lies told Promises broken Confidences shattered Bile rises Drowning in half truths Strangled by discontent

Emotionally degrading Memory going Enigma in life Needs forgotten Time slips flowing Initial thoughts lost Backwards Annihilation The Abyss dawns Within you

There is a man And he has a wife He loves her with his all She saved him Quelled the loneliness That ate him from within Together they made a home And she grew him babies So he wouldn’t be lonely His family He looks after them But his soul hurts And his heart is […]

A petulant sky Dark as a spoiled child told no Boiling water heavy Marring the summer sky Building a prickly heat Hurting the ears and eyes Sledge hammer pressure Blanketing populations In sleeping aggression Thunder head shifts And POW The clouds melt down Sheets of water Drowning the land Choking the air Lightening rents Thunder […]

The bones of The City Walked in his soul The bone of The City Walked in his soul Discordian punk type Illuminated with dark rave light Illuminated with dark rave light The bones of The City Walked in his soul Rapping in the jazz whole The junk of funk He could play Marking out thoughts […]

The star flittered into her mouth Sticking fast No sustenance could pass An asterial blockage She tried to cough it out And then… The star had run down her throat Ripping the stomaches lining Passing through in bloody disgorge She lay dying in the star birth It flew into the sky

Merry Christmas, Yule, Midwinter etc…. I like to snug down and write in the winter and we’ve also created an indoor fire/story telling circle using LED lights and empty loo roll tubes – I hope you are all having an equally cosy time if you live in colder climes and a cool festive times if […]

In a funk, refusing to think as the world has dragged you down so deep into a fug that you ain’t ever getting back up and out of it. But there it is, on the building. THINK BIG And you laugh ‘cos you are no longer a kid and the kids are around you looking […]

Monday night I inflicted my childrens poetry on an audience in the Waterstones Cheltenham as part of the Villanelles series run by The Gloucester Poetry Society. This beautiful photo of the reading was taken by Kurt Schroeder Photography which is a challenge as I can’t really do flash photography and the light levels were poor! […]

This is a film/poem documenting how the large version of the Muse Monster Writing Game came into existence. I had a lot of fun making this a few years ago – it’s a bamboo flute I am playing for the sound track by the way.