Covid / War The day the war came, Covid went away. The fog of war replaced The viral load, and Covid knew it'd had its day. The day war...

Article 01: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Walk with me. I was once free, Born into a family Of love...

The Corvids and the Passerines Smoke lingers over Flandrian fields, Where the last vestige Of humanity was lain to waste. And as the...

Where The Seeds Fell Where the seeds fell, They patiently lay. Come happy days, Come spring again. Where the men fell, They patiently...

Jurassic Goals You join us here, Beach of The Day. Kick off (sand in your face), Wind whistles, We're underway. It's Cretaceous to...

The Wind-Rush Let the wind-rush And blow them back From where they never came. Let the wind-rush And erase them So history will defame....

My 8th poetry collection, Life Waves, is available now in both Kindle Download and paperback. Life Waves. Life pulses around us,...

A Hundred Tongues In freedom's name they came And fought, to fall and lie, No answers sought, No questions why. The Canadians,...

Not A Statistic. A Life The millions can never reveal The hidden depths of each and every 1 Every statistic, every number, A life, ...

Went Missing (The Refugee) Candle lit and memory burnt, Flames thrown and forgotten words. Lives silenced, voices unheard, Darkness...

The Rhythm Sun The rhythm sun Passed another day And remarked upon The impermanence of The visiting throng. Selfies and smiles ...

The Shelter That historic shelter by windswept beach. Beer can decorated, graffiti bleached. Home for the drunk and the desolate...

What has marked mankind has been a propensity to evil, to warfare, to conflict, to acts of inhumanity. But also the willingness to...

BREXIT, This Way. Goodbye We're leaving EU An exit, really? A way out of a mess That was perceived, construed Viewed through vitriol And...

The Sun Wept, Cold (Morning Attack) A frozen sun emerged From the grasp of an icy night. Imagined warmth from the glow, But it was just...

The Guns Have Gone The guns have all gone And the poppies grow where we fell For we have gone too ___________________________________...

Send Not Your Men Send not your men We have no more need for them The only sound, dawn-lit chorus birds There is stillness now, a...

The Poppy A single poppy Bent in sorrowed bitter wind Bowed in remembrance _____________________________ 11/11/18 - 11/11/2018 A...

Hope in Darkness (Armistice Centenary Poem) And all around Fields churned to Black and death. Life and colour Bled and drained. The...

The Shipbuilder Spoke We built the past Those hands of steel, Faces black with the Grime of pride In every hour spent In heat and cold...