A Single Word It poured through the Cracks in the grey-cloud. It splashed with the raindrops, On a world painted in concrete tones. It wh...

Closing Down Closing down! Everything must go! People, Jobs, Livelihoods, So, Get it while you can Discount the lot When it's gone It's g...

Morning Faces I pass the smiles, I pass the frowns. I pass eyes straight forward, I pass eyes staring forlornly down. I greet the joggers...

We Are The Morning We are The morning makers, The exercise takers. The cuppa brewers, The get up and doers. The seize the dayers, The fir...

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

Love in the Time of Corona Their backgrounds matched, When they first met on Zoom. An intimate first glimpse Into the other's bedroo...

Locked Down and Confused I've put the dinner in the fridge, Stirred salt in my tea. Put my pants on back to front, Written Friday wh...

Supermarket Queued I stood in the never ending supermarket queue, Face-masked and quietly admiring the view Of a hundred shoppers, so...

The Haters Where in the world Did you learn to hate? You do it so well. The ascerbic, bilious, Irascible and dispicable. The venoumous, t...

Bullet Points • You are free to say • Anything at all • Free to stand • First against the wall • You are free to say • Whatever you ou...

A Place There is a place Where the wind stills To a silent breath. And the waters lap, A gentle insistence Where the birds are Cloud for...

Aging (A Poet at 51) And what has aging brought? Beyond the sagged jowl and chin, The eyebrows that flourish unbidden And the final stra...

Self How do you see yourself? Is it in the filtered deception Of instagrammed perfection? Or the truth that radiates From a mirrored ref...

The Sun Kiss And when the sun Kisses the sands, It turns life to silhouettes And the world to gold. Earth and sky as one, Molten, liquid...

Lifeforms by the Sea Fading shoreline and The evening watchers Mingle with the waves. Expectant for the Final sun colours. Fire fl...

Drifting Among Strangers There is silence in the crowd. The hubbub quelled And a stillness found. There is peace in the thousand ey...

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

Spice Up Your Life Sugar & spice And all things not nice Screw up your life A hit at a time And pay the price. To slump on a bench...

The Night Cold (Peace Desired) Long after the darkness fell, The cold of the night unmoving. We waited in the silence, The cold racked o...

Leaving with Lightness We leave with nothing So walk on unburdened And carry nothing but memories And the lightness of love #lifeandde...