A ghost came into my dreams‘Someone’s gonna goand you’re gonna miss them’is what it said and went off again. See how being the life and soul of the partycan leave you in the dark shadowsburied with the roots of a tree.‘Someone’s gonna goand you’re gonna miss them’is what it said and went off again. The …
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Making a Name for Yourself
You have a first, middle and surnamebut none of them stay the same.Some get shortened being a mouthfulor get punned right from school. You lend yourself to nicknamesthat you get known by.Some know you as this, some as that.Some just get your name wrong and you let it lie. You even changed it and took …
Detention
She walks down that streetlooking like a star I’m gonna meet.My jaw dropping heart stopping.Seen it all before but I was blind. Regrets I’ve had a few, Frank.Strangers in the night, Frank.Love your songs, Frank, and you were always way ahead, Frank.So how come you kept me behind, Frank?
Emotional
When you watch a gritty mother saying she’s told the kids their house has burned down.When you watch a Borg -McEnroe doc on their struggles, rivalry and friendship.When you see how much sacrifice a women’s England football player made to get to the top.When you see a friend struggling with bureaucracy diagnosed with cancer. When …
Make a Wish
If you ever doubtgood can last for goodcos it fades faster than it shouldmake a wish, baby. Light the candleson your birthday cakea big breath takeand on your big daymake a wish, baby. Love is easy if you let it win.All you need do is give in.Take a deep breathand make a wish, baby.
40 Years of illustrated poems 1982-2022
Here is a quick visual representation of my self-illustrated poetry collections since 1982. In the menu, there is ‘One poem from each collection 1982 onwards’ to see an example of what I was writing at the time. My 40th collection is in the making and will be posted soon!
Believe in Peace
After all the bombs have died outthere’s nothing like calm.No one’s died downand everyone’s come to harm. After everything’s called it a dayand the dawn’s gone to sleepmost of the most live the leastand fewer than the few believe in peace.
ANONsense uniVERSE
Extra Time
In football, not everyone wants it.Not everyone gets it (even if they want it).There’s the chance to win, the chance to losewith those looming penalties as a brilliant bonus or shitty cruels! In life, you’d normally want it, wouldn’t you?Unless, for some reason, penalties would take you to all-time lows.But, in life, I’d say everyone …
Find Enclosed
Find enclosed some posts going backwardsStart from the start and they’re going forwards Find enclosed another unpublished poemby an author to push up daisies, still unknown find enclosed my C.V. and applicationto the city’s mental institution find enclosed what i couldn’t saythe words came out anyway find enclosed a paper dreamit hardly took up a …
A Pretty Kettle of Poetry 