Chapter Two

I'm reading a book About taking a lover It's the first that I've found Never looked in another. It says in the print It's just A, B and C But, that sounds a little Too easy to me. I can follow the line About a dinner for two A glass of white wine (And the …

12 months, 400 poems: nova today

A short note before today's poem. Today marks 12 months completed since I began writing 'A Poem a Day', 400 poems ago with a little fire dance poem. I originally intended to aim for a month, but so enjoyed the discipline of writing and the feedback I received from readers that I pushed on (and …

elemental alchemy

Poem #28 from a series of meditations: the Pilgrim Back to the Pilgrim – Introduction there is more beneath the sky pilgrim than air and water fire and earth alchemy is inspired beyond the limitations of coarse elements listen to the sound of your inner self when you contemplate your love and know this too …

who am i? (after the affair)

i am disbelief at the churning both familiar and strange of aloneness re-forming i am the pink petals of a rose on a bush by the fence that would have been a gift i am an urgent need to check mail four times in a day and once more after darkness has fallen i am …

sun lover

sun kisses through the window I close my eyes lover rivulet run down into the hollow of my throat sweet kisses from my lover and gold gold shines on the far side of my eyelids and gold colours me in my skin sun kisses through the window nothing between me and my lover © Frank …

a doubt of happiness

Poem #27 from a series of meditations: the Pilgrim Back to the Pilgrim – Introduction when you see a person who is happy pilgrim are you not led to think in terms of the positive as though happiness is itself a presence consider happiness may actually be a negative marked by an absence of questions …

the poem ‘insomnia’

I am in conversation with myself talking to an imaginary you I call my thought a stanza my big idea a poem and every word you say to me is said in rhyme yes all the time I’m imaginary versing with my unreal you responding to some thing you didn’t say I call your thought …

atomic hail and shine

small hail is leap and bounding on the path that leads to the washing line leap and bounding on the grass that bears its mild beating well what else can it do and as quickly as this chaos of bouncing white (like atoms in urgent search of collision) has begun so it has ended and …

fulfillment

Poem #26 from a series of meditations: the Pilgrim Back to the Pilgrim – Introduction oh pilgrim there is so much here in this place we inhabit that is without our agreement without explanation with no need for our awareness or involvement you and I are mere travelers regarding the road we walk with awe …

attraction (by the bottle)

but that's the thing about attraction isn't it it's not like two magnets one minute you're chatting away good friends no complications the next a look in the eyes a change in the air something happens look around you nothing to see that's different look at her and it's awkward try to resist and it …