A Meditation on Constipation.

A Meditation on Constipation The doctor and nurses ask me the same old question With my bowels they seem to have an obsession I’m drinking water with great gusto and passion Devouring laxatives as if they’re going out of fashion Then back to the loo and resume my mission To meditate in my seated […]

Fly Away My Butterfly.

Fly Away My Butterfly Like a butterfly caught in the breeze You said your dreams you had to seize Those dreams, you said, did not include me I could not hold you , so I set you free But I had built my dreams around you I thought our love was strong and […]

The Man With the Haunted Stare

The Man With the Haunted Stare In a hospital ward between Purgatory and Hell Trapped in his body, like a prisoner in a cell Those Haunted eyes in a frozen face His mind and body in a different place The man in the bed across from me Laid bare and stripped […]

A Heart Once Broken.

A Heart Once Broken – (poem version) Sometimes, I still think of you and me The way things were and used to be When I hear that song we used to sing On that old guitar, I used to bring Broken dreams and bitter tears With the passing of so many years Remind […]

Memory and Shadow.

Memory and Shadow Dancing shadows on the wall Spinning and weaving, down the hall Grotesque yet beautiful, they fire the imagination Poetry and saga, songs and inspiration Of monsters and demons and fearsome beast Heroes and dragons, and tales from the East Filling the children with excitement and dread Cowering beneath blanket, tucked up in […]

The Man with the Haunted Stare.

Deep in the Garden.

Deep in the Garden The song of the blackbird brings joy to my heart A magical spell, it casts from the start Plaintiff and lonely, such magic it weaves Deep in the Garden, bough, branch and leaves A robin chirps sharply from an old apple tree A warning to others, this is his […]