You defended me
when, falling back,
we gazed on stars
Category Archives: Poetry
Ah yes, this is why the internet was invented – as a repository for my poetry. Some of these poems are published, some of them aren’t. Some of them aren’t even poems at all but that’s OK. This is my repository.
Waiting
The black dog
waits by
the red gate
for the
yellow car
to return.
Ties
My father’s tie,
broad blue stripes,
100% man
made,
not natural
to touch
Mad Monday
All the crazies are out today
after a weekend without
medication,
or too much.
Love at first sight
wazzat?
i say
lyin
in bed
You never know your luck
OK. This is what happens.
She says: I’m really going to rationalise my life.
[emptying the drawer onto the bed]
When Harry met Ripley
We’re lying in bed and she’s telling me about how she’s just arrived on an old steamboat at the trading post and it’s very hot and she’s wearing totally the wrong outfit.
A Light Rail
What this city needs is
a fully-integrated-public-
transport-network-
policy.