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son of kingfisher
young bird picks his way through reeds in the shallows of the river parent birds no longer haunt this stretch of water except in dreams
August 14, 2009
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The conversations the night sea has with the dawn
… from the latest poetry sequence (still unfinished) called ‘Scrapes against the Soul’ The conversations the night sea has with the dawn Leave an empty
August 7, 2009
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Now you know why I spent my twenties crying
… from my latest collection of poetry, called ‘Scrapes against the Soul’: Sonnet Now you know why I spent my twenties crying, Aching for some
July 31, 2009
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If we can’t find Heaven, there are always blue jays
“If we can’t find Heaven, there are always blue jays” He said, as he opened the car door and walked off into the night. I
November 16, 2008
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Spiritual Start-up
[from a new poetry sequence which I am developing] I watched the little specs of dust as they floatedIn shafts of light through the churchA
August 10, 2007
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Exercises for creating new poems
I thought it would be useful to set out some of the ideas and techniques I use to produce new poems. When the creative muse
July 26, 2007
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One or Two
A quote from e e cummings: “One’s not half of two, it’s two that are halves of one” Wow. I found that in a book
July 16, 2007
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When the muse strikes, rather than being on strike
After a long poetic silence, words are beginning to appear in my head again. Some new poetry fragments – towards a 2007 sequence… (1) The
June 26, 2007
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because the light faded when it should have stayed bright
When at school, nowhere else but the space that was givenAnd those tighter moments, when the neurosis of the timeMade no more sense than the
January 22, 2007
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imagining possibilities
you see, when I was young and writing for all I could findI read somewhere that it was wrong to use too many wordsthat end
September 5, 2006
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