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We’re all going to war Lovely, lovely war We’re all going to war We’re going to war Fighting for the glory of: Tony the deceiver George the mission accomplisher Saddam the Kurd killer Osama the humbler We’re all going to … Continue reading →

The old brown ribbed ‘Belfast sink’ In the kitchen corner One cold bib tap Jutting over Sluicing water from its lead veins in volumes   The rough wood shelf above the tap Sat the Iron griddled soap rack Caked by … Continue reading →

The old brown ribbed ‘Belfast sink’ In the dark kitchen corner One cold bib tap Jutting over Sluicing water from its lead veins in volumes   The rough wood shelf above the tap Sat the Iron gridded soap rack Caked by … Continue reading →

Windblown blossom flirts Falling on the hair of young lovers Knowing old men smile Summers love everywhere Healthy girls laughing happily Boys want to grow up Love is forgotten Autumn sunshine lights our world Icy memories consume us

Blossom Blossom swaying in the wind Falling on the hair of young lovers Old men smile weak smiles Life This life full of care Tension, stressful mobiles, noise Quietly flows the river

It was the unexpected indifference to My latest novel That taught me to think about Accolades piled high over the years Genius hollowed out by familiarity ‘Repetitious well trodden ground’ Later, in bed, alone as usual, I had The scrotum … Continue reading →

 The London march 26th of March we massed. A protest of peasants Cosmopolitan – political comrades Against Cameron and Clegg’s Acquiescence towards banker’s profligacy Disingenuous  fidelity and Toward we, proletariat. Again history forefends poor people suffer Lose out – … Continue reading →

Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the  dark and silent grave, When we have wandered our ways, Shuts up the … Continue reading →

The man with no shoes is silenced By seeing a man without feet The woman’s anger with her child is silenced By a woman’s infertility The child’s noisy self-importance is silenced By a child’s imprisoning debility Our clamouring grasping world is silenced By the Tsunami exposing our fragility

Poised seductive Alluring, silently urging – whispering Tempting me to fill her virginity With cauldrons of jumbled, half thought mumbles. A page as any other Waiting, wanting conjoined words Some considered – calculated Better, most to fly across her nakedness. … Continue reading →