Photography: Dartmoor in the snow
Some words written and a photo taken on a snowy walk on Saddle Tor, Dartmoor, Devon, New Year's Day morning, 2021.
Snow-Sky
There's an anticipation in the yellow-lilac light and shade of a snowy day. The...
A Cinquain
A cinquain poem is a verse of five lines that do not rhyme. The cinquain poem was created by American poet, Adelaide Crapsey (1878–1914).
Each line has a set number of syllables:
Line 1: 2 syllables
Line...
Walking on Campus: A Haiku
Whenever you walk around campus on any day of the week, at any time of day, you are bound to see something different each time. One sided conversations in empty rooms, script pages scattered...
Thoughts on a Solitary Welsh Walk
Thoughts on a Solitary Welsh Walk
The joy and the sorrow will still be there tomorrow.
The night and the day will hourly slide away.
(repeat)
What’s On Your Mind?
What's On Your Mind?
If I could write what's on my mind
The sum and parts would not be equal
To the volume that's inside
For words don't stack or group together
They aren't the contents
They're the lever
One word, a...
Visual Poetics
Is it literature, or is it art?
The latest exhibition at the Saison Poetry Library, tucked away in the Royal Festival Hall complex on the London South Bank, explores the relationship between poetry and art...
Oak and Vine
This is the poem that is never finished. I must have written about 20 stanzas and have never settled on a version I am happy with.
This is a much shorter edited version, with a...
Chew Your Words
Tonight has inspired new words; new words on words.
Fresh thoughts on thinking.
Chew on your words before you spit them
We won’t always be here to hear them
And we don’t have time for time to waste
On...