Tuesday, 31 October 2023

this halloween 


i see for the first time

that evil abounds  

halloween 


as the sun rises

the sky darkens 

 when leaves snow

too many to count or catch

we spin the giving up

all our worries compost here

where spring’s bluebells grow


Monday, 30 October 2023

 torrential rain

alexa volume up

she can’t hear me


 whatever

the sea zen


swim

 there is


nothing i can say


is there

 a single beach 

has as many moods

as i do

Friday, 27 October 2023

without truth


they wear funny clothes 

to deceive you 

Thursday, 26 October 2023

 the boys of autumn

rid of the smell of smoke

tucked up in their beds

Monday, 23 October 2023

 nowhere

is full of nothing 


waiting for you

 i’m stopping here

with my back to the future


the shadow has past 

 a tumbrel 

is just a charabanc

until you arrive 

 after the harvest

we grind the flour of today 

to plan tomorrow 

 meet me

at the event horizon

stephen

Sunday, 22 October 2023

 the light rain

that was going to stop


just got heavier 

Saturday, 21 October 2023

 corpus callosum

between the hemispheres

a bridge of sighs

 maybe today

maybe tomorrow 


maybe never

Friday, 20 October 2023

 aye

next year we will

plant again

 heavy rain 

my glucose meter plays up


sweet jesus 

 the museum

is itself a museum

dad said 

it was so long ago

he has a case now

Thursday, 19 October 2023

 hot day

two cats in the shade 

refuse 

 variations on a theme

of filling the dishwasher 


by nagging renee 

Wednesday, 18 October 2023

 in the news

searching for survivors


and extraterrestrial life

Saturday, 14 October 2023

 seemingly

in the morning sunshine


swimmingly

Friday, 13 October 2023

 a poet

will close an old man’s eyes

and open a child’s

 pruning the herbs

the smells of a braised summer

autumn mists 

 a stray thought

haven’t i walked this way before

i have this feeling

Wednesday, 11 October 2023

 searching

under every stone


for the lost words

 a cat

comes and goes around 


to the same place

 autumn

shaking the spider


from the broom

global warming 

turning the graph upside down

my frown becomes a smile


😟🙂


 

 rejection

it is not an anagram

try as i will


i submit to the reality

of an adverse opinion


 black table

black candles


red shadows

Tuesday, 10 October 2023

 rejection

it is not an anagram

try as i will

i submit to the reality

of an adverse opinion

 yes

tomorrow we must

yes tomorrow 

Sunday, 8 October 2023

oncology 

i can’t give you a kiss

i’m radioactive 

Friday, 6 October 2023

 rocks

improve the point of

a lighthouse 

Thursday, 5 October 2023

 street view 

the deceased man


still gardening

Wednesday, 4 October 2023

 autumn

and then we remember

snow berries

Tuesday, 3 October 2023

 palm reading

holding hands at the bedside

lifelines

Monday, 2 October 2023

 reading

she wrote i read


i did

shsss

in the distance

heron!

Sunday, 1 October 2023

 rail and road 

above the sleeping town

the sound of the sea

 october 1st

ten thousand doggy dumpers

on langland beach

 october 

in the corner of every window


a sleeping snail