Have you ever heard a word or two and thought, ‘I knew that too?’ Somewhere within…. Did you ever want to articulate each word of knowledge spoken, the wisest nuggets ever shared, the things to which you’ve resonated with ‘me too’, like a little ‘ah’ of certainty, of kindred-ship. Have you thought if you did … More A Poem: Still-Point

We have been given a body in which to experience space, proximity, life in all its intimacy, and solitude. The mind, the heart, the spirit, each are earthed, grounded by the being that feels first by flesh – via skin, that sensitive covering, though which all sensations move, and affection is given, received. The self … More A Poem: Feeling

I bemoaned the lack of things. A certain symmetry, or correct aligning. A certain youthful vignette from memory. A certain flush, a just bloomed, rounded, skin of apple – a store-bought peach, blemish-free. I bemoaned the silver thread. White-water crest of waves through a river long and dark, its only shine now caught under starlight. … More A Poem: God’s Garden

If we had a true understanding of time would we have one foot in and one foot witnessing, how in a future tense we might find ourselves dreaming of the solidity of the here and now. If we had a true understanding would we do our best to stop time’s momentum, would we set ourselves, … More A Poem: Time’s Passage

Someone gave us memory in sepia tones, rose coloured hints. Someone knew that the past, as a door closed, no longer accessible, was a step too cruel. So someone gave us sounds and smells, scenes to provoke us to reminiscence – and imagination to fill in the long blanks, to make a narrative out of … More A Poem: Memory II

Three of the most beautiful lines: ‘He does not raise his voice; He does not crush the weak, or quench the smallest hope.’ So all our hopes, though they might beat against our chest with wings, or lie smaller than a mustard seed hidden in the hand, can grow in time like the tall grass … More A Poem: Grass

Ah, there are two ways of writing. One to come to it educated, so you know the literary forms, and the tricks, the ever twirling hoops. And have read the poets with the accolades, the authors with the little big letters after pen names. The other is to come, a student of no formal learning, … More A Poem: Water of Life

If poems were pearls I would string them for you one by one. And each one, rounded circle, would tell a story of its own, though to others it is linked. And if poems were pearls, I would remind you of the dignity redeemed each time we re-write history, or harness vision, or imagination. And … More A Poem: If Poems were Pearls

There is reassurance in the count of three. One is a single entity, somehow vulnerable, though it may be all powerful. Two is a bookend on both sides, we can stand with some stability. But three, three is a triple stranded rope, a triangle with three planes, and a centre space. A place to live … More A Poem: The Count of Three

Everyone dreams of a love that comes to find them. Pursues them down. Pries the heart, and carefully undoes them. Everyone is human, and love a precursor to our sanctifying. While we dream of gentle saviours, love is an instrument bent on mining, and hollowing out the heart to greater depths, that instead of sudden … More A Poem: Grace II