Poems

My poems have come from extraordinay passions. I suppose I am a passionate person. I cry, laugh, swear and feel pain and happiness all in the same breath. I find the life within me is hungry for experience in any form. So I have not avoided pain or the wonders of pleasure that have lifted me to the promised land. So here they all are – my poems – my life – my love in its may forms – and my visions of the highest.

The Chinaman

Silly old Chinese man know much wisdom through being such fool. Fool knows much because he know nothing. ...More

The Anthill

We all live in an incredible complex anthill. As humans we are usually totally dependent on our surrounding ants and what we supply each other. Who ever heard of person building their own house, making the wires ot wire it with, growing all their own food, teaching themselves to speak? So Anthill i...More

The Ancient Shrine

To create in any manner, whether it building wall, writing or being a mother or father, is an amazing thing. I call it the ancient shrine because we must remember with a sense if worship, that from such creativity has arisen all the things good in our life that we may take for granted....More

That’s Life

This is a look at what we can give and leave in another person’s life even if they die young or have a crushing disability. ...More

Small Lives

Having been premature at a time prior to intensive care I have a lot sympathetic links with runts and those who survive with something twisted in them. So here is my view after living in Mexico in a lovely house with house martins, and seeing their whole life cycle....More

The Hand of Life

I wrote Small through holding in my hand a tiny lizard. The small live thing compared with the enormous thumb and fingers was a real inspiration. ...More

I Had a Vision

This vision wasn’t like a waking dream in which I was involved as a watcher. It was an experience of my senses, my awareness, opening wider to another reality, a wider reality. And in the vision I saw how every common thing we do is an intrinsic part of everything. In fact inseparable from the won...More

Ground Swell

I have had many waking dreams , what are often called visions, in my life. Groundswell is such a visions, and what I feel is a prophecy. It describes the enormous forces at work in human society that can revolutionise and change us, are changing us....More

The Garden of Your Face

What we see of ugliness or beauty in another person’s face is, in the end, only reflection of our own blindness or ability to sense....More

Seasons

Some seasons of your life are like a cruel winter. But if you keep watching the seasons you gradually get a wider view, a kinder view of life....More

Level

All level, Like foot turned sand Washed over by the sea. Or ploughed earth, Grown filled with grasses. Level as my feelings Renewed with love; As the winter frost on a still night....More

My Christmas

This is an attempt to record one of the greatest inner experiences I had ever met. It is only an attempt, because even the greatest of poets could never capture the enormity and splendid love of the beginning of us all....More

The Long Journey

It is one of the longest journeys you can make – the journey backward through your life, remembering and recovering all the wonders and the agonies of just being human. And here is atime of remembering being haunted by the past....More

With You

The death of a child must be one of the greatest loads to bear. So, having fathered five children, when I saw this tiny gravestone, it led me to reach out to the parents who had lost so much. Also we can kill and lose our children in quitet ways too....More

Neat Answers

This is fun poem with a serious kernel. Most of us deal with the serious things we face as we might with speech. We say the most awful cliches instead of saying what we mean: Have you seen the new store, Down at the mall? It’s simply called Neat Answers. It’s got a great display, Can’t take y...More

Puzzling

It one of those interesting things in life, when something you see, or something you might hear on the radio, triggers a great realisation. Or maybe it is a missing piece in a jigsaw puzzle of your life. ...More
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