Published in The Lark·PinnedWaiting for NovemberHis headstone verses were writ in wineConstantinople1 min readPhoto by Aaron Gilmore on UnsplashWaiting for November----3
PinnedThe unsaidWind cuts through this January night Slices like a knife through my meagre clothes. Signs on the road hidden by an iron fog The cry of the wind is all in vain Nothing is the same. I kiss you across this black hole in time. In the old be-jewelled spider-webbed…Unsaid1 min read
PinnedJohn Keats 31 October 1795– 23 February 1821Melancholy’s lack of zest written all over his palimpsest: to die at twenty-five to some will hardly seem to have been alive, but for Johnny Keats and the footloose Cavaliers poetry, music, art, tears were eternal. They eschewed self-pity, untold fears. They tried their best to stay alive In a world…John Keats1 min read
20 hours agoBRYTER LAYTERMorning rain soaks my clothes, my hair, my skin, I do not care. I am not there. I study the mortar between the crumbling bricks in this old wall built by the calloused hands of men who’d served on the Somme and who’d been called ‘such dirty scabs’ in 1929 by striking Salford dockers; they’d…Salford1 min read
Published in Literally Literary·4 days agoScrew loose“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man.” ―…Alienation1 min readPhoto by Annie Spratt on UnsplashScrew loose----
Published in The Lark·4 days agoSilencePoetry — Silence1 min readPhoto by Andraz Lazic on UnsplashSilencePoetry----
Published in The Howling Owl·4 days agoThe Pontic Greeks“We will cut off your heads, we will make you all disappear.” — General Mahmut Şevket Paşa (1856–1913), the Ottoman Commander-in-Chief, tells Orthodox Patriarch Ioakeim III (1834–1912), Greek Patriarch of Constantinople, in June 1909: “We will cut off your heads, we will make you all disappear.” This sonnet is composed of the ashes of my heart It is about the genocide of a community…Greek Genocide1 min read
Published in The Lark·Jun 25MollyA poem — Cats1 min readPhoto by Pacto Visual on UnsplashMollyA poem----1
Published in An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)·Jun 23A malevolent curiosityIn the Apple Market your south London twang accompanied the many undulations of time.David Bowie1 min readPhoto by Gabriel Bassino on UnsplashA malevolent curiosity----
Published in The Lark·Jun 21AfterwordPoetry — Robin1 min readPhoto by A Perry on UnsplashAfterwordPoetry----
