Poetry

      Wing it, Graceful danger, Fast formation flying, Per ardua ad astra , Gannets.  

        Wedged in, Cliff loving gulls, Large noisy colonies, Densely enjoy high rise homes, Kittiwakes.    ...

      Auks, Sharp images, Black cutting presence, Fast beating wings driven seawards, Razorbills.          

Bempton, Puffins galore, But we saw only three, One really made our day special, Rock Star.        ...

  rising,  waves cross and break  collapsing, colliding,  tumbling, rumbling reduced to surf.  froth.

   Beach sand,  Wind, blown away,  Waves breaking, salty day,  Tide turning, boats clash, shaking free,  Rough sea.    ...

Is the way to a woman's heart flowers? Or should I wish upon a falling star?   I walk by...

Waiting for Hopper    standing forlorn waiting, always waiting, for what, the last train, an unlikely man, am I so...

riverrun, past Eve and Adam's,  fr'over the short sea,  oh my shining stars and body,  you're going to be Mr Finnegan,  his hoyd feeled heavy,  he stottered from...

joined up words  scribbled and slow    fast thoughts  writing speed  no dots on i's  no crosses on t's  fast...

In a flurry, they dance and settle, then melt to a warm ovation.

You are not gone your words I hear they awaken my memories.

    My coat is frequently cut my body shaved and sometimes broken and cut again. I work with the...

I jumped and launched into the air and fell, I hit the ground, rolled and let out a yell. Geronimo...

I’m an engineer,  There’s no hope for me,  My careers finished,  I’ve read Cope’s Elegy.    Bust, but then its...

Do you take husbands in this charity shop ?  Sorry madam, but we have had to stop.  Have you tried...

      Yesterday John came home wet and covered in mud.   Had he been fishing, no he’d fallen...

Inspired by Carol Ann Duffy, "The World's Wife"   Mrs Who Mrs Morecombe Mrs Attonborough Humpty Dumpty   © David...

    Couldn’t remember the name of her husband, nor when, nor where, they met.       ©  David...

  I used to love ballroom dancing but now I’m very apprehensive.   Especially when Eric started fiddling with his...

  Remembering the early years of the marriage.     The other morning I got out of bed and trod...

    An inquest was held into the accident of HD.   The coroner noted that  he had frequented the...

  I wonder about the trees. Swaying in the breeze, Exerting presence but cut down with tears. Their sap flows...

  stacks deadly, erosion, a cobalt sky, aquamarine seas, emerald greens and blues, surf, breathtaking white surges, dangerous rocks enticing...

  Scrambling on a patchwork of frozen snow, ice and mud, tufts of died yellow grass, grating forward, pushing though...

    Was always there. Cooked my breakfast, made my sandwiches, walked me to school, cleaned my cuts, pulled out...

  Met them on a holiday, in a field without any maps, Cornwall camping far away; both caused the tent...

Follow the herd, my chance will come, I will prevail, my time is near.   My bony outgrowths are itching...

    Your brain will slowly shrivel for all your thoughts are pictures, created by computers, and now AI images....

    What words you speak will now flow, forlorn and jumbled up, so innocuous and useless. Misspelt and misunderstood,...

    Cut out his eyes, Cut off his head, Cut out his mouth, Remember the dead.   Hang his...

    In Wiltshire a break and batch In Yorkshire time for a breadcake In Lancashire you had a barm...

  Pan tiled roofs coloured with lichen grow on buildings which gape wide open in the heat. Marbled quarried blocks...

the line in the sand,  cross it and we fight,  for land, food, wealth,  principles or right,  we fight to...

We are at the beginning,  a long journey ahead,  emerging , bubbling upwards,  sparkling in a shimmering light.  Amongst a...

action, camera one, camera two,  background, action, fire, go again, reset,  fire, fire, cut, off camera, stand by, wrap,  inferno,...

sometimes your fragile laughter fires my thoughts,  your humour kindles and it burns so bright,  it awakens ideas and they ...

was I wrong, did I misconstrue the facts,  I saw red, blood pressure had gone again,  it seemed obvious, but...

  make one,  no cake, no chocolate, no cream,  no way!  cut down on cheese , biscuits, crisps and sugar,...

sitting under wide branched tree,  sketching by dappled light the leaves to draw,  then with pen and ink I see...

you are still here looking at me, smiling,  your eyes sparkle as Cupid's arrow  shot,  silently, but I'm sure you...