There is a dictator rising We thought we controlled IT But now IT usurps all boundaries Swooping upon Our banks Our shops Our creativity Our time Our energy Our relationships Our environment. Everyone turns to blame one another Divisiveness curdles conversations It is the fault of the farmer The wood cutter The meat eater The […]
In the dark of pre dawnBare feet slide on timber floorsThe smell of coffee Sharp as barbed wire Carefully they weave their nets Catching sleepy bugs (Photo in header) Red gold peeping Tom The sun peers over the edge Soon I’ll be walking Rain right on the cusp I gaze out the door into Change […]
A question is a gift Confusion is purpose still wrapped in impenetrability We can’t see what’s within Yet When we begin unravelling truth reveals itself Startling us out of our complacency Even the most opaque parts of our being can be scrubbed clean A question is a gift I use mine to make poetry *Hogan […]
It rises teaching me how to rise too. To leave everything on the ground Evaporate towards the clouds Becoming more transparent All around Fog to mist vapour to air Join with the clouds Come back down again As gentle rain That feeds the ground Grows the grass Nitrogen Descended Transformed Excreted Rises Transforms Deleted Never. […]
Tiny pebble skips easily across a pond It’s light Quick Exuberant A boulder drops heavy Creates a huge splash Falls to the bottom Water rushing to cover It is weighted Passive Lies inert Blocks the throat Momentarily No matter their size The pebble and the boulder still end up at the bottom of the river […]
From around age ten we begin taking out contracts Invisible signatures In indeliblee ink That say I know you And you know me But I don’t remember signing Away the right to forget Everything, and begin again *header picture of a tribe of boys playing on the beach. I was entranced by their rough and […]
What is authenticity? Is it a coat I put on daily? Does it change with me As I do? Or does it live eternally stuck in some sort of stagnant non reality That lives in other peoples heads A projection that beams out of them Onto something that I said Perhaps Two months ago Or […]
I pace Back and forth Around I’ve learned the perimeter The parameters of my cage The responsibilities The expectations People I love, the look upon their face When I disappoint Confuse Fail We are born from womb To box And then like Russian dolls We move Through a series of ever shrinking coffins until one […]
One day to the next Weather changing Sometimes varying enormously Emotions Veering from bright To gloomy A flurry of worry setting in One day to the next Can feel like travelling a lifetime away Only to return To a different array of feelings thoughts No two moments are the same And neither am I We […]
Inside everybody is a monster and the monster whispers that it is everybody but actually it’s a nobody nothing of substance except a blackened strip of velcro to which every negative word and memory clings like lint Everybody isn’t out there It’s in here And when it stands up it becomes nothing but a curtain […]
