The Silence of Ease
James Gleick’s book ‘Chaos’ (1987), about the ripple effect of interconnections from small beginnings, should be considered in relevance to the problems of financial institutions in the Western World.
Category: Emotions
Sang-froid beneath a blood-red moon.
A recent conversation triggered memories of a health scare, but composure was regained with a realisation of scale.
The loss of an emissary for wonder.
Michael Kirby, known to all who came into contact with him for his enthusiastic and learned love of the natural world, died in February 2011, and is much missed.
Not in Egypt
This poem was ‘inspired’ by a recent AGM of a Poetry Society, when the Committee suggested a name change
Two lines from ‘The Rubaiyat’
This poem recently appeared on the webzine ink-sweat-and-tears , and is about an event that happened nearly 44 years ago, a moment when unexpected enchantment and beauty produce a merger of the emotional, aesthetic and spiritual.
Time and memory
Can you remember that moment in childhood when you realised that your existence was much greater than your experience?
Christmas semiotics
How is the end of Christmas signalled?
Hagstones
Hagstones have a hole though them, created by running water over a very long period of time. Running water was supposed to be proof against magic or bad luck.
Home Leave
The poem links back to a war that ended sixty five years ago, but perhaps the experience is still known to military families.
Portion control.
Here is a poem about the male midlife prolapse, which is when a man’s brain threatens to fall into his underpants.
Beauty Intangible.
Some of the most enriching experiences are incapable of touch.
Stratospheric disturbance
Serious family disputes do not always carry early warning signals, especially when the misunderstanding is deeply entrenched.
Lust
Lust, like a hound from Hell licks no master and howls your name.
Songs of Light and Dark
A stirring of genetic memory
Scatter the ashes at Holkham Gap
Here is a poem written many years ago, I now find myself closer to the ash scattering moment than the events in the poem.
Perhaps
Moments of reflection do not fit neatly into my two sort categories of ‘events’ or ’emotions’, but are a inter-linked mesh of both, and sometimes that mesh turns into a trampoline
The life now leaving platform four
This poem relates both to the event of a chance meeting, and the loss of emotions in a marriage. In an icy railway carriage a woman rehearses with a stranger how she will tell her husband she is leaving him, when he collects her from the train.
Snapshot for a Sonnet
A poem triggered by old photographs, that brought a realisation of good fortune.
One Line Poem.
The tormentor unexpectedly tormented by lost youth.
Family Stories
This poem addresses how the repetition of anecdotes can become a replacement for real contact.