Poems

‘Poetry as insurgent art’ – Ferlinghetti

  • Poor Writers of Song

    What started as a simple poetry exercise became a labor of attentive craft, embracing revision and refinement. Enjoy this piece in iambic blank verse, where tone, style, and metrical variation weave together to enrich a poem rooted in thought, feeling, and form.

  • The Spirit of the Serene Night-Quiet

    Partly inspired by ‘An ordinary evening at Hamilton’ by D Malouf — a reflection on how Nature’s boundlessness offers comfort, rather than making one feel small and insignificant.

  • Anima Asunder

    Anima asunderAgony the mind is underCup your palms, rub your faceKneel and wail, and embrace A hail in winter, here comes, boyo!Dents on your fine conveyance, boyo…Who’s gonna give in, and then save face?Who abandoned you, it was a mistake. Anima asunderAgony the mind is under Fireworks have begun, festivitiesOn a crowded meadow, lovers embraceHeads……

  • Respirare

    Functional response to a biological input code. Involuntary, part of a complex fabric. Efficient organ systems intertwined/ Meticulously pieced by a gradual process ⏸️ An eventuality, now an event: ▶️ Shapes and forms assigned, driven to survive… Survived to drive ⏸️ fathom it as ▶️ Breath: In the short history of everything/ A short history………

  • The Wings of Embrace

    Oh Sonny boy, dear Sonny boy,did you get caught in the storm?Went out a moment ago to playwith other untainted divinities. The thunder mustve dispersedradially the little school band,you mustve weathered the stormsomewhere under with a plane tree You took your time but got back,struggled with the gravity latch,innocently, and only for a moment,came round……