Links to Verses from 'As I Walked Home' , a metaphorical journey through life (full poem here, buy the book here)

The amateur hockey team, jeep-man, two thin-lipped teenage girls  

An oddball whom life passes by  

Stoic, stubborn, old  

Nuisance teenager, angry Mum  

Hope and Dreams  

Princesses in pink - pre-teen, spiteful  

You can move from an estate but it takes a long time to get the estate out of you  

A drunk and a wife-beater  

Isolated in their own family environment, this family secludes itself from the world  

Divorce can screw you up, and leave your kids damaged  

A two-timing husband and grief and rage that can't come out  

A man full of certainty whose world is thrown into chaos  

Poem about a girl who was always smiling, a mask-like smile permanently affixed to her face  

Three young tearaways, who'd gone downhill because of their father's focus on wealth  

A self-righteous woman who was never wrong  

Christine, a professional Christian  

Abrahem, an asylum seeker and one of the loveliest guys you could ever meet.  

Unkempt, unlooked after, going downhill  

Mental illness can come at any time and turn a life upside down  

Young and inadequate men, protecting themselves with the nickname 'Elvis'  

How can you maintain a relationship with someone who's never wrong?  

A woman who wanted everyone to be her friend  

The 30-something Boss-Woman, before and after having a child  

We have a spiritual destiny  

Mum struggling to cope  

A slippery, slithery, amoral couple on the make  

A grief-stricken woman  

A damp little man trying it on  

The loneliness and loss of identity of a young mother  

The gang of kids who have left school and hang around the school gates looking lost  

Rules are there to be followed, and woe betide you if you don't follow them  

He sucks out your energy just by being near you  

Success at first, and then a car wreck of a life 1 Comment  

A top-quality person  

You were made strong enough to carry your dream  

You can't force your way through life without repercussions  

Mid to late 30s, plenty of money that she uses to buy an identity  

An old woman who still yearns for life, who's still aware of her femininity  

Certainty evaporates once you leave the army  

The negative effect of drugs  

A cold, cold woman who needs a man - now!  

Chase a dream for the right reasons  

Sandra is a fantasist, weaving a web of discreet lies  

The hippy trail, the adventure abroad, the gap-year  

Living from moment to moment  

Very strong people can be surprisingly weak since they've never had to struggle much  

Miss Perfect seems set to achieve great things but then fades into oblivion  

A disabled man, trapped by the restrictions of his body  

Lonely and isolated on a geriatric ward  

An over-se*ed guy refusing to listen to the voice telling him what was right and wrong  

A creepy counsellor-type, religious, not wanting to appear too ambitious  

Logic, certainty and knowledge don't help when it comes to living life  

You can seemingly be part of life, but be apart from it  

What's beneath the facade of these military types?  

Become yourself  

Think of your favourite dictator destroying his own country  

White faced, sowing discord  

A devious and flawed politician  

Depression, and living in the moment without hope  

She saw herself in the mirror, and didn't like what she saw  

An old woman alone in a room  

Sky-high expectations of what they're worth, not much to offer  

Drunk and oblivious  

Don't grieve  

No hope, just drugs and despair  

The edifice of wealth fails to protect from internal questions  

A corporate monster, stabbing and conniving  

Cool kid? Doomed drone  

Power, status and a mean mind  

A tragedy  

The mystery of life  

Afghanistan  

The future  

Slow-witted, no skills, unpopular  

Imagining talking to the leader of a junta  

The career arc of the oligarch  

There's always hope  

A disabled exterior, a trapped mind, but a human beneath  

Office politics and work-avoidance  

An old man, a husk, with nothing in his eyes  

A generous, rowdy spirit  

The removal of a loved one leaves everyone reeling  

Hours beget hours; Time stands still ...  

Hand-to-hand fighting and the nothingness of the moment  

Trendy, weak, ineffectual people  

Raging, looking for scapegoats  

Drifting through life, somehow not there  

Top civil servants, without much going for them  

Time to change  

A bone-idle leech carried by work colleagues  

Are you a Dreamer?  

Little Miss Perfect  

A mother's grief for a child who's passed away  

Social workers who look out for themselves whilst playing at helping others  

Aspire to be like a young child  

To change your life, change yourself  

A desperate man on the verge of a nervous breakdown  

A prayer of hope  

Leaders should have flexibility and wisdom 1 Comment  

A dusty, bitter priest  

A woman with no awareness  

A thin and feeble woman  

Maybe the answers are within us  

A hard-faced woman  

Overbearing, suffocating  

A spiritual man  

Simple. Be yourself.  

The 'perfect' person often squanders their talents because they're too 'perfect'.  

Poem about an ill woman  

There are a lot of damaged kids  

This star is hope  

Folk song and beer, a beard, Dungeons and Dragons  

Absorbed in the dramatic soap-opera of her life  

Busy, busy, busy, frantically going nowhere  

Beneath each star lies a Hope ...  

A man with perception and skills, using those skills to the wrong end  

Towards our futures  

We all leave life eventually