Miscellaneous Poems

Conformity and unthinking trap us. There is a way to escape 3 Comments  

Sponsored bike rides to distant countries - or just the excuse for a big adventure?  

Why do people grieve at funerals? Often it's not for the departed but is a release of deeper emotions  

I'm afraid I'm not a great fan of dogs, and look askance at their owners 6 Comments  

Anti-pit bull poem  

Wanting to revisit childhood  

Ignorance is bliss  

Gun culture, USA  

Without height we'd all be two dimensional.  

A teacher saving a child's life  

That heart-sinking sentence 1 Comment  

Imagination can take us for a wild ride 1 Comment  

Dreadful, stifling college course  

God? as a market-trader on Judgement Day  

A drug-crazed young man  

What would it be like to be a cat's pet?  

Endless news that rots the brain  

Courage in the face of death  

A fantasy poem about loneliness and sadness - a poor creature stuck on a barren rock in the middle of the sea 1 Comment  

Easy to see ourselves as prisoners  

Rain pelting down  

A mocking look at the dreaded circular sent at Christmas etc.  

Heaven is stasis  

Spiritual questing  

A description of where I used to live  

Success is living, accepting and exploring reality within  

Banks - led by incompetent fools, greedy and amoral  

This guy claimed to be a T'ai Chi teacher over 30 years ago.  

 

Gutless, brave only once they're retired, these Generals sound off about the rights and wrongs of the latest war  

Spacemen arrive from outer space to try and change planet earth. But what goes wrong?  

Wanting to keep the world at a distance and to retreat into a shell  

Science and the human spirit and God 1 Comment  

The two sides of a woman's character