TO BE BOUND (POEM)

tangled up long-legs, jangling inspiring the spider

THE GREEN PLANET (POEM)

he arrived in white, as an artic fox snuffling round, nose ground bound seeking intelligence or some plain common sense muscled music bleating from chrome craft not common, such a non-earthborn, round here by seapark, four distant shores from home languish here and live dive into our tangled tweeting and brave facebooking Patrick came here …

BY FAITH ALONE (POEM)

still this soul one gentle reverie harmonic scraps form a beautiful evocation a hymn to the evening Sun sufferings past and sufferings present melt into memory no thing destroyed me sanded the old shoulders, sure but no thing penetrated this soul’s purple raincoat

CAVE HILL (POEM)

drunken mountain ever sleeping far above brown belfast, dirty men with dirty feet dancing ever noble and soaring, beneath are weeping women and ragged ould linen, bravery hidden within the white eyed children of hope

TOGETHER (POEM)

together … we shall calm the waves together … we shall dispel the clouds and let father sun grow the green let mother moon sooth the ocean together … we shall hold our ground sink deeper roots into the soil of sorrow and grow tall … be a beautiful example to our little ones together …

SILENT DAYDREAM (POEM)

alone in thought deep thought crests of former waves and time in the crimson courtroom * alone playing tennis under Autumn’s strongest sun living in the car, travelling far travelling far far away from the placid shore front of a dreary Donaghadee those grey paving stones still speak of your heroic exploits on other continents …

LOVE SONG FOR STARLING (POEM)

So much suffering Swirling around So much pain But just now I've found A chalice of joy Her in my arms A heaven on earth Where nothing can harm

RAMBEAU NEVER SAID IT BETTER (POEM)

Rambeau never said it better that the darkness loves the soul we embrace, in darkness, we love our bodies as one amongst the shadows we are a series of breathless shapes casting our essences into the darkness each tear, each smile, replete with emotion and we imagine ourselves together, forever our love is like blood …

SOON TO RETURN (POEM)

You need to go in deep, follow your intuition and live fully through the pain, like flying through dark clouds, and you need to believe in the sun … you need to believe in the moon too … You need to feel the blood rushing through your head and bite the rope of life

PAST PRESENT FUTURE (POEM)

the past floats further from the shore dimming in mind, echoing ever more faintly till it passes over the horizon … did what exist? the present never pretends to be other than a sledgehammer to the temple, straight roads into the mind, having travelled over many mountains the future is a seed, sewn in its …