Designed by Roger

In a Dream

Behind closed eyes you stroked my hand last night, Transformed the Winter, charmed it into Spring, Then drew me close as dark turned morning light, And wept to hear a single blackbird sing. We walked dawns air, felt dappled light discrete, In dreams glade soft, saw sun through dewdrops shine, A heady scent to tease [...]

Beneath the Stubble

My Grandfather wore A watch chain Across his waistcoat Greasy stains Of last weeks fish in butter Sucking bones, And tea from a saucer. A folding wooden table By the wall The plastic cloth Slippery to touch, smelled Of lard and Grandfathers fish. He couldn’t see or hear A thing in the end He smelled [...]

Kiev Icicle

An icicle bigger than a wine bottle Struggled with gravity, outside a grubby Fifth floor window overlooking A Sunday building site, wet wood and Cement smells mixing with a soft Drizzle of watery snow. A defiant Ice-blue paradox smoothed and Shaped by relentless steppe-wind. On the other side of the window A warm glow came [...]

A Perfect Love

Still, in the quiet hours of night, Laid shuttered, hid, ’til fleeting chance, Made thoughts of you spark to a light, And witnessed flushed emotions dance. These stirrings stole through feelings deep, And dreamed, perchance you close above, To brush my lips, my heart make leap, And kiss away those tears of love. Such kiss [...]

Summer Wheat

It’s four o’clock and I can’t sleep, My God it’s cold, and what’s that smell? It’s half past four and I can’t breathe, I dreamt and then I thought I fell. Central heating broke again, Factory smoke burns eyes and throat, It creeps in through the broken pipe, I’m in my bed but need my [...]