Category: Poetry
Art and poetry are powerful tools in the fight for equality, social justice, and peace
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Migrant Poem – Litter Around a Rubbish Fire
Litter Around a Rubbish Fire is a migrant poem I wrote while thousands of people are stuck between Turkey and Greece and no one wants them. Litter Around a Rubbish Fire – Migrant Poem First, you take candle grease and old newspaper and then, on the frayed inkless edge, you etch a new you basking…
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Care Poem – This Is What We Do
This is What We Do is a care poem, a reflection on how people look after each other and a celebration of the fact that we can. This Is What We Do – Care Poem Your fingers are tugging the cobwebs from my eyelashes, one by one, you herd them like mules. This is the…
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Beauty Poem – Our Terraced House
Our Terraced House is a beauty poem, a celebration of the imperfections surrounding us and a reflection on the stunning contradictions that exist between people. Our Terraced House – Beauty Poem Nature requires no faceliftNor should you every sweepthe dusty road betweenyour house and the church or wipethe sweat from your temples.The wild, wild waves…
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Cow Poem – And Why Wouldn't I?
And Why Wouldn’t I? is a cow poem, a celebration of nature and a reflection on its beauty and peace, way, way beyond our comprehension. And Why Wouldn’t I? – Cow Poem Cows know better thanto rush around headless like uskilling each other and the planetprancing as if we owned the placeas if our breath…
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Time Poem – This Second is an Orphan
This Second is an Orphan is a time poem, a reflection on how moments are a patchwork of place, people, and grace. This Second Is an Orphan – Time Poem Let’s laud the loud and quit the quiet Let’s whisper zilch and oar the roar this second’ is the crook where red bulbs char the…
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Fairy Poems – Ploughing
Ploughing is one of my fairy poems, a celebration of all things gentle and delicate and of how the passing time springs bursts of colour and light. Ploughing – Fairy Poems Overnight, he went from babyface to tree-bark skin, and I wonder why the fairies ploughed his face, his three-day stubble pencilling a thin lawn…
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Littering Poems – The Flesh and Bone People
As littering poems go, The Flesh and Bone People is a reflection on fragmentation and the need for integration as individuals and communities. The Flesh and Bone People – Littering Poems On a sill at dawn, when a flock of flesh and bone people are bowing out still, a bird’s sharp beak beckons and pecks…
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Christmas Tree Poem – Hark the Angels
Hark the Angels is a Christmas tree poem, a celebration of Christ’s birth and the season of love and light and its ripples. Hark the Angels – Christmas Tree Poem Itsloopingroots, the twigstrembling, the fattrunk, and how its needlescast the flickering candlelightjust right, has us lean back and harkthebark
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Snowflake Poem – On Being Legless
On Being Legless is a snowflake poem, a relationship poem, a love poem, a poem about fragility and longing. On Being Legless – Snowflake Poem Once in awhile, you attached them, The legs you cut off summers ago. I Don’t like remembering me with legs, the boots Cladding yours now don’t hide the glare. They…