Art and poetry are powerful tools in the fight for equality, social justice, and peace
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…