Poems

3am

I love service stations. The transience and transient. At 3am they're a melting pot for curious characters.

Poems | Travel | 2023

Fuji

Mount Fuji is beautiful ... from a distance. Unfortunately the etiquette laden Tomoe-kan rest huts had chucked rivers of trash from their back doors.

Poems | Travel, Existence | 2023

Home

This was the first piece I wrote for the Book of Journeys. The stark contrast of my fellow bus travellers clutching their M&S shopping and sneering, albeit with a sympathetic tone, at the woman outside begging being the inspiration for what followed.

Poems | Existence | 2023

Maidenhead

The 23:20 from Paddington on any night is a special place.

Poems | Travel | 2023

Start

Why is it ok to do this when you're at an airport?

Poems | Travel | 2023

Wind

Nothing like takeoff.

Poems | Existence | 2023

Dear Democracy

Dear Democracy It's not you, it's me Minority, majority Half of you will hate me And I must hate half of you. Even if half your ideas are sane and...

Poems | Politics | 2025

Night Bus

The late bus out of Henley is often filled with the exhausted manual workers that keep the show rolling. They sing, swap stories and beers.

Poems | Existence | 2024

Take It

Sometimes I would write the words I needed to read. This one fell out as a potential video script. I thought better of it and left it as written / spoken word.

Poems, Spoken Word | Existence | 2024

Hop

In a pub in Henley on Thames drinking and entering poetry competitions I probably wouldn't win for lack of miserableness.

Poems | Drinking | 2024
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