Diesel Trains – Written Wednesday 27th August 2025 (Aged 50)

Back on the diesel train,
electrification is a situation
I once found
in birthday dreams

The Tartan Tin – Written Tuesday 26th August 2025 (Aged 50)

I married someone once,
and the devils must have sat around
eating shortbread
from a tartan tin.

The Hard Part – Monday 25th August 2025 (Aged 50)

The hard part is,
I don’t remember.

I Still Love You – Sunday 24th August 2025 (Aged 50)

Yet, I still love you,
and it feels like trauma,
with a bow of grief.
I see us in pictures,
and something feels incomplete

Do I Belong To You? – Written Thursday 7th August 2025 (Aged 50)

things that turn up
like pieces of things that turn up late,
pieces of things
pieces if things held together with tape.

Provided Me With Love – Written Wednesday 25th September 2024 (Aged 49)

it has always been this way,
back to the days of
satchels and demountables
in village primary schools.

The Road Back To Happiness – Written Friday 19th July 2024 (Aged 49)

friends,
who turned into lovers
people who had something to lend
but when we pulled back the covers
struggled to to turn back into friends

You The Hunter (Me the Prey) – Written Thursday 25th April 2024 (Aged 49)

pieces of my mind – they fell away
it was in the place,
where control couldn’t stay
in the place,
where she and i, we once lay

Heart Shaped Happiness? – Written February 2024 (Aged 48)

i do wonder,
if people ever think,
or in fact even care,
i guess you are promoting a life
the overriding needs to share

Costing – Written Monday 20th November 2023 (Aged 48)

all that…
all that insecure posturing
i wonder now,
who was i convincing?