Category Archives: Poetry

Looking for Something

I’m still walking forwardI may be longer in the toothNo longer a babeBut I still believe that out thereSomewhereIs the LightA gentle lightThat will shine down on meAnd touch me softlyWith its healing raysAnd I will know what living isI will never stop seekingPushing forwardBecause the only other optionIs to stopStop believingStop hopingStop dreamingAnd thatContinueContinue reading “Looking for Something”

Autoconnect

AutocorrectExists to test our patientsIt gets on our servesAnd thinks it can smell better than we canIt thinks it snows what we meanAnd changes our shelling indirectlyTo make us look lucidIt is programmed to stinkThat it knows what we scream Before we’ve even conditioned it to paperThe thing is a ducking new senseSent to tieContinueContinue reading “Autoconnect”

Evolution?

Atomic BombsWe think of a bomb as a physical thingDesigned to destroy by a manBut in truth there were ‘bombs’ way back whenThat had an impact as big as The Bang!The first was the time when two humans appearedAnd they looked at each other and saidEither you’re upside down or you’re wearing a frownAs yourContinueContinue reading “Evolution?”

War Conversation

War ConversationThem: We need a war, where can we find one and who will we choose to hate – and why?Another Them: Does it matter?First Them: Ah…good thinking!A humanitarian: I don’t think we should do war.Them: Why not?Humanitarian: I have children. No child should die in a war.Them: But a war will make things better?Humanitarian:ContinueContinue reading “War Conversation”

The Saddest Thing

The support of war and violenceis the death of humanityfrom withinFirst your humanity diesthen other humans diewhich is okayThen your country is attackedthen your family diesand that is not okayUltimately it wasthe death of your humanitythat killed themBut you won’t see thatbecause war is justified for youyou just resent retaliationPeople should lay down and dieContinueContinue reading “The Saddest Thing”

Because

Who are you?A strangerSomeone I’ve never metAnd never willSo why should I care about you? Because You could be my childI could have given birth to youRaised youHeld youHelped you to take your first stepsChanged your nappyMarvelled at your first giggleNursed you when you couldn’t sleep I could have given you life I gave myContinueContinue reading “Because”

A Grandaughter’s War

In around 1999 I wrote a poem called “A Woman’s War”, which is in the poetry section of this blog. Never did I think I would write a follow up, yet today that poem arrived, it’s below, and writing it actually hurt. Trying to get my head around the fact that we could be inContinueContinue reading “A Grandaughter’s War”

Why?

Why is a what wordBefore you have a whatYou need to decide why you wantWhatever the what isWhy is an existential questionWhat is important todayOr ten minutes agoMay not be tomorrowOr in ten minutes’ timeWhy and what togetherChange each other all the timeWe humans are fluidWe plan for the futureDecide why we want somethingMake itContinueContinue reading “Why?”