The author, at 58, is releasing their first solo poetry book titled “Old & UnWise – A Haphazard Collection of Poetry and Thought.” It reflects their diverse range of poetry, covering social justice, domestic abuse, the environment, and fantasy. The book encapsulates their concerns about the youth’s future and showcases both their pensive and humorous sides.
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Do you have the time
To talk about time? James Kirk insists that Space is the “Final Frontier” but I tend to disagree. We are managing to send rudimentary space craft into space, manoeuvre them somewhat awkwardly and sometimes even manage to get them to land where we want to. Time is proving to be a different conundrum. We assumeContinue reading “Do you have the time”
Winter Mourn
An experiment in Germanic alliteration. This was an interesting one. Written to the Meet the Bar with a Beat challenge set up by DVerse. I do like a bit of alliteration but the flow of this Germanic verse is different to what I would usually use. Feel free to comment, feedback is always appreciated. ©Continue reading “Winter Mourn”
A Night at the Prompts
Sharing poetry with pals If every cloud has a silver lining. Then for the Cumulonimbus that was the pandemic, the silver lining came in the form of friendships made online, particularly on Instagram. I had already joined the poetry community prior to the breakout of COVID-19, however, during lockdown online activities increased, and the numberContinue reading “A Night at the Prompts”
A Walk Through a Cemetery
Hidden beneath the moss Last year I paid a visit to the Brussels Cemetery for a poetry event organised by @spoken_word_bxl There was one particular grave that caught my eye. It had been covered in emerald, green moss and the inscription on the gravestone was illegible. Despite the melancholic atmosphere it was still a beautifulContinue reading “A Walk Through a Cemetery”
Lovers’ Day
Valentine’s fun Valentine’s day has different meanings for different people. There are the young who are in their first love, those who are suffering heartbreak, those who have most their loved one and those who are happily ageing together. They will identify with this poem. And don’t forget we shouldn’t be talking about love ifContinue reading “Lovers’ Day”
Old & UnWise
A Haphazard Collection of Poetry and Thought It is really hard to describe how excited I was yesterday to find out that Old & UnWise had started to appear for pre-order on some websites (see below). I have already had poems published in a couple of anthologies, however the poetry in this book is allContinue reading “Old & UnWise”
Cover Up Job
A meeting of two minds Although I was born in the UK and my mother tongue is English I was born of Maltese parentage. In Maltese there is an expression which loosely translates as The first that eats is the eye. When I decided to put together Old & UnWise – A Haphazard Collection of PoetryContinue reading “Cover Up Job”
Two Timing
Taking two perspectives to a prompt Prompts are a great way to stimulate the writing experience. And there are so many out there. Here on WordPress, Instagram, Threads, a thing called X formerly called something else and Facebook to name but a few. The amount of prompts that are posted every day is quite impressive.Continue reading “Two Timing”
Poetry in motion
Spiralistic In this day of social media and the importance of the visual spectrum it was only a matter of time before poetry started to be embellished by accompanying images and video. There have been many discussions about the value of this, and I have certainly had a few.There are those, often labelled purists, whoContinue reading “Poetry in motion”
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