My Poetry

I'd like to thank Mr. Downs; without whose help, guidance and inspiration none of this (and a lot else) would ever have happened...  Thank you!

        The poems are in chronological order, with the newest poems at the top.
        Note: Click on "{nw}" to open the poem in a new window.
        Gold stars () denote what I think is one of my better poems.

Some of what I think are my best poems

• 07/06/2002 Happiness {nw}
• 02/06/2002 These Hours Without You {nw}
• 20/05/2002 love me like this, as you do {nw}
• 01/05/2002 look only at me, my love {nw}
• 18/04/2002 The Return of Optimism {nw}
• 17/02/2002 neutered {nw}
• 02/02/2002 when love is murdered {nw}
• 12/01/2002 there you are {nw}

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• 29/12/2001l'esprit aujourd'hui {nw}
• 26/12/2001the ocean of love is stormy tonight {nw}
• 01/12/2001 a love poem? {nw}
• 24/11/2001my Celestial Beauty {nw}
• 05/11/2001 waiting for you to awaken {nw}
• 21/10/2001still just a child {nw}
• 10/10/2001we share careful apportionments of love {nw}
• ??/10/2001 only to myself {nw}
• 03/10/2001 looking for a saviour {nw}
• 01/10/2001 searching for a saviour {nw}
• 23/09/2001 table for one, thanks {nw}
• 12/09/2001the way you make me feel {nw}
• 08/09/2001 it's easy to feel bitter {nw}
• 02/08/2001 Jack and the giant question mark? {nw}
• 02/08/2001 you're more than a rubix cube to me {nw}
• 01/07/2001 so uncertain am i {nw}
• 22/04/2001 you are the full stop of my life {nw}
• 09/04/2001 such a "nigger" {nw}
• 15/06/2001  i love, then awaken {nw}
• 15/06/2001  Angry, my melodrama {nw}
• 14/06/2001  just an observer of Beauty {nw}
• ??/05/2001  The girl and the balloon revisited, under different circumstances {nw} 
• ??/05/2001  Transcend, my dear mother {nw} 
• 15/05/2001  my amma {nw} 
• ??/05/2001  we could never be {nw} 
• 06/05/2001Do you expect the usual sonnet? {nw} 
• 01/05/2001  the morning {nw} 
• ??/04/2001  I sang you a song {nw} 
• 06/04/2001  'Twas a cliché waiting to happen {nw} 
• 23/03/2001  with the fullness of her smile {nw} 
• 06/03/2001  girl in lecture {nw} 
• 14/01/2001  a new era {nw} 
• ??/01/2001  desert girl {nw} 

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• 28/12/2000  New Year maybes {nw} 
• ??/12/2000  neutral numbness {nw} 
• 09/10/2000  amma i feel the pain {nw} 
• 12/09/2000  in the end the snake slithers alone {nw} 
• 10/09/2000  the silent song {nw} 
• 29/08/2000  realisations of epic proportions {nw} 
• 25/08/2000  towel poem {nw} 
• 27/07/2000  Horror {nw} 
• 14/07/2000  Conditioning {nw} 
• 07/07/2000  thunder pans across the consciousness {nw} 
• 18/06/2000 pretty girls {nw} 
• 17/06/2000  City {nw} 
• 11/05/2000  slimy the world {nw} 
• ??/06/2000  the snake cries {nw} 
• 02/06/2000it wasn't my fault {nw} 
• 29/05/2000  words forced to rhyme {nw} 
• 17/05/2000  every night he drives off {nw} 
• ??/05/2000  silent words {nw} 
• 10/05/2000  girl beneath the reddening maples {nw} 
• 09/05/2000  doubtful vertebrae {nw} 
• 01/05/2000  racing by as usual {nw} 
• 01/05/2000  she's not coming {nw} 
• 28/04/2000  Lonely Fool {nw} 
• 05/04/2000Guilty Rose {nw} 
• 03/04/2000  dark clouds and the return of satin {nw} 
• 26/03/2000  a rose for you {nw} 
• 18/03/2000it's where the peach trees are {nw} 
• 29/02/2000  drowning {nw} 
• 29/02/2000  lost lagoon {nw} 
• 29/02/2000  slapstick colours on the tableau of life {nw} 
• 29/02/2000note-its, trees and death{nw} 
• 26/02/2000like a dolphin upon his wave {nw} 
• 25/02/2000my life account {nw} 
• 24/02/2000  I cannot live in this world {nw} 
• 24/02/2000  tear in my eye {nw} 
• 22/02/2000  money drips down {nw} 
• ??/02/2000  driftwood {nw} 
• ??/02/2000  I hide behind a cloak of gloom {nw} 
• 14/02/2000Youth {nw} 
• 03/02/2000  to live hunched {nw} 
• 28/01/2000  slit her throat {nw} 
• 16/01/2000  paint my own universe {nw} 
• 06/01/2000  sparrows in the sunlight {nw} 
• 04/01/2000  The bored cameraman {nw} 
• 04/01/2000It was a sunny day {nw} 
• 01/01/2000  da New Year {nw} 

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• 29/12/1999  careful man {nw} 
• 29/12/1999  2000 {nw} 
• 29/11/1999when time stood still {nw} 
• 26/11/1999Don't feel alone okay {nw} 
• 19/11/1999  wasted kidney {nw} 
• 11/10/1999  the ball of cheese {nw} 
• 29/09/1999  the last day {nw} 
• 28/09/1999  je ne sais rien {nw} 
• 16/09/1999street beech {nw} 
• 03/09/1999  just one moment {nw} 
• ??/??/1999escape {nw} 
• 19/07/1999someday {nw} 
• 19/07/1999One day {nw} 
• 07/07/1999untitled {nw} 
• 01/06/1999  cathode ecstasy {nw} 
• 04/05/1999  91 FM {nw} 
• 03/05/1999  beauty missed {nw} 
• 28/04/1999tear puddle fuel {nw} 
• 28/04/1999  the binding shroud {nw} 
• 25/04/1999  yearbook {nw} 
• 08/04/1999autumn forever? {nw} 
• 08/04/1999  is that not all? {nw} 
• 08/04/1999a belittled thought {nw} 
• 03/04/1999  mutt {nw}
• 03/04/1999  I see {nw}
• 31/03/1999  O for rain {nw}
• 31/03/1999  when my mind {nw}
• 29/03/1999today {nw}
• 27/03/1999passage through the leaves {nw}
• 27/03/1999  but there is nothing, son {nw}
• 19/03/1999  shell {nw}
• 10/03/1999  subtleties of life {nw}
• 09/03/1999just a phase {nw}
• 09/03/1999  exhaust fumes {nw}
• 04/03/1999  helpless {nw}
• 04/03/1999stifle jacket {nw}
• 02/03/1999  on the road today{nw}
• 28/02/1999  mellow{nw}
• 21/02/1999  estranged{nw}
• 15/02/1999  failure{nw}
• 13/02/1999  hold my hand {nw}
• 11/02/1999  no more burritos {nw}
• 04/02/1999  discussions in the night {nw}<warning: language may offend>
• 04/02/1999  amma{nw}
• 01/02/1999  run away {nw}
• 21/01/1999  why{nw}
• 21/01/1999  it's a rainy day {nw}
• 01/01/1999strolling silently {nw}
• 01/01/1999  lying{nw}
• 01/01/1999  'twas like a watercolour {nw}

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• 20/12/1998  Sometimes{nw}
• 06/12/1998  Knock Knock {nw}
• 29/10/1998Daffodil{nw}
• 24/10/1998  Venus{nw}
• 13/10/1998  take me down {nw}
• 13/10/1998  I have come {nw}
• 13/10/1998  a bleak dust laden saloon {nw}
• 12/10/1998  Dumb Terminal {nw}
• 12/10/1998  who do you think you are? {nw}
• 11/10/1998  Swaying in the Wind {nw}
• 11/10/1998  phone numbers {nw}
• 03/10/1998  veteran{nw}
• 02/10/1998  for Casey {nw}
• 27/09/1998  we want to be so much better {nw}
• 25/09/1998  I have to go away {nw}
• 13/09/1998  run man run {nw}
• 13/09/1998Let it be {nw}
• 13/09/1998  meeting of mad mortals {nw}<warning: language may offend>
• 08/09/1998  Li la la - Li la la {nw}<warning: language may offend>
• 03/09/1998Ballerina{nw}
• 02/09/1998  chances missed at The Party {nw}
• 27/08/1998Sway{nw}
• 25/08/1998  Mind War III {nw}
• 17/08/1998  The Fat Guy {nw}
• 16/08/1998Foocher{nw}
• 14/08/1998  Je suis très fatigué {nw}
• 04/08/1998  Red{nw}
• 04/08/1998  The night is ours {nw}
• 26/07/1998Dance Weep Knock {nw}
• 23/07/1998  Backstabbers{nw}
• 23/07/1998Alba{nw}
• 16/07/1998  Look at the Trees {nw}<warning: language may offend>
• ??/06/1998  Trust in me {nw}
• 20/06/1998Chaos is come again {nw}
• ??/06/1998  Stranger on a train {nw}
• 10/06/1998  Mirror{nw}
• ??/06/1998  Silence of the moonlight {nw}
• 23/05/1998  Fruit Man {nw}
• ??/05/1998  The Devil Within {nw}
• ??/05/1998Black dead charcoal {nw}
• ??/05/1998  Sorrow {nw}
• ??/05/1998  Sometimes I search groping into the night {nw}
• ??/05/1998  The glory of war {nw}
• 14/04/1998  Caged bird {nw}
• ??/04/1998  International Conflict {nw}
• ??/04/1998  Juice the Fruit {nw}
• ??/04/1998  Acceptance of inevitability {nw}
• ??/03/1998Fair Beauty {nw}
• ??/02/1998  Rats{nw}
• ??/02/1998Not enough, too many {nw}
• 03/02/1998Balloons at a Carnival {nw}

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• ??/??/1995  The man in the moon and the merry old inn{nw}
• ??/??/1995  World{nw}

  it all begins...