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A night in Majorelle blue—roses, stars, and enchantment blur into memory in a bar of warmth and wonder.

‘Two drifters…off to see the world…’– Johnny Mercer ‘Moon River’

A musing on change

Cats in the Cradle like.

An author staying in NW Scotland finds inspiration in an old man and his dog, each a victim of war.

All is not as it seems

The Fool and the Queen

The Hours that Slipped

‘Opposites attract…then attack…’ - Barbara Bradley Hagerty

-A play on the Pro-Spartan oligarchy installed in Athens in 404 BC, after the Athenian democracy had been defeated by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War.

I revel in the torment of my inability to comprehend the whole. 

My window is stupidly narrow. Whenever I smoked and couldn’t muster the twenty seconds it takes to clear my ashtray, the wind would spurt through; like an arrow through the arrowslit...

Like a mudslide, life can present itself with sudden changes, some permanent. We need to be able to adapt and adjust accordingly. Otherwise you'll be swept away by it.

Colleagues try to retrieve a typescript after its author suffers a stroke - with unexpected results.

I met the goddess Isis

An Autumn night at the cemetery.

A Christmas Tale about the love in giving.

This poem draws a parallel between cosmic energy and mental focus.

For him or for me