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Ballast

I’m packing up my possessions at the moment, thinning down, taking apart this home of the last few years in preparation for moving to Wales. It’s a powerful thing. This Winter, I was contemplating becoming a monk, giving into that renunciate urge. Now it seems I’ll play in this ’secular’ world for a while longer [...]

March 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Poetry | 10 comments

Ares’ Song

Let there be war.

Let us open all the doors
And invite the ghosts in.
Let us empty the cupboards,
Dig up all the bones
And lay them out: let there be war.

Let the wheels turn;
Enough of this stagnant peace
That is no peace at all.
The thundering lie torments me;
I am disgusted by the deceits that
Underpin it.
Better the honesty of war
Than [...]

November 5th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Poetry | 11 comments

Love’s Fury

I will chase your ghost through the garden,
Through all the gardens,
Through scenery that collapses and assembles
In an endless variety of illusions.
I will hound your deathly footsteps;
I will be the one constantly laying
Primroses,
Snowdrops,
Cowslips under your feet.

You want to haunt the kingdom of the Dead;
I will haunt you:
I will be the ghost to your ghost
Wherever you go.
All [...]

May 13th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Poetry | One comment

Hundred and Five Blues

Well, I think this is a song. It doesn’t have a tune yet – does that mean it isn’t a song yet? Help it be a song – give it some music and send me a copy…

Well, the Buddha’s in the Buddhafield
And Christ is in the church.
(They say that) Krishna’s in the temple;
Pan’s in the [...]

April 17th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: Other Posts | 5 comments