Gather Up Poems

The Geography of Your Absence

...For my Mimi, Nana Pat, Nana Sue, Bumpa and Papa.
Whom I Miss Each and Every Day.

Where your laughter once carved bright rivers
Through the canyons of my days, 
Now silence pools in the hollows ...

Steven The Seagull

...I saw him posing on his perch
While exploring Blackpool merch.
"The Snack Thief" is how he's locally known
Wide eyed, plump and holding his own.
He loves chips, ice cream cones and bread...
So k...

Roses and Razor Blades

...
Sometimes we're sacrificed to rooms void of light 
to the caw of the crow and the scent of the night
Silk of the mind, breeched by snakes -chains of cold
moment by moment they peck away at the s...

Ways of Providence

...
Oh, come, gather up close to hear my story. 
Of how ancient navigators crossed the sea to glory.
Going between Pacific islands with fantastic skill,
Using Providence to guide with nature's goodw...

The Mickey Mouse Clock

...

Already the morning
is full of momentum
and is beginning to crash through
the defences, leaving pieces
scattered behind.
There are always broken
things left in the wake of time.
Take that ...

Gather up stones

...O youth of my land, gather up stones,  
Not for the mob, nor for bloodied thrones.  
But to build a revolt, one fierce and true,  
For the chains of complacency tighten on you.  

You scroll thr...

Give Love A Chance

...Life is not about me and you. It is about love. What happens to love when spouses turn against each other. When brother turns his face against his brother. When nations raise sirens of war. Love stan...

The Option

...When life brings us what it brings us

We must never ignore the option of UP

Look up

Get up

Stand up

Sit up

Climb up

Lift up

Firm up

Rise up

Step up

Rouse up

Stir u...

Faerie Folk Went into Hiding

...Poseidon’s spear slashed out from the angry waves
A tumultuous monsoon began to gather up the sea
The faerie folk went into hiding
When they saw army of sea cupids...

Azure Vistas

...


"Azure Vistas"

Azure vistas presented themselves to me
rolling inwards the clouds like tumbleweeds
mercilessly bump fallen angels off the map
like torrents of rain fal...

Lucky Stars

...Title: Lucky Stars


(Verse 1)
If tomorrow all the things were gone,
The dreams I built, the paths I’ve drawn,
I’d gather up what really matters,
The love that shines when the world just shatt...

Aussie Christmas jingle bells

...Tripping through the sand
In a pair of Aussie thongs,
Boogie board in hand
Singing Aussie songs.
Davo’s got the beer.
Out of kiddies reach
What a day we’re gonna to have
It’s Christmas on the ...

An Intrusion That Mask Every Truth

...How unsavory are some words
when they taste of an intrusion
that masks every truth not told...
assuming it needs no apology:
please get out of that dream world,
don't accept a reality that hurts...

Love Has Gone and Left Me

...Love has gone and left me

Yet the day continues on

I wake to ruminations

Plaguing me from dusk till dawn.

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My feet now hit the carpet

As I gather...

Skittish of Prophetic Noise

...‘We played wedding songs,
and you didn’t dance,
so we played funeral songs,
and you didn’t weep’

Luke 7:32b

Scribes and Pharisees, lean in.
They lean away, their fingertips at play...

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