Memory Insect Poems

On April seventh there'll be an anniversary.
Not one in which we celebrate with balloons or confetti...
sweet cakes, songs or garish parades.

It will be 6 serrated...

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A colourful array of falsehoods
Intricately designed disguises 
Fools, fortunes, phantoms
Masks clinging on their faces
 Lives hidden away by an illusory veils
Veils that cannot be removed
Cannot...

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Oh the army looked after its own
It really must be said
Except the RSM didn’t really 
Tuck the squaddies up in bed.
Three square meals a day
You...

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In recent years I had grown so forgetful, like noon without memory of night.
I forgot special events and sundry items, like books, my phone, or...

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As children we revelled in nature’s playground
Lying in cool grass watching clouds sail by
Sharing with playmates ‘treasures’ we’d found
Caterpillars, beetles - a dead dragonfly
Jars of...

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Mice in the wall
  rats in the hall
Our first apartment 
  sure had it all

A cockroach or two
  for dinner would do
We'd...

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Fireflies twinkle in to the night 
little stars winking off N on 
each a light a sudden rush 
of memory
Each hit me hard 
as tears...

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Skinned shins on tree skins,
Space-viewed landscapes of rust and paint 
Showing mirrored continents imagined; 
Worlds within worlds at every turn, 
Outlines of Octopi on Oil...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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WAR-TIME MEMORY

During air-raids in London, we would huddle under the stairs, Mother, Brother and I. Minimal protection against a direct hit, but something. I would...

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Bee-Real


As I flew up, into the air, 
I looked back one last time at the hive.
All the bees were standing there.
Some were happy and proud...

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From the beeginning


A heart beats…
A heart beats again…
A heart beats…and then another.
A heart beats…
And then another
And then another
And then another,
Until the rhythm of the hearts...

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poetically sees
rubescent threads of life
enmesh me in its tortuous hold
as it stings me
with the venom
of a thousand bees

i taste its poison
through memories
raveled tight
in life's intricate...

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Using reasoning to understand how we treat other species

And what we see means their numbers are rapidly decreasing

As humanity with its limited understanding keep feasting

On...

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Dragonfly Afloat On The Lake

A dragonfly afloat on the lake
Flaps its wings to keep from drowning.
With its life in the balance, it senses hope,
And boards...

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