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Teddy-Doo

Published: April, 2021 Location: PoetsOnline.org, specifically Toys. Genesis: When my son Sam was very young, I made up a song…

Peace in Death

Publication Date: January, 2021 Location: October Hill Magazine, Winter Edition, available here. Genesis: Back in the Spring of 2020, I…

Gratitude

Publication Date: January, 2021 Location: Go to this PoetsOnline link. Genesis: The prompt at the end of 2020, ‘Thanks’, took…

I Can’t Wait For the Day

Publication Date: December, 2020 Location: go to Future in Archives on the PoetsOnline website. Genesis: I don’t think I’ve ever…

Baast Accepts a Tribute

Publication Date: September, 2020 Location: go to PoetsOnline, then Archive, then look for ‘myths retold‘. Genesis: My son and I…

I’ll Not Do That Again

Publication Date: August, 2020 Location: Go to PoetsOnline.org, then Archives, then Undoing Genesis: I remember, growing up, occasionally coming into…

Falling More Slowly

Publication Date: July, 2020 Genesis: I originally wrote this poem in response to a competition in The Oldie Magazine. It…

She Followed Him Home

Publication Date: July, 2020 Genesis: A good friend of mine came and stayed sometime last year, and we decided to…

Three Occasions When Dad Saved My Life

Published: July 2020, as a short story Location: October Hill Magazine, the Summer 2020 Issue Genesis: I’m bending my own…

The Gnome & the Heron

Publication Date: July, 2020 Location: In the PoetsOnline Archive, under “Once Upon a Time”. Genesis: I wrote this poem a…

On the Cusp of Transformation

Publication Date: June, 2020 Location: On this page of the Ledbury Poetry Festival website. There are quite a lot of…

The Shamanic Poet

Publication Date: May, 2020 Location: As Above, So Below, Issue 5, online here or downloadable below.. Genesis: Every time one…

Ode to The Fridge

Publication Date: May, 2020 Location: In the PoetsOnline Archive, under ‘Odes to Common Things‘. Genesis: Prior to the Covid lockdown,…

Did We Just Lose Spring?

Publication Date: April, 2020 Location: In the PoetsOnline Archive, under ‘Lost & Found‘. Genesis: During the course of last month,…

Last Month, I Turned 666

Publication Date: March, 2020 Location: In the PoetsOnline archive, under ‘Time Passes‘. Genesis: The prompt was to write about the…

Bathing in the Clouds

Publication Date: February, 2020 Location: poetsonline.org, go to Archive, and then to ‘factoid prose poems‘. Genesis: A couple of years…