• On Pain xi

    Given chance to speak When words finally pour forth They remain unheard ~ CLP 03/09/2020

  • On Pleasure iii

    Morning lights our shore gulls call us to discover gifts brought in on tide ~ n.b. photograph courtesy of ACG. CLP 04/09/2020

  • On Pain (bonus track)

    Will this take much more time? I have a life to live. Better things await ~ n.b. An excuse to link you to Ray Davies and the song he wrote for a friend of his many years ago…Better Things. CLP 06/09/2020

  • On Pleasure ii

    Unbridled laughter carried by telephone lines to prised open heart ~ CLP 04/09/2020

  • On Pleasure

    In a second hand book, bought on a whim, I discovered someone had kept a four-leaf clover between pages of Seamus Heaney’s poems. ~ CLP 04/09/2020

  • On Pain ii

    Writing your own blog means never having to fear hurt of rejection ~ CLP 19/08/2020

  • On Love

    Wounded but blessed Arrow leaves scars forever Touch them; they are real . n.b. Better to have had than have not. I have been blest. ~ CLP 14/07/2020

  • On the Road X

    All of a sudden I realised I’m driving The wrong way, solo ~ CLP 02/08/2020

  • On the Road IV

    Why wait to find out what lies around the corner? Who else is coming? ~ n.b. One can only ask. ~ CLP 26/07/2020

  • On High

    Clouds form on warm air Raptors spiralling upwards Buzzards high as kites . n.b. A wonderful scene. Two red kites circling up from the recently mowed field on an updraft. Far above, just visible to the naked eye, three buzzards on a carousel of rising warm air, their random calls of “ke-whee” carrying across the