Monday, 12 October 2026

Gower Walking Festival 2026

Gower Walking Festival 2026


to walk release on the winds of breath

come rain or shine the euphoria of being led 

by leaning upon the words of a guide across

a palimpsest of paths freshly reappointed

   

from far and wide they converge 

upon conversation’s terrain to uncoil 

as a group along a line to where the 

sea’s amalgam sands the landed sky


drawn along in a pause we wait

for our ears to grow accustomed to

words that paint a picture within a picture

to be handed a seance of times bygone



funny sunny or bane of rain

heads lift   hearts sore

for a poem has captured more 

so much more than i can say


they say ~ ~ thank you ~ thank you all


more walks if you please

so that we can chat and stride

along tides and fields and trees

rambling along a rambling wave


time and again we say

thank you all

  from all of us

Sunday, 11 October 2026

freckled

 freckled

tell me it happened

although i think no-


-one could endure that much


it’s like


a stationary wave on

a slice of wind


your summer freckles fading 


no no

Thursday, 8 October 2026

oh boy

oh boy


it’s worth repeating 

that i had a winchester 

repeating rifle

a cowboy suit

  a davy crockett hat

    an overriding dream

                                                                        but 

like the cowboys and indians 


they are all gone now

riding off across a prairie 

wrinkled by the winds of time

into the fire of my last sunset 

sowing corn

 sowing corn

even a complete poem

is but a fragment of a life 

past present and future are but

dots in a corpus of thought

dots that time subscripts

to exclamation and question

marks

at why the final stanza is

but the title of the book of life

penned by pecking hens

looking for a worm of truth

Wednesday, 7 October 2026

the eternal maternal carousel

 the eternal maternal carousel

mother and child ambivalence 

seated on two concentric carousels 

spinning their undulations in different directions

driven by the man with the power lever


you pays your money

you takes your ride


are not the horses golden 

the neon and everlasting smile

spilling popcorn everywhere 

as we kiss at each parting

the state of counsel

 the state of counsel

the fallen and falling leaves

are talking not to the stones

other than in your mind

the stones give no advice

other than your counsel

to those around you

that to fall is to bounce

along the winds of change

that are nothing but

the heart returning

an imponderable slight

of an autumn thought

Monday, 5 October 2026

smashed

 smashed


now we’ve forgotten 

why we were so angry

and it doesn’t make us angry 

but sad you might say

it hits you hard in the face

all the rage they use to be

these metal studs

worn by us studs

the new boys on the block


another pint?

better not 

it’s getting late 

in the day 


those were