Welcome

I hope you enjoy reading from this collection

as much as I enjoyed writing it.

(more poems in my S. America overland adventure 'SAO' on Kindle)

what is a poem

if there isn't any rhyme

or at least repeating rhythm

it's just pretentious shredded prose

and not a proper poem

Blockhead

' Nobody but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.'

                                                              Samuel Johnson

OK so I'm a blockhead.

I stand disoriented, lost in space,

devoid of bearings to locate the place

I left so recently but sadly now

cannot remember where it is or how

to find it in the quiet gloom

of vastness in this hotel dining room.

Domestic abuse

So many young and beautiful women

sparkling everywhere on TV

could make some men resent their own women

being only ordinary.

In a house across the road

there live a young woman and two young girls;

no man but also an older woman

and I asked the young woman "Is she your mother?"

"No, she's my partner."  Oh ! Touchez.

How sad for a woman to peak in beauty

only a quarter way through her life

but there is the consolation of children

hopefully when she becomes a wife.