A baby’s first step,

our desires want us to believewhat isn’t there.Little gestures suggest thingsthat are notwhat they were meant to mean.Our heart clouds our mindwith what isn’t there,still we want to believethese things can be possible,yet we knowthat they will never be.However, we hope our livesare just a dream awayfrom what we want it to be.12 August 2009

Kissed by dew and now by hand,it holds out thorns like some sharp nettle.Beauty it has unbound,regardless of surrounding around.Head held high in fragrant air,sun looks down plentiful there.Diamonds, rubies, emeralds adorn,round necks and arms are worn.Stones that gleam and formate suns,beauty that startles and stuns.Stones of glory, stones of death.Rainbow colours as light passes…

One we chase for years,never finding the right heart.Always waiting and waitingfor it to come along.15 January 2008

to drink plenty of waterwhen she took her meds.Unfortunately, my wife is slightly deafand misinterpreted what he said.She though he saiddrink ten gallons of water a day.When she asked me is that what he said,I fell about in laughterthinking of the volumeof what ten gallons of water implied.I told her if she drank ten gallons…

Love is the rulerof whatever dance we do.Some are fast and some are slow,but each dance is differentas the individuals doing it.So when the next dance is calledwe never know whetherit will be quick or slow.31 January 2015

whether it be on land, sea or in the air.Our hearts weepfor all those precious soulswhose mortal lifehas been cut short – somewhere.No tomorrows will they see.Nor their children grow,doomed to an eternal sleepon some foreign shore.Memorials will be erectedto Honour their sacrifice,monuments of stone on whichwill only bare their name,but not whom they were,only…