Category: Poems
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Easter Saturday
A short poem to express the despair of Easter Saturday
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The gospel of Luke
Is certainty all that it is cracked up to be?
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Carols for Bristol 2020
A Christmas response to a year like no other.
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Angels
I think we all need angels, every now and then…
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Scorcher
A late summer day, prepares itself to dazzle
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Leap
Of all years, 2020 decided to have an extra day. Oh my…
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Bad dad
Some people are natural parents. Some people aren’t. This is about those people
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Christmas Day 2019
After constant rain in December 2019, Christmas Day appeared
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Hark! A Christmas poem
A poem performed at the Christ Church Clifton carol service 2019
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The Lord’s Prayer: remixed
If the the Lord’s Prayer had a 12″ version, this might be it
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A poem for Jo’s 50th
My wife Jo turned 50 in 2019. I wrote this for her party
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Believed
This was a short video opener for the Christ Church Clifton carol service 2018
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Confession
A poem that was written for the Christ Church Clifton carol service 2018
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Sunflowers
A poem inspired by the love and kindness that we have received in abundance since my wife Jo was diagnosed with breast cancer in July 2017.
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Arusha W14
Many, many years ago I went to Arusha in Tanzania with a friend who had a Fairtrade connection with some artists out there. It was my first visit to a ‘poorer nation’ and I was quite affected by the poverty I saw and the contrast with the West. We met a young woman (from Hammersmith,…
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Flower
A poem I wrote in 1998
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A poem for Advent 2011
This was written for an Advent service at Trent Vineyard church in Nottingham
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The cancer haiku trilogy
Three haikus I wrote during our cancer journey.
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Christmas 2017
A simple sonnet as an opener for the Christchurch Clifton carol services 2017.
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Cancer
In July 2017 my wife, Jo, was diagnosed with breast cancer. At one stage they were scanning to see if there were any secondaries, a whole more serious and life shortening diagnosis. I began this poem in the midst of the agonising period of waiting for scan results.