Answer Me
So I went to the sea to ask what should I do?
What’s my next move?
And the tide ebbed and flowed,
And the gulls just flew.
The people talked and kissed.
My heart whispered, ‘Stay,’
But my head shouted, ‘Go.’
As the boats just stood in silence.
I wrote this poem about fifteen years ago. At that time I had been [...]

A touch of hands, a cheek stroke, a kiss,
These are the things I especially miss,
On this deathly still day, and an evening alone,
Is my Valentine’s way, now that you are gone.
You’ll be dancing somewhere, how you loved to dance,
But when I waltzed with you it lacked in romance,
A man will be talking, you’ll laugh for [...]

The following are song lyrics, so not strictly poetry, though in writing song lyrics I hope to do so with poetic licence. Are you disillusioned with the nonsense that pop artists and indie bands sing about. For me music is about expression in the same way as poetry.
Demi Gods and Hungry Ghosts is a [...]

’Children In The Garden.’
By Mik Smith
They played together in the garden and they were happy.
Everything so fresh and exciting; too young and innocent to have an awareness of wrong.
They chased one another and laughed.
He smiled, she sang.
It did not matter about the time; afternoon, morning, evening.
The air was warm on their skin and their laughter [...]

During the recent snowy spell there has been too much negativity in the media. I was inspired to write a poem about one of the many fine aspects of this wonderful Wintery weather, but I guess if you are not on ski holidays it is sometimes easy to forget the charm. The snow has gone [...]

If you have got even a vague interest in art then this blog is worth having a look at. There are two really interesting posts on it about contemporary artists from south Asia. You don’t often get to hear about what style of pictures are being done in India or Pakistan so this makes [...]

What follows is a poem I wrote when I was in love a long, long, long time ago. Like a lifetime ago. And I was in love. But things changed. Life moved on and I grew up. I realised he wasn’t actually a very nice person. So I left. But at the time the poem [...]

So many have been written
We’ve heard them all before
Quaint tales of words quite rhyming
Or emotion a writer insisted to pour
“So what is in this poem?” I say
What topic shall we endure?
Perhaps its time to write a poem
A Poem Like None Before
I step out from behind the crowd
In first person I declare
This poem was meant [...]

Tyne Cot - the poem.
You graves that line this placid place Engulfed by trees and green, Remind me of a time that in reality I have never seen. But studied once with great intense When I was just a lad.I now I stand Grave on grave.The air is thick and sad.An overwhelming sense of grief [...]

We’ve just decided to move and only got a new puppy last week too so I’ve been up to my eyeballs trying to sort out dog insurance as well as sell my property! Crazy I know, but sometimes you can’t time these things. The puppy was supposed to come once we’d moved, but the one [...]