I was looking up at the moon this evening which is rapidly coming up to the First Quarter and it got me thinking about the notion of limits. The moon […]
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Category: Musings
Today is the 30th day of the lunar cycle and unless I see the new moon tonight it will be the first day of the new lunar cycle tomorrow. If […]
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Mental Health Awareness Week
As it’s the start of Mental Health Awareness Week I thought I would share this poem I wrote earlier this year. 2020 has been a challenging year hasn’t it. Threshold […]
I was just reading an article in the Atlantic Monthly about an American academic at Oxford who used his position to steal and sell fragments of papyrus to an American […]
After seeing one of my friends post a fundraiser today I was inspired to do one myself. I have been really wanting to do a new album of poetry and […]
Happy Earth Day! The place where I’m staying just now has an excellent view over a river and I’ve been watching the fish swim in it, some of which must […]
There seem to be quite a few people, some of whom I know, doing live streaming on-line just now as a means of reaching out while we are in this […]
As we are having to stay indoors right now which is a bit like being in a cocoon I thought I would share this poem I wrote which was very […]
I went out for a walk today while the wild winds were blowing because I wanted to see some trees and the nearest ones to me were down at Leith […]
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Movies and Christian Bale
Last night I went to check out the new movie with Christian Bale called “Le Mans ’66”. I’m not a big fan of car racing nor of Matt Damon I […]
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Social Media
I went to a talk the other day on social media and the guy giving the talk, who was promoting his book, made quite a few negative comments about it, […]
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Bio-rights
I was really interested to read this article by Robert Macfarlane in the Guardian (a link to it is below). I have thought about this concept before and I’m all […]
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Shocks to the System
Poetry is beautiful and I couldn’t live without it. Sometimes though it feels like an isolating pursuit because generally I tend to read and meditate on poetry in solitude, particularly […]
Regardless of where you may find yourself you are always close to nature. Even if you are in a big city or some industrial landscape, nature herself is inescapable because […]
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Disappointment and Hope
Today I got an email telling me that I had not had some of my work accepted for publication, this was after also hearing nothing back from a poetry competition […]