magpie bridge

I am a magpie, I take attractive words I have heard, the stories of others and attempt to make something else from them. Regular readers of ...

I'd been thinking about a recent poem, that something was not quite right, but I couldn't think what. Then I realised that it was th...

Somewhere in my thoughts the idea of the space telescope and dementia came together. I suspect it is because people who have dementia can sp...

I was looking at a poem I had thought finished when I realised it still needed work. You can read the last version here . I then discussed i...

When I was a child I read a magazine article about a man who could hold photographic plates to his head and think images on to the paper. Th...

Spacing is important, it effects how people perceive a poem. Some poems can look too compact, at other times, too much air and the poem can ...

I was at a gig on Saturday evening and the venue had a moon painted on the wall above the stage. It inspired this poem. PAINTED MOON POEM ...