January 28, 2017

Observations from China #4 | #CapturedInWords


Rummaging through the attic of an old tea office in the mountains, the children followed me around calling out in the local dialect. I don't know what they were saying but their voices made the cobwebs on the cups tremor.
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April 16, 2017

Of Understanding Men | #CapturedInWords

Of Understanding Men | #CapturedInWords
'You do not understand men.'  You scolded me A final statement  A parting blow  'You do not understand men.' ...
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June 16, 2016

Actions Speak Louder Than Words | #CapturedInWords

Actions Speak Louder Than Words | #CapturedInWords
When I posted John Donne’s most famous poem ‘No Man Is An Island’ the other day, it was the beginning of a thought process that starte...
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November 13, 2016

The Nighthawk | #CapturedInWords

The Nighthawk | #CapturedInWords
I came to meet a nighthawk As the moon it swelled to its fullest fill Heavy, held aloft on the shoulders of the horizon As it r...
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June 24, 2017

The Summer Dawn | #CapturedInWords

The Summer Dawn | #CapturedInWords
A season in time These moments of mine Just me At the waking hour
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August 21, 2016

Sunday Morning Haiku | #CapturedInWords

Sunday Morning Haiku | #CapturedInWords
Sunday stirs softly A sip, a moment in time Alone with my tea
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June 06, 2016

Your Body The Sea (Pt. 1) | #CapturedInWords

Your Body The Sea (Pt. 1) | #CapturedInWords
Today I sat on a cold shingle beach Covered by a sky that came without a hem.  Knitted with clouds it was not;  An expanse of gr...
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June 29, 2017

The Jester | #CapturedInWords

The Jester | #CapturedInWords
The gardener, the sailor, the fiddler  Flash the jester None the truthful man  Yet or ever  Just refraction Illuminating my r...
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February 25, 2016

A Blackbird | #CapturedInWords

A Blackbird | #CapturedInWords
Past the garden gate  The jagged silhouette of a pipe Puffs soft chugs of steam That curl like the smoke From a trembling cigar...
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February 13, 2016

Tea Haiku | #CapturedInWords

Tea Haiku | #CapturedInWords
Your morning memory  blooms in a huff of tea-steam;  soft, distorted and, rising, gone. The touch of sun...
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May 10, 2016

The Season's Edge | #CapturedInWords

The Season's Edge | #CapturedInWords
I breathe urban petrichor and honeysuckle heaviness, Look to a sky drawing its heels across cement grey  Where gold burning rings ...
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March 08, 2018

1918 | #CapturedInWords

1918 | #CapturedInWords
(Continued from Moon Faces) There were a dozen moons that night. She counted them from the wheelbarrow as George raced them around th...
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August 22, 2016

A Polite Man is Gone | #CapturedInWords

A Polite Man is Gone | #CapturedInWords
This grief is a quiet visitor Waiting for its turn to speak Gently, holding up its hand as if to say Don't mind me This g...
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February 08, 2017

Observations from China #5 | #CapturedInWords

Observations from China #5 | #CapturedInWords
I can see it, I saw it, I still see it now.  I can't go there, I couldn't, I never will.  I will remember it, though.  ...
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January 02, 2017

Just a Thought | #CapturedInWords

Just a Thought | #CapturedInWords
Is the ability to 'destroy' my missing piece? Can there be love in destruction? It seduces me in my dreams. Dogs tearing dogs a...
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February 13, 2016

The Ink Tide | #CapturedInWords

The Ink Tide | #CapturedInWords
  Last night I dreamt that you and I were swept away on a silent, deaf tide.  You, stricken, lit by the moon. I, in darkness, unheard...
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December 18, 2015

The Accordion Man | #CapturedInWords

The Accordion Man | #CapturedInWords
The sky over the park is framed by naked trees standing stark to attention, upturned, as if a black network of nerves has taken root...
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March 07, 2018

Intimate Inanimate | #CapturedInWords

Intimate Inanimate | #CapturedInWords
Paint flecks on wrists Thermal fabric cloyed on hips Close to your skin These inanimate things That moved with you Alive, pul...
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April 12, 2017

Blankets of Gold | #CapturedInWords

Blankets of Gold | #CapturedInWords
(The rapeseed fields, Bilting, Kent)  The light came so quickly after the darkness As if it had never been dark at all Soarin...
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May 26, 2016

Where's Your Sun Now | #CapturedInWords

Where's Your Sun Now | #CapturedInWords
As powerful as you are pathetic, whimpering, tormented with emotion and manacled to a ship's mast, whipped, clawed at, beaten against...
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