Fraud…
16 January 2026
Tonight I woke up in a sea
The salty wet pressed on my face
A calm and still encircled me
I felt… “an ocean’s depth and space”
And in the wonder, I am awed
Yet humbled knowing I’m a fraud
Storage…
18 January 2022
Sad you can’t hang it
It took ages to make
Like much between us
stored in a drawer
or behind a sofahidden
I’m Not The Man
13 December 2021
I think you must have me confused; I’m not the man who worshipped you.
My heart was never so abused. My soul was never torn in two
I did not dream of you and me while wretched seeing you and them
I don’t recall that I was he who pined for you at 2 a.m.
The man you knew, I felt him die some time ago – you did not see
While fucking some forgotten guy or sucking off some nobody
You never wanted him that way, although you said you loved him most
I’m not the man who died each day, killed by each notch on your bedpost
How strange and cruel that you now feel you should have been with him instead
Professing that your love is real and how you want it in your bed
But years have gone, years passed in pain, so it must end how it began
With you or me or him again maintaining that I’m not the man
Penthesilea
22 July 2020
She of Olympus, born a Queen; an Amazon unparalleled
With beauty as Athene’s sheen and yet in battle unexcelled.
So forged by Ares in his fire, a boundless might bared in her breast
She feared no man nor mortal ire, and so to Troy she journeyed west.
Her rage was fierce when once she heard the Trojan Prince had been undone
So swift to havoc undeterred, all Troy rejoiced to see her come.
And with her axe, her spear, her shield, her raven armour and her bow
She struck like thunder on the field and smote foul ruin on the foe.
The Greeks succumbed by what they saw: a woman warrior of doom
Aghast and filled with woe and awe to see a fighting flower bloom.
They begged their champion in dismay to rid them of this murderess
And though he won hard fought that day, she slew his heart with her prowess.
Now dying in Achilles arms, the heavens scried her apogee
They bid the goddess to the stars, to pass to immortality.
Solaris Inexorabilis
1 September 2019
The morning sun burns with industry
supreme with flourishing power
sanguine at the promise of day
faithful in the justice of the stars
But pulled by greater forces unseen
she wanes unknowing, unfeeling
her brightness devoured by the void
until all light and art is gone
Alice de Winter
12 June 2019
How pure, how bright, how pretty and pristine
No fairer mask could nature’s grace bestow
So calm a vision, peaceful and serene
As gentle and as fine as falling snow
But all her loveliness belies a will
That all men should be wary of and fear
For beauty’s touch is cold and it can kill
A frigid death for those who stray too near
But if you are ensnared by pulchritude
Arouse her then prepare to pay the price
And following a rapturous denude
Her veil will fall on you like shards of ice
Be careful of a bitter kiss that numbs
Beware the tide of white when Winter comes
Malena’s Sonnet
8 February 2019
A creature from the Netherworld
Her comeliness is but deceit
She tempts you with her wiles unfurled
Her lips beguile with tastes so sweet
And with her impure trickery
To those who see not her true form
She binds them in great misery
Condemned to an infernal storm
To all of flesh who may desire
Beware the daemon and her spell
She lusts to drag you down in fire
Unto the Second Sphere of Hell
And in the depths of her dark hole
She’ll feast on your immortal soul
You & I…
9 February 2018
You suggested; I jumped
You talked; I dreamed
You smiled; I flattered
You shone; I beamed
You ate; I feasted
You sparkled; I stared
You asked; I answered
You shared; I bared
You teased; I fawned
You revelled; I swelled
You winked; I paid
You laughed; I fell
You led; I followed
You stripped; I leered
You stroked; I groped
You sucked; I cheered
You swooned; I swooped
You tongued; I flicked
You rubbed; I tickled
You sniggered; I licked
You beckoned; I entered
You gasped; I grinned
You blasphemed; I swore
You tempted; I sinned
You gripped; I grabbed
You moaned; I growled
You gave; I took
You scratched; I howled
You bit; I shuddered
You wanted; I craved
You rocked; I pounded
You took; I gave
You panted; I heaved
You begged; I worked
You tightened; I felt
You came; I smirked
You arched; I drove
You screamed; I strained
You squeezed; I tensed
You quivered; I came
…..
You told me, and so I proposed
You had to accept, I suppose
You in shock and I, a tad
You the mum and I the dad
Last night…
18 April 2015
I broke the soundless night; in bed, I cried
My searing flow of tears would not subside
Despondent I could ever feel so low
And think this pain the worst there was to know
Though maybe unrequited love and I
Are truly intimate, and we have grown
Together in the dark watching me cry
Together in the dark I’m not alone
But surely that’s a madness in my head
For achingly I am alone in bed
As my love comforts other men I weep
Embarrassed that I let myself lose sleep
So with a shameful sadness and hurt pride
I broke the soundless night; in bed, I cried
Release…
23 December 2012
Consigning broken heart to bottom shelf
And purely concentrating on the self
With expert hand I’ll ease the pain
Forgetting love or tell tale stain
Pervagus 