Our heroine Alice Del Mar retrieves a flashlight from her car, hearing gunshots from afar. On with the light breaking the night, she takes flight not knowing what will come into sight. More shots across the park she lights a cigarette with a spark. The torch beam sweeps the park not knowing what she will … Continue reading Our Heroine
The Funny Man’s Mask
Behind the jokes and laughs the Funny Man’s Mask, lays the real face, one of despair which the funny man will never share. Depression and anger all go away for a few hours a day when the funny man comes out to play. Without his mask, he has little to say and wishes that black … Continue reading The Funny Man’s Mask
Clown
Funny hat, stripy trousers, big shoes and a coloured wig this is no ordinary gig. This is the clown who runs up and down face painted white like the poor devil has had a fright. Sad face highlighted in red and those big eyes that some people despise. Juggling with water and doing silly tricks, … Continue reading Clown
Wash Day
Hey hey its washing day all the clothes are on their way. Fill the drum and twist the dial, press the button and leave for a while. Sort out the clothes colours whites and cottons too make sure the pockets are empty of money and tissues. Four piles all on the floor washings becoming a … Continue reading Wash Day
Graveyard
In the ground row by row stand headstones and crosses some with names and couples and heroes, some plots of people we don’t know. Adults and children who will never grow but who’s memories will never go. Young and old death makes no distinction all of them laid in the cold. People come and pay … Continue reading Graveyard
The Country Decides
It’s been announced that the country will decide, to stop politicians override. Now we will here what will and won’t be and all hold our breaths to wait and see. What will each party try to be and more importantly what will they do for you and me. Will it be one issue on which … Continue reading The Country Decides
Day at the Zoo
Monkeys swinging and rolling at play camels munching at yellow hay. Elephants squirting and trumpeting water to wash their back they are safe from slaughter. Flamingos all pink stand on one leg like a skater on an ice rink. There is the hippo so big and tough chewing on grass that’s bare and rough. Then … Continue reading Day at the Zoo
Silence
When I'm all alone and dreamy that's when I start to hear the silence. Not absolute, it never is, but quiet enough to have a think. To shut my eyes and have 40 winks. The silence washes over me like a warm mug of tea and I sit in my armchair and just stare and … Continue reading Silence
Peace
When children cry and governments lie why does no one ask why? Why do we bomb, kill and fight? Why has the world not seen the light? Why do countries want to show their might and prove to the world their way is right. Yet they don’t really care about our plight and keep on … Continue reading Peace
Knives
Long and short thick and thin made of metal and tin fixed blade and folding; mass produced or hand made. First it's out then it's in no fuss no din. Home made or bought from a store shiney new or used before. One lunge and they knock you to the floor. The knife is a … Continue reading Knives
Rhythm of the Ink 
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