It’s Starting Again

It’s starting again, yet again, yet again winds are still scything across fields of men The corn’s to be cropped there are lives to be stopped Yes It’s starting again. yet again, yet again. It’s starting once more, once more, once more There’s a knock at the door at...

The Gurkhas Betrayed

We fought and we fell for your country over two hundred years we have served and through all the wars and the battles our loyalty never has swerved. We fought and we died for your country we never questioned the cost Ten times five thousand comrades Ten times five...

The politician came

The Politician came, he stood on a tank; spoke of our service he came here to thank. The value he placed on those who were lost, the grieving of families who bore the whole cost. ‘Never forgotten’ that’s what he said ‘always we will honour our dead’ ‘Alive in our...

Across the wide river

Across the wide river I hear your voice high on rising air, soaring upward on spirals that build to the edge of space itself where eternity waits, turning, turning, turning. Across the wide river you signal mysteries found in that new country where the double helix is...

I dreamed I was alive.

I dreamed I was alive instead of dead, body full with vigour, vibrant with promise of endless days to come. I dreamed I was alive instead of dead, and dreaming knew exactly how to live, how best to savour life until the end and fill each moment with a waking joy...