My poems

In a locked up locked down world With the locked in thoughts of an overclocked life There's a freedom found from a present of potential, A key from an unlocked mind. You fear tomorrow, but yesterday is as dangerous,     so the saints say Each moment is our choice of how     to respond Not in competition,     with locked up emotion But keen thought     and deliberate choice In others' shoes and understanding empathy In the world, but not of the world.

Landlords, agencies, MPs and their friends Everyone who has will get more     and will have an abundance But the one who does not have:     even what he has will be taken from him. So why do those who have little share what little they have And those who have much keep it all?

And September births the year again With promise new for all; The freshness flushes last year’s thoughts If any can recall… October ushers Autumn’s hour We look ahead to play As half term finds us home once more As though we’d never been away. The darkness waxes through the days With plenty to remember; November’s work is rushed along Before we hit December When it’s Christmas this, and Christmas that And candles, trees and deer, And nothing can get organised Until we’re back next year – Where did it go? It’s all so fast When it’s head down to the grind And your days are focused full ahead And all is Auld Lang Syned… So January comes again And no-one wants to work But exams are getting closer and Their threat will pierce the murk. February speeds on by With warnings getting quicker And the days March past relentlessly The work comes at you thicker The weeks are waning faster now As only April May Bring June so soon to test us all And ebb the year away And then July presents itself And ...

The calendar capacitor has built up its charge And now the events are discharged at once. The plates spin, and the time clicks towards the next appointment. In my power point full and current? Am I ready, and amped up? Or is this deadline a dead line..?

Left. Right. Backwards. Front. For. Against. Anti. Pro. For the many. For me. In. Out. Remain. Leave. Better together. Break up. With or without us. So much screams at us Raised emotion - exhaustion. Connect. Disconnect. The balance must be found Not in being good or bad Binary right or wrong >The balance is found Neither in imbalance nor In the balance thought The balance is out, Out of these two dimensions But not trapped in thought.