Free Stories and Poetry

The wonderful stink of Camden Market
A poem about an alternative market in London that has been running for years and is where hippies and punks and new-wave and even cowboy boot lovers all mix and are crazy together. If you are even in London, go there on a Sunday

Uncomplicated Friendship
A song about simple friendship. No questions, no demands, just kind of being there when someone needs you to be - even if it is across the world.
I was called cute today
Two poems about the girls at the burger van. One who makes the burgers quietly, watching the customers without judgement and the other who chatters and manages to surprise me often. Clever girl.

When Be-Eirol first met Mab-Aneirin and Weasel
Long before Johnson Farthing was born and the beginning of the tale that is told in series one of Dirt, the dragon Fren-Eirol was young, opinionated and had yet to meet either her pairing Aneirin or the annoying magician Weasel.
Until that is she visited the Catre Sarad on the small but dramatic isle of Taken in the Yonder Sea...

Drunk Verse - A poets life
The struggles of a poet to connect to his muse. Or perhaps climb out of his bottle. Close call...

The Everything Stew
This is a narrative poem about a special meal cooked between friends in a cabin when we were all young, just out of school.
Random Love and Moments
A selection of verses that randomly play with love and other ideas. Mostly untitled but all very much by me.

Poem - The Writer's Lament
A poetic apology for spending so much time struggling with a book that the writer has had no time to whisper sweet nothing's to his love.
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The Stink Is Here
North London, 1976. The longest, hottest summer on record. The water is running out and the kids hate their parents. Which bunch of idiots would think it is a good idea to start a band?