Another painful truth...

Due to certain technical difficulties during the revision of my 1st book, Apocalyptic Visions, I have had to delay publication of the Revised Edition.  Unfortunately I had already taken down the 1st Edition of the book so it is currently unavailable on Amazon. I am working hard to rectify this problem as quickly as possible and am hoping to publish soon. I will post updates here as and when I have news.

Watch this space...

On the positive side, completion of my second collection, Beyond the Mask, is progressing well.

A Painful Truth

A figure of death

Looms over the land

A nuclear scythe

Is borne in his hand

Wearing a mantle

Of consuming fire

He lights for our world

A funeral pyre

I flee in terror

But find no escape

For all of this land

Shows signs of his rape

Where-ever I go

He is always there

Stripping the land

And leaving it bare

I hear his cruel laughter

A malicious sound

While his victim’s corpses

Are thick on the ground

He’s dealing out death

And pain on a whim

There can be no way

Of hiding from him

But now I am running

So desperate to hide

For I’ve glimpsed a truth

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I cannot abide

The horror flows through me

For now I can see

There is no escape

This figure is me!

Morbidity - A poem from my 1st book

I have a dream, a fantasy

Where all men live in harmony

An end to pain and enmity

A new birth for humanity

Each day I wake reluctantly

And come back to reality

I look around in misery

And see the true insanity

A world ruled by brutality

Supported by complacency

We`re in the grip of tyranny

Choked by our own misanthropy

The masses in obscurity

Condemned to live in poverty

A life of harsh severity

The cruelest immorality

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Each day a new atrocity

Will reach new depths of cruelty

We`re sinking into savagery

A slow death for humanity

Apocalyptic Revisions

Revision of my 1st book, Apocalyptic Visions, is nearing completion and the Revised Edition will soon be available on Amazon. My original intention was to simply edit the manuscript to iron out a few formatting issues and make a few corrections but with the discovery of some of my old notes during packing to move house my plans changed.

The new edition will include two complete stanzas missing from the published version of the title poem, Apocalyptic Vision, restoring it to its original form, along with a new and previously unpublished poem. I am also working with an accomplished book illustrator and artist, Caroline Quin, to commission a completely new cover for the new book.

Watch this space for further updates.

Greetings from The Garret.

Welcome to The Garret, my personal space on the web, named for the dusty attic at the southern tip of Cornwall where I spent a few years of solitude developing my style of rythmic rhyming poetry.
Here I will share thoughts and observations, give updates on upcoming events and new releases and give insights into projects I am working on or planning for the future.

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