Empire of Whimsy

 The magpie brought the message sent. It flew into the tree and then I looked and looked and looked again  But there was only one.  It said ...

 Hard to explain how much I hate the word humble Insidiously supplanting sincerity and stumble- Spoken into each gobful of gratitude as toke...

 And so we come to the end of the dread days. May brings blossoms and sometimes rain. The Cailagh cackles. Her twigs are crackling in her he...

 Laying waste to laziness this month I have ravaged the paving and surged forth purging intentions and replacing them with actions. Playing ...

 The aurelian ratio’s rationale corrals all things into patterns recognisable  for the cognisant, rational thinker. It is easy to be blinker...

 Bifurcation, crossroads, choices. Cacophony of conflicting voices. This way, that way, take a step Try not to seed a new regret. Who are yo...

 Open the door. It could be anything. The possibilities are, if not endless, at least more numerous than listable. And to remain here, listl...

 A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. It induces hubris. And hubris by nature is insubstantial, pinned to power inconsequential, like th...

 Spiders crawl. Their sprawling limbs deftly spinning false narratives into unrecognisable realities. Nets of untruths bind and gag honest o...

 Laundry lots and sunny spots and warmth outside our windows -  open now. New ideas, bicycle rituals and clearance. In more ways than one. I...

 I was sick of the shape of the lounge.  The windows ignored and the mess all around. So we made a plan to move some shelves. Well, one in p...

 Another one gone. Another three songs  poisoned by emotional association. It's a strange wave that breaks when they shoulder that box. ...

 It's fascinating to watch the transformations, the faces changing, shapes and shading molding the old into the new. Glued to metamorpho...

 Because the darkness remains, despite action to the contrary. Because the dampness pervades, despite the open windowed remedy. Rani ranidae...

 Stoicism in the face of Caprice  is a skill  that still  evades more than it is exercised. Long term goals require long term planning and I...

 Counting down the days and ways that I have missed you. The moments that we haven't shared. The times I know that I was scared but to o...

 The swoop of this pendulum gives me vertigo. Up I go! And down. And how far down depends on things entirely outwith my control. Slower in t...

In this tempestuous Spring I'm spinning untethered, buffeted and way off course, of course.  These searing winds bring new beginnings,  ...

 It’s heady times we’re living in! Full pelt, high tilt, heading for oblivion, watching the numbers on labels go up and  pounds in pockets g...

 Another one gone!  Brothers left without brothers and mother's with hands so wrung  they become the bell that tolls for grief. Rare and...

 This year is brought to you by the word Marvellous. The more I use it the truer this becomes. It's funny the way things go, sometimes  ...

 The crown effect guarantees ends don’t quite meet in the folio dome of this cathedral.  Timorous squeaks and piercing pleas out of reach to...

 Gold discarded by the falling sun floats on the crests of waves; caught on unpopular opinions; rocking hopeful rafts of dreams.  beams lash...

 New brooms sweep burned bridges into piles of ashen regrets. Some say this way wipes slates white,  writing “self awareness” in sinuous cur...

 Wandering this wasteland weaponised with witty lines lifted directly to remind us April is the cruelest month as if we didn't understan...

 All my friends are sick. In different ways, of course, individuality being their unifying constant. But sick, all the same. These weirdish ...

 Being inclined to the over active mind  makes you vulnerable in ways unimaginable to folk who’ve never been waifs or strays. Every step on ...

 And so here we go again, Pitting flesh swollen with unshed tears. You'd think after all these years we'd know The earlier signs, th...

 

 It calls to me at night. The soothing hush is no match, for the draw of the same pulse and roar. It mesmerises with its might. And I might,...

I am swallowed by my bitterness and I swallow it in this fractal frame of failed relationships. Cynicism soothes my wounded seat on shelf. I...

 You said I could be anything As long as the words you wrote were the words I'd sing. You said I could be anyone If I'd do exactly w...

 I am so sick of all of it. The corruption,  the lies, the statistics.  I once was able to warn allegorically  but now I state baldly, in fa...

 Green grow the shoots here in my witch's garden. Tiny green tendrils that reach to the light. The fox wears the bells here in my witch...

 I've been waiting so long. I said, I've been waiting so long. But like every man or woman that ever has been, you're running la...

  https://on.soundcloud.com/LR83k Some of you may have been wondering why I have been quiet recently.  I have been busily working on a new p...

  I never thought the I would side with an aggressor. “Never let the means unjustify the ends" But it's hard to have honour suffoca...

  I write to still my inside songs. But words escape, they flutter fecklessly away. I grit my teeth and bite my tongue. Verbal tics have ...

  This body of water Swallows bodies of our daughters,  bones of our sons. Unforgiving, dark, forbidding,  Rolling roar at sinking sun. ...

  My mother always shushed me when I went to her and said "I think there's a monster hiding underneath my bed" She said to m...

  This year, of all it's hardships This year, of all it's woes. This year of lessons, battles, losses, hurt and heaviness and sorro...

Heed the mob with scythe and sickle, Burning torches, glassy eyes. Adoration false and fickle. Come to cut her down to size. They inves...

Stand 6ft back and deliver. Stand 6ft back motherfucker. Keep your distance, kill the virus. We're united as divided. Stay 6ft back...

I've spoken about choices before, About how The decisions we make are more Or less Than we give them credit for. I find myself po...

This verdant,  windswept spit of land Ringed around with golden sands Tended by MecLir 's right hand Where magic makes its final sta...

Some people collect stamps. Some people collect coins. Some people make air fix models so well You can barely see the joins. Some peop...

Every third generation Comes a swell of population That is heavily swayed towards the masculine breed. Their forefathers before them On...

Fire gazing family, Night breezes lazily Hissing through leaves and open windows. “what is it? Why the sudden stirring?” “hasten, chi...

In my drive to self sufficiency Indoor gardening appealed to me, So I hung them in the windowsill, Ingredients 3. I knew it was a risk...

TT is here The wheel of prayer roaring Thirty seven and three quarters Of energy embedded in Sacrificially sanctified soil. This is...