Empire of Whimsy
Poems, stories, alternative realities.
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Chance Encounter
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She came in breathless, restless, shaking looking for something calming to take in light of the heartless news he’d broken. Miles fr...
The Company (Part 1)
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Once there was a company that traded magic beans. It co-opted people’s tragedies, it monetarised their dreams. Selling wishes gr...
Dear World
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Look, we need to have a chat. I’m getting a bit fed up with dealing with the fall out of your drama. And it’s not only that, m...
Ugh, People.
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“They didn’t get rid of you, then?” They all said, eyes glinting. The gossip-beast slavering to be fed. “Got rid of me? Hah! For w...
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Avowed Renewal
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Trust rusts When taken for granted. We’d started not to see each other. Another role to fulfill. Being responsible against our...
Simon Andrews Memorial Lap
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We gathered in our thousands to rend the sky with roar. To celebrate the lives and rides of those who went before. Armour plated...
Home and Hospital for the Incurables
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Gothic institution, high on island hill. Oceans of ink. A sky entirely made of quill. The Warden’s keys jangle alarmingly in the lock....
Rant
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Fear steers our ideals. I like to pretend that my intentions are guided by pride in my liberty but honestly, it’s obvious ...
International Women's Day 2015
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Yesterday was International Women's Day. To mark this occasion I was invited up to Manx Radio to take part in a live challenge as par...
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Women Today on Manx Radio.
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Today I had a great time on the Manx Radio program Women Today, talking about all things poetry, the Oscars and performing some of my poems...
Valentine
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On this, the day of martyred lovers I recall a misunderstood comment. “One day I’ll see you live” it said. Of course it meant li...
He Shoots People
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A little while ago I wrote a poem called 31 after a day taking modelling for internationally celebrated photographer, Phil Kneen. The phot...
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Hypocrisy
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Hypocrisy, I’m sad to say, seems to be everywhere. This unfair, self-sided not sharing sentiment. It’s meant I've bent my pr...
The Lunatic Will Always Look Like A Lunatic
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I’m a loud speaker, baby. The fun-house mirror of the world. I amplify the signals. I throw back at you your words. I’m a great bi...
Magpie
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All week long I saw them. Those portents gleaming, squawking, hopping, cocked head, taunting, “Sorrow! Sorrow!”; giving warning. ...
Island of Culture Film
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A couple of months ago I was interviewed by Christy DeHaven and Dave Armstrong for a film they were creating celebrating Island of Culture....
Only Words (The Alphabet of Racism)
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Apparent Brainwashing Conquers Defenses Eventually Forcing Ghoulish Haters Influence Jarringly. Kakistocracy, Letting Meaningless Names (ON...
Indesiderata
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You looked at me and the love in your eyes faded And I realized it was this I was most afraid of. The swapping of fluids is only an ac...
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Snow Globe
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At Christmas families are reunited Even those members you’d prefer weren’t invited We stress over food, presents and reindeer sighted ...
31
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My body is my body. I’m not bothered what you think of it. It’s carried me through all these years no matter what I’ve thrown at it....
TEDxDouglas Video
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Here is the video of my TEDxDouglas performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVlINYfigNw I had a ball being involved with this. I...
Inspiration
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That intake of breath Of fresh Air. Bringer of new ideas Unfair -ly mined By a dozen minds Or more. These spores of though...
Coming of a Different Age
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Strength is shown in many places: bitten lips; grey gaunt faces; blistered hands and leathered heel pads; resistance of ugly school fads...
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Nothing is Greater
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I'm Patsy. I'm Margot. I'm Daisy. I'm Zelda. I'm Tallulah. I'm Billie. I'm Janis. I'm Amy. I'm Amanda. ...
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To everything / There is a season
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A heavy hand is on the earth, restricting smell and sight and breath. Euphoria of Summers passed. Winter's bite delayed. Withdrawl ...
"At the second stroke the time sponsored by experience will be..."
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The passage of time has never been stranger than now. Objectively, I know that we still orbit the same mass of energy. We still rise in t...
Not a Popular Opinion
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I’m culturally appropriating. You’re rating my passion through the eyes of a career gold digger looking for meaning unwritten, t...
Humanity is a Virus
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Lady Gaia blew the sleep sand from her dust encrusted eye. Rippling verdantly she turned, serene in what she felt and why. Intrigued...
TEDxDouglas
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On the 10th November, I will be performing poetry at the first TEDxDouglas event. I feel immensely honoured by this and wanted to pay ...
Migranomancy
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Here breaks that wave. Awash I'm tossed from my mental enclave. At the mercy of my tidal sense current-lost inside my consciousnes...
Garnering Respect
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Iconoclasts have come, at last to save us from this drudgery. This too-easy, this clear to see hegemony. But icons as they are s...
Sick Leave
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Poverty struck me down with spore shot, seething in the only air I could afford to breathe. Setting up time bombs in my bronchioles. Tax...
Univocalism for Mark Grist
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Go boldly, Vox; not long. Toll for joy or glow for glory. Now, hop off. On words. On show. On story. Form worlds from orbs of sorrow....
Gimme Shelter
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Family
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Her face I wear. His character I carry in this body of recycled proportions. Structures of lost-long generations speaking to me in lang...
The Misty-Eyed Memoirs of Comic Sans
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We all do things for money When we’re naïve and young. They told me I’d regret it. They said the time would come When I’d want to ...
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