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• Book of Pages

  2009 Oct 22

  Books are the bricks that build my cell Pages the chains that bind me No partner, no love, nor friends to quell This solitude that rages around me A barren confession, to shameful to tell A hollow life, unlived, left behind me A life sentence served and a lifetime to dwell On this loneliness that will always surround me. [...]

• Pandora’s Legacy

  2009 Oct 12

  When Pandora’s box was opened and all the ills of the world where let loose the gods conspired to leave one thing remaining to aid humankind. What remained in the box was Hope. What happens when this, too, is lost? The spirit dies, there is no point. No point in trying. No point to anything you do. Just [...]

• stultus et flosculus

  2009 Sep 29

  What is a flower? A flower is a thought. It is one thing becoming another. The unfolding of energy and matter. It is a process. The Process. of one becoming another. It is energy made manifest. It is the bee that collects the pollen. It is the jar of honey, it is me. It is the cow that eats the grass It is the milk that’s [...]

• Temps Perdu

  2009 Sep 29

  Seeing the leaves fall from the tree Had never truly worried me but now I mark their brief descent with morbid sense of lost time spent. For does not the now naked tree Bare against each winter freeze Reflect the passing of my life for me The World the Tree, our lives like leaves. They served their purpose in season of sun Harboured light [...]

• had enough

  2009 Sep 19

  Having ventured back into art and photography after a period away from it and after ruining my life again by failing to have the health and pieces in place to make a clean break and change of career, I have realised why I left art in the first place. So, again I am going to walk [...]

• Life after death?

  2009 Aug 29

  This article is fascinating Click Here to go to the Daily Mail website.