Tree Tanka PDF

There is now a Free PDF version of Volume 1 of what will one day become a Treelogy (3 Volumes) Click on the the image on the right hand side bar to download. (Large File so use Wifi and patience) If after having read the PDF you would be interested in a future print version…

mi(rage)

We didn't think it was possible for a very, very, very, long time. even as it all slipped away. slowly, slower, slowed. imperceptibility as ignorance. disappearance in plain sight. swathes of 'over there.' gone, but not landed in these bodies. not my back yard, so not mine. until we realised that all of it, was…

gone but not gone

Once upon a time and this is a true story i looked heavenward bewildered and blinded by the new found knowledge that what I could see was gone. This Boy Scout was not prepared Not for this Our troupe Chaplain had explained astronomy for beginners Time and distance on an epic scale meant we could…

Tree Choka

do you see me here piercing your being with force willing you to stop i stand so still and rooted this sky is ablaze but we will not be burning today you humans bringing fire to the forests shadow and light the story of forever unfolding and emergent you are in the way of it…

obligation

there is a call of emergence, now sounded about me an old earth siren, Brigid, beckons me awaken my winter bed is warm and fertile and so so cosy not yet not yet my murmur sighs deep rooted in this wriggling soil which will have its way regardless of my intent life itself is coming…

Coldron

Last leaf of autumn falls rocking gently in air's cradle lands on frost bitten Earth downed with feather light touch Beginnings of descent into entanglement below birthed into dark synaptics subterranean superhighways Here underneath it all decompositional companionship dance of loamy littered seepage death teeming with new life Swirling in winter witch's cauldron brewing spells…

bheared

dark veined, coal blackened tributaries, cold waters of an ancient mass tumble and curse their way from my night time's frozen icicled heights shadowing through fissure and crack in a dancing spiral of the coming time falling towards the chilled dawn, footprinting invocations at life's ocean edge sleep's prescience smells the killing approach of bird…

Tree Tanka XX

A new series inspired by the many trees I have photographed over the years. Here I am combining some of those photos with Tanka poetry. Each poem is composed for a particular photograph and is an ‘imagined’ poetic verse from the tree itself, speaking directly to the times we are living in right now. One…

Tree Tanka XIX

A new series inspired by the many trees I have photographed over the years. Here I am combining some of those photos with Tanka poetry. Each poem is composed for a particular photograph and is an ‘imagined’ poetic verse from the tree itself, speaking directly to the times we are living in right now. One…

lo(o)sing

chanting hard truthed future protections breaks the ground upon which we stand composting cracks of my no-tomorrows ble(sse)d with the tears of unseen griefs stealth-writing lines you cannot hear yet concerned with a deep unbearable loss reaching for those sounds i might bring trilling an old god's broken winged song dread's coruscation bathes the ripped…