Take me on a journey with your

words.

Let your words  soar off the page like fire

birds.

Take me on a journey with your

verse.

Let your verses cast a spell or even 

curse.

Take me on a journey with your 

rhyme. 

Let your rhymes create new rhythms in space and 

time. 

Take me on a journey with your 

beat.

Let your beats turn up the volume, turn up the 

h...

Read and leave comments (0)

Take me on a journey with your

words.

Let your words soar off the page like fire

birds.

Take me on a journey with your

verse.

Let your verses cast a spell or even 

curse.

Take me on a journey with your 

rhyme. 

Let your rhymes create new rhythms in space and 

time. 

Take me on a journey with your 

beat.

Let your beats turn up the volume, turn up the 

he...

Read and leave comments (0)

HOT MESS

You made

me feel

I had

to hide

everything about

myself when

I was 

much younger, 

whilst I

fancied the

hell out

of you

straight man.

Tonight, I

bumped into

you on

way to

queer poetry

night in

London Bridge.

That second,

I became

hot mess.

Pulled on

strings of

your backpack

to stop

you and

say...

Read and leave comments (0)

HOT MESS

You made

me feel

I had

to hide

everything about

myself when

I was 

much younger, 

whilst I

fancied the

hell out

of you

straight man.

Tonight, I

bumped into

you on

way to

queer poetry

night in

London Bridge.

That second,

I became

hot mess.

Pulled on

strings of

your backpack

to stop

you and

say...

Read and leave comments (0)

You made

me feel

I had

to hide

everything about

myself when

I was 

much younger, 

whilst I

fancied the

hell out

of you

straight man.

Tonight, I

bumped into

you on

way to

queer poetry

night in

London Bridge.

That second,

I became

hot mess.

Pulled on

strings of

your backpack

to stop

you and

say hi.

Quick...

Read and leave comments (0)

Dream never forgotten,
even in adulthood, 
me aged 6,
in clouds with  
telephone to ring 
Grandmother in Heaven.
Conduit  to otherworldly
out of sight 
people and things, 
triggered my fascination 
in memory objects. 
Collapsing and combusting
past and present,
these portals help
connect us with 
the now gone. 

Compulsion to box
everything up when 
Mum passed away.
All I could...

Read and leave comments (0)

Almost every inch
of our garden 
knotted in green.
Shears in hand,
tackle beastly overgrown.
Hard at it. 
Garden far end, 
corner favourite suntrap
to bare both 
chest and soul
Playing with words,
poetry about Mum. 

A small bird 
cops a worm. 
Takes a peck 
but not devours. 
Worm will not 
give up fight. 
Serious wiggle action
outsmarts the bird.
Red breasted Robin. 
Mum lov...

Read and leave comments (1)

Try educate the ignorant straight,

doubt anybody could.

Doubt Jack the lad does contemplate

and why he ever should

learn all about queer history

and those misunderstood.

History shows ‘gay’ beyond Pride day

and sex up Hampstead Wood.

If you think true, Jack, your IQ

is size of your manhood

when you told me, sure as can be,

‘You gays have never had it so good!’....

Read and leave comments (0)

You know those

dreams where you

do the unthinkable,

where you stand

on your head,

do something unimaginable

because you know

you are dreaming?

It’s almost like

you are awake

when you’re asleep.

I love those

moments when something

totally unbelievable happens,

the penny drops

and you know

you are dreaming.

Knowing your dreaming,

as psychopatholo...

Read and leave comments (0)

Wearing a palimpsest 
of the past 
in the present.
Smells mark those 
we have lost,
but made alive
again through the 
power of scent. 

I’ve been wearing 
perfume left behind.
Calvin Klein’s ‘Contradiction’.
Its label reads
‘unisex’, I would 
wear it anyway.
Its scent helps
heal my pain. 
Just one spray, 
immerses me in  
olfactory sensations that 
bring Mum alive 
in the pres...

Read and leave comments (0)

Link to poetry film https://filmfreeway.com/QUEERINGTHELANDSCAPE

Bluebells stuck in-
between toes of 
gay man laying 
alone in woods.
Queering the landscape 
with every breath
as leaves fall. 
Feeling an affinity
with changing landscape,
the liminal lure 
of woodland wonderlands 
that appear unexpectedly
in suburban sprawl
where green hues 
paint their palette 
over concrete gr...

Read and leave comments (0)

Bluebells stuck in-

between toes of

gay man laying

alone in woods.

Queering the landscape

with every breath

as leaves fall.

Feeling an affinity

with changing landscape,

the liminal lure

of woodland wonderlands

that appear unexpectedly

in suburban sprawl

where green hues

paint their palette

over concrete grey.

Laying alone feeling

in ...

Read and leave comments (2)

Go in the loo, do number two

Won’t flush away, poo in the loo

You wait a day, reflush the loo,

can’t see the poo, shout a big ‘Phew!’

Look back in loo, still in the loo

Somehow it grew, eyes times two

Poo in the loo, looking at you

Face turns blue. What can you do?

To wit, to woo, you say to poo,

‘Fancy a brew? Often come here do you?’
Not getting through, ...

Read and leave comments (1)

Bored in Cafe Nero 
Music was so damn drearo
Male candy, nada, zero 
But what pricked up my earo
My eyes then towards veero
Beard razored Richard Gereo
Short hair, had fight with shearo 
Beard sat beneath a Miro
with book by Gerrmaine Greero
Japan man named Akiro
Served salad cav’lo nero
Then two lads they appearo 
I knew they gay, both queero 
Kissing whilst here in Nero  
Thought h...

Read and leave comments (0)

A source of frustration, my school sex education

My elderly teacher although terribly kind

was not well prepared for a teenagers’ mind

‘Andrew, this condom, roll it down this banana

I can hear giggles from someone. Is that you Pollyanna?’

Andrew struggled at first to get the sheath on

‘Miss!’, Jason shouted, ‘Andrew’s banana is two inches long!’

The default is hetero but wha...

Read and leave comments (0)

‘If you must’, 
us teachers told,
‘do it appropriately’.
You from Japan.
English language lessons.
Sitting shy at 
back of class.
Gentle Japanese man.
Summer-intensive class,
you bought calm.
Learning English to 
study Violin at
Royal College London.
Moment seeing you 
smile at my 
lucky dragon shirt.
Blue cotton shirt
with three dragons.
Number three is
my lucky number.
I wore...

Read and leave comments (0)

GREEN

First date.

Instant spark.

Called you

obscenity as

term endearment.

‘Don’t shag,

first date’,

you said.

You let

that kiss

turn snog

linger linger

longer than

any shag

I’d had.

Invite you

to my

shows. You

come. I

act dumb

around you.

Like you

just some

bloke I

know. All

I wanted

was you.

Everybody el...

Read and leave comments (0)

‘A right piece of work’, so the story goes

that’s what Mum said or the truth she chose

about Mrs Jeffreys of Tunbridge Wells 

Mum’s great aunty, her Aunty Rose

Despite her rather dowdy clothes

and crooked teeth and her wonky nose

My great great aunty, Aunty Rose

looked rather sweet in old photos

Like parents, both tight so and so’s

My great great aunty, A...

Read and leave comments (2)

You text me

and I’m back

in my twenties.

Seems like now,

you and me,

far from done.

It’s as if

last twenty years

did not happen.

I want to

send you back

‘I miss you’.

I then remember

and I'm back

in the fire.

I would text,

you would only

reply when drunk.

I should reply:

‘NUMBER NOT AVAILABLE.

Fuck right off'...

Read and leave comments (2)

Don’t lock yourself!

Don’t lock yourself!

Don’t lock yourself!

Don’t lock yourself!

The lock is broken!

Don’t mock yourself!

Don’t knock yourself!

Shake up yourself!

Wake up yourself!

Wake the unwoken!

Don’t lock yourself!

Unblock yourself!

Unlock yourself

and shock yourself!

Speak,be outspoken!

Read and leave comments (0)

JEREMY HUNT

MY DATE IS OUT THE FRONT

MY DATE IS OUT THE FRONT

I’M GONNA TAKE A PUNT

I’M GONNA TAKE A PUNT

I’M GONNA TAKE A PUNT

I’M GONNA TAKE A PUNT

CALL HIM RIGHT JEREMY HUNT

CALL HIM RIGHT JEREMY HUNT

CALLED HIM A JEREMY HUNT

CALLED HIM A JEREMY HUNT

WAS OUR DATE UP THE SHUNT?

WAS OUR DATE UP THE SHUNT?

WAS OUR DATE UP THE SHUNT?

WAS...

Read and leave comments (0)

BEAST

There’s a beast in me, it’s lurking

It don’t make any sense

He comes out when I least expect it

He’s watching through the fence

The beast brings out this side of me

that likes to cause offence

I tried to beat him out of me

but the beast is too intense

There’s a beast in me, he’s lurking

His beat is so immense

Tried hard to make amens with him

but can...

Read and leave comments (1)

For the unreciprocated,

the obsessive,

the infatuated,

and the envious,

a late night lament for the reckless homosexual.

Only in the calm of the night

and the quiet of an alone bed

at midnight, can I write this

only now, twenty years on.

Only under flickering screen

in the cold light of night, with memories for company,

now I see it, plain as day.

...

Read and leave comments (1)

Sign spotted on Pizza Express men's toilet cubicle outside door, then wrote poem. 'Wock' comes from Lean, a polysubstance drink used as recreational drug. Other names include "sizzurp", "wock", "Texas tea", "mud", "dirty Sprite".

Don’t lock yourself!

Don’t lock yourself!

Don’t lock yourself!

Don’t lock yourself!

The lock is broken!

Don’t lock yourself!

Don’t lock yourself...

Read and leave comments (0)

Dear Lee Campbell, you care to write

‘Your poem sent is sheer delight’

You list the things you say you like

then reject it, you say polite

as my poem is not quite ‘right’

for your journal, which if i might

reply to you and say despite

me wanting take you out for fight

I say ‘Thank you’, like I’m Snow White

Dear editor, you’re talking shite

F*ck off you tw*t, get ...

Read and leave comments (0)

Sunflowers perfume, eau de toilette

Mum’s favourite by Elizabeth Arden

When I catch its scent, the memory I get

is embarrassment in my mate’s garden

In the Eighties, we both lived in rural Kent,

just outside the village of Marden

I once caught him gardening in the nude,

my good mate Gary Barden

Little seeds in me had been sewn by he

I said ‘Ooh, I beg your pardon’

Read and leave comments (0)

https://youtu.be/g145nQ41VOs

Sun in my eyes

Warmth on my face

It’s a surprisingly warm day for March

I’m on the beach at Clacton

Mum is on a cruise around the Med with Aunty Jan

They are on the top deck

sipping Malibu and coke

Topping up their tan

Sun in their eyes

That’s what I tell myself

Every time I get the sun in my eyes

I think of Mum

Read and leave comments (0)

C.U.T.E is YOU!

SEXY GESICHT HAST DU! 

Eins, zwei, Polizei!

Sechs!, funf!, vier!, drei!

I spy my eye

Cute German guy 

Eins, zwei, Konditorei!

Cute Cologne guy

I can’t deny 

look in my eye 

Eins, zwei, Spiegelei!

Spy Spandau guy

Makes me feel high 

as kite in sky

C.U.T.E is YOU!

SEXY KÖRPER HAST DU! 

Eins, zwei, Abgabenfrei!

Read and leave comments (0)

https://youtu.be/hTY2RCGZp40

Dear Rufus (the dog), 

Da Vinci drew the body to help him understand

I too have learnt about you using pencils in my hand

Four years since I first drew you

Many lessons been learned

Drawing helps overcome my dog fear

The tables have turned

It’s okay Rufus you can have them, you can take all my chips

And my pizza, take it all, c...

Read and leave comments (0)

Carol

‘Smeddle, Smith and Smyth. Carol speaking, how can I help you today?’

Dad

‘Yes,  Mr Campbell speaking.  Is that the solicitors?’, said Dad,

‘I’m enquiring about the power of ….

er… that thing you know when we all go a bit doolally up above

I’d like my son to make decisions on my behalf for him to have, he wrote it down for me

Ah, yes, I’d like to enquire about my son ...

Read and leave comments (1)

WINSTON CHURCHILL’S  PROSTATE

Mum worked as a legal secretary and known throughout the land

for her impressive skills  in the art of SHWPM

That’s the rate of words per minute you can write shorthand 

As a child I’d find Mum’s notes around the home wrote in way I could not understand 

All squiggles and doodles and funny letters weirdly written full stops and ampersand 

S...

Read and leave comments (0)

https://youtu.be/-aFDhomDI40

You tried to get me cancelled

‘cause I associate

You tried to get me cancelled

with folk you claim to hate

You tried to get me cancelled

You tried to seal my fate

You tried to get me cancelled

I remember the date

You tried to get me cancelled

October twenty eight

You tried to get me cancelled

Whilst mum was in a state

You tried to...

Read and leave comments (0)

https://youtu.be/wHKWfFYxAoE

Sun in my eyes

Warmth on my face

It’s a surprisingly warm day for March

I’m on the beach at Clacton

Mum is on a cruise around the Med with Aunty Jan

They are on the top deck

sipping Malibu and coke

Topping up their tan

Sun in their eyes

That’s what I tell myself

Every time I get the sun in my eyes

I think of Mum

Fro...

Read and leave comments (0)

Sun in my eyes 

Warmth on my face 

It’s a surprisingly warm day for March

I’m on the beach at Clacton 

Mum is on a cruise around the Med with Aunty Jan

They are on the top deck 

sipping Malibu and coke 

Topping up their tan 

Sun in their eyes 

That’s what I tell myself

Everytime I get the sun in my eyes

I think of Mum

From that photo of her

before s...

Read and leave comments (3)

https://youtu.be/lWz2ru4AGII

It’s early Summer

Dad is out the back again

Gardening in between cricket from the Ashes

If it’s not football, it’s the cricket

He’s digging a hole to plant a bush

Not digging where squirrels stash their Winter food

It’s now mid-Winter

Dad is out the back again

Squirrels feast on nuts and berries 

He’s digging a hole to bury ashes

Read and leave comments (1)

https://youtu.be/moEx8wdf80Q

It’s early Summer 

Dad is out the back again

Gardening in between cricket from the Ashes

If it’s not football, it’s the cricket

He’s digging a hole to plant a bush

Not digging where squirrels stash their Winter food

It’s now mid Winter 

Dad is out the back again 

Squirrels feast on nuts and berries  

He’s digging a hole to bury ashes 

Read and leave comments (3)

https://youtu.be/AegG6yElMko

World turned dark, stopped her heart

Parent pending, sudden ending

Stopped her heart, fell apart

Sudden ending, life upending

Fell apart, blown apart

Life upending, time suspending

Blown apart, ripped apart

Time suspending, no pretending

Ripped apart, so damn hard

No pretending, uncomprehending

So damn hard, this end can mark

Un...

Read and leave comments (0)

https://youtu.be/t92lrUC5lUk

USED TO BE  

Used to be slim

Used to be trim

Used to get ‘Wouldn’t mind getting with him!’

Used to be star

in the gay bar

Used to get ‘Ooh, how handsome you are’

Used to take mates

Out on some dates

Bar taken now over by straights

Used to be fit

Work out a bit

Used to get ‘Look at the bottom on it!’

Used to be young...

Read and leave comments (1)

proper

proper job

proper nob

proper mint

proper skint

proper bent

proper meant

proper rude

proper chewed

proper slim

proper Jim

proper mate

proper gate

proper bloke

proper woke

proper full

proper cool

proper less

proper guess

proper half

proper laugh

proper script

proper flipped

proper porn

proper gone

proper ...

Read and leave comments (0)

https://youtu.be/CRRkI2QZaPQ

If you can’t find what you’re looking for

If you can’t find what you’re looking for

If you can’t find what you’re looking for

Why don’t you look in the fridge?  

If you can’t find the cheese that you’re looking for

If you can’t find the keys that you’re looking for

Or the birds and the bees that you’re looking for

Listen please, look ...

Read and leave comments (0)

https://youtu.be/RBtG8fBmjrI

If you can’t find what you’re looking for

If you can’t find what you’re looking for

If you can’t find what you’re looking for

Why don’t you look in the fridge?

If you can’t find the cheese that you’re looking for

If you can’t find the keys that you’re looking for

Or the birds and the bees that you’re looking for

Listen please, look in ...

Read and leave comments (0)

https://youtu.be/t6ugaGR59zs

An opportunity, school bullies never missed

An ingenuity, of rhyme they couldn’t resist

See Martin hadn’t he, slept with a girl or kissed

by time he in Year 3, were boys on Martin’s list

‘Oi! Martin Grist with your limp wrist!’

‘Oi! Martin Grist with your limp wrist!’

Like Martin Grist with his limp wrist, me too I liked a man

Out of u...

Read and leave comments (0)

https://youtu.be/vfzTa5iLSso

To finger is a verb, but I’ve never liked the noun

They pushed me to the curb on primary school playground

They never made a noise, they never made a sound

Those 1980s boys would tease me with  their finger

TRIGGER, TRIGGER FINGER 

PULL THE TRIGGER FINGER

It wasn’t what they say, that used to make me frown

I used to hate the way,  ...

Read and leave comments (1)

Oh God, I hate these station stairs

Anticipate my mind despairs

Commuters looking everywheres

Like I’m the weight of fifty bears

Go down with mates in twos and pairs

Push past the mums with their pushchairs

Or overtake me if you dares

Exaggerate but so unfairs

They escalate all kind of glares

Downstairs I go and want to swears

Tip toe and slow but still what flare...

Read and leave comments (0)

Himbo himbo, do you know the lingo?

Gay man slang for gay male bimbo

Himbo himbo, have you got the lingo"

His name’s James but he’s ‘Himbo Jimbo’

Himbo Jimbo whilst he’s reading Rimbaud

trying to look smart with his legs apart akimbo

Himbo Jimbo, so you’re not in limbo

Shiny decorations looking shit just after Chrimbo

Himbo Jimbo, name’s got quite a ringo

Say...

Read and leave comments (0)

You gave me an STD

So said the nurse in the pharmacy

You gave me an STD

Her proctoscope up inside of me

You gave me an STD

Sitting on the throne like His Majesty

You gave me an STD

So said the bloke on the BBC

You gave me an STD

Sitting on your throne on your lavatory

You gave me an STD

Sitting out the back on your balcony

You gave me an STD

So s...

Read and leave comments (0)

In me and Alex’s bedroom, an emergency summit

for a group of bears to discuss an eventual whodunnit

In attendance are teddies, the soft-type cuddly toy

Many like Angus and Sooty, I’ve had since I was a boy

Chief Bear Ted begins, ‘We are here to discuss today

what must be done to keep Rufus away

He comes into our bedroom

We’re shoved in cupboard or drawer

to keep us out of...

Read and leave comments (0)

see me

learn me

write me

join my letters up.

headline

sideline ­

suffix

crucify the fix.

adverb

advent

address

advert of a dress.

letter

second

stamp

authoritative clunk!

article

artichoke

artist

antichrist in the antichoke.

icky-sticky

print me

in icky-sicky absolute.

catchphrase

paraphras...

Read and leave comments (0)

https://youtu.be/oyEOIXnPfYk

Why did you cut my toenails jagged

on the day I came out, Mum?

That night I lay awake thinking

‘Does Mum not love me anymore?’

Did you have a conversation with the scissors 

on that day I came out, Mum?

Blade stabbed my toe

Gushed with blood

You didn’t put on a bandage

Didn’t kiss it better

You can’t hoover up memo...

Read and leave comments (0)

https://youtu.be/lK6x_RTy5lQ

I, indignantes pollice

I am a most indignant thumb

Digitus pollex (thumb)

Me, pollex, the most powerful digit

Infestus pollex (hostile thumb)

Pollice verso (turned thumb)

Not just the separated finger from a family of four on your hand

Don’t underestimate my pollex (power)

for magic and healing

in controlling access to the gods

Lik...

Read and leave comments (1)