The captain is on the bridge. The captain peers into the distance and gently corrects the wheel. The captain smiles and begins to fade.
The ship ploughs into the mist. The mate appears with a different chart and we go 24 degrees to starboard. He fades …
Read More >Monday, August 6th, 2012 Category: Journal, Lyrics and Poems No Comments 
The tourist shop
I walked into a tourist shop
Where many tourists are
Funny hats and beachtowels
Beside a tourist bar
The temperature was rising
And the shop was dark and cool
A silence and a refuge
From the radio and pool.
I lifted this and fingered that
The shop girl said hello
And went back …
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 Category: Lyrics and Poems 1 Comment
Sometime in November I set myself the task of writing a haiku, or at least a short poem, each morning after meditation, and before breakfast. I managed it most mornings, and it was quite interesting to look through them again. They seemed to chart a …
Read More >Friday, January 2nd, 2009 Category: Lyrics and Poems 1 Comment
My room is silent
Knocking round the house downstairs
Your October cough
Norman Lamont 7/11/07
Read More >Saturday, November 10th, 2007 Category: Lyrics and Poems No Comments
A rainstick
Takes its time
To shower seeds
Along its spine
I wish I’d given
Ample cause
To justify
Its warm applause
All I did:
Rotate its axis
Pity I can’t
Apply the practice
To all those people
Who don’t know
How cool I am
How great …
Saturday, November 10th, 2007 Category: Lyrics and Poems No Comments
