Summer of ’88
"Be Kind Rewind"
Here I was again back in the good old Summer of 88. It was the summer I first fell in love and nothing and no one had compared since. There were things I needed to do differently this time around...
courage
Pair Parts of Our Pleasure
"Questioning the shamefulness of sex."
When what’s exhibited and private can be a plethora of pleasure,When disguise and disclosure can dance together, without defamation,When the celebration and the secret can be pair parts of our leisure,Name-calling and nastiness might then absent and abscond from our...
I heard it again,"We can still be friends"!That cringe worthy phrase uttered,when a relationship ends. They never mean it.Yet everyone pretends,that the band aid will hold,till your heart mends. Your in-box remains empty,the phone deathly silent.Yet you puff out your chest,and flash...
She heard footstepsIn the hallway of her heartSomeone had entered and stolenA part she never knew existedNever claimed as hersTo begin with. And to begin withShe never started this guardedUntil a fireplace – ill-tended –Went up in flames. No warmth...
The ocean's tides beckoned me closer while the shiny shelllured you away. The revelation of your follycultivated my sadness. Did you think sheshone brighterthan me? How easily you denied me andsnatched away what you had promised me. You alone own the failureof what was us. You won the...
The Last Flight. Chapter 4
"Is the the end of the road for Karen?"
My eyes focussed on the horrific scene before me. The cabin was largely intact, but not as it had been. Windows were broken, the luggage racks had come down and bags and their contents were strewn everywhere. Interior panelling was...
Licking One’s Handicaps—A Love Story in Rhyme
"A man overcomes an inability to perform oral sex."
I knew a chap who was quite pissedabout his bad cunnilinguswhen with his lovely blond-haired lass named Beth.For no matter how he triedwhen he was done poor Beth just sighed,“That didn’t do it, Horace!” in one breath.It mattered not his...