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A day so silent
adults are weird
A fisherman holds his breath
A Fishy Tale

A Grandfather's Blessing

A home by the sea
A Midsummer's River Blessing
A quick ley line
(aka Happy Valley)
aka kalika
all power to the allotments

All Systems Go
Alvis Peace Camp
Amazon Grace
amble bumble bimble

Amphibianism (Matsuo Bashō minimalist Remix)
Animal instincts
April's clock

Auguries of Innocence & Eternity (mindfulness remix)
August moon

barefoot breakfast inside the mulberry trees of Florence Park
Bayern Munich 3 Arsenal 1 Mother 0
Beasts and demons
Bemused
Biblical certainty
bodhisattva dribble

Cape Wrath
Christopher Robin's first psychotherapy session
Closing prayer
Cycling back from Kirtlington quarry along the Oxford canal one early Sunday morning

Dig deep
Do the pheasants know why they are being fed so well?
Dragon Hill
dungeons and dragons

England sweet England (Budget Day Remix)
Every day a gift

Farewell Florence Park
Fire Water (King James Version)
for the person who stole my bicycle (on my birthday)
Forbidden fruit (stealing baked beans from my nephew's plate)

Genesis
god she was
God's spittle (doof doof doof doof mix)

Grandfather Fire
Greasing the Maypole
Grin Low Woods

Harry Pothead, the Stoned Philosopher
Hobo poet
holometabolic haiku
Holy Mary
Homesick Buddha Blues (Psalm 22 Authorized remix)
humankindness
hunters

If I could, I'd marry Nature
In exile
(in honour of) Matthew the Cat

In memoriam
In the commonwealth
In the lead up to Christmas
Inter-mammalian blessing amid the shadows of the ruins of Minster Lovell hall
Irritable Vowel Syndrome

Jennifer Death (& my mid-life crisis on the Isis)
Jerusalem (Glade remix)
(John Keats's lost) Ode to Absent Armpits
Just before dawn

Keeping the faith
Knock, Knock

kingfisher kingfisher sing me a song (Isis Remix)

Leaving Iona
Leonard kōan
Let it be
Lilith
literary flirtation
Lunchtime recital (on full pay)
Lurcher moon
Lying in wait

Makhosi!
Man down
March
Matins

May Daze
Middle Aged Ravers

Mid-morning in the chancel of my village church
My heart sings
Mustn't grumble
Mutual mastication
Mother and son

ne te lave pas
New Year's Day

one for the road
One Time! (a blessing for my friends in South Africa)
Opening Prayer


Picking wild raspberries in the early August woods
Pilgrim
Pilgrim, lift your weary face
Pilgrim's progress
Platform 2
Poem upon the 4th anniversary of disarming an F-111 fighter-bomber
Porkie pas?
Prayer for mum
process schmocess
puppy love

rock
Room enough for all
Ruby Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday...

S.T.D.
Saint Sid of Corby
sex & drugs & rock & roll
Snakes & Ladders

Song Of The Court Of Cyffdy
Stony Road
Strung out

Such kindness for this world
Sunday morning communion
symbiosis
syzygy (Julian of Norwich remix)

the calm
The devil's sweetheart
The Emperor's Same Old Clothes
The Feline Zen Buddha of Suburbia
the first frisbee of spring
The gardener of Aleppo

The Guest House (Old Peculier Bed & Breakfast Remix)
The hare and the oak
the ideology of the trees
The Illustrated Treasury of Poetry for Children
the mourning after pills
the muse returns
the night of day
The pacifist case restated
The Realm of the Beggar King
The Shaggy Bodhisattva Wagtail of Maidcroft Road (R.I.P.)
the shepherd and the sea
Them Babylon Blues
Thirsty to the well
This too shall pass
Three interim legislative measures to help us along the road towards the abolition of war
Three poets intercede
thus do I cuckold
tiananmen bicycles
Titled unpoem
triangular view of the end of the year

Triptych

Unmuffle the tongues of the funeral bells
Upon this very bridge

we ain't marching any more
Welcome
welcome
Weyland's Smithy
When a great royal oak falls
Who's there?

zen and the inevitable destruction of capitalism

25 reasons why men should wear skirts and dresses

56 Old Norse Words That Invaded The English Language
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