Poems and musings from a UK–based Anglican priest
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The Bench Atop The Headland
Photo by Matthew White, taken on the headland overlooking Treyarnon Bay in Cornwall (22/08/2026)
The Bench Atop The Headland
How many weary soles
Have sought reprieve
On your sea–kissed rust?
How many versioned oce...
The Preacher's Words
The Preacher’s Words
As hollow as they are embodied,
as worthless as they are witnessed,
as selfish as they are generous,
as anaemic as they are energising,
as neglected as they are lived,
as foreign as they are familiar,...
On That Final Day
On That Final Day
On that final day
I’ll eat myself into oblivion;
give the reaper man task grim indeed.
I won’t shuffle nor be shifted
off this mortal coil
‘til pork scratchings aplenty
have tantalised my gizzard. Scissor...
Ode To Roonerspisms
Ode To Roonerspisms
The communal larking pot went up in flames;
A raging inferno was spilling the faces.
Apparently next door had tried to fight a liar
And Jill had been baking cock rakes again.
I was at home chewing my doors...
New Poem: Glen
“Glen Hansard” by Colin Davidson (born 1968)
These past few days have weighed heavy. The tragic news of Glen Hansard’s untimely death propelled me into a whirlwind of endless reels and sentimentally curated playlists and, in...
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Priest, poet and songwriter featured in The Way Back 2 Ourselves and Paddler Press. New poems each week on here. My debut collection, “Propelled into Wonder,” is out now!
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