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9th February 2025

Rest in peace dear Tanmay

Photo by Magova G on Pexels.com It’s with a heavy heart that I tell you that my close friend and fellow blogger Tanmay Philip has passed away. He died yesterday, and his family held the funeral today. I didn’t attend … Read the rest Continue reading

personal

death, depression, life, personal, poet, suffering, tanmay philip
5th June 2024

Dear readers

To subscribe to my newsletter, use the widget below (if it works) or scroll to the bottom of my homepage and find it. I’ll be sending you content I don’t post here. So please sign up if you’re interested. Don’t … Read the rest Continue reading

letter

blogging, blogs, creative writing, life, newsletter, poetry, readers, writing
14th February 2026

Grunge

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com You took an antihistamine for a cold yesterday and fell out of love with grunge. The attitude, the revolution, the drop-D tuning, and the flannel and jeans no longer appealed to you. The downer dried … Read the rest Continue reading

poetry

blogging, creative writing, depression, haibun, life, love, poetry, prose poem, writing
21st January 2026

When nothing is enough

Trigger warning: This poem, though fictional deals with severe depression, suicide, grief. I visited you in the hospital yesterday. You’d survived your second attempt, much more gruesome than the first. People from church who never asked you how you were… Read the rest Continue reading

Uncategorized

creative writing, depression, grief, heartbreak, life, love, Poems, poet, poetry
21st January 2026

Yesterday

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com All that we saw and knew we no longer seem to know as we sit, hands clasped, the crimson twilight caressing the contours of our aged, pockmarked faces. Time is a fickle thing, tossing … Read the rest Continue reading

Uncategorized

age, alzheimer's, creative writing, dementia, life, memory, poem, poetry, sad
21st January 2026

Anaesthetised

Photo by Rene Asmussen on Pexels.com While they carted me away in the ambulance, I shouted out verses from the Bible, and held up my hands like Moses did, hoping for a victory. But something told the wild geese, it … Read the rest Continue reading

flash, poetry

creative writing, depression, dVerse, emotions, empty, flash, life, poetry, prose
23rd December 2025

Facade

Photo by Jonathan Córdova R on Pexels.com You tried defying convention while chained to its altar. Didn’t you realise that you were always a sacrifice? You can’t kill a raging bull by swatting it. When you’re in the brazen bull,… Read the rest Continue reading

poetry

creative writing, freedom, life, love, poetry, relationships, sarcasm, satire, society
20th December 2025

Alone

There are a million galaxies, a trillion stars and tens of thousands of habitable planets. So, we send signals out, hoping some alien civilisation will catch them and begin communication with us, possibly inviting us to join a federation they … Read the rest Continue reading

creative writing

aliens, creative writing, depression, fiction, funny, life, loneliness, science
11th December 2025

Three Simple Sonnets

Photo by antonio filigno on Pexels.com A simple man I saw a blazing sign in bloodless skies! And so, I must obey! The shields they paint! We won the war! I must erase the taint! Both foolish men, and dirty … Read the rest Continue reading

poetry

constantine, creative writing, life, meter, poetry, rhyme, sonnet, sorrow
3rd December 2025

All we ever had

Photo by Bob Ward on Pexels.com Trigger warning When I married you, I didn’t think of bliss, but something steady through the trials, the clock ticking and our stars gently glowing, giving us what we needed, but time surprised me … Read the rest Continue reading

poetry

creative writing, depression, life, love, poetry, relationships, suffering
3rd December 2025

On Emptiness

Maybe it sprouted from some festering wound in the earth in some mephitic cave and travelled thousands of miles, guided by dark hands to settle on me or perhaps it’s inherent, some faulty code in the matrix of my mind,… Read the rest Continue reading

poetry

apathy, creative writing, depression, madness, poetry, suffering, writing
18th November 2025

For sale

Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels.com I plan on selling my sorrow to the nearest idiot who wants to write. I can get rich while he treats sadness like an aphrodisiac, making love to a muse with blades for thighs. … Read the rest Continue reading

poetry

creative writing, depression, figurative, life, poetry, prose poetry, relationships, sorrow, suffering

Poetry, Essays, Short Stories, Flash Fiction, Creative writing

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