Muddy Feet

I've made a collection of my recent poems and made it available on Amazon KDP.

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We are taught to wipe the mud from our shoes before entering the house.

But what if the mud is part of who we are?

In Muddy Feet, I present poems from the edges of ordinary life; dawn skies, sudden memories, childhood lessons, storms of the mind, and the quiet presence of the natural world.

With clarity, humour, and moments of deep reflection, these poems move through the parts of ourselves that do not always sit comfortably in polite rooms: doubt, longing, restlessness, tenderness, grief, and wonder.

Muddy Feet is a collection about noticing the world outside us, and the complicated landscape within.

Excerpt

Lighthouse

Upon the jagged rock it stands,

A light that shines to warn

Of perils deep and tides that sweep

Those stricken in a storm.

The villagers they note it not,

So constant is its ray.

Its beam’s been cast from times long past

Unmarked now in their play.

The light shines out into the night

Received by one afar

Who’s able now to guide their bow

Clear past the rocky bar.

And so it keeps its silent watch

While the village lies asleep

So few could name that burning flame

The sentinel of the deep.