Poems, prayers and art that open our whole being to greater stories of who we are, what we love and the practices of rewilding our imaginations.
Wilderness and Words: An Exploration of Belonging
During the COVID times, I began to inhabit the poet in my nature. I wrote poems when the moment demanded that I write, and the work that flowed through me was a mixture of processing the variety of experiences, conversations and relationships of the times, alongside making sense of the inner world that was changing within me to meet the challenges.
Over the 4 years since, I have developed a style of poetry which explores what it is to be human, and feel a deep connection and belonging to what is inside us, and outside the borders of our physical bodies.
Since the beginning of 2023, I began to feel that at 42/43, I am reaching the half way point in life, and these poems are the gift that has emerged from my explorations of being a father, community member, worker bee, butterfly, dancer and adventurer.
In the summer of 2023, I worked with a friend and film maker Daniel Martins, to collate a series of poems and turn a few of them into short films, as part of a work experience week with my son and a friends daughter. This time we spent together, in conversation as we walked the wilderness and the city landscape of Bath, reminded us all how important deep, long form, intergenerational conversations are.
In the summer of 2024, as we met another transition moment in our family lives, I reflect on how the poems have now become prayers and offerings towards to collective imagination work I am involved in. Ceilidhs, rites of passage, exploring eldership and more.
Below you will find the two curated collections of work that I have put together, plus a number of other poems that I choose to share. I hope they nourish you, as they do me and my friends.
The untaming and rewilding of belonging
This is a series of 12 poems, which welcome ourselves and our experiences, our ancestors, the world in which we are one part, and which includes all elements of an animate life. These poems are experiences, to be taken into wilder places, where you can find time and space for yourself to feel the work and reflect on what is alive in them for you.
Twelve Poems For You…
Feel the interconnection of life—air, water, earth—and let the rhythmic words guide you into a deep and tender sense of belonging.
Explore life’s endless greetings, where familiar emotions and relationships reappear, each shaped by time’s flow and the gentle changes it brings to our hearts..
Delve into buried truths and inherited pain. This reflection calls us to acknowledge the past and courageously shape a freer, more authentic collective future.
A single breath opens infinite paths. This meditative poem explores the beauty of stillness, becoming, and the unknown journeys life quietly invites us toward.
This tender reflection on life’s quiet patterns invites you to notice the subtle, unspoken desires for connection, belonging, and support we all share.
Amidst life’s endless roles and responsibilities, pause and reconnect with your deeper purpose—an invitation to nurture yourself, others, and the generations still to come.
A reflective journey into value, community, and abundance. Reimagine how we gather, share, and co-create a life-affirming existence rooted in connection and mutual care.
Celebrate love’s simple magic in everyday acts—cleaning, preparing, and creating spaces of care. Find beauty in the small, ordinary gestures where love blooms.
This tender exploration of intimacy reflects on the courage, messiness, and vulnerability required to embrace the complexities of falling in love anew.
A gentle call to men to release outdated masculinity, embrace authenticity, and reflect on the collective pain, unmet needs, and beauty of a liberated identity.
Witness grief and renewal through nature’s wisdom. This poignant reflection likens trees’ resilience to our own, weaving themes of connection, loss, and quiet rebirth.
Immerse in water’s symbolism, exploring surrender and connection. This poem invites reflection on our place in life’s vast, interconnected web of relationships and flow.
More Gifts to You
