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Respite care rubs both ways
After making her coffee and lunch in the hospice kitchen, I find respite in my book of poems which can hold a hand, an eye, an ear, but...

Greg Judkins
Jul 22
I don't know about this rain
I don’t know about this rain that’s greyed my day with grainy streaks and tricked me into a few winks upright on the sofa while I thought...

Greg Judkins
Jul 22
a haiku
one royal spoonbill white against mud and mangrove dull summer

Greg Judkins
Jul 22
Johan's last call
i.m. Johan Morreau, paediatrician and cricketer I’m nearing the end now pulling oars over a calm lake in some ways it’s a relief Kids and...

Greg Judkins
Jul 22
Blow
A wind lifts the leaves in the trees as two brown hens ruffle down in the grass and I tug my cap down to my ears pleased to not be...

Greg Judkins
Jul 22
Kathmandu refresh
There is recognition in these worn-out brick walls hung over with bougainvillea in cerise and dusty green and thick black bundles of...

Greg Judkins
Jan 5
Spheres
We experience the sun differently but all share the same cool moon as its phases paraphrase our fortunes from Auckland to Kathmandu.

Greg Judkins
Jan 5
Loyal
Pay for nine and get the tenth coffee free. It’s a thing at every café in town and we’ve acquired a collection of loyalty cards to...

Greg Judkins
Dec 3, 2024
Largo
For years I have used more salt and pepper to bring the tasteless food to life and grieved the death of flower fragrance. My...

Greg Judkins
Dec 3, 2024
In praise of difference
The Chinese in Cornwall Park are interesting. One lady claps her hands above her head while walking slowly backwards. A man strides ahead...

Greg Judkins
Dec 3, 2024
It’s a hard life
I struggle to stay with the other old buggers as we grind up the gravel road from Scandretts Bay to the ridge, a Tuesday morning...

Greg Judkins
Dec 3, 2024
The children
As if it is left to the dark rain-glossed trees burdened with bright ripe citrus and the long-fingered kikuyu that prowls the weathered...

Greg Judkins
Jul 18, 2024
Addressed to a can
O you can, can you, with your modest inscription of 4%, play the surprised innocent and deny your bullying? A mere 330ml, just a quiet...

Greg Judkins
Jul 18, 2024
The biggest people at the café this morning have the biggest plates
hash browns eggs mushrooms bacon muffins at quarter to eleven With only a latte to express my pleasure I accuse myself of...

Greg Judkins
Jul 18, 2024
Doing the joint over
It was down to bone on bone they said, but he shouldered on as each year ground on the year before until much to do was hard to reach so...

Greg Judkins
Mar 18, 2024
I met a stone
We shouldn't personify inanimate objects It's patronising and they don't like it On my morning foreshore walk I met a stone, grey and...

Greg Judkins
Mar 18, 2024
Also ran
I follow the news but do not set the pace teach what I was taught without invention and hook my carriage to a steady train the Thursday...

Greg Judkins
Feb 1, 2024
Sandcastles
With the luxury of summer time I ride one of my bikes around the warren of dead ends in Omaha winding through the web of sandy walkways...

Greg Judkins
Jan 6, 2024
Thirty years or thirty days
Thirty years, or thirty days the future hides while we close our eyes and count so we place our bets on a past track record while time...

Greg Judkins
Jan 6, 2024
Then as now
In 1209 at Beziers twenty thousand killed regardless of age or gender many seeking refuge in the Madeleine Church some put to the sword...

Greg Judkins
Jan 6, 2024
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