jerry simcock

Detail from a recent oil painting

Hmmm

Text of poem - Looking. I thought I heard a voice saying to me: 'Don't look now, but I made them, too.' What was I here for but to look? Through knotted fingers, a prisoner at a grating, I peered out at the men at the boardroom tables with no 'God is love' hanging on the wallpaper behind them; at others bent over their retorts, accomplices in the escape of the djinn out of its bottle. I saw the inventors of the white lie exporting it to a third world where truth was in tatters. I listened to the hands, expert on the guitar, tuning the human instrument until the strings broke. I saw the dove plucked of its feathers by too much fondling at the peace conference, and beat on the sky for an explanation. But the voice said: ‘I warned you not to look’.

‘Looking’ - #RSThomas
(The Poetry Book Society Anthology 1988-1989, Hutchinson)
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Awful!

Thank you!🙏🏻

Cheers!

Thanks Wayne!

Cheers John!

Cheers Diana!

cheers!

Cheers Bryan and yes, been good..

Have to admit to feeling a bit knackered!

71 today.an interesting and varied week - meditation group, a visit to the Walled Garden project to discuss willow and enjoy the pond, enjoyed doing some art with the P3’s and 4’s s at the school and will be doing more next week to help them with an exhibition / great fun with imaginary animals…

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Yes! Beautiful…

Revisiting

Erm … muckabout with figure

Just finished - so enjoyed its poetry and how it comes at you at all angles and different voices. I’m a Geetanjali Shree fan and loved Tomb of Sand. And many congratulations to Rabul Soni for the marvellous translation @andotherstories.bsky.social
#books #literature

Sentimental Value (2025) | MUBI Nora, a successful stage actress, reunites with her estranged father, Gustav Borg—a once-renowned film director planning a comeback with a script based on their family. When Gustav offers Nora the lea...

mubi.com/films/sentim... Just watched - so good… a masterpiece I think…

Thrilled to share the poem just published by @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social
‘HEAVENLY BODIES’

Do read the beautiful #poetry in the journal and enjoy the accompanying audio versions too.

www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-1-2026

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Re-wind

A metal standpipe set into a wall with brass taps and a brass chain hanging from it.

📸 | Standpipe / Steigrohr. Arequipa, Peru (2025)
'Ketten' #FotoVorschlag

Beautiful Pat!

Psalm

Deep calls out
to deep, cell
to cell in the
nervous system,

lack to lack, hollow
to hollow
in the rock.
In the heart.

-Stephen Williams

Glorious day for a riverside walk in Haddington yesterday - many smiles and greetings from humans and dogs!

George Seurat, "Madame Seurat, the Artist's Mother," conté crayon drawing, c.1882-83; The J. Paul Getty Museum. #portrait #drawing #seurat #bw #bandw #blackandwhite #monochrome #modernart #art #arte #museum #artgallery

Just random sprouting from the trunk I think...Not much mistletoe in East Lothian...though I do know of one spot...hope all good with you

The new edition of @madridlitmag is out today and I am so pleased to have my poem Snowman published in the company of so many great writers. Thanks to all who have made this publication happen and I’m so looking forward to reading my copy. #writing #poetry