With my thanks to William for posting

A concrete poem prompted by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his Sonnet to the River Otter

My thanks to Nick and Rupert for posting my poem on IT this morning.

Read the poem here: https://internationaltimes.it/ribaldry/

Pleased to have a TextArt poem ‘Poetry Food Fetish’ in this The Alchemy Spoon book anthology

My thanks to Rupert and Nick for posting my poem at International Times today.

You can read the poem here: https://internationaltimes.it/having-to-concur/

Wonderful to have a poem up on this ‘free-verse/experimental/off-beat’ poetry site. With thanks to Jonathan.

Read the poem here: https://fixatorpress.home.blog/2025/09/19/ambush-by-mike-ferguson/

(image by Rupert Loydell)

A Mother

I forget
how my friends

will still have
their mothers.

They visit
or even talk

from a distance
still here.

There is so
much technology

too.
I imagine

catching the train
or airplane

or even driving –
though I am not sure

why there
must be a

journey: it
just seems

there is somewhere
to travel to meet.

(20 years, and I think of and miss her these days more than ever – me now only 7 years younger than when she passed)

I have a TextArt piece with an artist/writer commentary in this important edition.

You can pre-order here: https://humanrightsartmovement.org/americas-slide-toward-authoritarianism-book

My thanks to Rupert and Nick for posting my poem on IT today. You can read the poem here: https://internationaltimes.it/a-level-of-obscurity/