Invisible Congregation - Signet Library, Edinburgh (26-27/10/16)

If I should say ‘I do’

It will be among friends,

Those who have changed my life,

Whom I think of every day.

They will need no invite

But play host instead,

Welcoming my guests

With tacit grandeur.

I will see them as I walk

Down the aisle

And remember the adventures

We had at the turn of a page.

Imagine them shed a silent tear

Like my mother would,

To see me dressed in white.

To Feed a Poet - Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh (25/10/16)

Poetry exists on every level:

The thought, the written,

The spoken, the heard.

It must persist in every form,

At any time,

Simultaneously.

As the mind hates a vacuum,

It was a chance for Scotland

To insist

That such a place must be,

For the word to live both on

And off the page;

To coexist within the confines

Of the provided space.

A performance poet’s paradise,

The bread and butter

On which they subsist.