I am pleased that some of five of my poems - Envoi, Water Works,
To A New Priest, Lifting and Cadwr wenyn have been published in the latest edition of Theology (Vol. 124 No.4 July 2021),
Single copies of the journal can be purchased via Sage Publishing
Email: subscriptions@sagepub.co.uk or Phone: +44 20 7324 8701.

What follows is a work in progress, I welcome suggestions on its improvement.
I would not normally be putting this out but after the leader of the dishonest, inept and corrupt administration of what passes for a UK government made his view clear, I thought it worth asking some questions.....
 
                     MARBLES

Is it a truth or beauty that calls you a thief?
Broke but nobly connected you somehow
convinced mother parliament, no doubt by the brief
of your class, to pay thousands to put on show
part of ill-gotten gains. You claimed you acquired
these statues legitimately, using your post in diplomacy
to build up the nation’s cultural capital, required
to understand classical inheritance. It’s a fantasy.
So some say, but the inheritors claim you had permission.
Whose hands can touch the missing firman? I bet ambition
burns in the well connected liar in a government of blue
never to return the Parthenon’s jewels. Beauty is not always true.
 
 
© Kevin Scully 2021

People are starving
Pumpkins become jack'o'lights
All you need to know.

© Kevin Scully 2020

There is a new journal of religious poetry.

If you want to learn more about it, this blog may help.

Oh, and you will find three of my poems in the launch edition.

As kids we mucked
about in mud,
dabbled in dirt,
frolicked in filth.
 
But lockdown love
means sep’rate beds;
intimate space
holds new meanings:
 
Social distance,
isolated,
selves sealed off by
lines on the ground.
 
Hygienic hands
waving hello
while longing hearts
dare not unleash.

© Kevin Scully 2020

My neighbour could infect me
So I will stay away from him.
My neighbour might subject me;
Good thoughts of him grow grim.
My neighbour may dissect me--
I’ll have to tear him limb from limb.
Yet my neighbour can protect me
So why not shelter him?
 
© Kevin Scully 2020
 
This is an early draft. Any comments to shape it better? Get in contact.

Button lips
Open heart
Open book
Open mind

© Kevin Scully 2020

Light lushes on leaves
Angled sunshine on birch trees
Birds’ beaks bark questions

© Kevin Scully 2020

Another purchase
It is one more gift for you
My executor

© Kevin Scully 2019

Chinese tourists
go to Blackman's
to buy English
shoes that are made
in China.
Go figure.

© Kevin Scully 2019


Blackman's is a shoe shop - Cash is King, no cards- in London's East End.
'In God we trust; all others pay cash'.