John's writing includes all sorts of poetry and prose :-
including short stories, articles, extracts from larger pieces of work for film and the theatre.

The Lady with Tattoos

She has her eggs at breakfast time
The lady with tattoos
she could be born in Leichtenstein
The lady with tattoos
She has a bright red lily twining half way up her arm
She sees the world through bright pink rims in positive regard
She wants to have a kid now, living solo's getting hard,
She's had her fill of clubbing she likes sitting at the bar
With an anchor on her ankle
Just above her plastic shoes
She has reached a threshold moment
Has the lady with tattoos.

Soft

Soft
The world in white silence clad
`Til…
Scrape
The shovel rips white cotton world.

Then crow
Or seagull
Breaks the sound suspense
In a sense offensive
Innocence offended.

Soft
The contours of sweet slumber girl
Still warmth…
To countenance the rise and fall
Beside myself
In welcome duvet wrapped….

Soft.