John Alexander McFadyen : Writing

A Brief Moment

A Brief Moment

A Poem by John Alexander McFadyen


A Brief Moment There is no beauty in parting. Love it seems is all imagination when you are alone; hard, icy solitary thoughts. You feel the lead..
Something You Took

Something You Took

A Poem by John Alexander McFadyen


Something You Took You didn’t love me at all. In your suffering and pain I was just your paracetamol to dull the ache and mask the guilt; ..
Hope

Hope

A Poem by John Alexander McFadyen


Hope I have a cancer in my heart; a growing viscous tumour, that threatens to crush my soul. I stand in the idolatry of bitterness listening for ..
Masks

Masks

A Poem by John Alexander McFadyen


Masks What pain is hidden by the masks of the workers crowded on the trainor the shoppers you pass in town?What angst is buried in their souls and to..
They

They

A Poem by John Alexander McFadyen


They I don’t feel like writing poetry, there is no prose in my heart, no lyrics in my head. Only the emptiness, the gaping hole of loneline..
Safe Shores

Safe Shores

A Poem by John Alexander McFadyen


Safe Shores I never swam for fear of drowning, slipping helpless below the surface of life until exhausted of oxygen. I play the images in my head..
Dunblane

Dunblane

A Poem by John Alexander McFadyen


Dunblane I wept for the children of Dunblane as another madman is released from behind the reassuring walls of Broadmoor Hospital. I wept.... I we..
Don't Diss Becks

Don't Diss Becks

A Poem by John Alexander McFadyen


Don't Diss Becks Hey Ferguson What have you done? You've only gone and sold Football's greatest son to some Dago spiv. Now where's Victoria and ..
You Left Me to Drown

You Left Me to Drown

A Poem by John Alexander McFadyen


You left me to drown You brought me hope when I had none and I fell completely. I took you in my heart and held you oh so dearly. I hold you the..
In The Shallows

In The Shallows

A Poem by John Alexander McFadyen


In the Shallows In the shallows of my mind I wallow in the shameful pity that life has shown me. I paddle in the breaking foam, bare feet wet in ..