White Face, Foreign Hands has won First Prize in the Workplace Racism category of the 2025 Black in White Poetry Competition. Drawn from experiences working in NHS hospitals, it explores racism, exceptionalism, and the lingering legacy of colonialism.| Musings from a Stonehead
In Wishful Thinking, Dennis Johnstone reimagines the genie myth through a bleakly comic lens — where every wish exposes the futility of human logic and the price of understanding. A philosophical satire on cause, contentment, and collapse.| Musings from a Stonehead
A sardonic poem about online forms, conditional logic, and the absurd quest to prove our validity in digital systems that keep rejecting us. Witty, exasperated, and darkly human.| Musings from a Stonehead
[silence]workgrindbreak.repeat.hoperots.nothingmeansanything.thenend.[silence]…[silence]godmyth.priestslie.prayerfails.faithrots.nothingwaits.[silence]…[silence]voteclown.spinscheme.breakpromise.lo…| Musings from a Stonehead
Featherfall(An allegory.)At first light,under a bruised sky,the First Raven rose—hackles oiled,black mood on black air.”Freedom!” he cried,the Conspiracy lifted with him—razor beaks,tun…| Musings from a Stonehead
Lesley’s recent comment about enjoying surrealist poetry prompted me to gather these four poems—each a philosophical romp dressed in absurdity—for her enjoyment. The Gut Instinct GambitWhat is intu…| Musings from a Stonehead
Tweedledum, Tweedledee, and the Indecent Moon is a surrealist parody of philosophical debate—where logic wears gloves, clouds gossip, and the moon mediates nonsense. A playful duel between percepti…| Musings from a Stonehead
The Reapers’ QueueOne stood to claim, but none could close –his breath a thread too thin to hold.They passed the name from scythe to claws,from cloak to bone, from reach to held.The bell had …| Musings from a Stonehead
