David Ralph Lewis's Blog

What good is this scattering over the grass, this gold and white confetti, these eyes opening at dawn and closing in the twilight? These are Freya’s flowers and she is welcome to them. We have no use for blooms. Callous gods, you cannot substitute one beauty for another. What help is protection now? Your garlands […]

Echoes and edges were kind enough to set my poem ‘How to hear the hills’to an incredible deep soundtrack as part of their live stream collaboration. You can watch it here. They also sent me an mp3 of the song and I’ve uploaded it to soundcloud. Find that here. What they’ve done with mmy poem […]

Taken from the reviews page of Crack Magazine, March 2020

Taken from the review pages of Crack magazine, March 2020

I regret to inform you the world does not require your attention, it is still generous with it’s gifts.

From Bristol: In Stereo March 2020 edition

PhaethonOfficial: We are here at the tenth Future of Computational Intelligence conference (#FCIC10). We sponsor a number of PhD students, excited to see their findings! ProfSam: Key note in ten minutes. Still get nervous even now. Wish me luck! #FCIC10 ElaineEvans: @ProfSam You’ll be great ProfSam: @ElaineEvans Thanks for inviting me. fr0gk!ller: @ProfSam I hope […]

Im very grateful to have a poem up on Nine Muses Poetry called Imposter. Its a strange little piece and Im glad its found a good home. Check it out here One of my poems Hollow Passengers was also set to an awesome improvised soundtrack by Charlie and Jake as part of their Echoes and []

I joined a virtual poetry workshop yesterday run by the wonderful Tonic and wrote this: Fading Singing soft chimes under her breath, she kisses each ear of wheat, borrows yellow from sunflower petals before smearing each cloud with evening, takes indigo from the blackberries, then stops, not satisfied with her canvas. Sighing, she grabs a []

These radishes distilled the sun, turning it deep scarlet.