Jonathan Beale has 400 plus poems published in such journals as:
Decanto, Penwood Review, The Screech Owl, Danse Macabre, Danse
Macabre du Jour, Poetic Diversity, Voices of Israel in English,
Miracle-E-zine, Voices of Hellenism Literary Journal, The Journal, Ink
Sweat & Tears, Down in the Dirt, The English Chicago Review, Mad Swirl,
Poetry Cornwall, Leaves of Ink, Ariadne’s Thread, Bijou Poetry Review, Calvary
Cross, Deadsnakes Review, The Bitchin Kitsch, Poetry by Birkbeck alumnus, The
Dawntreader, I am not a Silent Poet, Pyrokinection, Festival of Language, ‘Don’t
Be Afraid: An Anthology to Seamus Heaney’, Ygdrasil, the Four Seasons Anthology, The
Seventh Quarry and Van Gogh’s Ear Anthology.
He
studied philosophy at Birkbeck College London and lives in Surrey England.
This simple life
This simple life, a Carthusian life if
you will
From what is here and is in reach
The thread one day on to another.
The sky offers the long blue carpet
Rolling on to St Bruno and the
hills.
The leaving is just, leaving a vacancy
No epitaphs as non is
needed
Here, names are dispended
with
as the candle is
extinguished
with that final breath.
The choice
The choice is written among the grains of
sand
It takes absolute abstraction to read and
then
Ultimate abstraction to understand. The
owls
Versification and the foxes alchemy
create this
Universe. The world once full to the brim
of
Icebergs slowly fades into a pear and
drips
Drips slowly slowly away. Action are carved
And alter-action made from the shavings
and
Sculpting’s. The type is set. The page is printed
The bronze cast. The prophecy
fulfilled
