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 
was commended in Decanto’s and Café writers Poetry Competitions 2012. His work 
has appeared in such books as Drowning (Scar publications), The Poet as 
Sociopath (Scar publications). His first collection of poetry ‘The Destinations of Raxiera’ is 
published by Hammer & Anvil.  
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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   
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