2 min read
SURMISES ON GRIEF - UNPACKED
I’m the reed by the lough shore That suddenly swishes and sways The deep fibres ripped from root And all that I know gives way. Culture shock
Tag : Poems/lyrics
2 min read
THE FLOWING TIDE
This story is now well known. Way back around 1993 I was leaving my office on Lower Abbey Street in Dublin. My office was at the back of the
1 min read
HOW DO YOU DO THAT? - Video Song (Gareth Black and Steve Stockman feat Eleanor Black)
I wrote this song with Gareth Black, former guitarist and songwriter with Belfast band Halcyon Days, forgive me but from back in the halcyon days
1 min read
HOW DO YOU DO THAT? - Video Song (Gareth Black and Steve Stockman feat Eleanor Black)
I wrote this song with Gareth Black, former guitarist and songwriter with Belfast band Halcyon Days, forgive me but from back in the halcyon days
BALLYCASTLE REFLECTIONS (PHOTOGRAPHS AND SHORT RHYMES) #2
On this vacation I have been capturing scenes from our evening walks in Ballycastle and then attempting to reflect with a short rhyme... some of
BALLYCASTLE REFLECTIONS (PHOTOGRAPHS AND SHORT RHYMES) #1
On this vacation I have been capturing scenes from our evening walks in Ballycastle and then attempting to reflect with a short rhyme... some of the
SHOUT THEIR NAMES OUT LOUD (For Those Who Were Killed in The Omagh Bomb)
Sitting somewhere in middle America I am transported by a song From a screen it booms me back To the place that I belong And the singer cries
WE LOVE YOU - TRIBUTE TO LUCIA QUINNEY MEE (28.5.1999 - 24.5.2020)
The Stockman hearts are broken today as our dear friend Lucia Quinney Mee passed away. Lucia was like a soul mate to our daughters, an extra
UNADULTERATED LOVE (UNDERNEATH THE WEATHER) - for our Anniversary
Today this poem, that I never quite felt finished seems perfectly complete as Janice and I celebrate our 24th wedding anniversary. The
FOR BONO'S 60TH BIRTHDAY - THANK YOU, MY FRIEND
October, trying to speak up I set the needle down A whole new life exploded You let me in the sound From the changing the world in me To me trying
A PSALM AT THE GRAND CANYON - CORONAVIRUS ESCAPES #11
(this is a Psalm that I wrote, bedazzled by the wild wonder of the Grand Canyon when Davids Adams and Baldock shared a visit with me there in
FROM A DISTANCE... (THE SONG WITH "AWFUL THEOLOGY")
Using the word "distance" so much in the context of social distancing, during these Coronavirus Times, this song came to mind. From A
WEST NILE - CORONAVIRUS ESCAPES #10
(A week or so ago our Coronavirus Escape was the journey from Kampala to Arua... Tonight we take the journey back home... at least the first
MASQUERADE (SAM HILL JR) - FOR JANICE'S BIRTHDAY
A song for Janice's birthday. It is written and performed by Sam Hill Jr but from a lyric of mine. Sam and I went on to make an entire album -
FACTORY OF MAGNIFICENT SOULS - TO CELEBRATE 30 YEARS SINCE NELSON MANDELA'S RELEASE FROM PRISON
Thirty years ago today Nelson Mandela was released from prison. I remember it so well. I had been going out with Janice for only about six months