Let Mike O'Rourke guide you through his thoughts and experiences. Feel the different emotions, which life brings to us all at one time or another, through the contrast of poetry and writings, brought uniquely together. Journey to occasions and times that have lived and now passed, to times that may be relived and that are yet to come ...

Mike O'Rourke lives in Oakham, Rutland and has put together some of his best poems and writings in these two lovely books.

Oakham is the County town of Rutland, UK. Rich in history and character, Oakham is now a bustling market town situated about 100 miles North of London, 20 miles from Leicester and Peterborough, and less than an hour's drive from Nottingham.

Excerts from books

Flights of Fantasy

Ode to a muffin

Your golden treasure

Lies protected

Behind a paper palisade

But I, conjuring memories

Of your fluffy embrace

Ignore the barricades

And dive headlong

Into those floury delights

Soul Traveller

Oakham Station

Oakham station

Whitewashed walls

Red rusty meshing

Tannoy calls

Incongruous flue

Flooded rails

Hands turn blue

Siren wails

Signal flashing

Train arrives

People dashing

Human hives

Doors slam shut

Bell is pressed

Train moves out

Rail is best