Turning

    To leave in a complete  transformation of what you have been turning  functional to  the exotic, a triumphant defiance that effortlessly draws passing admiration yet signals end.   In my Autumn will I shed all that is me so elegantly

Hope

In response to a call for poems on the theme of ‘Hope’, I have written this poem.  Hope is such an integral part of our existence and it has been roughly abused by the accepted increase in selfishness.     YOU CAN LISTEN TO THIS POEM BY CLICKING ON THE …

On the Cards

Here is a ‘post-Christmas’ poem. We look forward to receiving updates from friends, but with age the message on the Christmas cards starts to change.   Cover image marked, we seek the inner message, annual brief updates from  distant acquaintances signal reminders  of an earlier existence and place, prompts to …

Unexpected

There, just inside the threshold are your treasures beach gleaned sea glass and gathered hagstones. The first pebble-tumbled,  shaped and smoothed. The other’s pierced form thought to void witchcraft. Wire strung hagstone columns guard our house. Myth tells that magic wont travel over water and holed stones, wrongly thought sea …

Complex Signals

I read this last night at the Cafe Poets first meeting in Halesworth Library, after the usual meeting place, ‘Pinkys’ had been burnt in a serious fire.  Given the current heat wave it was like reading in a sauna!   It was a follow up to my other longer poem that I …

Raison d’être

I was thinking about social isolation.  This poem is perhaps one concept of how it can come about. This poem was recently chosen by The Suffolk Poetry Society for publication in their magazine ‘Twelve Rivers.’       I do not look back there is too much to see some …

Questing

I am a strong believer in renewable energy, but it’s not a free lunch.  Significant amounts of energy has to be used to change quartz sand to silicon.   Silane gas produced during the manufacturing process is extremely explosive, and explosions occur.  Another risk is that we currently have no …

Cycles of the Light

National Poetry day’s theme this year was Light, and Suffolk Poetry Society invited me to join some of the other members to read poetry and celebrate the day in Aldeburgh.  We took turns to read on the circular staircase of The South Lookout on Aldeburgh beach in perfect weather, warm sun …

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