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# Versifier

Ivor Murrell offers selections of his poetry, a harvest of experiences and emotions

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- [A nudge from Prunus Tai Haku](https://versifier.co.uk/a-nudge-from-prunus-tai-haku/) - Today we move the clocks forward. A superficial act that makes us feel that we can control time. March is blowing itself out, stripping the pristine petals of the Great White Cherry, which lodge like snow on the village green. How much we anticipate that brief perfection. A dynamic display of
- [Turning](https://versifier.co.uk/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
- [A Deceptive Landscape](https://versifier.co.uk/a-deceptive-landscape/) - Westleton Walks, the name might entice to a tranche of land in the Suffolk Sandlings, where villagers once herded their sheep . Thousands of browsers trimmed low vegetation and modelled the flanks of the Mumberry Hills. Soft gentle slopes pointed down to the sea in huge pebble fingers, webbed with
- [Casting Off](https://versifier.co.uk/casting-off/) - CLICK ON THE ARROW ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM Like all before me I now know how we leave. The hawsers that link us to this life are slipped, some cast before we feel that leaving’s underway. We learn with a jolt, when the first rope snaps, that machinations for
- [Signals to myself](https://versifier.co.uk/signals-to-myself/) - CLICK ON THE ARROW ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM It has taken time to realise that these small changes are incremental signals of approaching decline, not terrifying, just inevitable and not to be ignored. The precursor was cancer, so discrete it was almost secret, but careful doses of poisons delayed that creeping act.
- [Circus  Aeruginosus](https://versifier.co.uk/circus-aeruginosus/) - Lifting with one lazy stroke from stunted blackthorn you glide in the silence over sedge then almost brush the rustling carpet of dry reed’s autumn seed heads. Your mate follows, on a higher flight path alert for any movement your passage startles. Your cruel dispossession is fully resolved — you own the
- [The Allure of Water](https://versifier.co.uk/the-allure-of-water/) - Powerful water currents lured my mother particularly those sucking at the harbour wall, but she never spoke of her real fear, wouldn't use its common name — even when it took her. Aging doesn't teach us courage, we just lie. When you mention another change in how you are I instantly worry,
- [Starting to go](https://versifier.co.uk/starting-to-go/) - Nothing really prepares us for old age, it's a mystery kept from the young, to prevent their discouragement. Like an ebb tide after a full moon life starts to slip from its highpoint and flotsam begins to show. Expectation has proven false; that age rewards with feelings of fruition, a comforting
- [Hope](https://versifier.co.uk/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 ARROW BUTTON ABOVE
- [Is this the country I was born in?](https://versifier.co.uk/is-this-the-country-i-was-born-in/) - Towards the end stage of my long life I am astounded by events of recent years and find it difficult to recognise the society I grew up in. CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM When did we abandon constructive criticism and evaluation? When did truth become an unnecessary burden?
- [The Art of Ridicule](https://versifier.co.uk/the-art-of-ridicule/) - PLEASE CLICK ON THE ARROW ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM I never went to university — dropped out took an apprenticeship at the sugar factory — had all the tricks played on me, sent to the stores for a long weight, had my raincoat rivetted to a girder, my boot heel studs welded
- [Learning on the job](https://versifier.co.uk/learning-on-the-job/) - Nearly sixty years ago I loved the black humour that the skilled maintenance fitters used on their apprentices. Never forgotten! Please click on the arrow button above to hear this poem After months of continual and heavy use the pulp drier needed major repair. Deep in the bowels of
- [The Spirit of Place](https://versifier.co.uk/the-spirit-of-place/) - This poem came out of a poetry workshop today. The writing objective was to do something for somebody and my wife's request, last night, for a 'good sized gin and tonic' came to mind. Please click on the arrow button above to hear this poem Let me make you a memorable
- [Mixed messages and confusion](https://versifier.co.uk/mixed-messages-and-confusion/) - During the first long lockdown a sense of lack of control continued to increase, but some people made an effort and the decisive decisions. CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM Random information arrives electronically short bursts of images and speech aimless contact with the outside a melange of mixed
- [The Real Terror](https://versifier.co.uk/the-real-terror/) - No need to think about difficult issues, our glorious leaders will do that for us. CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM Forget advance planning, just jump and react - we will win with short slogans, not thought. Let them wait for the benefits of neo-liberalism to trickle
- [Midsummer Night 2016](https://versifier.co.uk/midsummer-night-2016/) - Click on the arrow button above to hear this poem The full moon rose as we left the heath from the teasing chirrs of nightjars to make our way to Dunwich beach, drawn by lazy sounds of tired sea sighs drowned by our trodden crunch of pebbles. The shoreline lit by a glowing moon, which
- [Liquidity](https://versifier.co.uk/liquidity/) - Do we realise how much we owe to water? Do we know that we are mostly made of water? CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM What if water had never kissed earth’s face? mountains miles high would cover the surface for cold could crack rock, but not render to
- [Moving to the margin](https://versifier.co.uk/moving-to-the-margin/) - Have you sensed that sweet sadness? TO HEAR THIS POEM, CLICK ON THE ARROW ABOVE. You will recognise the peripheral moment — that sense of achievement and fear as the need for your actions fade. For me it was unexpected. At a family member’s funeral, I found myself unsettled not by
- [Raison d'être](https://versifier.co.uk/raison-detre/) - 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 of which I do not
- [There is no Constant](https://versifier.co.uk/there-is-no-constant/) - Have you noticed silence seems to slow time? Time is a constant you might reply, but it is measurably quicker on mountain peaks, gravity slows time’s flow when on the beach.
- [Reflection](https://versifier.co.uk/relection/) - I have been working for several weeks on my second book of poetry, 'Reflection', which went to the printer last week. I collect it on November 8th. Below is the cover, from a photograph that I took on Dunwich beach on the evening of the longest day.
- [It's only for Twelve Weeks](https://versifier.co.uk/its-only-for-twelve-weeks/) - Listen, it’s the silence of my childhood — imposed by the virus from a distant bat, as I am shielded from its touch.
- ['Reflection'](https://versifier.co.uk/relection-2/) - All that organising, layout, input and corrections come to fruition. I am delighted with my new book.
- [Waiting for a wind](https://versifier.co.uk/waiting-for-a-wind/) - Have you ever visited Covehithe in Suffolk? A village gradually being taken by The North Sea. They wait in quietus for their final voyage on a sea they knew as well as land, which seeks again to soak their limbs. Anchored firmly by a shattered church raised for transfer to a promised eternity now a
- [When did you last see Truth?](https://versifier.co.uk/when-did-you-last-see-truth/) - An appropriate question for this time of disruption. When did you last see Truth? It has slipped its leash and scrambled off unnoticed in the frenzied melee of baying myths. When did you last hear Truth? Its studied quietness is difficult to catch amidst the raging howl of hunting packs. ‘Truth, Truth’
- [Lesser Known Philosophers.](https://versifier.co.uk/lesser-known-philosophers-2/) - Much of the wisdom in this poem was heard nearly fifty years ago, over many sessions in an isolated village pub, in the north of Suffolk. All the wise men quoted are no longer with us. Some taste wisdom in another tongue digesting Descartes ‘Cogito ergo sum’* or Nietzsche's more demeaning fear ‘Der Mensch ist
- [Reference F.O. Code EB2](https://versifier.co.uk/reference-f-o-code-eb2/) - I still have my second world war ration book.
- [The month of the Summer Solstice](https://versifier.co.uk/the-month-of-the-summer-solstice/) - The rich month of June brings so much to enjoy. Now the Dog Rose shyly flowers soft blushes amidst hard thorns, only six weeks now to ripened corn. Sounds to lift hope, insistent purring Turtle Doves, close by, call for company. Caressing cries that murmur joy. Zephyrs skim the meadow’s high grasses wash green waves
- [Unexpected](https://versifier.co.uk/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 formed, hold mystic power, protection
- [Listen?](https://versifier.co.uk/listen/) - This is a sad twist on an old tale -- a carol for our present circumstances. Why won’t Wise Men deliver their gifts? They have displayed the glittering promise from the backs of their awkward mounts, circling endlessly in the featureless waste. Shepherds cannot point the way, they search for their scattered sheep dispersed
- [Myth and Memory Flow](https://versifier.co.uk/myth-and-memory-flow/) - Rivers have a special attraction in childhood, a different world from the hard land. Most Suffolk rivers take a leisurely approach feeling no rush to reach a restless sea, they mardle, drifting on the gentle declines of soft beds, slipping slowly past low banks. These are rivers of low ambition, ripple-less, almost uncertain which direction
- [On the Cards](https://versifier.co.uk/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 time , lightly bearing guilt
- [Soon the Longing can begin](https://versifier.co.uk/soon-the-longing-can-begin/) - Two days after the referendum, and still dazed by the result. Soon the longing can begin, but the awareness of our loss will take longer for all to own. Already the Young feel despair for they were closer to hope than the wrinkled, palsied hands that signed away their future. ‘Another vote’ some already
- [Illuminating Longing](https://versifier.co.uk/illuminating-longing/) - Here is a shared experience from the night of the full 'Strawberry Moon' on June 20th. A warm evening after a wet morning promised the sight of Nightjars hunting, and the moon was a bonus, The mist quilt slips across the sodden heath thickening at waist height in the cooling air. Crepuscular flyers land,
- [Irony](https://versifier.co.uk/irony/) - During a few days in Liverpool we visited Crosby Beach, to see the Antony Gormley sculptures arranged as 'Another Place'. Two friends had been examining the work, and turned to walk off the beach. I took the photograph below, and the poem was written after I examined the image, using an element of artistic license. 'Communing'
- [Last Orders](https://versifier.co.uk/last-orders/) - This poem won a 'Commended' award in the recent 2016 George Crabbe Poetry Competition. The competition judge, Moniza Alvi, wrote of 'Last Orders' "Tragic and hard hitting, I found this poignant poem compelling." " This is a poem with a real sense of urgency". Every night at seven, he shed the family skin took off
- [You know you are worth it](https://versifier.co.uk/you-know-you-are-worth-it/) - I wrote this poem in mid November this year, then my e-mail inbox started to fill with 'Pre-Black Friday' offers, then 'Black Friday' offers, followed later by 'Post Black Friday' offers, and now I am seeing 'Black Friday repeat offers'! Reality has overtaken imagination. Due to the delirium of Brexit and Triumph of Trump it
- [Moving Hands](https://versifier.co.uk/moving-hands/) - How many things that seemed eternal early in life, have completely vanished? Sometime in the nineteen-fifties it perched on the hundred-foot workshop, where Waitrose's entrance is now. It would pace the working lives of hundreds. First as boys, learning to master metal or wood, then as craftsmen,
- [As The Light Changes](https://versifier.co.uk/as-the-light-changes/) - The East Anglian Daily Times ran an article entitled '22 beautiful poems about East Anglia' in their Saturday magazine insert on March 18th this year. I was very pleased to see this poem of mine on the same page as poems by Sir Walter Raleigh and George Szirtes. Spring’s subtle mechanisms unwind dormancy tipping
- [Blyth Estuary Evening](https://versifier.co.uk/blyth-estuary-evening/) - There is a wonderful walk along the line of the old narrow gauge railwayline to Southwold, where it runs alongside the Blyth estuary. I led a walk for a group of poets there this year, and this was one of the poems that I read on the walk. We had a very enjoyable workshop after
- [Questing](https://versifier.co.uk/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 safety masks that can prevent
- [Equivalence](https://versifier.co.uk/equivalence/) - This poem was written whilst on a river trip from Amsterdam to Budapest in May 2017, whilst I was awaiting the results of a biopsy to determine what sort of cancer I had. Here in Bamberg we are buying history grateful that no symptoms show the guides are lancing our ears with dates
- [Morning breeze](https://versifier.co.uk/morning-breeze/) - This Haiku came very quickly to me this morning, as I watched the bamboo outside my bedroom window. Invasion outside - the breeze trembles bamboo leaves like swarming locusts.
- [Corvus corone corone](https://versifier.co.uk/corvus-corone-corone/) - This was written last Summer for a competition, for a gallery displaying art involving the subject 'Crows'. Nothing was heard, so I suspect, at best, its still on the wing! I see you Crow. I watch your studied nonchalance. Your oil drip eye gives nothing back green gleam on midnight feathers steals surrounding light.
- [Who Am I Today?](https://versifier.co.uk/who-am-i-today/) - If you have not yet reached the need for the morning ritual described in this poem, know that you have it to look forward to. Is it the aging husband with enlarged prostate? The asbestos handler with pleural plaque? The retired runner with calcified cartilage and the mysterious cyst, discovered late? Let’s leave the
- [Complex Signals](https://versifier.co.uk/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 also read, 'Back Amongst The
- [Another Insignificance?](https://versifier.co.uk/another-insignificance/) - This poem was triggered by an experience in early July, during the unusually hot weather. The undulating Jet Steam has seduced the Linden into bloom with prolongued heat. Cymes and their protective lime-green bracts extravagantly jewel the darker leaves. Intoxication beckons across scorched grass, a smell of honey laced with lemon peel entices to
- [Ripeness is all](https://versifier.co.uk/ripeness-is-all/) - About sixty figs are slowly ripening on my Brown Turkey fig tree. The second is mine wasps had found the first fat fig ripeness is the prize!
- [Walking the Floors](https://versifier.co.uk/walking-the-floors/) - An elegy for the discard of the empiric skills learnt over several generations of traditional floor maltsters.
- [White-out](https://versifier.co.uk/white-out/) - Snow is threatened for us again this afternoon, so here is another Tanka to welcome it: Each flake steals colour silent theft's benign softness a camouflaged coup that covers all in fragile crystal immobility.
- [A  Tanka for Dru's Birthday](https://versifier.co.uk/a-tanka-for-drus-birthday/) - I wrote and sent this poem to our good friend Dru, on the occasion of an important birthday for her. Consider the time it takes the sea to polish stones to bright perfection life has done the same for you but in only eight decades A Tanka verse is a Japanese
- [Entrance](https://versifier.co.uk/the-eagle-has-landed/) - PLEASE CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM He glides the Hog to the sidewalk, blips the throttle then kills the big twin cam but not cleanly, the rig shakes twice with pre-ignition. Shit! - He hates when that happens, it spoils an entrance. A creak of leathers
- [Deleting Footnotes](https://versifier.co.uk/deleting-footnotes/) - This poem recently was selected by Helen Ivory for appearance in the poetry webzine 'Ink, Sweat and Tears', it also appeared the the Suffolk Poetry Society's magazine 'Twelve Rivers'. PLEASE CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM You can never prepare for this task. It demands no passion in the
- [The Last Word](https://versifier.co.uk/the-last-word/) - By way of a change, here is a short piece of prose: In a writers' group this morning we were challenged to write a short story in 150 words. The story below contains exactly that number. The light was starting to fade, and breaking soft waves seemed even quieter. He stopped collecting pebbles and
- [Poems for a portrait](https://versifier.co.uk/poems-for-portrait/) - I agreed to sit as the model again this morning for an art group producing portraits. We had a cultural exchange as at the end of the two sessions as I recited the Haikus composed in my head during the forty minutes of the sitting. I then exchanged a book of my poetry for the
- [In its defence](https://versifier.co.uk/in-its-defence/) - I was asked today to write about a hat! Please click on the arrow button above to hear this poem The good thing is that it travels well. It has little style only patterned stitch work marks its drab coarse surface. Khaki cover for a nascent bald patch, a guard against the mid-day sun.
- [Voices in the Reeds](https://versifier.co.uk/voices-in-the-reeds/) - The Blythburgh Estuary, such a wonderfully calm landscape, or is it? PLEASE CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM The Blyth snakes down to the brine soothing our senses as it idly curls grazing past tall murmuring reeds, stirred to voice by a gentle breeze. We mishear that
- [Spot the Hat](https://versifier.co.uk/spot-the-hat/) - This poem started in a session of poets writing together, with Michael Laskey and Dean Parkin. Dean produced a 'Spot the Ball' page from an old newspaper, and we all enjoyed marking our X. We all missed! PLEASE CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM Do you remember ‘Spot
- [The moment before](https://versifier.co.uk/the-moment-before/) - No explanation is needed for this Haiku, its all in the image. Wonder in a glass where do you enter delight the clean spoon hovers
- [Migration Counterpoint](https://versifier.co.uk/migration-counterpoint/) - Sandlines ( www.breakingnewground.org.uk ) operated a series of writers workshops in The Brecks, to promote the rich variety of landscape, fauna and flora that can be found in this special landscape. I took part in one, which was based in the BTO centre in Thetford, and led by Lois Williams and Melinda Appleby. In spite of
- [Black Friday](https://versifier.co.uk/black-friday/) - Who considers this American import matches the idea of 'Seasonal Goodwill'? Black Friday, the official day to be suitably depressed by buyers and sellers greed. Not to be confused with The Black Death, but similar in effect.
- [A Young Ornithologist's Primer](https://versifier.co.uk/a-young-ornithologists-primer/) - This poem was written after my wife Jean said that she would write a children's book called 'That Bastard Bird' PLEASE CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS READ. See the big bird. The big bird’s name is Percy. Percy has big feet. Percy’s big feet scratch in the garden. See
- [Simple Joy  (for Jacqui Jones interactive artwork at The Undercroft)](https://versifier.co.uk/simple-joy-for-jacqui-jones-interactive-artwork-at-the-undercroft/) - This poem is itself an interactive response. Jacqui liked the reference to 'simple joy' in my poem Migration Counterpoint and decided that concept would be the subject matter of the interactive installation she was to display in The Undercroft in Norwich, for the 2015 Norwich Fringe Festival. When she told me that I wrote and
- [Cycles of the Light](https://versifier.co.uk/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 with the light shining off
- [Restoring Vintage --- A Tanka for Rupert](https://versifier.co.uk/restoring-vintage-a-tanka-for-rupert/) - I recently wrote this poem for my youngest son, Rupert. He sent me this photograph after riding to the top of one of the hills on the Sussex Downs. A Tanka is an extension to the 5-7– 5 syllables of the Haiku, with two final lines of 7 syllables each that change the direction of
- [Out of Order](https://versifier.co.uk/out-of-order/) - A chance meeting gave me another dimension to our politicians' crusade against welfare expenditure. PLEASE CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM. I find it difficult to socialise when undressed. Body image, lack of calcium when very young, the dislike of goat’s milk curving my spine. I adjusted my
- [Exposure](https://versifier.co.uk/exposure/) - There is a steady number of people discovering in the later stage of their life that contact with asbestos at an earlier date can be long lasting. PLEASE CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM A starved cur huddles in his lungs, motionless, but coiled in tension, awaiting some
- [Fourteen lines on The Peninsula](https://versifier.co.uk/fourteen-lines-on-the-peninsula/) - Geraldine Green (click here to visit her blog) led another workshop for an enthusiastic small group of poets on Shotley Peninsula in Suffolk last week. A stimulating annual event that we all now look forward to. The 'Write on The Peninsula' workshop was organised by Suffolk Poetry Society Chairman, Ian Griffiths, and generously hosted by
- [Snipe](https://versifier.co.uk/snipe/) - A walk in such a range of sunlight yesterday afternoon, when I was able to take some good photographs of Snipe feeding at the waters edge of Minsmere Mere. Here is a Haiku with two photographs to share the moment. Probe stiletto, probe, With soft tip like tiny lips A kiss before
- [Peregrine](https://versifier.co.uk/peregrine/) - Jean and I were watching a murmuration of Starlings gather, about 6000 birds in two groups, when a Peregrine Falcon attacked the group I was videoing, first from the right, then from the left. The effect on the Starlings was amazing, and here is a Tanka to celebrate that moment. Click on this link to
- [Artists model](https://versifier.co.uk/artists-model/) - Today I have had a new experience, which is always welcome at my age. I sat as a life model for a group of artists. The last time I had my image sketched was by a ten minute street artist in Beijing in 1996 (see image below). I am not sure my mother would
- [Regeneration](https://versifier.co.uk/regeneration/) - Poems were requested on the subject of 'Renewal' to be read at the recent Suffolk Poetry Society's AGM. I wrote this poem for the event, but there were so many people wanting to read their work that I decided not to join the queue, and now show it here instead. You can click on the
- [The River's Voice](https://versifier.co.uk/the-rivers-voice/) - This poem was written for the Waveney and Blyth Arts recent Poetry Competition, and was 'Commended'. The subject set was to write about the area that the Rivers Waveney and Blyth flow through. I read it at a poetry evening in Diss Cornhall on October 9th. PLEASE CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO
- [When I think of Christmas](https://versifier.co.uk/when-i-think-of-christmas/) - Christmas 1948.... I have been thinking about writing this poem for years, one of the sharpest memories from my childhood. Finally, I sat down this week, and it leapt onto the page. PLEASE CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM Bright red tiles, arched around an open fireplace ablaze with
- [The Elusive Purple Roller](https://versifier.co.uk/the-elusive-purple-roller/) - One of the most elusive birds in Botswana was perhaps the most colourful. For a moment one perched a considerable distance from me, and using a new camera, which was far more skilled than me, I managed to take the amazing photograph below. PLEASE CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM
- [The proof that civilisation started by eating together.](https://versifier.co.uk/the-proof-that-civilisation-started-by-eating-together/) - Jean and I were in Falmouth, Cornwall for a few days. We were shown to a table for four in a restaurant and asked if we would mind sharing it, if required. We replied 'No, we did not mind'. Part way through the first course a stranger, subsequently identifying himself as George Woodward, sat down.
- [Mapping](https://versifier.co.uk/mapping/) - It seems to me that memory and the structure of complex spiders' webs in Gorse bushes have comparisons. This poem was recently selected for posting on the excellent poetry and prose webzine Ink, Sweat & Tears by editor Helen Ivory. Click here to visit this website. PLEASE CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR
- [A Presence in the Wilderness - June 4th,  2014](https://versifier.co.uk/a-presence-in-the-wilderness-june-4th-2014/) - A highlight of our visit to The Kalahari, an unexpected meeting in fading light, just after sun-set, seventy metres from our tent. PLEASE CLICK ON THE BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM Deception Valley in the Central Kalahari, where we searched for you for hours amongst the desiccated grasses, rich in brittle blooms
- [It's not much to ask!](https://versifier.co.uk/its-not-much-to-ask/) - A reflection on my father's attitude to child safety.
- [Mr and Mrs Badge](https://versifier.co.uk/2185/) - Have you ever been on a wonderful travel experience, where one or more of those taking part think that you are very fortunate to have them in the group? PLEASE CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM How reassuring it must be believing your experience and knowledge, however slight, takes priority
- [Secretary Bird Tanka](https://versifier.co.uk/secretary-bird-tanka/) - Here is a thirty- one syllable Tanka straight from the Central Kalahari, inspired by that wonderful member of the Eagle family. The photos were taken with my birthday present from my wife. Some soar but I stride tirelessly in long black shorts quills behind my ears desiccation dictating managerial options.
- [Reading the Rune](https://versifier.co.uk/reading-the-rune/) - A recent note from Geraldine Green reminded me to post another one of my poems that started in one of her dynamic workshops in January 2014, and was subsequently polished over a several months to result in this final version. PLEASE CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM Passed
- [Fading by degree](https://versifier.co.uk/leaving-slowly/) - One of our shyest Summer visitors, the Grasshopper Warbler sings in a high range, somewhere between 5 to 8 kHz. Reeling in the reeds your high pitched Summer love song ageing ears can't hear
- [Poetry Workshop at Shotley Peninsula](https://versifier.co.uk/poetry-workshop-at-shotley-peninsula/) - On January 10th 2014 I took part in a poetry workshop, led by Geraldine Green, who was in fine form and enthused the small group of good poets who were taking part. The poem below was one of the 'spin offs' from the day. PLEASE CLICK ON THE ARROW KEY ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM
- [A Sweet Retrospective](https://versifier.co.uk/2108/) - In the 1930’s the Pan Floor Manager was the most powerful man in the Home Grown Sugar (beet) factories, and a seven year apprenticeship had to be undertaken to learn how to boil sugar. That power had long gone in the 1960’s and it took me about a month to learn how to run a
- [Lines of demarcation](https://versifier.co.uk/lines-of-demarcation/) - All poets sift their childhood for subject matter, and some experiences surface more readily than others. PLEASE CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM It was winter, several weeks from his fifth birthday when his father left him at grandmother’s farm. No memory of a parting, perhaps its
- [Perception](https://versifier.co.uk/perception/) - The simple act of looking is one of the most complex processes that our body carries out. It is also a perfect illusion, because it convinces us that reality is universally identical. PLEASE CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM How convinced we are that what we see is true. We
- [Mike East's Misstep](https://versifier.co.uk/mike-easts-misstep/) - A lesson in early childhood about the fragility of life. PLEASE CLICK ON THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM We learnt about friendship talking as we walked to the infants’ school, like the others I had envied in their noisy groups. Steeping over bad luck in the pavement joints or
- [Frenzy.](https://versifier.co.uk/male-atoll-maldives-february-23rd-1991/) - This poem was written on an Atoll in the Maldives on February 23rd 1991, but the ramifications of idealistic destruction are ongoing.
- [Lightening our hearts.](https://versifier.co.uk/lightening-our-hearts/) - Last year about sixty Siskins, escaping from the Scandinavian winter, stayed with us for over a week. They ate copious quantities of Sunflower seed and left us this Haiku: When dark winds roar South hulled hearts of the Sun’s flower warm flocking Siskins.
- [Lapis Lazuli](https://versifier.co.uk/lapis-lazuli/) - Do you remember that time of freshness, when some words - heard for the first time - had a resonance of mystique? This poem attracted a comment from Anne Boileau, who is currently Chair of The Suffolk Poetry Society and an excellent poet. Lapis Lazuli features in one of her recent poems, she sent me
- [Burnished Copper](https://versifier.co.uk/burnished-copper/) - A dynamic hue that attracts attention to itself with strong symbolic overtones.
- [Jesse Gough fecit](https://versifier.co.uk/jesse-gough-fecit/) - Four generations of my family were by chance involved with an enterprise launched in the 1880's by another family, The Goughs. Perhaps I own the only artefact from that history. CLICK ON THE ARROW ON THE BAR ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM The marker for a ninety-nine year dream in the
- [The Scream](https://versifier.co.uk/the-scream/) - I recently missed, by error, an excellent lecture about the painter Edvard Munch's work, with particular reference to his best known painting 'The Scream'. Two days later I found a remarkable hagstone (i.e. a stone pierced by one or more holes). PLEASE PUSH THE ARROW BUTTON TO HEAR THIS POEM Munch first named
- [Enough](https://versifier.co.uk/enough/) - A moment of re-adjustment. PLEASE PRESS THE ARROW BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM The bone ache mimes the North wind’s bite as Siskins mine the feeder teeth mutely lengthen in old gums in ears coarse hairs foregather hands are gloved with his parents' skin age spots bloom the leather eyes are laced with
- [The endless linear moment](https://versifier.co.uk/the-endless-linear-moment/) - At an excellent recent poets' workshop, brilliantly led led by the poet Robert Seatter, one of the exercises was to write in response to a given image. I was handed a copy of Edward Hopper's 1959 painting 'An Excursion into Philosophy' and the poem below is the final outcome of the rough draft I wrote
- [How to age a rabbit](https://versifier.co.uk/how-to-age-a-rabbit/) - He always breathed with a nasal drone wet lips stroking a Woodbine as he eviscerated game a failed feint to distract his nose from the glistening raunch of guts, the thick stench if a stomach burst and the half-digested last meal oozed darkly onto newsprint.
- [The Paradox of Personal Time (in Naga-Uta format)](https://versifier.co.uk/the-paradox-of-personal-time-in-naga-uta-format/) - A poem of failed searching in Naga-Uta format.
- [Flooring a myth](https://versifier.co.uk/flooring-a-myth/) - Without apparent stimulus the brain suddenly decodes something from childhood. PLEASE CLICK ON THE BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM The fence still stood when I was a boy. My fingers knew it was significant a strange structure in its second life a woven wire carpet stood on edge threadbare
- [Time and memory](https://versifier.co.uk/time-and-memory/) - Can you remember that moment in childhood when you realised that your existence was much greater than your experience?
- [Johnny didn't know.](https://versifier.co.uk/what-is-knowing/) - This poem comes from the time when I was learning how to operate every part of the process in a sugar factory, enamoured with the false idea that knowledge was merely the ability to discover the unchangeable truth behind how things were.
- [Two lines from 'The Rubaiyat'](https://versifier.co.uk/two-lines-from-the-rubaiyat/) - This poem recently appeared on the webzine ink-sweat-and-tears , and is about an event that happened nearly 44 years ago, a moment when unexpected enchantment and beauty produce a merger of the emotional, aesthetic and spiritual.
- [Delayed reaction](https://versifier.co.uk/delayed-reaction/) - Only in my 50's did I learn how the goat had got its own back, and mine.
- [Not in Egypt](https://versifier.co.uk/not-in-egypt/) - This poem was 'inspired' by a recent AGM of a Poetry Society, when the Committee suggested a name change
- [The loss of an emissary for wonder.](https://versifier.co.uk/the-loss-of-an-emmissary-for-wonder/) - Michael Kirby, known to all who came into contact with him for his enthusiastic and learned love of the natural world, died in February 2011, and is much missed.
- [Sang-froid beneath a blood-red moon.](https://versifier.co.uk/sang-froid-beneath-a-blood-red-moon/) - A poem of composure and a proper sense of mortality
- [Tiffling acrorst](https://versifier.co.uk/tiffling-acrorst/) - This poem is about weed control in farming, but set before the discovery of pesticides, and when the Suffolk dialect was commonplace.
- [The Silence of Ease](https://versifier.co.uk/the-silence-of-ease/) - James Gleick's book 'Chaos' (1987), about the ripple effect of interconnections from small beginnings, should be considered in relevance to the problems of financial institutions in the Western World.
- [A Sestina for Jean](https://versifier.co.uk/a-sestina-for-jean/) - A sestina for JeanThis poem in a very traditional format has gone through many re-writes, this version was completed just before a reading last night in The Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft.
- [Proximity.     ](https://versifier.co.uk/proximity/) - On May 2nd 2012 we took a break in a five-star hotel on Malta to recharge our batteries after a long winter. The first day held a surprise.
- [A Wall in Naples](https://versifier.co.uk/a-wall-in-naples/) - When your preconception about something you are looking at is suddenly and completely overturned, the experience is memorable. This happened to me in The National Gallery in London a few years ago. PLEASE CLICK ON THE BUTTON ABOVE TO HEAR THIS POEM The proof that less is more - a snatched oil sketch,
- [Latent Heat](https://versifier.co.uk/latent-heat-2/) - An energy source to rival nuclear power.
- [Unattended baggage](https://versifier.co.uk/unattended-baggage/) - This poem came out of a recent Suffolk Poetry Society workshop, 'Tree Ring Time- Clock Time', led by the excellent Kate Foley. I wrote it thinking about the mass of empiric knowledge we have to accumulate in life.
- [Talking to my grandson](https://versifier.co.uk/talking-to-my-grandson/) - Watching somebody start out on the complexity of life's journey is awe inspiring.
- [Delayed Delivery](https://versifier.co.uk/delayed-delivery/) - In the Spring of 2010 the wind in East Anglia blew directly from the Artic and the low temperature locked us in Winter. This position held until March, when the wind suddenly swung to blow from the South and swiftly brought us the long awaited season change.
- [Disruption of normality](https://versifier.co.uk/disruption-of-normality/) - This poem comes straight from the heart, one the young members of our family is currently having to deal with cancer.
- [Back amongst the Rangoons](https://versifier.co.uk/down-amongst-the-rangoons/) - Have you ever had the experience of tapping into vivid memories whilst dreaming, that you could not draw on whilst awake. An experience that teases about the brain's capacity and potential.
- [Raising John Smith](https://versifier.co.uk/raising-john-smith/) - By what chance are we remembered by strangers, who speak our name beyond our life?
- [Buttercup](https://versifier.co.uk/jaundiced-kiss/) - A first experience of death, suitably dressed
- [On line](https://versifier.co.uk/on-line/) - Existentialism or virtual reality, a narrowing choice?
- [Knees.](https://versifier.co.uk/knees/) - Michael Laskey led an interesting workshop 'Writing the Self' in October 2009. We were asked to write about parts of our bodies, and this was my contribution.
- [Dead Images](https://versifier.co.uk/dead-images/) - The catalysts for this poem were a philosophy lecture, followed shortly afterwards by the rediscovery of an old photograph.
- [Christmas semiotics](https://versifier.co.uk/semantics/) - How is the end of Christmas signalled?
- [Spatial awareness ](https://versifier.co.uk/spatial-awareness/) - This poem refers to a natural marvel that is currently happening every evening. A particularly spectacular event occured on December 14th 2010, which the poem recalls.
- [Hagstones](https://versifier.co.uk/hagstones/) - Hagstones have a hole though them, created by running water over a very long period of time. Running water was supposed to be proof against magic or bad luck.
- [Leopard!](https://versifier.co.uk/leopard/) - By luck we saw a young male leopard in Kruger National Park on October 29th, and Roger Garrison took a great photograph of that moment, which the poem describes.
- [Poaching in soft moonlight rain, 1952](https://versifier.co.uk/poaching-in-soft-moonlight-rain-1952/) - When I was a young boy, my father took me poaching, not for fun but for meat for the table.
- [Travel](https://versifier.co.uk/travel/) - A life changing experience in Iran in 1967
- [A message from Hluhluwe](https://versifier.co.uk/a-message-from-hluhluwe/) - Jean and I recently travelled in South Africa, and this poem is about an unexpected experience in the Hluhluwe Game Reserve.
- [Flying close to the sun.](https://versifier.co.uk/flying-close-to-the-sun/) - This poem was written about a day at Canopy Tower in Panama rain forest in November 2009. Returning to the Tower we were urged to look into the air where over 40,000 hawks and vultures were circling .
- [Repartee under stress in Venezuela](https://versifier.co.uk/repartee-under-stress-in-venezuela/) - Venezuela, March 2007, a sudden change in the weather in Llanos
- [Empathy and Enchantment.](https://versifier.co.uk/empathy-and-enchantment/) - A poem for performance at Henham Steam Rally in September 2010, about the power of steam and the reduction of 'Enchantment' in our pressurised, high speed modern lives.
- [Stratospheric disturbance](https://versifier.co.uk/statospheric-disturbance/) - Serious family disputes do not always carry early warning signals, especially when the misunderstanding is deeply entrenched.
- [Home Leave](https://versifier.co.uk/home-leave/) - The poem links back to a war that ended sixty five years ago, but perhaps the experience is still known to military families.
- [Beauty Intangible.](https://versifier.co.uk/intangible-reality/) - Some of the most enriching experiences are incapable of touch.
- [Portion control.](https://versifier.co.uk/are-you-free-for-supper/) - Here is a poem about the male midlife prolapse, which is when a man's brain threatens to fall into his underpants.
- [The Ghosts of expansion.](https://versifier.co.uk/the-ghosts-of-expansion/) - One theory of our existence is that we are within an ever expanding universe, and our linkages to that condition are confusing , to say the least. This viewpoint is from those of East Anglian stock.
- [Fashioned by local conditions.](https://versifier.co.uk/fashioned-by-local-conditions/) - All three laughed, my perception slipped,as insight glimpsed another’s world.
- [Family Stories](https://versifier.co.uk/family-stories/) - This poem addresses how the repetition of anecdotes can become a replacement for real contact.
- [The wood merchants son](https://versifier.co.uk/the-wood-merchants-son/) - We all mine from the seams of our childhood, mine followed the grain.
- [Coming to terms. ](https://versifier.co.uk/coming-to-terms/) - How will death arrive? The closing event in our brief existence can be cruel for some.
- [Clean bowled](https://versifier.co.uk/clean-bowled/) - The following poem spun out of an all male, black tie dinner and stumped me.
- [One Line Poem.](https://versifier.co.uk/one-line-poem/) - The tormentor unexpectedly tormented by lost youth.
- [Snapshot for a Sonnet](https://versifier.co.uk/snapshot-for-a-sonnet/) - A poem triggered by old photographs, that brought a realisation of good fortune.
- [It's all in the heft](https://versifier.co.uk/its-all-in-the-heft/) - Back to events again, with a eulogy to empiricism.
- [Langkawi brief encounter](https://versifier.co.uk/langkawi-brief-encounter/) - Another snake poem, I will categorise it under 'events', but I think it had an emotional impact on both of us.
- [The life now leaving platform four](https://versifier.co.uk/the-life-now-leaving-platform-four/) - This poem relates both to the event of a chance meeting, and the loss of emotions in a marriage. In an icy railway carriage a woman rehearses with a stranger how she will tell her husband she is leaving him, when he collects her from the train.
- [At a funeral of the previous generation](https://versifier.co.uk/at-a-funeral-of-the-previous-generation/) - Sometimes the locus of your role and significance in an event changes unexpectedly, perhaps even caused by something mundane, and the insight can be a shock.
- [Ant swarm](https://versifier.co.uk/ant-swarm/) - The actions triggered by a leaf cutter ant swarm in the Panamanian rain forest.
- [All for thirty Yuan](https://versifier.co.uk/all-for-thirty-yuan/) - I visited China, as a guest of the Chinese Government (Ministry of Light Industry) in 1994. This double Haiku resulted from a thirty Yuan rickshaw ride very late at night.
- [Perhaps](https://versifier.co.uk/perhaps/) - Moments of reflection do not fit neatly into my two sort categories of 'events' or 'emotions', but are a inter-linked mesh of both, and sometimes that mesh turns into a trampoline
- [Scatter the ashes at Holkham Gap](https://versifier.co.uk/scatter-the-ashes-at-holkham-gap/) - Here is a poem written many years ago, I now find myself closer to the ash scattering moment than the events in the poem.
- [Songs of Light and Dark](https://versifier.co.uk/songs-of-light-and-dark/) - A stirring of genetic memory
- [Lust](https://versifier.co.uk/lust/) - Lust, like a hound from Hell licks no master and howls your name.
- [You will remember this.](https://versifier.co.uk/you-will-remember-this/) - Surprise at sunrise in Tunisia's Great Salt Desert
- [The sound of conservation](https://versifier.co.uk/the-sound-of-conservation/) - Last year the Forestry Commission harvested a large area of pine forest near Dunwich, all the residents had been informed of the action, but had not realised that over 200 American Red Oaks edging the pine forest would also be felled, because conservation bodies in the area did not want a line of trees left in the landscape.

## Pages

- [Published Poetry](https://versifier.co.uk/published-poetry/) - In response to requests I have now published two collection of some of my poems. I launched this website because it was a good way to float my poetry on the ether, and it is great fun. When I found myself being asked "Have you published anything?" I pointed to this website and various
- [The Sonnet](https://versifier.co.uk/forms-of-poetr/the-sonnet/) - The English or Shakespearian Sonnet. Shakespeare was one of several early sixteenth century poets who developed the Italian Sonnet form into the version that become popular. The form often carries his name as his sonnets in this style have become the most famous in English literature. The rhyme scheme is the determining factor in the
- [The Haiku and The Tanka](https://versifier.co.uk/forms-of-poetr/the-haiku-and-the-tanka/) - Here are two forms of Japanese poetry that became very popular with very many poets in the Twentieth Century and remain so today. The Haiku: is a poem of one tercet, simply three lines in length, containing only seventeen syllables in total. There is no consideration of meter or rhyme, but the syllables must be organised in the specific
- [Forms of Poetry](https://versifier.co.uk/forms-of-poetr/) - In this area, over a period of time, I will attempt to demonstrate various forms of poetry that writers can use to express themselves. I do not set myself up as an expert so welcome any comment that might contribute to this. Blank verse or free verse, my preferred form, is very much dependent on the
- [About](https://versifier.co.uk/about/) - This site is written and operated by Ivor Murrell, who lives in Coastal Suffolk with wife Jean and has been writing poetry for over 50 years. The site is called Versifier because poetry is the writing form that I am drawn to, and the word simply means to write in verse. I am aware that for
- [The Ghazal](https://versifier.co.uk/forms-of-poetr/the-ghazal/) - The Ghazal The Ghazal originated in Iran during the 10th Century and takes the form of a series of independently themed couplets, with a consistent meter, The defining feature of the Ghazal is the repetition of a word or phrase that occurs in both lines of the first couplet. This word or phrase is called
- [The Ottava Rima](https://versifier.co.uk/forms-of-poetr/the-ottave-rima/) - A fourteenth century Italian origin, the Ottava Rima is an eight-line stanza with an a-b-a-b-a-b-c-c rhyme scheme. Frances stillman in The Poets Manual and Rhyming Dictonary cites Byrons Don Juan as the best known example in the English Language. I have written my example of the format, and show it below: Latent Heat Words rip
- [The Villanelle](https://versifier.co.uk/forms-of-poetr/the-villanelle/) - The Villanelle Originally a song format, this poem is written in tercets rhymed a-b-a until the last stanza which becomes a quatrain. In addition the first stanza produces two refrains , let us call them A1 and A2 in the first stanza, this takes the form : A1-b-A2, then the tercets go on a-b-A1, a-b-A2,
- [Poetry in Suffolk](https://versifier.co.uk/poetry-in-suffolk/) - Poetry in Suffolk is a very active and viable force. The Suffolk Poetry Society was formed in 1952, and celebrated its Diamond Jubilee year in 2012 . The Society is open to anyone with an interest in poetry in Suffolk.It is associated with five Cafe Poets locations in the county that meet regularly
- [Workbench](https://versifier.co.uk/workbench/) - This page will show recent writing arising out of poetry workshop sessions. Here is an example of an electronic workshop that I was asked to enter into by international poetry magazine Other Poetry. One of the editors of Other Poetry, Peter Armstong worked with me over several exchanges of e-mail on my poem How to
- [The Englyn ](https://versifier.co.uk/forms-of-poetr/the-englyn/) - This poetry form comes from the Welsh, there are various forms, some with three lines and others with four. The specific form I wish to example here is the straight one-rhyme Englyn or The Englyn Unodl Union. There are four lines in this version which follow a syllable beat per line of 10, 6, 7,
- [The Sestina](https://versifier.co.uk/forms-of-poetr/the-sestina/) - The Sestina is a very old form of poetry, thought to have been invented at the end of the twelfth century in France, and taken up in England in the nineteenth century. It is formed by six stanzas of six lines each, followed by a final three lines. It takes the form of blank verse, and
- [The Naga-Uta](https://versifier.co.uk/forms-of-poetr/the-naga-uta/) - Another Japanese poetry format for longer poems. The form is alternating lines of five and seven syllables, with the poem ending in an extra seven-syllable line. There is no restriction on the repetition of the 5-7 lines, and no requirement for rhyme or rhythm, other than the syllable beat. I have written the following as
- [The Pantoum](https://versifier.co.uk/forms-of-poetr/the-pantoum/) - The Pantoum was originally a Malayan form of verse which was adopted by European poets in the mid 1800's, although they dropped the Malayan format of the first two lines of each stanza being about the natural world, and the third and fourth lines being about human interaction. European poets simply used the construction formula.
- [The Cinquain](https://versifier.co.uk/forms-of-poetr/the-cinquain/) - The Cinquain: A format created by the American poet Adelaide Crapsey. A compressive five line poem that is great fun to use, and can help the thought process. Meter and rhyme have no place in this style, which is all down to the number of syllables per line. The poem takes the format: 2 syllables

## Categories

- [Humour](https://versifier.co.uk/category/humour/)
- [Experiences](https://versifier.co.uk/category/experiences/)
- [Emotions](https://versifier.co.uk/category/emotions/)
- [History](https://versifier.co.uk/category/history/)

## Tags

- [travel](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/travel/)
- [venezuela](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/venezuela/)
- [childhood](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/childhood/)
- [reflection](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/reflection/)
- [death](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/death/)
- [sex](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/sex/)
- [stories](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/stories/)
- [philosophy](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/philosophy/)
- [recollection](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/recollection/)
- [malting](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/malting/)
- [marriage](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/marriage/)
- [empiricism](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/empiricism/)
- [snake](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/snake/)
- [marriage breakdown](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/marriage-breakdown/)
- [mortality](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/mortality/)
- [cricket](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/cricket/)
- [ants](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/ants/)
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- [excitement](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/excitement/)
- [Lust](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/lust/)
- [fear](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/fear/)
- [song](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/song/)
- [funeral](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/funeral/)
- [anger](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/anger/)
- [conservation](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/conservation/)
- [intangibles](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/intangibles/)
- [desert](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/desert/)
- [ghosts](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/ghosts/)
- [Middleage](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/middleage/)
- [war](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/war/)
- [beauty](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/beauty/)
- [family](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/family/)
- [steam engine](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/steam-engine/)
- [enchantment](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/enchantment/)
- [Hagstones](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/hagstones/)
- [Knees](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/knees/)
- [migration](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/migration/)
- [recycling](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/recycling/)
- [Leopard](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/leopard/)
- [Poaching](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/poaching/)
- [Starling roost](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/starling-roost/)
- [semiotics](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/semiotics/)
- [memory](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/memory/)
- [time](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/time/)
- [Knowledge](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/knowledge/)
- [Omar Khyyam](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/omar-khyyam/)
- [goat](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/goat/)
- [Frenzy](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/frenzy/)
- [Suffolk dialect](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/suffolk-dialect/)
- [reality](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/reality/)
- [Dreaming](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/dreaming/)
- [cancer](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/cancer/)
- [Spring](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/spring/)
- [Nightingale](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/nightingale/)
- [red hair](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/red-hair/)
- [art](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/art/)
- [Sestina](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/sestina/)
- [Fox](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/fox/)
- [sugar](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/sugar/)
- [friendship](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/friendship/)
- [Hope](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/hope/)
- [sketching](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/sketching/)
- [Barleycorn](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/barleycorn/)
- [Lion](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/lion/)
- [Black Friday](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/black-friday/)
- [Estuary](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/estuary/)
- [ego](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/ego/)
- [referendum](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/referendum/)
- [Moon](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/moon/)
- [Nightjars](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/nightjars/)
- [portrait](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/portrait/)
- [renewables](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/renewables/)
- [equivalence](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/equivalence/)
- [bamboo](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/bamboo/)
- [crow](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/crow/)
- [Aging](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/aging/)
- [climate change](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/climate-change/)
- [ripeness](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/ripeness/)
- [Brexit](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/brexit/)
- [Truth](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/truth/)
- [lockdown](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/lockdown/)
- [society](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/society/)
- [Peripheral](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/peripheral/)
- [learning](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/learning/)
- [disillusion](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/disillusion/)
- [Marsh Harrier](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/marsh-harrier/)
- [autumn leaves](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/autumn-leaves/)
- [Westleton Heath](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/westleton-heath/)
- [Dying](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/dying/)
- [Prunus Tai Haku](https://versifier.co.uk/tag/prunus-tai-haku/)