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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
A poem of failed searching in Naga-Uta format.
A recent conversation triggered memories of a health scare, but composure was regained with a realisation of scale.
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.
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.
