Month: May 2023

This (bar technical disasters) is my last post on this blog. In the last few months the minor ‘glitches’ have got worse and now they are legion. The list is too long and tiresome to go into, but just posting has become hard work, and I have decided to emigrate.There is too much baggage her […]

Evening, hush Flower meadow lies quietbeneath waves of fescue,feather-bannered stalks, rippling light,in a south wind blowing, and through the ceaselessgreen-gold movement of growing,I see white daisy, pink orchid facespeering back from beneath the waves,green-gold and rippling, of the ocean meadow,the bee-humming sea,ceaselessly rollingfrom hedge to sunset. Evening, hush Flower meadow lies quietbeneath waves of fescue,feather-bannered […]

For the dverse prompt https://dversepoets.com/2023/05/23/an-artist-gets-his-due/Inspired by Thorvald Hellesen’s 1914 portrait of Elvind Eckbo. From the moral high ground The military man, a structure of medals, sashes,stiff bebraided collar, booted and belted,poses, sword in hand for a looming war. His gaze, fixed on the middle distance,peers through canon smoke; he listensto the screams of men and […]

A flight of beauty I read Crow Gods in one, breathless sitting. Rather than a collection of poems, it reads like a single, sustained exploration of the emotions that link us to one another and the world we live in. There’s a tenderness to all these poems, those dedicated to family, children, memories naturally enough, […]