poetry

The End and the Beginning

    The End and the Beginning After every war someone has to clean up. Things won’t straighten themselves up,…

7 years ago

Minor Miracle

A  bike ride in the country. A conversation interrupted by a near accident and the shock of a racist chance encounter.…

7 years ago

Two Lorries

Two Lorries  It's raining on black coal and warm wet ashes. There are tyre-marks in the yard, Agnew's old lorry…

7 years ago

Cats Sleep Anywhere

Sleeping is one of the things cats do best. Which is lucky because it limits the number of minutes and…

7 years ago

Aubade

An aubade is a poem or piece of music appropriate to the dawn or early morning. By the 1930's it was…

7 years ago

Moonlight

Moonlight What time the meanest brick and stone Take on a beauty not their own, And past the flaw of…

7 years ago

Abandoned Farmhouse

Abandoned Farmhouse He was a big man, says the size of his shoes on a pile of broken dishes by…

8 years ago

The hand that signed the paper

In light of decision-making by executive order and the White House signing ceremonies that seem to exude smug gloating -…

8 years ago

Tides

Tides O patient shore, that canst not go to meet Thy love, the restless sea, how comfortest Thou all thy…

8 years ago

On the Fifth Day

On the Fifth Day the scientists who studied the rivers were forbidden to speak or to study the rivers. The…

8 years ago

A Polished Performance

A Polished Performance Citizens of the polished capital Sigh for the towns up country, And their innocent simplicity. People in…

8 years ago

Power

Power by Audre Lorde The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.…

8 years ago

Those School Brochures: How to stand out from the crowd

If you're in the market for an independent school - or a college for that matter - you will have…

8 years ago

Traveler, there is no road

Traveler, there is no road Caminante, no hay camino Traveler, your footprints are the only road, nothing else. Traveler, there…

8 years ago

Song of the Dark Ages

Song of the Dark Ages We digged our trenches on the down    Beside old barrows, and the wet White…

8 years ago