Last Farewell

When you left me for another I wept. My life, my living, was without meaning, I cried out in misery. What had I done? You were my Angel. I had placed you on a pedestal. So that’s what I will do I’ll build you a pedestal high In white marble, just like your skin, Reflecting […]

Highway – A Cinquaine

Highway. Concrete strip, four lanes, Speed, noise, signs, traffic cones, Screeching brakes, crunching metal, lights flash. Grid lock.

High Summer

High summer, the days are long, nights brief, Cool quiet evenings seem longer than both. A time for lovers, the old and the young, To walk together, talk to each other, Be silent, engrossed in love, sealed by a kiss, All around them nature approves, blesses them both. Shadows lengthen, birds finish their even song, […]

Harbour Lights

Harbour lights, Welcome sailors home to safety. Waiting families wave and cheer, Praise God for bringing them home safely yet again. Berth secure. arm in arm, sailors and kin walk to lamp lit cottages Home at last. Mothers, children gather round,listen to fathers tales of mountainous waves, howling winds, Strange beasts in far off lands, […]

Halloween Party

Flickering shadows dance in shafts of moonlight, Their music screeching winds, and hooting owls Castle ruins, stone walls,and gaping windows, The stage where past spectres play Their halloween party games of old. Their cackling laughter, screams of terror Echoing from their empty skulls, and unfleshed bones. Another stone falls from crumbling walls, The moon breaks […]

Growing Old Gracefully

How does one grow old ‘gracefully?’, We are told that we should! But why, and how should we? We no longer tell our family how to behave, They are now free to do as they will, No! I will not swallow your’ graceful’ pill. Then we are told ‘ take it easy’. Yes, we are […]

Golden Days

I remember all the golden days, Through teenage years loving ways, In wars destruction found a wife, A lover, friend for life. A lover, friend and wife, In war’s destruction found a life, Through teenage years loving ways, I remember all the golden days.

Gobowen 1927

Snow flakes fell on the foot of the bed, The children lay still, wide eyed, black rimmed, Coughing crying, young faces contorted in fright. The cold so intense many wet the bed. Nurses rushed round in their coats, and scarves, Serving out diets of boiled fish, potatoes in skins. Coaxing and scolding, ensuring no one […]

For Those Shot For Cowardice

Their voices echo down the years, demanding justice: “It’s the noise, echoing, rebounding in the muddy trenches, The shells continuous, shrieking, exploding in front and rear.” “I just wandered off, not knowing who, or what I was” “I’m not afraid to die, it’s living in this hell, that causes the problem – I start to […]

Foot And Mouth Disease

The Rowan Tree, red berried, weeping, Leans toward the wind listening?. Heading the valley, waking — sleeping. The Farmer stands looking across his land, Seeing nothing, yet seeing all first hand, Remembering the waiting for the killer band. First the dreaded signs, then the Veterinary call, Tests, three days waiting for the results to fall. […]

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