SO PEOPLE SAY.
SO PEOPLE SAY I’m going to a place unseen Where everyone can hear you scream. Where night and day, Are all as one, so people say. Where...
Mother's Day Smile.
Mother’s Day Smile Where willow catkins stood out, golden, against the blue skylark ringing sky. And pallid cowslips spread their...
When children worked in mines.
Pre-Abolition"...............(when children worked in the mines) "I don't want to go back Dad!" Said the little child who's eyes grew...
By the Canal.
By the Canal A flash of iridescent blue skims the sluggish surface where fish lurk beneath, among the shady weeds; a dragonfly hovers on...
Flamborough.
Flamborough On a white chalk stack, in a grey North Sea a solitary herring gull sits; her fortress is impregnable, and none dare...
Dawn, New Delhi.
Dawn, New Delhi In the pre-dawn darkness, a cacophony of car horns fills the chilly air. The city, at this early hour, already choked...
I Wonder.
I wonder? I want to pick Mayflowers in June Watch July June bugs beneath the moon, Catch a train to morning town, Cry with a clown, turn...
Toil. (A Villanelle)
Toil. Look to heaven; water drop hits my hand; Stare straight up, now falls a seed in my eye. I take it and plant it onto the land. My...
Coumeenoole Bay.
Coumeenoole Bay All day and all night it had rained; no soft Irish weather this, but harsh and unrelenting, until the mid-morning...
"To you Barry"!
"To you Barry!" I had a problem with my hot water, The problem? It just wouldn't come, I made an appointment to see a plumber, Never...
