Going back

Work inspired by places where I used to live.

Sentimental Journey

Because I could not sleep, I went Down to the guest-house sitting-room, And while the host was sleeping, I Peered through the window at the gloom, At silent road and moonlit trees

A City Break

We have eaten and laughed, we have chatted and dreamed In the city of art and culture. Hot pie for lunch, surrounded by sculpture. African masks in a basement cafe

Canal

Mother escapes from her duties for a few hours.

Conversation

I saw a garden in the sky Above an old canal: a high Black bridge which saplings stood along And where grew weeds abundantly; Nature reserve of hawthorn trees And birch, an aerial nursery.
Poem of the week

Union Cottages Revisited

Bedlam Lane and the gasworks, and a freight line running through. Red terraced houses, two-up, two-down, with the sound and the distant view

Where are you?

Where are you? I think of you in that damp garden Secluded by sandstone wall in suburban lane, Or in the park with the purple rhododendrons Reflected in the lake 'neath the plopping rain.

Springing back to life (IP)

The allotment field was made of leeks and cabbages, of abundant verdant spinach, of broad beans not yet in flower. Of brambles and tufts of grass.