24th December 2021 (Initial composition 15th December)Night after longwatch night,So heavy the sky has stayed;And while we have rejoiced some…
Not at all cheerful, I’m afraid; but I can’t choose the ideas which come to me.22nd December 2021Stove-snug after supper,…
No point in penning a dour script, lamenting the failure of COP 26: who really expected the world’s politicians to…
12th December 2021Climbing hilltop meadowUnder a tall ship skyFleeted with far-voyaging clipper cirrus clouds,A sea colours summer-light girl. Near the…
11th December 2021December Sun:After gloomy rafter-creaking daysInspiring, restoring.December Sun,Somehow recallingThe girl I longed to know when I was young. Breakfast…
Two stalwart members of the Amateur Dramatic Society are heading a long way east; they shall be missed, but we…
22nd November 2021With only one month to the true year end,This has been such a sun-generous day;Mundanely I did not…
Plimp, ploq, plimp, ploq…Regular ticking of the kitchen cider clock:Bubbles wriggling round and up and outFrom the biggleboggle-dimply airlock spout!
13th October 2021Skiff, Skiff, Skiff:Looseloop shoes on smooth sand.She walks thinkily,Ears drinking sea sounds crumpular and hissish. She loves this…
10th October 2021Last hour of ebb, in black cliff shadowI wade stir-of-surf sandsTo foot today’s only printsAcross the north reach…