Category: poetry
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On a winter evening walk through Lincoln Inns Field, I am delighted to see this murder of crows gathering to roost in the twilight. I…
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It is World Curlew Day 2022. My first poem about the curlew is another one of my attempts at Haiku! I apologise, but I dreamt…
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Robert Laurence Binyon wrote his most well known poem ‘For the Fallen’ while gazing out to sea from a cliff-top in Cornwall in 1914 just…
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Bonfire Night Bonfire night is when we celebrate and remember, remember the failure of Guy Fawkes to blow up Parliament in 1605! (Anybody want to…
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While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.”Tis some visitor,” I muttered, ”tapping…
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A couple of days ago, browsing in a poetry book I came across a short poem. I never realised a poem could be so short!…
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It is the night of the Blue Moon, August 2021. I am sitting in a beautiful seaside garden bathed in moonlight. Andrew (my lord and…
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I remember as a child being enraptured by my father’s stories about when he was in India during World War II. Instead of the usual…
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The Joys of Sunbathing Aah! To bathe in the sunCan be relaxing funSensing UV raysOn hot sunlit daysSoaking up vitamin D(seems good to me)ButLying so…
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The Solitary Bee I am a solitary beeon my ownI am not a queen or even a drone I hum a tuneFrom time to timeIt…
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