Monthly Archives: May 2018

Youth is to wake to an uncertain World Where every step that’s trod is to be free Now he, with bowls and she, with grey hair curled, Have everything yet lack spontaneity. The male equivocates to help The damsel in … Continue reading →

We never fail to feel ashamed neither to have opinions That seem so apt when self-proclaimed Discoursing on Millennia – Proposing to a listening World Of which we had to seize the ear (Doubters to the abyss hurled) To push … Continue reading →

Half past eight and a cruel mouth On its way to unlock the shop Passing where workmen Are already digging up the road. ‘Good morning. Lovely day.’ And there is Pam with her two dogs heading for the Green, Alone … Continue reading →

The World I knew, and know not now, Is transfixed in my memory; No better or no worse somehow But intrinsically a part of me. A World that changes while we wait As every generation sees Resulting abuse aggregate, Receding … Continue reading →

Thoughts explore the channels of thy mind As sensation upon sensation climb To where, again at the beginning, find It strange, and see things in a different light. Loneliness, thou poverty of self – When life’s rich colours turn to … Continue reading →

Life just now is very jolly Haven’t got a lot of ‘lolly’ – Why this should be I cannot tell, The primulas are doing well; The Spring is rising all around With coloured flowers on the ground, The sky is … Continue reading →

Nineteen twenty three Meant nothing to me, I came knocking on the door In nineteen twenty four – As I later learned, that Was the year of the Rat – How such a fact could change a thing? What if … Continue reading →

Always smiling from a kind, round, cheeky face Surmounted by wavy hair, Eyes alive with laughter and intelligence – Such was Cristina Mills. She walked with a jaunty swirl That showed a love of life, While you scarcely noticed The … Continue reading →

Too late, too late – Yesterday has come and gone And every aspiration that there ever was Continues as before, identified and un-achieved. There are those who, unaware, Press on in their muted ways Oblivious, complacent, un-agrieved, Pushing through a … Continue reading →