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(For Harry) Metastasising senses forever unfathomable darkening eyes, off to visit another place in the long grass. As you ferret for your quarry, so many lives you follow to play with once again, returning each night to your bed. We … Continue reading →

Their wayward spirits pull in opposition to wavering forces of parental aspiration. They threaten fraying threads in seams of bedlam’s bursting bag that barely contains the chaos. The morning school run a controlled explosion ruthless and well oiled the caring … Continue reading →

(for children) It’s white with snow and all is bright on Christmas night. An image of your little face, framed in elfin hat, as your eyes, open wide, reflect the twinkles of a tree-borne star. In awe we are, in … Continue reading →

(An English Sonnet with a Seasonal message) What is it that our childhood dreams foretell? Illusion, which reality belies: Enthralling images that make hearts swell Of snowmen, carrot noses, coal for eyes, The carol singers, Santa hats, mulled wine, With … Continue reading →

Ahem! It’s down You don’t pop up to London It’s down You pop down to London. From Yorkshire it’s down to everywhere else!

What do you mean it could get verse! We know that on Twitter, it has to be terse and wholly agree it could get a lot worse or we poets know well of the poetic curse of a line that … Continue reading →

Why are you racing headlong to your destination. Does a quickening of pulse, a shortening of breath make you feel alive, minutes before your death. Or that moment with your very worst revealed, the consequence of which our fate was … Continue reading →