Everest 1924
Ice-pick gone, feet first, face down, Malory slid, clawed at the scree, Skewed to a halt, humped miles up, Like a cuttle bone on a beach,...
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Please enjoy the poetry I have written throughout my life. Just click on a theme or browse the full collection below.
The Great Storm 1987
Epiphany Flecks of rain adorn the glass; a fluttering chaffinch clings to a swinging twig; Atlantic winds buffet each leafless bush, and...
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Universalising
A learned Fellow on my screen declares that life was born in the cosmic background. Unseen light irradiant stretched above a hot and...
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The Panther
(translation of Der Panther by Rainer Maria Rilke) No more can he take in, his hooded eyes tire of looking out through iron bars; he...
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Dusty Objects
A key, a telescope, a drum, A watch, a plate, a teacup or a knife, Objects have lives if we look closely, They are yours and not yours,...
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Midsummer Moon
Mortar powders the floor, the wall leaves a chink, and a water pipe to clink on to the neighbour cell. Or should I turn to watch the sky,...
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Tapping the Root
Digging in clogged earth, after rain, Mud clings, roots cling, Unlike the mandrake, shriek not, Ribes, ten years in the ground, Beauty...
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Time Check
When the Beagle went to sea Fitzroy fixed the route by GMT With John Harrison’s marvellous clock In a box which stemmed the roll The...
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Telescope
Objects carry their history and our own - A drum let’s say, which traversed the Atlantic Or a telescope longue vue, Piercing the...
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Experts on the Universe
Quite intentionally made Sense-armoured by their mental trade They view the heavens with aplomb In their high probing towers from Which a...
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Summertime
A time to look back on A time to look forward A song to sing sweetly Whose words make us mourn When a shadow lies heavy When in winter...
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