Culloden Moor
Clearances? Don’t like the term, a Highland chief protests in chiselled English voice. The English did not clear Scots out. They went...
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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.
A Royal Visit
In circumstances such as war, Patriots white lies deplore. They speak sincerely from the heart (In war there is less need of art) Pride...
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Feed My Sheep
Warsaw 1981 Friends, the curfew lifted, Celebrate a truce In churches candlelit This Christmas Eve. Hands grip the backs of pews, A...
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Die Mauer muss Weg
Something there is that does not like a wall (Robert Frost) The writings on the wall at Checkpoint Charlie, now East Berliners stroll...
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Le Five o’clock à toute heure
Regard this tea pot with great caution It hides its history calmly steaming With its teacup and its milk jug Tea endorsed by Dr Johnson...
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On the Falklands War
Argy Bargy Dear Sir, Why not let the Argentines have one Falkland Isle and we the other? (Billy Hill aged 6) Frigates knife the swell, a...
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Fear
The nature of the sickness found Ulysses What is the answer …? Does Fear hold the world in balance, Intelligence inform the will? Do we...
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Cambes Sur Plaine
Below the old church tower Where masons, time and weather Repair the scars of war, Centuries of flaking slabs Huddle, lean and whisper....
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Marchers
The chanting drowned the city noise, Challenged the busy town. The marchers stopped, formed lines, But the busy town rolled on. They held...
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Habsburg Nef
Sailors from the crow's nest peering In Hans Schlottheim's Golden Galleon Where chimes the time at every quarter And trumpeters announce...
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Drumroll
Behind the curtain of the trees the throb of drums conveys a meaning, curse or welcome who can say, drums of war or peace or prayer...
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Pre-election Gyps
You should dump the man named Trump, Make him jump in the nearest sump. When he's on the stump and starts to pump The heart goes bump and...
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