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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.


Light Falling
Looking at you now, light falling, wondering what you are thinking, bent forward in profile, old, yes, but somehow beautiful, although...
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With Klee’s Two Lost Ones
Two lost ones walk proudly into the picture, What do we make of this brown figure striding or the orange one smaller, momently pausing? A...
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Down the Line
a tribute to Paul Klee Painting like poetry begins with the Line. It labours uphill and bounces fast down, heads in a curve when gravity...
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A Winter’s Tale
Veiled in fixity four minutes on a plinth, Hermione listens as Leontes and Paulina discuss her statuesque long silence. Time is...
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The Child in Paul Klee
Some quality in Klee’s paintings asserts assuredly they are his, and childish is a general word quite often used for this, but does it...
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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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Poets in Old Age
WB YEATS Men’s hearts of old were drops of flame, Who could have foretold the heart would die? Yeats wrote one day in his noon-tide...
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Stage Faust
Faust again attempts some puny wonder, but a papier-maché church, set, cast and city wall, a plaster castle built on high, they all...
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Protesilaus
Death awaits the Greek who dares Leap first ashore at Troy! So the goddess Thetis prophesied, And so, his ship’s prow striking sand,...
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Michelangelo’s Snowman
At a time when Columbus first stumbled on America, Lorenzo’s son, Piero, ordained that Michelangelo shape a body out of snow. That...
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Golden Oldie
How does it feel to be a golden oldie? Jeremy asked John at ninety. No X, no Y, no Larry? One feels very lonely Don't take that road said...
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The Day after Easter
Villagers unsmiling, conferred in the yew tree square nursing brown arms, smoking as we entered the church porch beneath the sombre...
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The Penny Drops
Like a copper coin the sun shone through the mist, withdrew to re-emerge a yellow moon, then hid as vapour thickened and there was only...
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Van Gogh’s Starry Night
Watching over quiet water he set a church with ten black houses, then a black and vacant sailboat inviting passage moored below; two dark...
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R.I.P. IKE
In a Normandy field Under hedges’ shade The headstones gather, Shadows edge Over ageing stone, Short rows close Under trellis and rose...
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Van Gogh Self Portrait
His eyes look over our left shoulder searching in an unseen mirror, pondering his own reflective self. White stands for thought he’d...
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Henry Collins, obiit Dec 1969
Gaunt arms and grey gloves direct the hearse, direct us all to park in spaces under names upon tablets on a wall. Soft music plays. We...
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Magritte’s La Bonne Aventure
His wintry trees branch bare across the evening sky And grow in orange light behind two windows. The chimneys of three jet black houses...
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To Anne on her Fiftieth Birthday
It has gone fast, life, And your children now travel As you, too, have travelled To a world long beyond us To which I was stranger. But...
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