I wrote this poem over thirty five years ago when I was living in Ireland. It’s my second response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics – Character Study And whose are these eyes Sunk in thick-brimming liquid oblivion? And whose are these mouths, Uncontrollable rubber bands Chewing on unspoken words They spit tastelessly back in the glass? […]
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Survivor
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics – Character Study At just eighteen He was a survivor Of the Boer War And then, at thirty, The Great War, A Colour-Sergeant Major And one-time member, Scarlet dress-coat And bear-skin wearer Of the Queen’s Guard. Returning home from France, Away from the thunder Of guns that blew […]
Exploring Rodin
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: Open a new door with me Paris a sunny day we strolled hand in hand to the Musée Rodin passed through doors to explore marble skin and burnished bronze bones bathed in dust speckled bars of light wandered into a garden of statues planted among shrubs and flowers […]
Thundering Atlantic
Another Golden Shovel poem, with opening lines from Seamus Heaney’s poem ‘North’. You and I have finally returned. We found our way back to roots and branches of a family tree, long buried in a small churchyard near a strand in the wave-hammered storm-swept curve and wind-whispering embrace of a west coast bay. We […]
Distance
My response to dVerse Poetics – Sentiments of the Southwest Living on this small, waterlogged island, thousands of miles from America’s Southwest, North Norfolk skies are expansive and wide, dramatic skyscapes painted in colours of storms and summertime. I try to picture abundant rolling hills while standing on flatland – no prairies but fields of […]
Poetic Panhandler
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics – secret admirers For this week’s poetics Abhra wants us to write about a dVerse poet or another poet we know: about their writing style, about their uniqueness and how we connect to their words. We can pick a poem of the poet of our choice and write a response to it. […]
Tara
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: Folk talk Not long after I moved to Ireland in 1980, when my daughter was born, we lived near the Hill of Tara in County Meath. I always thought she was a changeling! Running up the Hill of Tara Sentinel over the River Boyne, Ancient seat Of the kings […]
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